Konor Campaign - Battle of Konor: As a Forge World of the Adeptus Mechanicus and the second world of the Konor System, Konor is a vital cog in the war machine of Ultramar, its sprawling manufactorum districts pumping out a ceaseless stream of weapons, ammunition and battle tanks.Konor is the manufacturing and fuel-producing capital of its eponymous system, and thus this Forge World was a vital target for both Imperial and Chaos forces during the Plague Wars. The Death Guard and their allies assembled a vast invasion force for the conquest of the planet, including detachments of xenos mercenaries and millions-strong hordes of fanatical Chaos Cultists.Manpower was vital in the attritional conflict to come. The Chaos assault on Konor opened with an apocalyptic orbital bombardment, plague-ridden space hulks and Chaos Despoiler-class warships ravaging the holdings and armies of the Adeptus Mechanicus with waves of inferno missiles and toxin cascades, churning the planet's atmosphere into a hellish cocktail of flesh-melting viruses and choking smoke.Almost half of Konor's industrial capability was utterly demolished during the initial assault, and the invaders landed an increasing tide of troops planetside. The prodigious level of destruction was judged appropriate by the Heretic Astartes commanders responsible for prosecuting the slaughter, for even with so many manufactorum districts shattered, Konor was still capable of pumping out colossal quantities of battle tanks and munitions.With the billions of slaves claimed by the invasion fleet put to work in the manufactoria, the Forge World would produce even more still should it fall under Chaos control.The Imperium of Man's war effort in the Konor System, and indeed the wider conflict raging across Ultramar, would be severely derailed if Konor was lost to Chaos. Thus, the Imperial High Command authorised the despatching of several armies to relieve the besieged defenders.Archmagos Gother Zymus and his Skitarii Legions yet retained control of Forge Temple Cladis and its surrounding domain, and were aided in their stubborn defence by the Imperial Knights of House Raven.Yet outside their rapidly receding kill-quadrants and excoriation zones, the enemy pressed ever closer, with heavily armoured assault troops and Daemon Engines grinding their way through the shattered innards of manufactoria and hab-arcologies.In this hellish no man's land, squads of dead-eyed killers stalked the choking sprawl for fresh prey, looking to secure key objectives such as vox relays, promethium refineries and precious intact generatorums.After days of bloody fighting, the Imperium regained control of Konor. Its sprawling manufactorum districts were soon pumping out fresh munitions and weapons once more for the Imperial war effort.Their armies reinforced by fresh conscripts and supplies after the victory at Astaramis, the Konor System's defenders entered the raging battle for the Forge World of Konor with eager fury.They found themselves battling through a nightmarish hellscape of industrial devastation, a maze of shattered manufactorums and debris-strewn labour-halls where they were as likely to be sliced into pieces by malfunctioning machinery as they were to be slain by one of the roving bands of Chaos marauders that haunted the ash-choked streets.Worse still, hordes of opportunistic Orks had descended upon the stricken Forge World, seeking to strip as much scrap metal and fuel as possible from Konor's vast reserves. These violent looters were equally dangerous to the forces of the Imperium and the Chaos invaders, as they rampaged across Konor in their smoke-spewing war machines, hacking and bludgeoning to death any unfortunate enough to cross their path.Nevertheless, the soldiers of the Imperium went about their task with grim courage, pushing through the ravaged districts towards vital strategic targets. In a bloody and attritional grind, elite units of Adeptus Astartes warriors forced back their hated foes, the Traitor Marines.Terminator and Aggressor armour clashed and sparked under ceaseless volleys of bolter fire, and Dreadnoughts and monstrous Daemon Engines rumbled through the carnage, crushing and blasting the life from their foes.Many heroes fell in this crucible of slaughter. Yet, with freshly bolstered detachments of well-armed Astra Militarum veterans at their side, the Loyalist counter-assault overwhelmed the embattled Chaos forces.Though victory came at a heavy cost, Imperial control of Konor was secured, and a sizeable percentage of its precious production capability remained operational.Within solar hours of the battle's end, the Forge World's recaptured manufactoria and assembly halls were sanctified with machine blessings and reactivated, and began to churn out vital equipment and machinery for the escalating war effort across Ultramar.