Hunt for Voldorius - History: At the centennial feast in celebration of his ascension in 855.M41, Kyublai, the Great Khan (Chapter Master) of the White Scars announced his intention to bring to justice one of the greatest foes ever to have opposed the Chapter. Kernax Voldorius, known to the White Scars as Bladespite, was a Daemon Prince and warleader or "strikemaster" of the renegade Alpha Legion Chaos Space Marines, and as vile a foe as any the White Scars had ever fought.Trillions of men and women had died when Voldorius had unleashed the merciless horror of the Bloodtide some two thousand years earlier in 034.M38, and billions more had perished in the sacrilegious massacres dedicated to the Ruinous Powers of Chaos on the worlds of Kento, Loran and Blindhope.Now, the Great Khan declared, Bladespite's triumphal reign of terror would cease. Kor'sarro Khan, captain of the White Scars' 3rd Brotherhood (Company) and the Chapter's 51st Master of the Hunt, was dispatched with his company and charged to return with the Daemon Prince's head, or not at all.It was a hunt to last more than a solar decade. Though Kor'sarro caught sight of his prey on the battlefields of the worlds of Zoran and Kavell, and almost came within striking distance in the choked underhives of Modanna, chance always conspired to save Voldorius from his deserved fate. And so the trail finally led Kor'sarro Khan and his Brotherhood to Quintus, a desolate Imperial Fortress World to the galactic south of Chogoris in the Ultima Segmentum.Quintus had only recently been one of the Imperium of Man's chief bulwarks against the brutal Ork Empires of the Jagal Stars, but that was before the coming of Kernax Voldorius, who had arrived with his Alpha Legion forces to discover the presence of another Traitor Legion warband, this time of the Night Lords, already within the system.Following a necessary period of brutal "readjustment," Voldorius joined both forces under his command. Through intimidation and false promises, the Daemon Prince's combined warband had infiltrated and corrupted Quintus' Planetary Defence Force (PDF), leading them to take up rebellion against the Emperor of Mankind. The White Scars found no mere warband of Chaos Space Marines on the world, but a whole world's population ready to stand against them in defence of the Ruinous Powers' emissaries. But Kor'sarro would not be so easily denied his prize.Leaving their Strike Cruiser in the outer system, the White Scars mounted their Thunderhawk gunships. Following rigorously plotted stealth trajectories, the attack craft slipped through Quintus' defence grid and landed amongst the blasted canyons southwest of the planetary capital city of Mankarra. Kor'sarro expected to have a battle on his hands to secure the landing zone but he found no enemies, but rather unexpected allies in the shape of Captain Kayvaan Shrike and his Raven Guard 3rd Company.Shrike had been on campaign in the Targus System when news of Quintus' fall to Chaos had reached his ears. With the Targus battlezone swinging towards the victory of the Imperium's forces, Shrike redeployed his own company of Astartes to Quintus and had been fighting a guerrilla war against the Night Lords invaders ever since. The piloting expertise that had allowed the White Scars to make planetfall unobserved by the Quintan rebels had not been skillful enough to go unnoticed by Captain Shrike's forces, and the Raven Guard had mustered to meet the new arrivals.