Severan Dominate - Redirect the Attacker: WAAAGH! Grimtoof's arrival preceded the Astra Militarum's presence in the Spinward Front. Prior to their arrival, Duke Severus XIII was not fully prepared to initiate his secession from the Imperium of Man. Were it not for the Ork invasion, the planets beyond the Periphery Sub-sector might have remained ostensibly under Imperial authority for another century, or more. The Imperial Guard arrived to stop the Ork incursion, but had to deal with the Severan Dominate's secession at the same time.The Orks -- including their highest ranking examples -- appear to be undiscerning foes. They are generally content to brutally assault anyone that stands before them. The troopers of the Astra Militarum are also generally less than selective, launching attacks against whomever their officers target.Consequently, the worlds of the Severan Dominate largely live or die based upon the decisions of the Imperial High Command on the Spinward Front. Any time the Orks and the Astra Militarum battle one another, the Secessionists are relieved to watch their deadliest foes combat one another.Instigating such battles has become a key goal for the Secessionist officers. To date, they have had little confirmed successes in this strategy. In spite of that, the duke has commanded his officers to pursue this path whenever possible. He has even discussed what approaches might be most effective to lure the WAAAGH! away from the holdings of the Severan Dominate, and towards the worlds of the Calixis Sector.If the Traitors could somehow redirect the Orks, it would buy the Severan Dominate a tremendous degree of flexibility to reassign existing forces, and also to provide some additional relief to its frontline units.At issue is the fact that the Secessionists have no effective means of communicating with the Orks. In essence, any time the xenos begin a conversation, it inevitably ends in another assault. This is partially due to the limitations of their communications, but also due to the fact that the Severan Dominate worlds are distressingly close to the WAAAGH!'s path of migration.Similarly, the Imperium's theocratic doctrine prohibits them from ignoring the presence of Traitors in their midst. There can be no mercy for the Traitor. The Imperium has thoroughly cleansed the worlds they have recovered of any who might maintain loyalty to the Secessionist cause. Trying to focus the Imperial assault on the xenos rather than the Traitor is not at all a trivial matter.In spite of their frequent failures in using this approach, the Traitors have continued their efforts to attempt to employ it. They have leaked false maps and transmissions to the Orks. They have even used a number of voidcraft as bait, to lead trails between Ork-infested planets and the Imperium.Similarly, the Severan Dominate has planted countless false vox distress beacons and sent out many cries for help towards the Imperium, with the intention of drawing vessels into systems controlled by the green menace. Even a minor encounter between these two groups can cost both sides tens of thousands of lives, and so any success is worth vast amounts of effort for agents of the Severan Dominate.