War of the Beast - Battle of Port Sanctus: On Terra, tensions between the bickering High Lords of Terra threatened the stability of the Senatorum Imperialis and hampered the Imperium's war effort against the massive Ork WAAAGH! During this time, the Inquisitorial Representative Marguerethe Wienand, was forced to bring here considerable influence and might of the Ordos of the Inquisition to bear, forcing Lord High Admiral Lansung to take immediate action against the Orks. Utilising her Inquisitorial agents that had been secretly inserted into the Imperial Fleet, they were able to exploit the rivalry between Admirals Price and Crziel Acharya, convincing the latter to attempt to take his portion of Lansung's fleet anchored at Lepidus Prime and attempt to relieve the beleaguered Imperial forces that were being besieged by the greenskins at Port Sanctus. Exploiting Admiral Acharya's lust for glory, the Admiral agreed to the Inquisitorial agents' overtures. However, once the Lord High Admiral received word of what was transpiring amongst his senior officers, he did not wish to display an inability to command. Therefore, Lansung also departed with a large segment of Battlefleet Solar in order to personally lead the attack on the Orks at Port Sanctus. To compound matters, after the Lord High Admiral departed, the Puritan Lord Inquisitor Veritus launched a political coup within the Inquisition. He then forced Weinand to fake her death and go into hiding, effectively becoming the new Inquisitorial Representative. Veritus was determined to force the remaining High Lords into a subordinate role to the Inquisition, in order to successfully enact his plans. Despite the appearances of conflicting agenda between Veritus and Lord High Admiral Lansung, the astute Drakan Vangorich suspects that the two High Lords are somehow in league with one another.Upon the arrival of Lansung's fleet, the remaining elements, amounting to half a Segmentum fleet, that survived the greenskin onslaught, rallied around Lord High Admiral Lansung and Admirals Price and Acharya. The Imperial fleet then launches a desperate attack against the Ork Attack Moon and its accompanying greenskin fleet that were besieging the vitally important Imperial shipyards. After weeks of intense fighting between the two opposing fleets, it soon became readily apparent to the Imperial forces that they were outmatched would ultimately be defeated if they did not withdraw immediately. The Orks' surprising ability to have small raider-sized vessels rapidly teleport Ork warriors aboard Imperial vessels, despite having their void shields up, proved especially troublesome. But due to their overriding urge to fight in close melee assault, and perhaps a lack of discipline, the Ork fleet eventually began to dissipate in order to pursue individual elements of the remaining Imperial fleet. Sensing an opportunity, the Imperia fleet launched a desperate attack against the Attack Moon, or die in the attempt, in order to halt its destructive presence once and for all.Though the near-suicidal assault against the Ork Attack Moon proved costly to the Imperial fleet, the devastating barrage launched by the remaining Imperial Navy vessels degraded the Attack Moon's void shields, which allowed for the Imperial forces to combine their firepower in conjunction with a suicidal attack by smaller Imperial Attack Craft directly inside the massive artificial station. With the destruction of the Attack Moon's gravitic generators, the entire structure of the artificial sphere exploded spectacularly. Tragically, the resultant explosion took many of the surviving Imperial vessels along with it. The siege of Port Sanctus was finally lifted and the first of the Orks Attack Moons had been destroyed. Lord High Admiral Lansung returned to the Throneworld in triumph, as he was celebrated in a massive triumphant parade. But this premature victory celebration was short-lived, as another Ork Attack Moon materialised in orbit over the Throneworld itself.