Hunt for Voldorius - Death of Voldorius: Captains Shrike and Kor'sarro had no time for celebration. Voldorius and his followers still had control of the capital city of Mankarra and, if given time, would be able to fortify it further. Leaving a small garrison in the orbital defence complex, the White Scars took to their Rhinos and the Raven Guard to their Thunderhawk gunships.Mankarra's defences remained a concern. Both Shrike's and Kor'sarro's companies had travelled light, and could only boast a single Vindicator between them, the aptly-named Thunderheart. Fortunately, the efficiency of Voldorius' tyrannical rule over Quintus had not extended to basic maintenance. A salvo of Hellstrike Missiles from the Raven Guard's Thunderhawks and a brief pounding from the Thunderheart Demolisher Cannon brought down a sizable segment of Mankarra's outer wall. Before the Traitor garrison could react, the White Scars were already in the city.Not wishing to get caught in the brawl of vicious urban warfare, the White Scars fought from their transports, exiting them only to launch lightning assaults. White Scars Bike Squadrons hurtled through the streets and alleys of Mankarra, swarming wherever the defenders were unprepared, whittling their opponents down through attrition without granting them the slightest chance to answer in kind.As the White Scars commanded the battle at street-level, Shrike's Thunderhawks deployed squad after squad of Raven Guard into the upper levels of the city's many manufactorums and basilicas.True to their specialty, the Raven Guards swiftly and silently descended upon the unprepared defenders. Beset from above and below, the heretical defenders of the Traitor PDF stood little chance. Many threw down their arms and begged for mercy, but there was none to be had for those who had betrayed the Emperor of Mankind.At the end, only Voldorius and his personal bodyguard remained. Infused with the battle rage, the Daemon Prince fought on against impossible odds. Many battle-brothers fell to Voldorius' wrath that day, but the vengeance of the Space Marines would not be denied and they pressed forwards to finish their hated foe.Encircled, outnumbered and trapped in the shadow of the grand Cathedral of the Emperor's Wisdom, Kernax Voldorius finally met his end. The Daemon Prince did not fall quickly or easily to the servants of the Emperor, and his bodyguard of corrupt and twisted Chaos Space Marines fought without fear, yet the outcome was not in doubt.At the last even Voldorius' unholy strength, born of Chaos Undivided, could not prevail against the sacred determination of his Astartes enemies. Pierced and pinned to a fallen statue of the Emperor he had long ago betrayed by Kayvaan Shrike's Talons in perhaps a rare instance of truly poetic justice, Voldorius could not escape the vengeance of Kor'sarro's ancient Power Sword Moonfang. With one terrible blow, the White Scars Khan cleaved the Daemon Prince's head from his shoulders, erasing the foul stain of his existence from the material universe.A solar month later, with Quintus now in the firm hands of an Astra Militarum force sent from Tallarn, Kor'sarro and Shrike exchanged their final words and went their separate ways once again. Shrike returned to the Targus battlezone to face the Orks once more in the never ending vigilance required to keep the Imperium's borders safe.Claiming Voldorius' head as his prize, Kor'sarro Khan returned to a hero's welcome in the great fortress-monastery of the White Scars on Chogoris known as the Palace of Quan Zhou.Kernax Voldorius' head soon joined the long line of other foes of the Emperor that lined the approach to the Palace. Each captain took with him the respect of the other and the glory of a hard battle won, and perhaps the beginnings of a newly reforged brotherhood between Chapters that had for so long been rivals.