Bran Redmaw - Notable Campaigns: The Relief of Mantus (766.M41) - Deep in the Gothic Sector, the binary worlds of Alegia and Mantus orbited each other peacefully for thousands of years, loyalty manfacturing lasguns for use in the Imperium's many wars in the sector. That peace was shattered though when the worlds' system was invaded by a massive Ork WAAAGH! led by Ugnubz Manstomper form the Ork Blood Axes clan. Though Mantus maintained a strong Planetary Defence Force, the Planetary Governor still sent out a request for reinforcements as soon as the WAAAGH!'s hulks appeared in the system. Three weeks later this aid blasted its way into the system in the form of Bran Redmaw's Great Company. The less protected worlds of Alegia had already been overwhelmed by the Orks, but pockets of resistance still fought on Mantus. Tearing through its atmosphere in scores of Drop Pods, the Great Company landed close to where fighting was fiercest. As the Guardsmen prepared for yet another charge by the Ork horde, Bran Redmaw's Great Company worked their way around the horde's flanks and began to cut a bloody swathe through the greenskins with little more than Chainswords and Bolters, and, according to unsubstantiated eye witness accounts, also their teeth and bare hands. The unexpected assault rippled through the Ork masses. It took fourteen hours for the Space Wolves to fight their way to the besieged Guardsmen that day, the number of Ork dead numbering in the tens of thousands by the time Bran Redmaw pulled his bloody chainsword out of the body of the last Ork he had killed. With its warlord slain at the hands of the Wolf Lord, the impetus of the Ork WAAAGH! waned. Imperial Guard reinforcements were then shipped to the region in a massive clear-up operation that would last many years, hunting down and slaying Ork survivors of the WAAAGH!The Massacre of K'ras'n'dar (801-849.M41) - Between its deployment at Mantus and Betalis III incursion, there is little mention of Bran Redmaw's Great Company in Imperial records. Buried deep within the Inquisition's archives for the western Segmentum Pacificus sector, there is one file which has been classified as accessible only by the highest echelons of that order. It has only ever been accessed by one person and his location is currently listed as missing. The file is heavily restricted because it is a full account of the fifty year war fought against the Khorneate Chaos Daemon, K'rasn'n'dar, which manifested within one of the few heavily populated Imperial systems on the border between the Halo Stars and the west of the Segmentum Pacificus. The entire population rose up and began to wage war on neighbouring populated planets. In response an Imperial Guard army was raised to defeat the Daemon and his followers. The Daemon was eventually cast back into the Warp by the combined forces of the Inquisition and the Grey Knights Chapter. It is at this point that Bran Redmaw's Great Company is believed to have played its part in this war. Although it is not mention by name, the account of the battle against the Chaos-turned human hordes whilst the Grey Knights fought the Daemon bears what appears to be the mark of the Wolf Lord. An attempt to forcibly remove this mark has clearly been made at some point as it is now barely recognisable. That the description of the battle is nearly identical to one described in a three hundred verse sage written by the Great Company's Rune Priests in the years immediately following the war has not yet come to the attention of the Inquisition.The Betalis Campaign (894.M41) - Betalis III was the site of the Betalis III Campaign fought in 894.M41 between the forces of the Imperium defending the system and the Eldar who sought to recover the armour of the ancient Phoenix Lord Irillyth, the founder of the Shadow Spectre Aspect Warriors, who had perished on the world millennia before. An alliance of Eldar forces from the Craftworlds of Mymeara and Alaitoc, as well as Eldar Corsairs from the Void Dragons, Sky Raiders, and Sunblitz Brotherhood, descended on the frigid world to recover their beloved Phoenix Lord's armour before it was discovered and defiled by the human miners present on Betalis III. The Mymearans sought to reanimate Irillyth to fight once more for his people, as his spirit would have remained intact within his armour's Spirit Stone. Betalis III was reinforced by Imperial Guard regiments drawn from the Cadian Shock Troops and the Elysian Drop Troops as well as Titans from the Legio Gryphonicus and Bran Redmaw's Great Company. After the Imperial forces fought the Eldar to a bloody standstill, the mysterious xenos vanished as quickly as they had arrived after they had recovered Irillyth.The Battle for Montberg Spaceport (897.M41) - When Hive Fleet Colossus descends in force upon the civilised world of Thressiax, the Imperial forces of garrisoned there prove unable to stop the constant influx of Tyranid invaders, Imperial Command issues a high ruling for all Imperial forces to withdraw and leave the settlers of Thressiax to their fate so that the Tyranids can be exterminated from space. Bran Redmaw, resupplying upon Thressiax at the time, objects fiercely to this dictat. Though he himself cannot leave the front lines, he sends two full squads of Grey Hunters intensively train the menfolk of Montberg in anti-Tyranid drill, putting the fear of Fenris into those who considered fleeing. Against all odds, the Grey Hunters and their new recruits hold the walls of the spaceport against the screeching swarms of alien invaders, buying the settler families enough time to escape. When the six surviving Grey Hunters finally leave the spaceport themselves, Imperial High Command orders them to be stripped of all honours for disobeying a direct command. Instead Bran Redmaw promotes all six into his personal Wolf Guard in recognition of their valorous deed.