House Malinax - Notable Campaigns: Rangdan Xenocides (ca. late 800's.M30) - Following their inclusion in the nascent Imperium of Man, the Xanite forces hurled themselves and broke their greater strength in countless battles against vile xenos on the edge of the Halo Stars, becoming shattered remnants of their former selves, but earned much honour in doing so for their Forge World. More importantly, weapons and arms poured forth from Xana II and were shipped directly to the segmentum-wide battle lines of the war, providing much needed respite and fresh strength to beleaguered Imperial forces, helping to slowly turn the tide of defeat into first stalemate and eventually victory. It was a victory Xana was in no small part bled dry to achieve.Battle of Prospero (734.004.M31) - Upon direct order of the Warmaster Horus, a detachment of House Malinax entering finishing stages of a re-armament cycle on Beta-Garmon were requisitioned to reinforce the Censure Host sent by the Emperor of Mankind to call the Thousand Sons Legion of the Legiones Astartes to task for the suspected actions of their Primarch Magnus the Red in violating the Decrees of Nikaea. Joining the armies of Leman Russ and Constantin Valdor, House Malinax played a minor role in the ensuing campaign, the detachment of eighteen Knights deployed to the southern borders of Prospero's capital city of Tizca, near the independent forge-fane of the Zhao-Arkhad Forge World. Despite the presence of the rare and powerful Acastus Knight Porphyrion amongst their ranks, the Knights of House Malinax were no match for the Titans of the Legio Xestobiax which defended the forge-fane and which had almost entirely annihilated the forces of the Legio Mortis put against them. Instead of facing annihilation, the remaining Knights entered the vast city of Tizca and supported the troops of the Imperial Army in their mop-up operations against the last nests of enemy resistance, especially that of the Prosperine Spireguard, leaving the secretive Ordo Sinister to battle the enemy Titans.Shadow Crusade (007-008.M31)Crusade of Iron (007-009.M31)Raid of Guilders Grave (008.M31) - The raid on the world of Guilders Grave is the first known example of the Xanite Mechanicum forces conducting an aggressive military operation to their own ends, engaging both Traitor and Loyalist auxiliary forces in open battle in order to achieve their aims of looting the Mining World of Guilders Grave of its resources and heavy machinery. The vanguard of the Xanite forces during this attack were several maniples of Mechanicum Knights, at least two of which have been identified as belonging to the sinister House Malinax. This was a force which the defenders of Guilders Grave could not hope to match in firepower or resilience, resulting in a complete massacre of the local forces.Xana Incursion (009.M31) - The Xana Incursion was a desperate covert campaign conducted by a Legiones Astartes Blackshield irregular force as well as a small contingent of Dark Angels against the recalcitrant Forge World of Xana II in 009.M31, during the galactic civil war known as the Horus Heresy. Intelligence had reached Terra that the Renegade Forge World on the western fringe of the Imperium had reached an accord with the Traitor forces to supply the Warmaster's armies with vast output of arms and material. The bargain was to be sealed with the delivery by Xana of a number of newly created powerful Ordinatus class weapons undergoing final field tests. In what was effectively a suicide mission, a handpicked force of Astartes, including many Blackshields -- Space Marines who had chosen to remain loyal despite their parent Legion's treachery -- was despatched under great secrecy to destroy the war machines and drive a wedge between Xana and the Traitors. During the Loyalist assault, the veteran warriors of House Malinax defended the major forge-fane of Setna from the Loyalists' assault, and successfully halted their progress. Two Ordinatus were captured by the Loyalist force and evacuated from the surface of Xana-Tisiphone, to be maintained and utilised by Loyalist tech-magi in later campaigns of the Heresy.Scouring of Arten's World (Unknown Date.M31)Battle of Coloranth VI (Unknown Date.M31)Burning of the Hive City (Unknown Date.M31)Battle of Beta-Garmon, "The Titandeath" (006-013.M31) - The Knight banners of House Malinax, fighting alongside the Legio Tempestus, took part in the long and savage Beta-Garmon campaign, which included hundreds of war zones across dozens of worlds. Even before the greater armies of the Warmaster Horus reached the star cluster, the battle lines had long since been drawn, and fighting had been going on for many Terran years. It was a cauldron of battle that would consume millions of lives before its end and see the demise of entire Titan Legions, earning this campaign the dire moniker of the "Titandeath." The Beta-Garmon Cluster, also known as the gateway to the throneworld of Terra, was the last hurdle that the Warmaster Horus' forces had to overcome before they reached the Imperium's capital world. Heavily fortified by the Loyalists, Beta-Garmon would become one of the greatest and bloodiest battles of the Horus Heresy, as well as one of the longest-lasting.Second Battle of Nycron City (012.M31) - The Second Battle of Nyrcon , so called as it followed Imperial Fists' Primarch Rogal Dorn's retaking of the ciry in 010.M31, saw maniples of Legio Mortis, Legio Fureans and Legio Vulpa Titans , along with supporting Knights from House Perdaxia and House Malinax, march through more than a hundred kilometres of fortifications to breach the walls of the ciry itself. Forced to land beyond the reach of the orbital defensive web of the Anvil star fortress - even as Space Marine Legions launched their own assault against Nyrcon's geo-stationary orbital - the Traitor Titans faced ground resistance from the Pan Crypta Dust Clans, 216th Solar Auxilia "Titan-killer" Regiment and the Garmonite Nemesis Brigades. These lesser enemies, and the kilometres of mines, gun emplacements and trenches proved ineffective against the Titans, even the constant barrages ofNyrcon's great Nemesis cannon barely slowing their advance . Only the presence of Legio Astorum and Legio Defensor Titans, along with Knights of House Vyronii and House Niagma in the shadow of the ciry walls, gave the Traitors pause, though even then it was time bought by the Loyalists at a hefty price, and time that ultimately bore witness to the fall of Nyrcon Ciry to the Warmaster.Siege of Terra (014.M31) - House Malinax was one of several renegade Knight Households that took part in numerous engagements during the dark days of the Horus Heresy, but their most notable action occurred when they took part in the Siege of Terra, the final epic battle of the galaxy-wide civil war. But despite the Traitor Legions' efforts, ultimately Warmaster Horus was laid low by the Emperor Himself and the forces of Chaos were forced to flee into the Eye of Terror.