Signus Campaign - Survivors: After they detected a faint Imperial distress beacon, the Blood Angels set down upon the surface of the Agri-World of Signus V, called Scoltrum by its inhabitants. They intended to investigate whether or not there were any survivors aboard a crashed Signusi Frigate called the Stark Dagger which had attempted to flee from the core worlds of the star system. Though Chapter Master Raldoron and Captain Amit suspected a trap, they were determined to not let this stop them from investigating and finally getting some answers to the mystery of the Signus Cluster.Captain Nakir of the 24th Company had been given the order to investigate and Stormbirds were deployed to the world's surface. Despite being devoid of all life, the Blood Angels managed to discover and rescue a small band of human survivors which included a Pariah amongst their number. The survivors informed the Astartes that the Stark Dagger had been a part of the Signus Cluster's outer defence squadron. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful in their attempt to flee the system and had crash-landed upon the surface of the doomed planet. They told the Blood Angels that they had been assailed by indescribable horrors, creatures made out of fangs and wings. Horrors that one could not look upon for long without going mad.As the Blood Angels attempted to evacuate the survivors they were set upon by a large group of Daemonettes and their daemonic mounts. Though a small number of Astartes were lost, the Blood Angels were able to fight their way back to their Stormbirds and make good their escape. Once back aboard the Red Tear, Captain Nakir was debriefed by Sanguinius and an assemblage of the IX Legion's senior ranking officers. Captain Nakir completed his report to the assemblage and there was obvious dissent, even towards the Captain's unembellished description of the enemy engagement on the fifth planet. When inquired as to why he did not bring back one of the fell creatures for examination, Captain Nakir informed his fellow officers that they had attempted to, but the corpses melted, until all that remained was a toxic residue unfit to be analysed.The mortal survivors of the Stark Dagger were also examined and questioned. There was nothing unusual about them, save that they were still alive while every other Signusi aboard had become a boneless corpse. When questioned about the nature of their attackers, they spoke of armies of beings that were a mixture of life forms -- humanoid-animal amalgams, winged beasts and things of fluid flesh. The people of the Signus Cluster had confronted an army of "daemons" -- there was no other word for what the creatures looked like. Disbelieving these tales, some of the Blood Angels assumed that the sightings of these so-called "daemons" must have been the result of mental manipulation caused by some sort of drug or other chemical weapon.Yet the survivors firmly believed in what they had seen. They also said that these creatures were led by an inhuman warlord, a being that called itself a "Bloodthirster", a killer that reveled in violence and suffering. A second leader, another creature of mythic appearance and appetites, was also known to exist.Some of the survivors also spoke of a human, a man name Bruja. He had come to the Signusi claiming to be an agent of the Imperium of Man, but appeared to have been directly responsible for the collapse of the Signusi system-wide government. He was able to perform this feat through the use of "magick," allegedly summoning a creature of the Warp, a perverse mastermind that carried out terrible acts of desecration and cruelty.Some of the Astartes tried to discount these tales as the stark ravings of troubled minds that could not grasp the scope of something alien. Yet no one present at the assembly could explain the troubling phenomena that the Blood Angels had already encountered since arriving in the Signus Cluster. Whatever the origin of the enemy forces the Blood Angels had encountered in the trinary system, they were still an enemy of the Emperor.All Captain Nakir had shown was that the Astartes could still fight and kill them, whatever their origin, and that was all that mattered. The IX Legion's orders from Horus were clear. They were to liberate the Signus Cluster from the hands of those who had taken it. Yet whatever name they wished to apply to it, xenos, daemon or whatever, it was now clear that the Blood Angels faced something outside the experience of any son of Baal or Terra.