Space Wolves - Notable Campaigns: Compliance of 1-122, 'Delsvann' (Unknown Date.M30) - This is one of the first recorded campaigns of the VI Legion when they were unleashed en masse against an enemy almost a solar decade after the Great Crusade had broken free of the Sol System and spread out to distant stars. This campaign took place as the Compliance of "1-122," a world known to the indigenous human population as Delsvaan. Left to their own devices as to the planning and execution of the operation, this was no doubt part of the testing of the Legion. The then full-strength of the VI Legion, some 3,500 Astartes, under the command of Commander Enoch Rathvin, the VI Lgion's first master, executed a multi-vector planetstrike operation aimed directly at Masaanore-Core, the fortified dormitory-city of the most powerful of Delsvaan's combines. Rather than conducting a direct advance to areas of the enemy's command and control as was the standard practice, the VI Legion spread through the city more like a raging fire than an assaulting army. The native army -- conscripts lightly armed with laser weaponry, reinforced by detachments of better trained and carapace-armoured combine soldiers -- stood little chance against this onslaught, utterly unprepared for the speed or strength of the armoured invaders, or the sheer violence with which they dove on. Most of the defenders were killed where they stood, trying to mount firing lines to hold the advance, or cut down in their hundreds as attempted counterattacks turned into routs, the panicked militia themselves soon tangling with thousands of fleeing civilians. The VI Legion seemed to redouble its attacks as if goaded on by the scent of blood and terror, as they fell upon the people of Masaanore-Core and committed great slaughter. There remains debate in the historical record whether at this time the Legion command actually lost control of its units to the ongoing violence, however briefly, but in any case Enoch Rathvin did not quickly rein in his forces, and when he finally accepted the surrender of Masaanore-Core, its streets ran red with the blood of its inhabitants. The VI Legion's performance, while disquieting to some in the Imperium's hierarchy, more for its apparent ill-discipline than its results, was clearly sufficient for the Emperor's satisfaction to grant it its own sub-fleet to command -- Expeditionary Fleet 155 -- still affiliated to the core of the great Armada of the Principia Imperialis but otherwise internally independent with its own tenders, Escort craft and warships.The Wheel of Fire Campaign (ca. 800s.M30) - Following their reunification with their Primarch Leman Russ, who had been rediscovered upon the Death World of Fenris and given command over the Legiones Astartes of the VI,the Space Wolves, despite their superhuman strength and savage reputation, had not yet proven themselves as warriors or earned his respect. This campaign was an early sign that under the Wolf King's rule, his Legion would be very different to any other. Before any acrimony could fester between the newly-inducted Fenrisians and the Veteran Terran-born warriors, Leman Russ in his wisdom determined to take his Legion into battle so that he, his kinsmen and his gene-sons would spill blood and face death together and so be forged anew as one. The VI Legion was given the monumental task of cleansing the expanding frontier region of the galaxy known as the "Wheel of Fire," located to the galactic east of the Segmentum Solar. It was a sprawling wilderness of erratically transiting star systems and burning nebula, wracked by frequent ion and Empyreal tempests and home to at least a score of xenos-occupied worlds, many under the dominion of Orks, and thereby a source of periodic drifting Space Hulks and marauder attacks into the nascent Imperium. Entering the Wheel of Fire as one, the VI Legion's fleet split into a dozen smaller squadrons of various sizes, each despatched to strike at targets of their own. The largest force with the heaviest ships was under Leman Russ' personal command, and it set out directly for the heart of the Ork powerbase in the Wheel of Fire. At Leman Russ' command, war came to the Wheel of Fire like a raging hurricane, war the likes of which even the brutal and bellicose Orks that claimed its mastery had never known. This campaign would rage unabated for the next five standard years, never letting up in tempo or in its fury. Before the Imperium was able to claim victory, the VI Legion would pay a high price in combat casualties, with the loss of almost a full third of the Legion. Among the many slain would be the VI Legion's first commander, Enoch Rathvin. Just as Russ promised, it would be during this brutal campaign that the VI Legion was forged anew.Destruction of WAAAGH! Mashogg (ca. Mid-800s.M30) - The Space Wolves took part in this massive joint Imperial Compliance campaign, which was a part of the larger Wheel of Fire campaign, that included multiple Legiones Astartes, including the Iron Warriors and the White Scars, as well as thousands of troops of the Imperialis Auxilia and substantial Mechanicum assets. They were charged with the eradication of the massive Ork horde of WAAAGH! Mashogg. Legends record that it was the Primarchs Leman Russ and Jaghatai Khan who routed the Orks of Overdog Mashogg's WAAAGH!, while Perturabo was featured only as the "comrade" who calculated the optimum way to bypass Mashogg's low orbit defences.Rangdan Xenocides (860s.M30) - When the Imperial Expeditionary Fleets of the Emperor's Great Crusade at last had breached the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, they inadvertently attracted the attention of the Rangdan Cerabvores, a species of such macabre power and technological might it seemed, for a time at least, that the Imperium had met its doom. Facing waves of attack from the galactic east and north, and suffering losses that would not be exceeded until the dark days of the Horus Heresy, the wars of the Rangdan Xenocides were the most terrible of any yet fought. Whole Expeditionary Fleets went to their deaths without a single survivor, worlds were laid waste, dozens of Titan Legions were obliterated and by the end, entire Space Marine Legions (exactly which Legions were affected was purposely redacted from Imperial records) had been lost to the Imperium. Much of what happened during this abyssal conflict is still locked under seal, but what can be said is that with the breaking of the Labyrinth of Night by the Emperor, the threat was at last stymied. What remained was for the Rangdan taint to be purged in a subsequent standard decade-long series of bio-pogroms that left entire human inhabited sectors lifeless to ensure what was hoped to be a final victory. It was then given to the Space Wolves of the VI and the Dark Angels of the I Legions -- the latter who had suffered themselves so very dreadfully against the horror -- to conduct these purges, as these two Legions were entrusted above all others to do what had to be done.Compliance of Molech (869.M30) - The Space Wolves took part in the massive Imperial Compliance campaign on the newly discovered Knight World of Molech, which was led by the Emperor Himself, and included multiple Legiones Astartes, including the Luna Wolves, Dark Angels and the White Scars, as well as thousands of troops of the Imperialis Auxilia and assets from the Mechanicum and Legio Titanicus. After achieving victory, Cyprian Devine of House Devine was named Planetary Governor of Molech. In the presence of several of his Primarch sons, the Emperor led them to a Warp portal hidden underground, where He proceeded to enter into the Realm of Chaos to parley with the Ruinous Powers. When He finally returned, the Emperor appeared aged, but much more powerful. He then suppressed his sons' memories of Molech and stations a large garrison force comprised of nearly 100 Imperialis Auxilia regiments, three Legio Titanicus cohorts, and detachments from two Space Marine Legions to protect the secrets of the Warp portal on Molech.Compliance of Dulan (900s.M30) - As the Space Marine Legions pushed back the frontiers of the Imperium, each Primarch strove to excel in the eyes of the Emperor and none more so than Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves. Only Horus of the Luna Wolves and Lion El'Jonson of the Dark Angels could claim more victories than Russ and this was a constant frustration for him. It was on the world of Dulan where the Space Wolves were fighting alongside the Dark Angels that matters came to a head. The Tyrant of Durath had personally insulted the Emperor, sacrificing thousands of Imperial priests to his patron Daemon, and both Russ and Jonson desired the honour of slaying this fool. The Tyrant Durath insulted Russ, causing him to demand the right to lead the attack on the fortress. Johnson ignored him and led his own carefully planned attack instead, killing the Tyrant personally. After the battle Russ confronted and attacked Johnson, and the two dueled for a day and a night. Russ eventually stopped attacking, seeing the humor of the situation, at which point Johnson knocked him unconscious. Only then did El'Jonson consider his honour to be satisfied. The prostrate Russ was carried from the fortress by his Astartes and, when he regained consciousness, the Dark Angels had already departed to fight in the Alisore Campaign. Russ swore he would avenge the stain on his honour and, to this day, whenever the Space Wolves and Dark Angels meet, one of their number is called upon to refight the ancient duel of the Primarchs in order that honour may be satisfied.Night of the Wolf (ca. 900s.M30) - Imperial records state that two Primarchs came to Angron, both claiming to have been sent by the Emperor in an attempt to stop him from implanting his Astartes of the World Eaters Legion with the cortical implants known as the Butcher's Nails that were transforming his Space Marines into berserk and savage killers. The first arrived soon after Angron joined his Legion after being unwillingly rescued from his homeworld of Nuceria. The second would not come until almost a century later. By then, it would already be too late for the XII Legion. The "Night of the Wolf" is a little known incident that occurred shortly after the World Eaters' massacre of the entire planetary population of the world of Ghenna. The Primarch Leman Russ had been charged by the Emperor to take his Space Wolves Legion to Ghenna to bring the World Eaters to heel. The two Legions met at Malkoya, on the fields beyond the dead Ghennan city of that same name. The World Eaters, battered and bleeding from Ghenna's Imperial Compliance campaign, formed ragged lines before the assembled Space Wolves Legion. The Primarchs stood before their hosts, armed and armoured -- Angron awash with blood and carved up by fresh wounds; Leman Russ in resplendent battle-plate the colour of the storms on his tempestuous homeworld of Fenris. In these early years of the Great Crusade, Angron still carried his first axe, the precursor to all others. He called it Widowmaker. It would break this very day, never to be used again. Russ carried Krakenmaw, his immense Chainblade, toothed by some Fenrisian sea-devil from that blighted world's many myths. Angron refused to recognise his brother's authority, and warned the Wolf King to depart before the situation became something that he would regret. But Russ refused to be cowed by the warlike Primarch. He informed Angron that the implantation surgeries must end, for the Emperor Himself had deemed it so. The massacres of newly discovered human worlds were to end with the fall of Ghenna. The World Eaters were to submit to the Space Wolves as their escorts for their Legion's return to Terra. Once they reached the Imperial Palace, everything would be done to remove the parasitic Butcher's Nails implants from the World Eaters' minds. Angron was not amused by Russ' implied threats. No one ever saw who fired the first shot. In the decades after, the World Eaters claimed it came from the Space Wolves' lines, and the Space Wolves claimed the same of the XII Legion. Without either Primarch giving an order, the two Space Marine Legions fought. The Night of the Wolf, it was later called. Imperial archives referred to it as the Ghenna Scouring, omitting the moment the World Eaters and Space Wolves drew blood. A source of pride for both Legions, and a source of secret shame. Both claimed victory. But both feared they had actually lost, and in truth, the battle proved bloody but inconclusive. But the World Eaters did not return to Terra, and Angron refused to stop the implantation of his Astartes.The Purging of Cortonis (ca. 900s.M30) - The Space Wolves and Night Lords fought alongside one another to purge the world of Cortonis from the xenos/Abhuman Pantaratine. Even after the vile xenos were butchered the human settlements of the system refused to comply with the Imperial Truth and had to be systematically subdued and purged as well.The Burning of the Grey Worlds (ca. 900s.M30) - The Space Wolves, Blood Angels and Night Lords participated in a massive joint Imeprial operation known as the Burning of the Grey Worlds. The details of this campaign are long lost to history. What is known is that it was one of only a handful of occasions where the VI and VIII Legions served side-by-side.The Fall of the Hunderax Autonomy (ca. 900s.M30) - One of the final occasions where the Night Lords and Space Wolves fought together, the Fall of the Hunderax Autonomy illustrated the extremes of violence and butchery the Night Lords were willing to perpetrate on those too brave or foolish to bend knee to the Emperor.The Dead of Ashkhelon (ca. 900's.M30) - This particular campaign was one of the few documented during the Space Wolves' involvement in the latter stages of the Great Crusade, which was a relatively brief but extremely brutal affair which took place on the world of Ashkhelon III in a star system of the same name in the Ultima Segmentum, close by what is known as the Golgothan Expanse. Discovered by an Imperial Expeditionary Fleet, the people of Ashkhelon gratefully welcomed the Imperial emissaries and were rapidly brought into Imperial Compliance. A coterie of magi from the Forge World of Ryza were despatched to the newly Compliant world. Over several solar decades, the Mechanicum Tech-priests helped Ashkhelon to become a working cog in the vast machine of the ever-expanding Imperium. But tragedy soon struck, when the magi inadvertently awakened a long forgotten evil from the bygone era of Old Night. Before disappearing, a secret Mechanicum astropathic missive had been sent into the aether, which contained only the memetic symbol-forms for two words, translated to the common Gothic as "Heretek Omega." In the parlance of the Omnissiah, this was a dire warning of having encountered a sin of the Dark Age of Technology; a human-made horror which could not be allowed to continue to exist. In response, the entire 11th Great Company of Jarl Varald Helsdawn was sent the Wolf King, alongside a Mechanicum war-barque despatched from Mars by the Fabricator-General himself. The two forces descended to the surface of the planet, where they quickly discovered that despite the obvious signs of violence, there were no bodies whatsoever. But soon, the Imperial forces were beset upon by creatures from beneath the surface of the planet that were revealed to be no mere beasts of flesh and blood, but a mechanism, things of false life, neither Servitor nor automata as the Imperium reckoned them. They were creatures akin to them, grown and spliced into frames of hydraulics and gears, and pulsing with unnatural life. While the battle raged upon the surface, several of the Space Wolves, alongside their Mechanicum allies, made their way into the darkness below. Here at last they discovered the fate of the dead of Ashkhelon, where they were stacked neatly in red-weeping alcoves by the tens of thousands, in vault after vault with no rhyme or reason other than that they had been placed there carefully. It was as the Space Wolves breached a final chamber that they encountered the foul presence of the thing that controlled the lesser creatures still attacking their forces upon the surface -- it was a Silica Animus, the blasphemy of a true machine-mind. Through the combined efforts of the Ruststalkers and the Space Wolves, the Silica Animus' corporeal form was destroyed. Its machine-creatures, mere extensions of a single false life and inhuman will, then also perished, just as the body of a serpent dies when the head is struck off. The dead of Ashkhelon had been avenged, and a nightmare of ages past had been destroyed. From orbit, the two flagships of both the 11th Great Company, the Void Wyrm and the Mechanicum war-barque Axiom of Trinity, levelled every standing structure and hammered the sub-surface vaults into collapse. Ashkhelon was deemed a forbidden and Dead World to which humanity must never return.Unknown Campaign (965.M30) - ALL DATA REDACTEDSuppression of Kernunnos (ca. 997.M30) - This was an Imperial Compliance campaign carried out by the Wolf Lord Bulveye of the Space Wolves 13th Company and the Imperial Army contingent known as the Arcturan Dragoons against the world of Kernunnos located in the Lammas Sector. When the 954th Expedition came to the Lammas Sector, they brought good tidings and the Imperial Truth from the Emperor. But despite the Wolf Lord's open handed gesture of peace, the twelve ruling self-styled Tyrants of Lammas spat upon his gesture of peace and unity. Seven standard years later, their fleets lay broken and their armies scattered. During the final engagement of this brutal campaign the Dragoons had spearheaded the attack on the Tyrants' capital and had fought their way first to the battered palace at the centre of the city. Meanwhile, the fleet of the 954th Expedition laid down a constant bombardment of the Tyrants' last refuge bored deep within the Elysians mountain range. This was a vault bored into the heart of one of the largest peaks that had been built during the Age of Strife. It soon lay in rubble. If it had been up to Bulveye, the vault would have been the Tyrants' tomb. But in the Allfather's wisdom, the Tyrants were spared, stripped of their position of power and all their pilfered wealth, which would be used to help rebuild what was lost, and ensure that the worlds of the Lammas Sector became prosperous and stable members of the Imperium. Each planet would have an Imperial Planetary Governor to oversee their reconstruction, and they would send Wolf Lord Bulveye regular reports of their efforts. He left them with a warning not to give him a reason to return there ever again.Aghoru Campaign (ca. 999.M30) - The Imperial Compliance of the world of Aghoru (officially codified in Imperial records as Twenty-Eight-Sixteen) was an action carried out by units of the Thousand Sons Legion that was achieved through diplomacy and was considered a success; secondary combat occurred against apparent Warp denizen infestation (beings known to the local population as "Elohim") within the subterranean passages of a titanic peak that stood taller than Olympic Mons on Mars. The Thousand Sons forces were enhanced by a small unit drawn from the Space Wolves Legion during this operation.Ark Reach Cluster Campaign (ca. 000.M30) - The Ark Reach Cluster had been discovered by the Word Bearers Legion's 47th Expeditionary Fleet; it was a group of binary stars occupied by a number of belligerent planetary empires that rejected the Imperium's offer to become part of the Emperor's growing demesne. This Imperial Compliance action of the Great Crusade was carried out through the combined efforts of the Thousand Sons working in concert with elements from the Space Wolves and the Word Bearers Legions. The first four star systems fell to the Word Bearers and Space Wolves. But the fifth and sixth world, known as Shrike, required the assistance of the Thousand Sons. The return to the XV Legion of the dreaded mutational "flesh-change" occurred at the conclusion of this campaign and helped to bring on the eternal enmity between the Space Wolves and the Thousand Sons, as the Space Wolves increasingly regarded the Astartes of the XV Legion as "impure."Subjugation of the Akum-Sothos Cluster (ca. 000.M30) - The Aukum-Sothos Cluster, which had been brought into Compliance by the Luna Wolves early in the Great Crusade, mysteriously rebelled against Imperial rule due to the actions of controlling xenos. Horus had formulated a plan to cast down the so-called "Unsighted Kings", the xenos-possessed leaders of the insurrection, in a lightning war that would purge the afflicted population while retaining the cluster's highly developed infrastructure for future re-population. The Warmaster's plan called for the bulk of four Legions -- the Luna Wolves, Space Wolves, Iron Warriors and Raven Guard -- to converge on the heavily fortified lair of the Unsighted Kings before a final, overwhelming assault was launched. Having brought the outer worlds of the cluster to heel in a matter of solar weeks, the Warmaster called a council of his brother-Primarchs, one part of his plan calling for the Raven Guard to make a frontal assault directly into the guns of the defenders of Gate Forty-Two. Corax argued against what he denounced as a waste of resources and a needless squandering of his warriors' lives. In answer, Perturabo accused Corax of seeking to avoid battle, a crime verging on dereliction for a Primarch of the Legiones Astartes. The two very nearly came to blows, with only the intervention of Leman Russ staying bloodshed. The Wolf King counselled Corax to heed the words of the Primarch who the Emperor had set above his brothers. Russ urged Corax to smother his bitterness, but not to extinguish it, and allow that guttering flame to kindle the fire necessary to carry the battle through. Taking his leave of the council, Corax mustered the Raven Guard before Gate Forty-Two. Despite his misgivings, Corax complied, and assigned the majority of the Terran-borne veterans of the old XIX Legion as the assault's vanguard element. At the height of the battle, with the assault companies decimated and the attack faltering in the face of overwhelming fire, Corax himself led the forlorn hope, his battle cry firing the Legion to such efforts that the breach was carried and Gate Forty-Two taken. The honour of slaying the Unsighted Kings was claimed by Horus as Warmaster and at the moment of their execution, the xenos' hold over the population was dispelled. The Akum-Sothos Cluster was delivered and Horus' prize was reclaimed. The cost was terrible however, thousands of Raven Guard, the bulk of them Terran-born, had given their lives before the shattered walls.First Kobolt War, Razing of Thuyela (ca. 000.M30) - During the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium, the 40th Expeditionary Fleet encountered a race of humanoid xenos in Kobolt space who were lethal and proud, and had no interest in human affairs. The xenos' base of operations was a great transparent vessel that sparkled as if it was made of glass, and so was nicknamed by the Imperials "Scintilla City". This vessel was in actuality an Eldar Craftworld, and was called Thuyela in the Eldar Lexicon. True to their capricious nature, the Eldar of Thuyela attacked the 40th Expeditionary Fleet without apparent reason or explanation, and managed to fight the Imperial fleet to a standstill. Fleet commanders called for the help of the Space Marines. An unrecorded number or Great Company of Space Wolves Astartes answered the call and quickly overcame the xenos. As "Scintilla City" shattered around them, the desperate Eldar realised that all would be lost if they continued to fight, and the xenos attempted to plead for terms. Imperial commanders involved in the action might have been content to naively negotiate a surrender, but the Space Wolves were not. Thuyela was sacked and its people slaughtered by the Space Wolves. It was so completely destroyed that there was nothing left for the Imperial forces to recover or plunder. The fate of Thuyela's survivors, if any, is not recorded in Imperial records. Senior commanders of the 40th Expeditionary Fleet were so horrified by the incident that they were left with a disinclination to call upon the ferocity of the Space Wolves again, until they were forced to do so in the assault upon the homeworld of the Olamic Quietude not long after.Second Kobolt War, Suppression of the Olamic Quietude (ca. 000.M30) - The 40th Expeditionary Fleet was an expeditionary force during the Great Crusade that was shadowed by an Astartes complement made up of the Space Wolves' 3rd Great Company ("Tra" Company). During the Second Kobolt War, the 40th Expeditionary Fleet met up with the Space Wolves near Gogmagog Beta, pressing fruitlessly into the territory of the cybernetic Abhumans called the Olamic Quietude. Near the end of the Great Crusade, some time before the Council of Nikaea, the 40th Expeditionary Fleet first encountered the Quietude. The Quietude were immediately hostile and had attacked the 40th Fleet in two separate actions, attempting to drive it out of their space. In the second of these actions, the Quietude captured the crew of an Imperial warship. The Quietude then ignored an Imperial ultimatum to cease hostilities and return the crew, instead subjecting them to torture and vivisection to extract information. The Quietude claimed the information extracted from these unlucky subjects "proved" that the Imperium were simply pretenders to the heritage of Mankind; and that when the Age of Strife ended the Olamic Quietude would return to the wider galaxy and take their rightful place as the true inheritors of the human future. Naturally finding such a contradiction of the Imperial Truth unacceptable, but evenly matched by the formidable forces of the Quietude, the 40th Expedition grudgingly called for the aid of the Space Marine Legions in the form of the Space Wolves' 3rd Great Company ("Tra" Company) to assist in the assault on the Quietude's homeworld. The Space Wolves began the attack by assaulting the orbital facility above the planet, and despite the Quietude's martial reputation and advanced technology, easily overcame the formidable onboard defences composed of graceful and robust cybernetic troops. The 40th Expeditionary Fleet then began an orbital bombardment of the planet below, which proved ineffective against the ice caps that the Quietude had extended over their hive cities. Imperial Army ground forces found the going much more difficult when they landed, despite being supported by Titans and super-heavy tanks, with the strange lamp-like beam weapons mounted on the Quietude's defence towers extracting a heavy toll from the Imperial forces. After sustaining heavy casualties, the Imperial Army forces were withdrawn on the request of the Space Wolves, much to the anger of the Imperial Army commanders involved in the assault. Instead of another frontal assault, the Space Wolves used the vast orbital facility they had captured to unleash an orbital bombardment. Forcing the space station out of its orbit, it fell into the world's atmosphere and smashed into the Quietude's cities with the power of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, breaking through the ice shields and inflicting cataclysmic damage. This unconventional assault was followed by a full scale attack on the now-burning cities from the combined Astartes and Imperial Army force that brutally eradicated the Quietude and purged all trace of their presence from the galaxy. It was later discovered that the orbital space station or "Instrument" as the Quietude called it that the Space Wolves had dropped on the planet was, instead of a weapon or military base, a vast archive that contained the last record of all Quietude culture and technology, causing it to be lost to Mankind forever.The Thardia Campaign (004.M31) - After the Council of Nikaea concluded, the VI Legion forces that had attended embarked on a twenty-six solar week journey to the Thardia System, ostensibly to conduct a campaign of Imperial Compliance there. In truth the Space Wolves Legion was rallying to four separate locations in preparation for a campaign against Prospero and the Thousand Sons if the Sons of Magnus did not abide by the Emperor's Decree Absolute. The six companies gathered together at Thardia formed Taskforce Gaeta.The Razing of Prospero (004-005.M31) - The Fall of Prospero was the name given by later Imperial scholars to the sanctioned Imperial military reprisal against the XV Legion's homeworld of Prospero at the start of the Horus Heresy in the early 31st Millennium. The action was carried out by the Space Wolves Legion and elements of the Legio Custodes and the Sisters of Silence as a punishment for the Thousand Sons' flagrant violation of the Emperor of Mankind's edicts against the use of sorcery made at the Council of Nikaea. Though the Thousand Sons' Primarch Magnus the Red was aware of the impending assault and the vulnerability of orbital attack, he chose not act, as he felt that his sins warranted the Emperor's sanctions against him. The Space Wolves viciously bombarded the surface of planet and then launched a massive orbital strike with devastating results, slaughtering all life on the surface of Prospero. The battle finally concluded with Magnus and Leman Russ facing one another in personal combat, which resulted in the Red Cyclops being cast down and his back broken. Seeing his imminent demise near at hand, Magnus cast a mighty spell that took the great city of Tizca, his remaining Astartes and what precious archives of forbidden lore they could save, to their new homeworld known as the Planet of the Sorcerers, prepared by their patron Chaos God Tzeentch somewhere within the Eye of Terror.The Wolf and the Khan (007.M31) - The White Scars learned of the Warmaster's heresy when they established contact with Leman Russ in the aftermath of the Space Wolves' destruction of Prospero. Faced with the dilemma of aiding the weakened Space Wolves against a powerful force of Alpha Legion attackers, or returning to Terra as ordered by Rogal Dorn, Jaghatai Khan choose the higher duty and returned to Terra.Watch Pack Strong-grin and the Night Haunter (005.M31) - Just before the terrible events of the Drop Site Massacre of Istvaan V the Pack of Theodore Strong-grin was tasked with linking up with the Nightfall, flagship of Konrad Curze, and taking their place as Watch Pack to the Primarch of the Night Lords. Pack Strong-grin could not have known the treachery to which the Night Lords were already sworn or the gruesome ends they were soon to meet. Ordering his Battle-Brothers to stow their weapons and approach the waiting ranks of Night Lords unarmed, Pack Leader Strong-grin approached Kurze and announced his purpose. Without a word the Night Haunter began to laugh and the butchers of his Legion attacked. The four members of Theodore's Pack were savagely murdered, only one able to bring down any of his attackers. Theodore himself was kept alive and sent back to the Sol System, his broken body placed like a message within the hold of the Pack's shuttle. Despite his injuries, Theodore was still alive when the shuttle was recovered and all efforts were made to save him. His ultimate fate remains unknown.Watch Pack Redknife and the Signus Campaign (005.M31) - After the betrayal of Magnus the Red, a small contingent of Space Wolves were despatched to every Space Marine Legion to watch the remaining Primarchs for signs of treachery or corruption, a measure that was too little and came too late, as fate would have it. Under the command of Captain Helik Redknife a small contingent of Space Wolves joined up with Sanguinius' IX Legion, the Blood Angels, just prior to the Signus Campaign. Redknife and his warriors fought alongside the Blood Angels as they battled the foul forces of Chaos corrupting the Signus System, but it was not the forces of the Traitors whom Redknife and his command would ultimately fall to. Rather, it was the crazed berserkers of Captain Nassir Amit's 5th Company, the "Flesh Tearers." At the height of the Battle for Signus Prime many Blood Angels were lost to the newly emergent genetic curse known as the Red Thirst, including Captain Amit himself alongside his now nearly feral Battle-Brothers. Not realising Redknife and his men were allies, Amit and his warriors tore the Space Wolves apart, a treachery that was subsequently hidden by the Blood Angels senior commanders -- hidden even from Sanguinius himself. Redknife and his Battle-Brothers were simply reported as killed-in-action.Watch Pack Bludbroder and the Ambush at the Residency of Macragge (007.M31) - Assigned to watch Roboute Guilliman, the Watch Pack of Faffnr Bludbroder remained in the residency of Macragge, knonw as Macragge Civitas, the official home of the Primarch of the Ultramarines Legion, while the Battle-Brothers of the Dark Angels, the Ultramarines and the Shattered Legions chased the Night Lords Primarch Konrad Curze throughout the Fortress of Hera. When the Night Haunter gave his pursuers the slip and struck at the Residency, he did not realize any defenders would be left. The Primarch of the Night Lords attacked Guilliman's adoptive human mother, intending to strike a dire blow to the Ultramarines Primarch's morale. Instead he found the Watch Pack waiting. While Curze played with his prey the Watch Pack moved into position and without warning launched their attack. The private office of Guilliman was trashed by Bolter fire and blades as all ten of the Space Wolves threw themselves at Curze. But one by one they were thrown aside or smashed to the ground, yet they kept clambering back up and futilely throwing themselves at the Primarch. Where many hardened veterans of the I and XIII Legions had been cut down with contemptuous ease, the VI Legion warriors not only managed to survive but draw blood before the half-mad Primarch Vulkan intervened and smashed Curze out through a nearby window. Of the ten Space Wolves who crossed blades with Curze only one perished, brother Shockeye Ffyn, who was thrown from the window and crushed many stories below.Watch Pack Torbjorn and The Betrayal at Pelago (007.M31) - The Watch Pack of Torbjorn of Fror (4th Company) met up with the Alpha Legion fleet in the Golan System, in orbit over the fifth planet from the sun, an Ocean World known as Pelago. Torbjorn's eight-strong Pack met with an individual claiming to be Alpharius and intended to begin their assigned duty only to face the Bolters of Traitors. Though most of the Pack were slain in the ensuing fight, Torbjorn managed to slay the warrior claiming to be Alpharius, capture an enemy gunship and make good his escape. However, before the Watch Pack could find safe harbor, a pair of Alpha Legion saboteurs who had hidden aboard the stolen Stormbird struck, forcing the gunship to crash-land on the Ocean World. Two of the remaining Space Wolves died in the crash but Wolf Guard Champion Torbjorn was dragged from the wreck by a group of locals. A gunship flying the colours of the Space Wolves found Torbjorn but the ship was really a vessel of the Alpha Legion. Before Torbjorn could draw his blade he was gunned down by the Traitors along with most of the locals. With this act of base treachery, the war for the Golan System began.Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula (007.M31) - As the Space Wolves were still licking their wounds following their heavy losses during the Razing of Prospero, they were ambushed by a sizable Alpha Legion strike force and were subsequently routed at Yarant. Primarch Leman Russ organised a tactical retreat and fled towards the Alaxxes Nebula. The Alpha Legion gave chase and soon the VI Legion found itself in a precarious predicament -- they were effectively cut-off and surrounded. Russ reluctantly sent a distress call to his brother-Primarch Jaghatai Khan, of the White Scars Legion. The Khagan declined to assist the Space Wolves and instead set course for Prospero to determine the truth for himself in regards to the Warmaster's heresy. The Space Wolves were eventually forced to flee in order to survive. A final confrontation eventually erupted between the Loyalist and Traitor forces as the Space Wolves vowed to take as many of their foes with them before they were annihilated. The Sons of Russ received relief from an unexpected quarter, in the form of the Dark Angels Legion, and their mighty Star Fort, the Chimaera. Answering Russ' distress signal, the combined force of Loyalists were able to turn the tide, and inflict serious losses on the Alpha Legion, and forced them to withdraw. After the Wolf King informed the Dark Angels' commander of the wider events of the Heresy, and an exchange of men and materiel, the Space Wolves set course for the Throneworld and the inevitable confrontation with the Traitor Legions.Fall of Batzel III (008.M31) - Space Wolves strike forces eradicated the entire 39th Millennial of the Emperor's Children during the storming of the Vykstag Winter Palace as part of the Batzel III Campaign for control of the Brozyn-Primaris sector of the Segmentum Obscurus. Leaderless, Batzel succumbed to infighting and ultimately genocidal civil war. While exiting the sector, the Space Wolves strike force clashed inconclusively with an unknown and elusive Legiones Astartes force which bore no recognisable heraldry.The Vannaheim Space Drop (008-009.M31) - The Iron Warriors launched a daring void assault against the orbital hives of Vannaheim, capturing vital facilities after ten days of brutal fighting. A Loyalist force in the Segmentum Tempestus, including isolated elements of the Space Wolves Legion, was drawn into the conflict, launching three successive counter-assaults in order to recapture the orbital hive stations' vital altitudinal control grid, but each failed to achieve its goal and countless thousands of Loyalist lives were lost. The famed Space Wolves grand cruiser, Helicon Spear, was captured and became a prize of the Iron Warriors Legion during the last, disastrous attempt.The Fall of the Kalida Secundus Fortress (Unknown Date.M31) - During the dark days of the Horus Heresy, those Loyalists still able made all haste to Terra in the desperate desire to join the Emperor in battle against the Arch-Traitor before it was too late. The fleets of the I and VI Legions linked up during their voyage to Terra and joined forces. The alliance was an uneasy one, however, for Russ and Lion El'Johnson had feuded in the past and even in such dire circumstances still disagreed on how to prosecute their journey. El'Johnson wanted to make best speed for Terra but Russ argued for the fleets to stop and aid those Imperial star systems through which they passed, for what would be the good of saving the Emperor if He had no Imperium left to rule? One of the planets the two fleets stopped to defend was Kalidus. The Lion believed the diversion was a waste of time while the Wolf King wanted to destroy Kalida Secundus, an armored moon fortress controlled by the enemy that was bombarding the Loyalists on the surface of Kalidus. Fuel was added to the fire of the two Primarchs' debate in the form of Tarus, a survivor from the orbital bastion who claimed the crew were possessed by daemons. For a full solar day the two Primarchs debated until their heated argument erupted in a contest of arms. Each Primarch drew the blood of the other before the duel was stopped by Iron Priest Hrothgar who revealed Tarus to be a mind-control daemon in the guise of a man. Agreeing the duel was a draw the two Legions launched an assault on the orbital fortress, carving their way through the mutated hordes of the crew to the fortress' reactor. There Russ personally planted demolition charges before the Legions withdrew and obliterated the fortress. On Kalidus the terrified Loyalists saw a second sun birthed in orbit, but as the bombardments ceased they realised their salvation and gave thanks to the Emperor. The Dark Angels and Space Wolves continued onwards with their journey to Terra.The Pirates of Lemora (Unknown Date.M31) - During the joint voyage of the I and VI Legions to Terra the Loyalists encountered a fleet of reavers in the Lemora System. The outbreak of the Horus Heresy and the disruption of Imperial rule gave opportunists and pirates an opportunity to pillage and raid with impunity, until they came up against the combined might of the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves. The fleet leader, Ghoran the Navigator, was defeated in personal combat by Leman Russ, but rather than slay the brigand Russ spared his life in exchange for his renewed oaths of loyalty to the Emperor. In the battles that followed Ghoran showed great bravery in battle against the Traitors and his grandson would later repay his family's debt with the utmost honor.Death of the Tyrant Mashashi (Unknown Date.M31) - In the region known as the Shield Worlds the joint fleet of the I and VI Legions defeated the Tyrant of Mashashi and his army of ten million blood-thirsty men. The Tyrant himself fell to a blow from Russ' great axe, though before he perished, the Chaos Sorcerer and seer laughingly told El'Johnson and Russ of the Warmaster Horus' planned assault on Terra. Mashashi told the Loyalists that the Emperor would die, slain by the hand of His favoured son Horus. The Tyrant possessed an ancient seeing crystal, and looking into it El'Johnson and Russ saw the Traitor Legions fleet heading to Terra -- five full Astartes Legions sworn to Horus descending on the Throneworld, aided by hordes of Chaos Cultists, daemons and unnumbered twisted horrors. They saw a scene that brought sheer horror even to the war-hardened hearts of the Primarchs, a scene of utter chaos where the Emperor and Horus fought to the death and the broken body of their brother Sanguinius lay dead at the combatant's feet. The two Primarchs debated their course of action, for these visions could be a ploy by the enemy to lead them into a trap, however the consequences of inaction outweighed the risks. Russ and El'Johnson chose to use the seeing crystal to aid their journey through the Warp to Terra.The Fall of Varskjøld (Unknown Date.M31) - Very few know the story of Varskjøld or how he fell, yet it is a tale of bravery and sacrifice to equal any of the greatest sagas sung in the halls of The Fang. Like a number of Astartes who fought across the width and breadth of the galaxy in the chaotic war of the Horus Heresy, Brother Varskjøld renounced all oaths to his Legion and Primarch to join Malcador the Sigillite's band of Knights-Errant led by Battle-Captain Nathaniel Garro, formerly of the Death Guard. Varskjøld did not survive to reach Terra and join the Sigillite, however, for the Imperial Fists frigate Xanthus in which Varskjøld was being transported was intercepted and shot down by the traitorous Death Guard over the forested moon of Algonquis. Not content merely to consign the Imperial Fists and the lone prospective Knight-Errant to a slow death, the commander of the Death Guard vessel despatched Chaplain Morgax Murnau and a squad of Destroyers known as the Graven, to ensure there were no survivors. The Imperial Fists Captain perished in the crash-landing, leaving command of the small Astartes detachment in the capable hands of Varskjøld. The Sons of Dorn rapidly barricaded and sealed up the crashed derelict and even managed to bring one of the ship's killing Plasma Cannons online. Three of the Destroyers fell to the Loyalists' guns before their corrupted Chaplain led them in a brutal assault on the Xanthus. Three more Destroyers perished in the brutal close-quarters fighting before at last coming to the final bastion of the Loyalists on the sunken gunnery deck. Without the numbers to rush the defenders, Sergeant Gorphon rolled two canisters of the dreaded chemical agent Phosphex into the gunnery deck, expecting the defenders to counterattack rather than perish to the slow burning mist of toxic fumes. Instead the defenders held position, forcing the determined Chaplain Morgax to lead his warriors into the Phosphex to ensure there were no survivors. Deep into the gunnery deck the Death Guard found Varskjøld, crawling slowly across the deck, his face slowly being eaten away and his lungs turning to liquified mush. The Sons of Mortarion should have killed him then, but in their arrogance held their blades. Varskjøld transmitted his last order to the Imperial Fists Sergeant who overloaded one of the plasma batteries. The newly created massive hole in the side of the sinking frigate was quickly flooded by the stinking quagmire Algonquis had become, consigning the Death Guard to a watery grave. Before he was cut down at last by Chaplain Morgax, the dying Brother Varskjøld blew the brains of Sergeant Gorphon out of his skull, a last act of defiance in the face of imminent death. Varskjøld may not have lived to reach Terra, but he could be contented at least that he went to the Allfather's side with more slain foes to his name than  his fallen allies.The Battle of Gryth (Unknown Date.M31) - During the dark days of the Horus Heresy the VI Legion fought many dire battles against the forces of the Traitors. Whether the enemy the Legion fought were mortals, posthumans, twisted machines or vile killers of Warp flesh, the enemies were without number and the battles too many to count. One such battle was fought on Gryth, a Daemon World of Nurgle covered in miasmic plague plains. It was here that the Pack of Bjorn the One-Handed was slain by a Bloodthirster of Khorne. Following this loss, Bjorn became a Lone Wolf, a maddened slayer who hunted down his foe with an unquenchable thirst for vengeance for standard years before finally cornering his prey during the Battle of Velbayne and exacting his Pack's bloodgeld from the creature's hide.The Battle of Velbayne (Unknown Date.M31) - Years after the battle for Gryth the entire VI Legion brought battle to the daemonic hordes of Chaos on Velbayne. In the midst of this apocalyptic battle the Lone Wolf Bjorn the One-Handed drove through the fighting with singular purpose, his target the Bloodthirster who had killed his Pack many years ago on the world of Gryth. Though mighty, the daemon stood no chance against the hardened killing machine Bjorn had become and its doom was all but assured. Bjorn fought his way to the creature and then climbed up its back before throttling it to death with his Wolf Claw clamped around the daemon's throat. With this victory Bjorn's time as a Lone Wolf ended and he rejoined the brotherhood of the Legion with his honour restored.The Voyage to Terra (ca. 014.M31) - Never before or since has such a long or dangerous journey through the Warp been attempted as that made by the combined fleets of the Dark Angels and Space Wolves Legions. The Warp was a tempest of storms that hampered the fleets at every turn, which threw them off course, and tore many of their starships apart. Daemons beset the vessels and many brave souls perished, driven mad, starved or were torn apart by predators from the Warp. For solar weeks the ships braved the storms and attacks, and at the last the fleet was led by Russ himself, at the helm of the Winter Wolf, after the ship's Navigator went mad from prolonged exposure to the Warp. Despite all their efforts, the fleets arrived too late, for while only solar weeks had passed for them, many months had come and gone in realspace.The Battle of Terra (014.M31) - The fleets of the I and VI Legions emerged in the Sol System in the midst of the final epic battle of the Horus Heresy. Horus lay dead and the Emperor mortally wounded as the last gambit of the Arch-Traitor had failed, but the fighting was not yet over. The Dark Angels and Space Wolves voidships raced for orbit and tore into the Traitor Legions' fleet. Russ and his warriors descended to the surface around the shattered Imperial Palace. With his wolves and bodyguards at his back, Leman Russ shot and carved his way through the disintegrating lines of the Traitors and into the heart of the Imperial Palace. As his bodyguards fell one by one, Russ pushed on heedless until he reached the Emperor's great Throne Room. With no more Traitors to slay and the Golden Throne empty, Russ at last fell to his knees and cried out in despair even as the horns of victory sounded. For the Emperor had fallen and the victory was hollow. As Russ knelt on the marble floor of the Emperor's Throne Room the air crackled with the distortion of a teleport field. With a thunderous crack of light and displaced air the Imperial Fists Primarch, Rogal Dorn, appeared bearing the mortally wounded body of the Emperor. Behind Dorn stood warriors of his Legion carrying the broken body of Sanguinius, the fallen Primarch of the Blood Angels. Russ left the hall to be alone with his thoughts. Later Lion El'Johnson sought out his brother and found him standing beneath the Monument to the Victory at Durath. The two argued bitterly, for El'Johnson accused Russ of slowing them down at Kalida Secundus, if not for that delay they might have arrived in time. Russ refused to be drawn into a fight and told El'Johnson to go away, then he lay down to sleep beneath the monument. The Emperor came to Russ in his dreams and told him that now was the time when the Loyalists would be tested -- that the Emperor's true sons must strive to hold the Imperium together -- and that the feud between Russ and El'Johnson must finally be settled. When he awoke Russ found El'Johnson standing over him armed for combat and demanding they continue their duel that was aborted on Kalidus. Russ refused, for now was not the time for the Loyalists to tear themselves apart in petty disputes. Enraged, El'Johnson would not back down, but rather than fight Russ simply bared his chest to his brother. Johnson struck for Russ' hearts but at the last moment pulled his blow up short, piercing his brother's primary heart but not his secondary. When Russ at last awoke from his injury he found Dorn and El'Johnson standing over his bed. The Lion knelt down and begged his brother's forgiveness and Russ gave it. With bonds of brotherhood reaffirmed the Primarchs struck out from Terra with the remaining Loyalists, driving the Traitors towards the Eye of Terror.Great Scouring (014-021.M31) - As one of the largest remaining Loyalist Legions that emerged relatively unscathed from the Horus Heresy, the Space Wolves Legion played an instrumental part in the Great Scouring. This was the Imperium of Man's great counter-offensive against the Traitor Legions of the slain Warmaster Horus, following the end of this lamentable civil war after the Battle of Terra. Before actually being confined within the life support mechanisms of the Golden Throne, the Emperor had pronounced judgment on the Traitors: declared Excommunicate Traitoris, they were to be driven into the hellish region of the Warp rift called the Eye of Terror, which would hold them for all eternity. All records and memory of the Traitor Legions were to be expunged from the Imperial archives. Worlds such as Istvaan V and Davin were scoured clean of all life because of their corruption by Chaos. The Traitor Legions' associated troops from the Dark Mechanicus or the regiments and starships of the Imperial Army that had turned to Chaos were to be destroyed or driven into the Eye. It would be as if the Traitor Legions had never existed to sully the Imperium with their betrayal. The fighting would continue for another seven years.First Battle of Garm (Unknown Date.M31) - In the aftermath of the Horus Heresy, the Thousand Sons attacked the Space Wolves' Shrine World of Garm, which was named for a famous Wolf Lord from the earliest days of the Space Wolves Legion who had given his life defending the Primarch Leman Russ from an attack by Magnus the Red. Leman Russ raised a cairn to Garm upon the place of his death and placed the Spear of Russ, the mighty weapon gifted to him by the Emperor Himself, which had wounded the Traitor Magnus, atop Garm's tomb. The Space Wolves were able to fight off the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion and drive them from the world.The Primarch Departs (211.M31) - During the 197th Feast of the Emperor's Ascension on Fenris, Leman Russ was overcome with a mysterious vision. He gathered his closest retainers and departed for the Eye of Terror without explanation, leaving behind the youngest warrior of his Great Company, Bjorn the Fell-Handed.The First Great Hunt (218.M31) - After seven standard years of waiting for their Primarch to return, the Space Wolves elected Bjorn the Fell-Handed -- the only member of Russ' Wolf Guard to be left behind -- as their leader. In his first act as Great Wolf, Bjorn announced the Great Hunt. The entire Space Wolves Chapter set forth in an attempt to discern the whereabouts of their missing Primarch, though they were ultimately unsuccessful.The Battle of Marelion (511.M31) - The Great Wolf Bjorn the Fell-Handed led a Strike Force to the ash plains of Marelion to slay a Great Unclean One of Nurgle, the commander of a foul daemonic army. During the battle, Bjorn slew the Greater Daemon but was himself mortally wounded. The Battle of Marelion is one of two accounts detailing the fall of Bjorn set roughly four hundred standard years apart. It is unclear now, ten thousand standard years hence, which battle truly resulted in the fall of Bjorn and his internment in the armored sarcophagus of a Dreadnought war machine.The Proxima Rebellion (934.M31) - The second account of Bjorn the Fell-Handed's heroic career being tragically cut short supposedly occurred during the Proxima Rebellion. Bjorn led a successful raid to free those of his Battle-Brothers trapped in the Dreadsun Fortress, but his body sustained such terrible injuries that, to preserve his life, what was left of his shattered body was interred in a Dreadnought. Acutely aware that, as a Dreadnought, he could no longer fulfil his duties as Master of the Chapter, Bjorn abdicated his position as Great Wolf.The Battle of Algol Nine (434.M32) - Approximately five standard centuries after Bjorn the Fell-Handed was interred within the sarcophagus of a Dreadnought, the Space Wolves brought battle to the Forces of Chaos on the world of Algol Nine. At the height of the battle the Venerable Bjorn slew the Daemon Thran'saba and saved the Planetary Governor from being sacrificed in a dark Chaos ritual.The Battle of Quaran (Unknown Date.M32) - Amid the deserts of Quaran the Venerable Bjorn cut down the Greenskin Warlord Makrima, breaking the strength of WAAAGH! Makrima.The Rebellion of Thranx (Unknown Date.M32) - When the Hive World of Thranx was thrown into turmoil the Space Wolves responded in force. Venerable Bjorn fought at the forefront and slew the rogue psyker Vornalan, putting an end to the rebellion and restoring order and Imperial rule.First Battle for The Fang (742.M32) - Harek Ironhelm was the Chapter's Great Wolf during the 32nd Millennium. Ironhelm sought for many years to bring the Thousand Sons' Primarch Magnus the Red to battle. Several times Magnus appeared to him in visions amongst the ruins of devastated cities that had been laid to ruin by the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion striking from out of the Eye of Terror and taunted the Great Wolf for his inability to stop him. After many fruitless efforts to catch up with the Chaos Space Marines, Harek became obsessed, and took to searching worlds along the edge of the Eye of Terror itself. Eventually he found what he believed to be the Thousand Sons' secret base on the world of Gangava and launched a full-scale planetary assault against it. This was a deception intended to draw the bulk of the Space Wolves' forces from their homeworld, leaving it undefended; for in truth Gangava was held by a Chaos force allied to Magnus but it served only as a distraction, intended to draw the Space Wolves away from their homeworld so that a massive Thousand Sons' fleet could besiege Fenris itself. The Space Wolves' fortress-monastery, The Fang, was held by only a small force of Space Wolves and their Servitor-thralls. For forty days and forty nights the Thousand Sons assaulted the citadel. Bjorn the Fell-Handed, the most ancient of the Space Wolves' Dreadnoughts, was woken from his long sleep and took charge of the defence. The assault was held at bay as a force of Scout Marines under Haakon Blackwing escaped to Gangava to locate Harek. Shamed and furious, Harek Ironhelm returned to meet Magnus in battle on the slopes of the Fang itself. Although Magnus was terribly wounded, even Harek could not stand against the power of a Primarch who had been further exalted to become a Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. Harek was slain, but the Thousand Sons were ultimately defeated and scattered, the Traitor Legion's warbands forced to return to the Planet of the Sorcerers within the Eye of Terror.The Defence of Mordrak (Unknown Date.M34) - One of the battles recounted in the Saga of Wolf Lord Durfast tells of how he led his warriors in the defence of Mordrak, a long-dead world that was once home to a formidable race of techno-savants. Durfast defeated the unnamed Ork WAAAGH! that had threatened the world and in doing so discovered a wealth of hidden archeotech, ancient technological marvels whose secrets of creation the Imperium had lost long ago. The discovery of these artefacts was a huge victory for the Imperium and a legendary accomplishment for Durfast and the Chapter. One of the recovered artefacts, a temporal precognitive device, was fashioned into Durfast's wolf-head helmet. Known as the Helm of Durfast, this master-crafted battle helm grants the wearer a momentary vision of the past, present and future, enabling him to anticipate an opponent's movements with preternatural skill.The Ninth Great Hunt (671.M34) - During the Ninth Great Hunt the Space Wolves discovered a massive infestation of Genestealers throughout the worlds of the Gehenna System. In a brutally-thorough xenocidal campaign the Space Wolves purged the Gehenna System of the vile xenos taint.Second Battle for The Fang (ca. Early 300's.M36) - During the Age of Apostasy's Plague of Unbelief, Apostate Cardinal Bucharis of Gathalamore launched an invasion of Fenris on his way to Terra. For three standard years, Bucharis laid siege to The Fang after the Space Wolves' fleet waged furious battles against the Renegade Imperial Navy forces of Bucharis. Some of the Space Wolves' starships managed to break through, such as the Cruiser named the Claw of Russ. However, the fighting saw millions of Fenrisians fall to the invaders as the people of Fenris, the Space Wolves and even the Fenrisian Wolves of the wild waged war against their corrupted Chaotic attackers. Despite numerous efforts to break the siege, the Space Wolves could not get through, until returning from a five-year-long expedition to the Eye of Terror, Kyrl Grimblood and his Great Company smashed through Bucharis' fleet and then launched a devastating assault on the rear of Bucharis' siege forces, killing thousands and sending many fleeing into the wilds of Fenris to die horribly at the claws of the unforgiving creatures and the touch of the deadly weather. With Kyrl's efforts weakening the invaders, the Space Wolves launched a break-out counteroffensive and smashed through their attackers, routing them. Bucharis was forced to flee and while his defeat at the hands of the Space Wolves did not end his reign, others fought against the "Plague of Unbelief" he had unleashed and Bucharis was eventually defeated by a resurgent Imperium. Yet it is due to the efforts of Kyrl Grimblood that the ambitions of the Apostate Cardinal Bucharis were brought to a turning point and the Second Battle for The Fang was won.The Shadows of Russ (313.M41) - The Sky Warriors saw greatness in the young Fenrisian warrior Logan Grimnar. A Wolf Priest followed the exploits of the young warrior and the Iron Blood tribe to which he belonged, as Logan fought across the freezing oceans of Fenris. During the Sea of Blades, a host of tribes descended upon the Kraken's Spur to do battle, and the Wolf Priest witnessed the shadow of Leman Russ lingering in the wake of young Grimnar. A potent sign of the Primarch's favour, it was all that the priest needed to induct Logan into the fabled Sky Warriors.The Bloody Crescent (357.M41) - Quickly earning a place in the Great Company of Asvald Stormwrack, Logan Grimnar rose to the rank of Grey Hunter. At the battle of Blood Falls, on the broken world of Hesperia, Logan saved the Wolf Lord's life when the latter was trapped under the mangled wreck of a Helbrute. Logan alone was able to reach Asvald, standing over the broken Chaos machine for long minutes, single-handedly holding back the Chaos Space Marine Renegades of the Bloody Crescent. For the Grey Hunter's bravery, Asvald inducted Logan into his Wolf Guard.The Thirteenth Great Hunt (Unknown Date) - The Thirteenth Great Hunt, like all those before it, failed to locate the Primarch Leman Russ, but the hunt did lead to confrontation with the Chaos Space Marine warband known as The Lost. In the fighting that ensued, The Lost were wiped out to a man, ending a dire threat to the Imperium.The Black Crusade of Tallomin (Unknown Date.M38) - In the 38th Millennium the Chaos Lord known as Tallomin, the Prince of Princes, led a major invasion into Imperial space. Tallomin's forces included the Renegade Space Marine warband known as Skyrar's Dark Wolves. Though the invasion caused untold damage it was eventually halted by the intervention of the Space Wolves, reinforcing the belief by some that the Dark Wolves were once a Great Company of the Chapter.The Battle of Blood Falls (357.M41) - In 357.M41, the young Grey Hunter Logan Grimnar earned a place within the Wolf Guard of Asvald Stormwrack during the Battle of Blood Falls against the Chaos Space Marine Renegades of the Bloody Crescent warband. The fighting across the broken surface of Hesperia was furious and bloody, and at the height of the fighting Wolf Lord Asvald Stormwrack fell beneath the dead weight of a wrecked Helbrute, helpless against the blades of the foe. Of all the warriors of the Great Company only Logan Grimnar reached the side of his lord, holding back the Chaos Space Marines single-handed. In recognition of Logan's skill and bravery Jarl Asvald promoted him to his Wolf Guard.The Macharian Crusade (392-399.M41) - The Wolf Lord Logan Grimnar led a task force of Space Wolves to fight alongside the Lord Solar Macharius during the Macharian Crusade.Asvald's Final Battle (415.M41) - Asvald Stormwrack met his end during the war for the Cyclopean Rift on Zylor IX. For over a decade Asvald's Great Company had fought against the pale Orks of the Rift. The Ork Warboss Dakfang led constant attacks up into the sublevels of the great hive cities of Zylor from the rifts below. Finally, Dakfang and Asvald faced each other on the bridge-maze under Zylor Primus, the two warlords mortally wounding each other before plummeting into the dark below. With the death of Asvald, Logan Grimnar was named Wolf Lord, taking command of the Great Company.Mantle of the Great Wolf (440.M41) - Logan Grimnar quickly earned the respect of his fellow Wolf Lords, despite many being centuries older than him. When, on the battlefields of Xor, a Dark Eldar Succubus murdered the reigning Great Wolf Sigvald Grimhammer, Ulrik put Logan's name forward as his successor. Amazingly there was no resistance to Logan's ascension, and when the runestones ware counted every vote had been cast in Grimnar's favour.First War for Armageddon (444.M41) - During the First War for Armageddon the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar led 300 Space Wolves alongside 100 Grey Knights against the World Eaters' Daemon Primarch Angron and a diabolic horde of Khornate Berserkers and Khornate daemons. The Imperial forces eventually proved victorious after the Grey Knights banished Angron back to the Warp from whence he came. The Space Wolves continued to fight in the First War for Armageddon through to its conclusion.Months of Shame (444-451.M41) - Although they had defeated all that the Forces of Chaos had thrown at them during the bloody campaign that was the First War for Armageddom, the victorious soldiers of Armageddon were doomed from the start. They had gained knowledge of the existence of Chaos, and been exposed to its corruption. The Inquisition had no intention of letting the wider Imperium discover the true nature of the daemonic foe that had attacked Armageddon, or of the ways and means victory had been achieved with the aid of the Grey Knights; the Inquisitors present voted to sterilise and quarantine-for-life the remaining population of the Hive World even though it was generally considered untainted, and ignorant of the truth concerning the existence of Chaos. The valiant Imperial Guard, PDF regiments and other human defenders of the world were to suffer the same fate or be liquidated. The Inquisition ordered all of the people who had fought on the planet, except for the Space Marines, to be rounded up at gunpoint, sterilised to prevent any possible Chaos-induced mutations in their offspring and placed in Adeptus Arbites work camps across the galaxy, with their world to be re-colonised by people from other regions of the galaxy with no knowledge of the war. Over the strident protests of the Space Wolves and their Great Wolf Logan Grimnar, the Inquisition followed through with this plan, and the Grey Knights frigate Karabela still in orbit of Armageddon was ordered to destroy the first Imperial Guard troop transport to leave Armageddon as it approached a Warp jump point off-world. Following this first incident, a months-long cat-and-mouse campaign later remembered as the "Months of Shame" took place between the Space Wolves and their human charges from Armageddon on one side, and the Inquisition and Grey Knights on the other. It was characterised by increasingly deadly fratricidal actions by both sides, and rapidly escalated into a full-fledged Imperial civil war between the Space Wolves and the Inquisition. However many of the attached Grey Knights were upset at their involvement in the purge, and were demoralised by having to fight the brother Astartes of the Space Wolves. Grimnar saw the Inquisition's actions following the war as betraying the very people who had honourably fought for their homes and for the Emperor, and if the Imperium did not protect those who fought for it, he did not believe it had any purpose. The Inquisition saw this policy as an unfortunate but necessary part of its mandate and duty in applying the Imperial policy of secrecy concerning Chaos, and it would not suffer the questioning of its authority. Finally, in an attempt to bring the conflict to an end, in 445.M41 the Inquisitor Lord Ghesmei Kysnaros ordered his growing Inquisitorial armada, including Grey Knights Chapter fleet vessels, to Fenris, the Space Wolves' lightly defended homeworld, in a last-ditch gambit to force those Astartes to comply with the Inquisition's wishes concerning the liquidation or imprisonment of Armageddon's survivors. Kysnaros' armada, including a multitude of Inquisition warships, Grey Knights vessels, and the entire Chapter fleet and strength of the Red Hunters Space Marine Chapter, arrived at Fenris and surrounded the planet in high orbit whilst targeting The Fang, the Space Wolves' fortress-monastery, for a devastating orbital bombardment. The planet was virtually undefended as the vast majority of the Space Wolves and their Chapter fleet were dispersed on missions across the galaxy. Kysnaros again asked for a parlay with any ranking Space Wolves present. A delegation consisting of Kysnaros, the Grey Knight Hyperion (who commanded respect amongst the Space Wolves as the "Bladebreaker") and Inquisitor Annika Jarlsdottyr, a native Fenrisian, arrived at The Fang for the meeting. The Space Wolves had awoken the Venerable Dreadnought Bjorn the Fell-Handed to deal with the Inquisitorial party. The ancient warrior who had once fought beside the Primarch Leman Russ during the Great Crusade immediately received the unbidden respect and reverence of the Inquisitorial delegation, and was thought to be a more temperate and wise representative for the Chapter than Logan Grimnar. Kysnaros asked for the Space Wolves' express obeisance to Imperial authority and the chain of command, and a Penitent Crusade to be undertaken to expiate the Chapter's guilt for their attacks upon the servants of the Inquisition. In exchange, the Inquisition and the Imperium at large would take no other action or censure against the Chapter. Before negotiations could go further, to the surprise of everyone, the Space Wolves' Chapter fleet under the command of Logan Grimnar translated from the Warp near Fenris. As the Inquisition delegation made haste to their flagship, a short, brutal fight ensued over the planet. Eventually Grimnar and his Wolf Guard teleported to Kysnaros' flagship's bridge, where the Great Wolf unceremoniously beheaded the Inquisitor Lord. Grimnar then proceeded to maul the last survivor of the Grey Knights' Squad Castian who had survived the conflict on Armageddon. To save his brother, Hyperion confronted Grimnar, and in the duel that followed, he used his psychic powers to crack Grimnar's ancient, venerated Frost Axe Morkai. As Hyperion then confronted Grimnar and twenty Space Wolves alone, Bjorn the Fell-Handed teleported to the bridge and put an end to the fight. Bjorn told Grimnar that the internecine war between the Chapter and the Inquisition on behalf of the survivors of Armageddon had to stop. The Inquisitorial force should be allowed to leave Fenris unscathed, and the Space Wolves should reach an understanding with the Imperium. He then addressed Hyperion and Inquisitor Jarlsdottyr, as the ranking Inquisition representatives present, and told them that no Inquisition vessel should ever again appear above Fenris. Additionally, the Space Wolves who had acquired knowledge of the existence of the Grey Knights would not be mind-scrubbed, as was customary, though the remaining Armageddon survivors would be handed over for mind-wiping and dispersion across the galaxy. The combatants accepted the terms, and shortly afterward, the Inquisitorial force left the system. Yet, the larger institutional dispute between the Inquisition and the Space Wolves was not resolved. As a result of what they continued to believe was a betrayal of the Imperium's core values, the Space Wolves have never again trusted the Inquisition and move to frustrate Inquisitorial designs at every opportunity. Since that time the Space Wolves have had little but hostility to show towards the Inquisition and few indeed are the Inquisitors allowed into The Fang in recent times. Both the Armageddon campaign and its aftermath caused extensive casualties amongst the Grey Knights, which lost almost 200 Astartes engaged in the combat. Several Grey Knights starships were lost or destroyed during the hostilities with the Space Wolves, including at least one capital vessel.Uprising on Palacia (499.M41) - Logan Grimnar proved his reputation as both a great warlord and respected leader during the Palacia Heresy. Taking command of the bickering Astra Militarum regiments, he put an end to the systematic execution of the planet's population. Under the banner of his Great Company the Loyalists rallied, many cities thought lost to the Heresy proving their worth and turning on the Traitors. Word soon spread of the Great Wolf's victory, but also of the fair and just way in which he treated the people of Palacia.Well of Darkness (539.M41) - Logan Grimnar led the purge of the Space Hulk Well of Darkness as it drifted past Fenris, his Wolf Guard Terminators cleansing it of alien horrors. During the fighting the Great Wolf fell through a weakened section of deck, plunging down a dozen levels and becoming hopelessly separated from his Battle-Brothers. When he returned to them solar days later, he was covered in alien ichor and filth from countless kills, a savage grin upon his face.The Battle of Rygan II (ca. 500s.M41) - Brother Ranulf was formerly a warrior of the Iron Blood tribe, the same tribe from which Logan Grimnar hailed. He was raised on stories of the legendary sea-raider Logan and when Ranulf met the Wolf Lord in person it was like seeing a figure of legend standing before him. From that day forward Ranulf fought to prove himself in Grimnar's eyes and earn a place at the Great Wolf's side. During the Battle of Rygan II the Grey Hunter Ranulf was thought lost in the maze-city and likely slain by the Dark Eldar raiders against which the Great Company fought. Only many solar months later was it discovered that the missing Grey Hunters had actually been captured and taken to the gladiatorial pits of Commorragh, the dark city of the fallen Eldar corsairs. In a virtually unheard of feat of skill and courage, Ranulf escaped the fighting pits and returned to the Chapter. For this legendary feat Ranulf earned a place in Grimnar's Wolf Guard and also earned his deed name Ironfang after the metal replacement forged to replace a fang he lost in the arenas of CommorraghWar of the Wolf (612.M41) - Logan Grimnar learned of the location of a Wolf Brother Space Marine, one of the long-lost members of the Space Wolves' only Successor Chapter. The Great Wolf led his Champions of Fenris to rescue the Battle-Brother from the clutches of the Black Legion, before the Arch-Traitor Fabius Bile could use him for some nefarious experiment.Magdelon Confrontation (712.M41) - Wolf Lord Ragnar Blackmane led his Great Company against a splinter warband of the Renegade Bleak Brotherhood, and the two forces clashed in the shattered ruins of the world of Magdelon's Crystal City. Having been ejected from Magdelon, the Bleak Brotherhood fled to the planet of Lycanthos Secundus, where they occupied the mighty bastion known as the Widowmaker. This stronghold withstood repeated assaults by numerous Imperial forces, including a pack of Space Wolves Vindicators, for three standard decades before at last falling to the Astral Claws in 780.M41.The Purging of the Starcrusha (739.M41) - The titanic flagship of WAAAGH! Godstompa burst from the depths of the Warp in a localised nebula of green ectoplasm. Wolf Lord Finn Goresson immediately diverted his fleet's course to engage the Space Hulk and its attending Ork warships. He was victorious in his early engagements, at one point driving the armoured prow of his Strike Cruiser straight into the weak point of the Ork Superkrooza Longtoof and out the other side, breaking it in two. His ships were dwarfed by the Space Hulk Starkrusha, however, and sustained serious losses from its firepower. Finn ploughed on through the ectoplasmic cloud until the side of the Starkrusha loomed up ahead. He slamed his Strike Cruiser into the maw-like launch bays of the Hulk and led his Great Company in a sustained boarding action against the Ork horde inside. The resultant war in the bowels of the Orkoid colossus lasted for the best part of six solar months, but nonetheless Finn eventually emerged triumphant, Godstompa's severed head hanging from his belt as a grisly trophy.The War of the Giants (741.M41) - Inquisitor Bastalek Grim broke the laws of Fenris when he records the sagas recounted during the Great Feast of Gerrod Redbeard with eidetic bionic implants. The Inquisitor records the sagas in a treatise titled, The War of the Giants. This act of subterfuge further estranges the Space Wolves from the Inquisition.The Stench of Chaos (741.M41) - Logan Grimnar travelled to the besieged world of Vara III to break the deadlock between the Imperium and the separatist forces under Planetary Governor Tor Rex. The Great Wolf quickly realised all was not as it seemed and orchestrated a council between Tor Rex and the forces of the Imperium. In respect for Grimnar, Rex attended but was quickly set upon by the incumbent Imperial Commander Keel. Logan catched the scent of Chaos upon Keel and realised the Imperial forces on Vara III were under the thrall of the Dark Gods, while Rex remained loyal to the Imperium. The Great Wolf personally riped Keel's head from his shoulders and in just a few bloody weeks the Space Wolves hunted down and killed every Heretic within the Varan fleet, bringing an end to the war.The Achilus Crusade (777-Date Unknown.M41) - A Warp Gate is discovered in 755.M41 in the Calixis Sector which leads to the lost Jericho Reach, a sector of space in the Eastern Fringe that had been severed from contact with the Imperium for over a thousand years. On the eve of the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension in 777.M41, the Achilus Crusade was launched, a massive host of millions of Imperial Guard, thousands of Adepta Sororitas and elements from over a dozen Space Marine Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes that tore through the Warp Gate and into the long lost Jericho Reach. The Great Company of Gunnar Red Moon was operating along the Eastern Fringe at the time and chose to despatch a contingent of warriors to join the Crusade's effort. During one notable campaign, Gunnar Red Moon's Great Company suffered grievous losses against the Orks of WAAAGH! 'Eadbusta. Only the tenacity of the Long Fangs saved their kinsmen after they held Moonfang Pass for three solar days until reinforcements arrived. For three standard years the Space Wolves participated in many major conflicts of the Crusade before a Chaos incursion in the Calixis Sector necessitated the withdrawal of Gunnar Red Moon's warriors. However the Space Wolves felt honour-bound to support the Crusade and as a result small forces and individual squads continued to participate in a number of campaigns and battles across the Jericho Reach in the years since. Rumours of the presence of a Lost Company in the Reach centuries earlier led Logan Grimnar to despatch an investigatory mission that, while it could not find any trace of the Lost Company, resulted in a continued Space Wolf presence with the forces of the Crusade for some time. A number of Space Wolves have also joined the Deathwatch of Watch Fortress Erioch to further battle the forces of xenos assailing the Jericho Reach.The Prophecy of the Curseborn (780.M41) - The Prophecy of the Curseborn foretells the discovery of the Wulfen-possessed Dreadnought Murderfang some 180 standard years later.The Hunt on Bathrath (ca. 700's.M41) - During the Achilus Crusade a force of Space Wolves participated in the battle to reclaim the world of Bathrath from the Tau. During the fighting the Space Wolves encountered massive and agressive fen beasts in the swamps of Bathrath and organised a beast hunt. In the spirit of comradery the Sons of Fenris invited the Deathwatch to participate in the hunt to foster better relations with the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos.Scouring of Gnosis Secundus (787.M41) - In response to the Eldar invasion of Gnosis Prime the Space Wolves were dispatched to defend the planet. Unfortunately they were blown off course by a Warp Storm and arrived a standard year too late. Unable to save the people of Gnosis Prime, Logan Grimnar headed to Gnosis Secundus seeking revenge against the Saim-Hann Eldar still in-system.The Battle of the Maelstrom's Maw (800s.M41) - The Great Company of Osric Three-Fists is ambushed while circling the Maelstrom on a Great Hunt by a significantly larger Chaos fleet. The Chaos flagship the Storm of Hate disables Osric's vessel, the Voidfang, with a single broadside. With moments to act before their vessel came apart around them, the Space Wolves donned helmets and leapt from their ship, boosting through the void to cut their way into the Chaos flagship. Wolf Lord Osric and a mere thirty of his warriors survive the firestorm filling the void between the two warships. Undaunted by the losses the Space Wolves cut their way in and storm through the ship to the bridge, slaying the Chaos Champions and taking control of the vessel. Lord Osric turns the Storm of Hate's own guns on the Chaos fleet and in so doing wins a stunning victory for the Imperium.The Massacres of K'ras'n'dar (801-849.M41) - The Greater Daemon of Khorne, known as K'ras'n'dar, emerged on the fourth planet in one of the few populated systems between the Halo Stars and the western end of the Segmentum Pacificus. The Grey Knights purged the daemon while the Space Wolves of Bran Redmaw's Great Company slaughtered their way through the Khornate cultists. The Inquisition sealed all records of the campaign but the account of Redmaw is held in the Great Company's Saga. By the time the fighting ended in 849.M41 more than a billion Imperial Guardsmen were lost to the Forces of Chaos.The Siege of Hethgard (817.M41) - Established as a Fortress World early in the Achilus Crusade the world of Hethgard stood firm for thirty standard years before coming under assault by sizable elements from Hive Fleet Dagon. Elements from the Space Wolves and Storm Wardens fought alongside the Imperial Guard defenders to hold back tides of millions of Tyranid bio-engineered killing machines.The Slaying of Ur-Bolg (818.M41) - Brother Throth Half-Head hunts down the father of giants, Ur-Bolg, a creature that had been causing havoc throughout the armored fjords of Fenris' continent of Asaheim. Though Ur-Bolg is a mountainous monster, Throth Half-Head uses cunning to defeat the giant, blinding him with a plasma blade. Throth sends the giant stumbling into the ocean and a watery grave. This victory earns Throth a place in the sagas of Fenris for all time.The Hunter's Hunted (822.M41) - The piratical Dark Eldar Kabal of the Shattered Hand flew unhindered over the defence networks of the Luetin Necropolis. They had barely begun their bloody work when they were ambushed in turn, the Great Company of Erik Morkai hurling itself from the windows above and boarding the jagged transports of the xenos raiders to cut down the degenerate invaders.The Scrapshire Incursion (830.M41) - Logan Grimnar led a rescue mission to recover a priceless Standard Template Construct (STC) database from the wreckage of the downed Adeptus Mechanicus vessel Eternal Iron. The ship had crashed on the Ork world of Scrapspire, a dumping ground for rubbish from across the sector. On a sea of scrap metal the Space Wolves fought their way into the great city of the Ork Warboss Krugfist, finally reaching his treasure vaults and recovering the STC Cogitator core. In the fray Grimnar hacked Krugfist's mechanical Power Klaw from his arm, taking it with him as a trophy.The Oathsworn (833.M41) - When Wolf Lord Krom Dragongaze saves the life of an Imperial Knight of House Hawkshroud, the Knight becomes Oathsworn to Krom, bound by honour to repay the debt of his life to the Jarl of the Space Wolves.Honour's End (837.M41) - During the Eclipse Wars, the Flesh Tearers Chapter fought alongside the Space Wolves and the Angels Vindicant Chapters upon the Shrine World of Lucid Prime. Largely due to a ferocious Flesh Tearers' counter-attack, Imperial forces were able to drive off the Chaos Space Marine forces terrosing Hive Ratspire. However, the Flesh Tearers continued their indiscriminate slaughter of civilians even after the Chaos Renegades had been driven away. Despite Chapter Master Seth's insistence that his men were purging those that had been tainted by the presence of Chaos, the Space Wolves were outraged and attacked the Flesh Tearers at once. The resultant battle saw brother fighting brother, with the death of many hundreds on either side. This terrible event was known forever after as Honour's End.The Ambush of Hel's Ridge (848.M41) - A vast Tyranid swarm surrounded Bran Redmaw's Great Company after their Imperial Guard allies were waylaid and slaughtered to a man. The timely arrival of a dozen Stormfang gunships helped to clear the skies before a savage counterattack led by Redmaw and his Blood Claw Packs turned the tide against the Tyranid ground forces.The Daemonbane War (853.M41) - The Space Wolves of Sven Bloodhowl's Great Company are battling the Forces of Chaos on the daemon-infested world of Yaogeddon when, to their surprise, the Khornate and Slaaneshi Chaos forces turn against each other. The Radical Inquisitor Lord Querrian manipulated the conflict between the factions of Chaos. The astonished Space Wolves stand down while the Chaos forces nearly annihilate each other. When the dust settles Bran and Querrian join forces to mop up the few survivors. A few solar days later Puritan Inquisitors of the Ordo Malleus arrive on Yaegeddon demanding the execution of Querrian for heresy. Bran intervenes, engaging the Ordo Malleus forces long enough for Querrian to escape before withdrawing.From Out of the Warp it Came (877.M41) - Engir Krakendoom's Great Company was close to hand when a vast anomaly breached the yawning Warp Gate of Sloth. Twelve thousand miles of heaving flesh; the entity defied classification until a xenobiologist realised that the anomaly was once a peaceful Void Whale, twisted by the unnatural tides of the Warp. As the monstrosity prepared to engulf the astral stronghold of Perillia, the Space Wolves boarded it in drill-tipped torpedoes. Fighting amongst frond-forests and gill-chasms, Engir and his men battled through the nightmare products of its hostile ecosystem before planting thermal charges deep within its vital organs. They escaped with only solar seconds to spare before the behemoth finally came apart in a great cloud of tainted blood. The Perillian Gas Belt was born from its remains.The Murdermake Crusade (880.M41) - This is a little known event in the annals of official Imperial records, and the Space Wolves sagas make little mention of it.The Ecclesiarchy Comes to Fenris (886.M41) - A delegation of Ecclesiarchy officials approached Fenris, intending to assess the Space Wolves after hearing rumours of their worship of false gods. Logan Grimnar refused to meet their demands when they commanded him to open the gates of The Fang and undergo interrogation. Foolishly, the Ecclesiarchy decided to press the matter and when their envoy Cruiser was destroyed trying to dock with The Fang the rest of the Adeptus Ministorum officials retreated, finally realising the Great Wolf was not be trifled with. However, it was not a lesson learned, and almost a year later the Ecclesiarchy and three Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas attempted to enter Fenrisian space in force. The resultant war lasted for three solar weeks before the Ecclesiarchy decided to let sleeping dogs lie and withdrew its forces.Slaying of the Ice Trolls (892.M41) - Harald Deathwolf -- in mortal life a champion of the Fenrisian Tide Hounds tribe -- heard tales of a migration of ice trolls that had reached his ancestral lands and was devouring his people. In a rage, he made an unsanctioned return to his mortal roots and led his savage tribe-kin to victory against the marauding monsters, claiming the enchanted pelt of the largest of their number as a trophy.Bad Blood is Spilled (894.M41) - The Space Wolves and the Dark Angels fought alongside each other for the first time in many years to quell an uprising in the Artemis System. In the wake of the conflict, Ranulf the Strong inadvertently killed the Dark Angels champion, Balthasar Xaphan, in the traditional contest that reenacted the duel fought by Russ and El'Jonson. Blood was shed on both sides in the ensuing fracas.Betalis III Campaign (894.M41) - The frigid Ice World of 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 Iryllith, the founder of the Shadow Spectre Aspect Warriors, whose vessel had crash-landed 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. In this way, the Mymearans hoped that Irillyth might be restored to fight once more for his people, since 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 the Space Wolves Astartes of 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, presumably after they had recovered Irillyth.An Alliance Broken (895.M41) - When the Ork WAAAGH! of Grimtusk Bloodboila looked set to consume the entire Athelaq Sector, it was not only the Great Company of Egil Iron Wolf that stood in its path. An Eldar warhost fought hard to contain the Greenskin invasion to prevent the Space Wolves from becoming surrounded. Egil's tanks took a heavy toll on the Ork vanguard and, after weeks of bitter warfare, Warlord Grimtusk was killed and the WAAAGH! blunted. Later, Autarch Elenduil visited the throne room of Egil Iron Wolf in great ceremony, his bodyguard of Striking Scorpions respectfully bearing the recovered bodies of fallen Space Wolves. Unfortunately, what was supposed to be a parley over a parting gift turned sour at a single stray mistranslation. Insults were exchanged and blades drawn. The sudden violence of the ensuing fight was but a shadow of the destruction that followed as the sector descended into total war between the three factions.The Battle for Montberg Spaceport (897.M41) - Hive Fleet Colossus descended in force upon the Civilised World of Thressiax, and the forces garrisoned there proved unable to stop the Tyranid invaders. Imperial High Command called for all remaining forces to withdraw and left the settlers of Thressiax to their fate so that the Tyranids could be exterminated from space. Bran Redmaw, resupplying upon Thressiax at the time, objected fiercely to this dictate. He sent two full squads of Grey Hunters to reinforce the vital spaceport of Montberg so that the people of Thressiax could evacuate. Scant solar days before the aliens' impending attack, the Grey Hunters intensively trained the menfolk of Montberg, putting the fear of Fenris into any considering desertion. Against all the odds, the Grey Hunters and their new mortal recruits held the walls of the spaceport against the Tyranid swarms, buying the civilians enough time to escape. When the six surviving Grey Hunters finally withdrew from the spaceport, Imperial High Command demanded that they be stripped of all honours for disobeying a direct command. Instead Bran Redmaw promoted all six into his personal Wolf Guard in recognition of their valourous deeds.Battle of Centius Prime (897.M41) - The Ork warlord known as Big Boss Gigabob led the invasion of the Feudal World of Centius Prime, searching for loot with which to arm his forces for a planned Greenskin WAAAGH! Finding the world had little technology more advanced than a crossbow, he indulged in a campaign of vengeful wrath, only to be halted by a combined force of Space Wolves and Mantis Warriors Space Marines answering the planet's astropathic distress call.The 30th Great Hunt (900.M41) - The Great Wolf led the 30th Great Hunt to find the Chapter's lost Primarch, Leman Russ. For over a standard decade Logan Grimnar's Great Company and scores of the Space Wolves' mightiest warriors traveled the void, having bloody adventures and fighting glorious battles. While no definitive clues to the whereabouts of Russ were uncovered, the Great Hunt saw a host of threats to the Imperium destroyed and many more quelled before they could grow to become a danger.The Loss of Svengar the Red (912.M41) - During the 31st Great Hunt in 912.M41 in search of the Primarch, the Great Company of Svengar the Red sails through a wyrmhole to find their ships transported well beyond the rim of the galaxy, beyond the Ghost Stars. Unsure of his location, Svengar decides to press on. As the solar months roll on the company is on the verge of turning back when they discover a dark planet just visible in the distance. When the company arrives they find a paradise far removed from the war and conflict of the greater galaxy. Slowly the Space Wolves relax and begin to celebrate with the locals, but it is only when Svengar makes a pass at one of the local women that he discovers they are not human at all. Though the Great Company fights valiantly they are outnumbered and slain to the last.The Hunt on the Moon of Gallimius (913.M41) - Wolf Lord Harald Deathwolf was tasked by the Great Wolf to hunt down and slay the traitorous Wolf Lord Svane Vulfbad, who had become disillusioned with the Imperium and fallen to the temptations of Chaos. Deathwolf tracked Vulfbad and his warriors to the storm-shrouded moon of Gallimius in the Cliedes System. The storms forced Deathwolf to hunt down the Traitor by scent alone, leading a small band of Wolf Scouts to the peak where Vulfbad was attempting to summon a horde of daemonic allies. In the battle that followed Vulfbad was struck down by Deathwolf just as the duelling warriors were struck by a bolt of lightning. When the dust settled all that remained of Vulfbad was his Frost Axe, a shard of which now replaces the fang lost to Harald's Thunderwolf in the attack, earning the Wolf Lord's mount the name Icetooth.Cleansing of the Vulture Clan (ca. 900s.M41) - Hidden for centuries in a deep valley within the mountains of Fenris was a tribe of degenerate rogue psykers known as the Vulture Clan. For generations the clan had conducted heathen rituals, worshipped the Chaos Gods and made blood sacrifices to the Warp. Upon discovering the existence of this tainted mountain tribe a strike force of Wolf Priests led by Ulrik the Slayer and Vortigan Breakbone attacked the Valley of the Burning Stones and exterminated the tribe nearly to the last. Only five young boys were initially spared, for they were young enough to potentially serve as Aspirants to the Chapter, and though drawn from a tainted source, psykers were nevertheless a precious enough resource to warrant consideration. Three were immediately found to be tainted beyond salvation and were left in the wilderness to die. A fourth perished during his Blooding. The fifth was executed by a Bolt Pistol shot to the chest by Vortigan Breakbone and taken to The Fang for dissection. Miraculously however, the youth somehow managed to cling to life and awoke in one of The Fang's crematoriums. The boy's endurance impressed the venerable Wolf Priest Ulrik the Slayer and he stayed any further execution, allowing the boy to argue for his salvation. Upon learning more about the youth Ulrik chose to send him to the Apothecarion to be patched up and then on to become an Aspirant to the Chapter. Years later, the young boy would grow to become Rune Priest Ulli Iceclaw, a mighty warrior of the Chapter and a fearsome battle-psyker.The Battle of Phalakan (ca. 900s.M41) - On the rock-strewn fields of Phalakan the Space Wolves fought against a host of Eldar. The wily xenos were fast and deadly and few Space Wolves survived the battle but survive they did, and the Eldar did not. The fighting was incredibly fierce and relentless. At first, Rune Priest Ulli Iceclaw, then an apprentice under Rune Priest Torgrim Splitbeard, rune-marked his brother's Bolters. When the Bolters ran out of ammunition he rune-marked the Wolves' blades. When those dulled or ran out of fuel he rune-marked rocks and the Wolves used them to bludgeon the xenos into bloody pulp into the ground. Brother Tanngjost Seven Fingers earned wicked scars to Eldar weapons during the battle and Saehrimnar Brokenaxe earned his deed-name when his axe broke and he took up a discarded Heavy Bolter, gunning down the fleet xenos scum when they refused to fight him face to face.The Victim's Dance Denied (ca. 900s.M41) - The formerly ordered world of Phalakan was laid low by a combination of spreading civil unrest and rebellion and a devastating invasion by the Eldar. The Great Company of Ragnar Blackmane responded and deployed to Phalakan to restore order. During the fighting, Pack Hengild was separated from the rest of the Imperial forces in the ruins of the Phalakan Academy where the Pack came under attack from a troupe of Eldar Harlequins. The Eldar were attempting to conduct the "Victim's Dance," a ritual performance where the xenos ritually executed a victim with a single stab through the heart. When the first skirmish between Pack Hengild and the Eldar went badly the Pack chose to regroup and draw the Eldar into an ambush. Feigning surrender to the ritual, Brother Saerhimnar allowed the Shadowseer to draw close and stab him through the heart. Kept alive by his secondary heart, Brother Saerhimnar drew a knife and killed the Shadowseer. The rest of the Pack sprung their ambush as the outraged Harlequins tried to close in and exact revenge. Bursting through the floor of the Academy Museum the Space Wolves butchered the remaining Eldar within a matter of moments. Only a single Harlequin escaped the fight and vanished, taking with it the story of how the Sons of Fenris foiled the Victim's Dance.Draxian Incursion (Ca. 900s.M41) - The Space Wolves entered the fray against the forces of the xenos Draxians during the Draxian Incursion into Imperial territory on the world of Medes 841.Hesperida Campaign (Unknown Date.M41) - The Space Wolves met the Forces of Chaos on the world of Hesperida. Portions of Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company saw action in this conflict.Corinthus V (Unknown Date.M41) - Ragnar Blackmane's Great Company was deployed to the Imperial world of Corinthus V to aid the regiments of the Imperial Guard in throwing back the Forces of Chaos.Second Battle of Garm (ca. 900s.M41) - During the 41st Millennium, the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion once again assailed the Shrine World of Garm. Led by the foul Thousand Sons Chaos Sorcerer Madox, a Chaos Cult uprising on a planetary scale provided the necessary cover for the sorcerer to steal the sacred Spear of Russ. Soon a great portion of the Space Wolves Chapter was deployed to Garm (11 Great Companies) to help quell these massive uprisings. One of these Great Companies was under the command of Wolf Lord Berek Thunderfist. During a climatic battle between the Chaos Sorcerer and Ragnar Blackmane, the young Space Wolf hurled the sacred Spear of Russ into a Warp portal to prevent the summoned Daemon Prince Magnus the Red from entering realspace and turning the tide of battle. Though even the Space Wolves' Great Wolf Logan Grimnar believed that Ragnar's actions had saved the Chapter from a potential disaster, many Space Wolves believed Ragnar had dishonoured himself and his fellow Battle-Brothers by losing one of the Space Wolves' greatest relics.The Battle for Hyades (ca. 900s.M41) - During Ragnar Blackmane's service to the Wolfblade he and his comrades found themselves defending the world of Hyades from no less than the devious Dark Angels. Driven against each other by the foul plots of the Thousand Sons, the Dark Angels and Berek Thunderfist's Great Company waged war through the capital city of Lethe and in orbit over the world. The two sides only joined forces when the greater threat of a Chaos fleet forced them to co-operate, and even then, they did not do so at first. Berek's warship the Fist of Russ fought against overwhelming odds and managed to cripple or destroy several of the Chaos ships on its own. Just as the Space Wolves thought their hour had come, the Dark Angels rejoined the fray, hitting the Chaos forces from the rear. While the two Chapter's mutual distrust had not been healed in any way by this action, they did manage to fight off the Chaos scum, though the "friendly fire" incident of Hyades would return to trouble the Space Wolves again in the not-too-distant future.The Battle for Charys (ca. 900s.M41) - On the world of Charys the Thousand Sons infernal plotting came to a climax, threatening to drown the entire Space Wolves Chapter in mad bloodlust. However, Ragnar Blackmane, Torin the Wanderer and Haeger the Brute alongside a warband of the legendary lost 13th Company managed to infiltrate the mirror shadow world the Thousand Sons had created and disrupted the foul Chaos ritual at its most vulnerable hour. Haeger gave his life to smash his way to the top of the dais where the Chaos Sorcerer Madox was performing his vile rituals and pull the stolen Spear of Russ from his grasp. This act allowed the Navigator Gabriella to free the spirit of the Wolf Lord Berek Thunderfist and also broke the Chaos ritual, freeing the Space Wolves from the overpowering urges of the Wulfen within them. Charys suffered badly during the battle and many heroes fell that day, including the entire Imperial Guard Command, but the Imperium was nevertheless victorious and the Thousand Sons were defeated yet again. Better still, Ragnar Blackmane recovered the Spear of Russ and returned it to its rightful resting place on Garm.Battle for Midgardia (933.M41) - A Necron fleet led by Trazyn the Infinite descended upon the jungle-covered Death World of world of Midgardia in the Fenris System. The Necron Overlord sought a shard of the C'tan Nyadra'zatha that slumbered in the core of the Fenrisian planet. Angered by the audacity of his foes, Logan Grimnar led a huge force against the Necrons, turning the toxic jungles and subterranean cities of Midgardia into a bitter and brutal warzone.The Abomination of Cyriax (954.M41) - Legends came to life in the underhive as, deep in the night-shrouded bowels of the Hive World of Cyriax's Hive Necros, something huge and terrible stired within the stygian darkness. Though it killed hundreds of underhive dwellers over several nightmarish solar months, the call for help was only issued when a member of the hive's aristocracy was messily devoured. Logan Grimnar bade his elite Thunderwolf Cavalry mount up and hunt the much-feared Abomination of Cyriax until death. The myth of giant warriors riding metal-skinned wolf-daemons soon spread across the entire planet.The Wolf's Eye Blinks (959.M41) - A Warp anomaly results in the first solar eclipse to ever occur on Fenris, obscuring the light of the Wolf's Eye. To the Fenrisians this event is an omen of dire times ahead.The Hollow Worlds Campaign (960.M41) - Shortly before the onset of the Pandorax Campaign in 960.M41, a combined task force of Inquisition agents and elements of the Space Wolves fought a series of underground tunnel fighting campaigns across the Hollow Worlds System.Murderfang's Rampage (960.M41) - On the hell world of Omnicide, Logan Grimnar's Great Company stumbled upon a feral Space Wolf Dreadnought carving its way through a force of Chaos Space Marines. The identity of the warrior bound within the Dreadnought Sarcophagus has been lost, his name stricken from the sagas for his terrible deeds. Lost to the Curse of the Wulfen this savage warrior was placed in glacial stasis by ancient helfrost technology after a fierce struggle and returned to the Fang, there to wait in the vaults with the rest of the chapter ancients until dire circumstances necessitate his revival and deployment into the heart of the most savage of battlefields.War of Infamy (962.M41) - When the Tau raided Imperial shipyards at Ethron's Harbour, destroying numerous escort vessels and crippling the battleship Pretorius Rex, Logan Grimnar's Great Company led a retributive strike against the nearest Tau outpost world. Taking advantage of a localised Warp anomaly to cross the sector in a matter of hours, the Space Wolves fell upon the unsuspecting Tau even as they refueled and recovered from their raid. Though the battle was brutal and bloody, costing the Space Wolves dozens of their Battle-Brothers, the Great Wolf was determined to send a clear message to the Tau and left no survivors.The Battle for Fellcore Moon (963.M41) - Elements of the Space Wolves and Iron Hands joined forces during the Battle for Fellcore Moon. However, criticism of Wolf Lord Ragnar Blackmane's impetuousness by Iron Captain Telavech led the two Chapters to come to blows.Thorgir and the Bladed Dragon (963.M41) - While passing the Feudal World of Isoulde, the Thunderhawk Wyrmsbane receives a distress call from the High Magister. The gunship diverts and quickly locates the source of the distress call, a monstrous bio-terror savaging the keeps of Isoulde. The Space Wolves immediately launch an attack but do not anticipate the deadly gouts of fire the beast can hurl into the air. The Wyrmsbane is blinded by a scouring blast across the front of the gunship and crashes in a horrible tangle of twisted ceramite and adamantium. Only Brother Thorgir Redhand survives the crash. Pulling himself from the wreckage Thorgir tracks down the beast and attacks it from beneath, smashing its slimy underside with repeated blows from his Thunder Hammer. Enraged, the beast follows Thorgir into the great stone cathedral known as Loftspire. The creature smashes through the walls, weakening the structure, which Thorgir then collapses with a mighty blow to the central support pillar of the building. With agonising slowness the spires of the cathedral collapse, piercing the neck of the beast and slaying it in a single stroke. Thorgir is buried under thousands of tons of rock but survives and is dug out by the thankful locals.The War Under the Ocean (966.M41) - The T'au Empire, encroaching ever further into Imperial space, mined the bed of the Ocean World of Kvariam Alpha. It took a full Terran decade for the domes and corridors that stretched along the ocean floor to be discovered by an Imperial Augur probe. With the Imperial Guard unable to engage the Tau forces so far below the sea, the Space Wolves were called in. Gunnar Red Moon's Great Company made planetfall upon Kvariam's meagre land mass and took the fight to the Fire Warriors stationed there. Having established a beachhead, Gunnar and his men split off from the main invasion force and launched a massed armoured assault into the depths. They drove deep into the ocean along the sea bed, the adamantium hulls of their Land Raiders proof against the terrible pressures of the ocean. As the tanks neared the alien domes and spires of the Tau cities to disgorge their Terminator-Armoured passengers, circular portals in each section faned open and teams of graceful, propeller-tailed Battlesuits moved to intercept the slowly approaching armoured column. A desperate, silent undersea battle erupted, but despite the bewildering array of sleek torpedo-armed craft brought to war against them, the Space Wolves still managed to shatter the domes of the Tau mining operations. The sea around them was choked with corpses before the Tau finally fled.The Hungering Void (972.M41) - Logan Grimnar's Great Company chanced upon a Tyranid splinter fleet deep within the void. Not content to leave the Tyranids to continue on their path deeper into the Imperium -- even though they were still centuries from the nearest system at sub-light speeds -- the Great Wolf launched an assault. Focusing on the Hive Ship in the centre of the cluster, Grimnar led a boarding party to plant a powerful Vortex Mine in the beast's synaptic core. The Wolf Guard fought their way through the nightmarish body of the beast as it awakened around them, disgorging thousands of Tyranid organisms to devour them. Finally, Grimnar was able to plant the charge and escape, detonating it even as his Stormwolf lifted off. With the Hive Ship destroyed, the Space Wolves eradicated the remaining disorganised and scattered Tyranid vessels with ease.Battle for Parenxes (981.M41) - An Astartes fleet, including elements from several Space Marine Chapters, attempts to lay an ambush for the infamous Chaos Lord Huron Blackheart and his Red Corsairs Renegades in the Parenxes System. The Tyrant of Badab learns of the ambush ahead of time and lays a trap for the Space Marines instead. Attacking from two quarters Blackheart forces the Astartes forces to break out from a two-pronged assault of Red Corsairs vessels. Most make it, but two are forced towards the system's sun instead. Knowing that the Astartes would rather scuttle their ships than let them be captured, Blackheart powers down his flagship, a former Astral Claws Battle Barge, leaving an illusory gap in the enclosing fleet. Seeing the opportunity both Astartes Strike Cruisers make for the gap. A Fire Hawkss vessel is too badly damaged in the attempt for Huron's Renegades to repair so it is let go, but the Wolf of Fenris suffers far lighter damage apart from a crippling blow to its engines. With his target chosen, Blackheart launches a series of well-coordinated boarding assaults, starting with the enginarium. Despite a counter-assault from the ship's Iron Priest, the engine bays are captured by the Red Corsairs forces. Next Huron launched several fresh assaults amidships and towards the bridge, holding off Space Wolf reinforcements and striking at the bridge. Breaking into the command deck with a phase field generator, Huron duels the ship's commander Gnyrll Bluetooth and defeats him, ripping out his fangs as a trophy. With the bridge and engines firmly under Red Corsairs control, Huron's Battle Barge powers up and begins launching additional boarding parties giving the Renegades overwhelming numerical superiority. Led by a Wolf Priest, the port gunnery decks fight a furious but ultimately futile battle while the starboard gunnery decks appear to hold firm temporarily, before Traitors within the Space Wolves' ranks turn on their own brethren and swear oaths of fealty to Huron Blackheart. For this act, Huron grants command of the Wolf of Fenris to the traitorous Space Wolves. The Space Wolves Strike Cruiser is Huron's greatest prize to date.The Avenging of Berek Thunderfist (983.M41) - Ragnar Blackmane slew his liege's killer, Chaos Champion Ghorox Bloodfist, in single combat. The vengeful Blackmane and his hand-picked strike force later hunted down and defeat Bloodfist's Word Bearers allies during the Gravespite Massacre. The young Ragnar was subsequently elected as the fallen Wolf Lord's successor in recognition of his heroic deeds.Riders of the Storm (988.M41) - Logan Grimnar, majestic atop his gravitic chariot, Stormrider, led his Great Company in the charge that finally broke the Necron phalanxes of Imotekh the Stormlord on Vhaloth IV. Though a great victory over the Necrons, it was a hollow one for the Great Wolf, as the hunt that brought him to Vhaloth IV was intended to locate Trazyn the Infinite to deliver retribution for the attack on Midgardia.An Oath Fulfilled (989.M41) - After more than 350 Terran years, Ulrik the Slayer avenged the Aspirants lost to the Dark Eldar Haemonculi coven, the Hex, after Erik Morkai's Wolf Scouts tracked the elusive coven to their latest "living art" gallery. Khaeghris Xhakt, the Haemonculus Ancient who masterminded the atrocities so long ago, was betrayed by an ambitious underling, who left his ghoulish overseer to face Ulrik alone. Xhakt's head soon adorned a spike in the Trophy Hall of The Fang.A Jest Too Far (990.M41) - Lukas the Trickster roused the volcanic wrath of Bjorn Stormwolf by soiling the Wolf Lord's Terminator Armour with a swarm of microscopic bloodlice. Bristling with indignation -- and no small amount of uncontrollable itching -- Stormwolf battered the sniggering Jackalwolf unconscious. Fortunately for the Blood Claw, Ragnar Blackmane interceded before the giant could land a finishing blow, claiming the mischievous warrior for his own Great Company and, in doing so, saving Lukas' life.Third War for Armageddon (998.M41) - The Space Wolves fielded 5 Great Companies in the defence of the Hive World of Armageddon during the Third War for Armageddon and acquitted themselves admirably in the successful defence of this strategically vital hive world from the Orks of WAAAGH! Ghazghkull.The Battle for Alaric Prime (998.M41) - After the destruction of the Magnir's Revenge, the Great Wolf himself led the Sons of Russ to the Sanctus Reach Sub-sector, only to dive headlong into battle on the beleaguered Knight World of Alaric Prime against Ork Warlord Grukk face-Rippa's Red WAAAGH!. However, when the desperate Badmek Mogrok ordered the launch of a poorly retrofitted Vortex Missile battery, the resulting misfire tore a hole in the veil of reality and a vast host of Khornate daemons began pouring through the Warp breach. Though many of the remaining Orks were slaughtered in the ensuing massacre, the Space Wolves were forced to fight another costly battle before they could secure a final victory.The Great Devourer comes to Shadrac (998.M41) - A Tyranid splinter fleet fell upon the isolated Ice World of Shadrac. The frostbitten Imperial Guard stationed there needed a miracle to survive, but when a Pack of Space Wolves appeared out of nowhere, there remained a glimmer of hope. Led by Skold Greypelt, the Space Wolves joined the remaining Guardsmen in a desperate fight. Only a handful of warriors escaped, leaving much of the swarm to be annihilated in a devastating explosion. Shadrac still fell to the Tyranids, though the Hive Mind learned to be wary of the Sons of Russ.The Kraken Awakes (999.M41) - The fifty-foot long, leather-skinned "Kraken's Egg" held in the Trophy Hall of The Fang splits opened to disgorge a slithering swarm of tentacled beasts. Harald Deathwolf's Fenrisian Wolves smelled their acrid stench first, and led the Wolf Lord himself to investigate. Together with Canis Wolfborn and a warband of Battle-Brothers, Harald messily butchered the abominations in a series of devastating charges. It was a hard-fought victory, however, and none of the combatants escaped without the circular scars of the kraken-spawns' tentacles somewhere upon their body.Volturna Campaign (999.M41) - Following the Third War for Armageddon warbands of Orks terrorised and ransacked the surrounding star systems. One such system was Volturna. Warboss Skargutz the Render led his warband in a series of successful raids throughout the system, seizing loot and plunder and then moving on before the Imperial Navy could arrive. Finally the system's Imperial Governor grew desperate and called on the Space Wolves for aid. Carefully watching and waiting, the Space Wolves infiltrated Wolf Scouts teams to the world of Cambion when the Warboss launched a raid against it. For a solar month the Scouts watched the Ork forces and placed locator beacons in preparation for the Space Wolves fleet to arrive and lay waste to the Orks. All went to plan until the orbital drop and bombardment commensed, when all of a sudden powerful jamming signals blocked out the locator beacons and locked up Imperial communications. The Space Wolf drop forces were left isolated and under immediate attack. The fighting was desperate and furious, with each Space Wolf fighting like a hero of ancient sagas, but at last the primary drop point was overwhelmed, and nearly every Space Marine there killed. Only the mighty Wolf Priest Rothgar survived, despite grievous injuries. Wolf Lord Heldane Ironhammer was slain during the fighting and his body carried back to the hidden base of Warboss Skargutz. A Pack of Blood Claws led by Kjarl and a Wolf Scout Pack led by Wolf Guard Pack Leader Skaflock Sightblinder infiltrated the Warboss' base and slew him and a Dark Eldar mercenary who had provided the Orks with their advanced jamming technology. This effectively ended the rampage of WAAAGH! Skargutz.Return of the 13th Great Company (999.M41) - On the hive world of Nurades, Harald Deathwolf and his Great Company slaughter the mutants spawned by a raging warp storm, but are ambushed by a horde of Daemons. Mysterious hulking figures leap to the aid of the Space Wolves, shredding the creatures of Chaos and covering the battlefield with their ichor. These newcomers wear armour bearing a mark not seen in ten thousand years – the icon of the Wulfenkind, emblem of the lost 13th Great Company.Harbingers of Doom (999.M41) - The newly found Wulfen are returned to Fenris, to their ancestral home where they are joined with their kin. Not all among the Space Wolves welcome their lost battle-brothers, for the savage mutation in the Canis Helix of the 13th Great Company evokes a dangerous bestial fury in other Space Wolves. However, expeditions are sent out to find other Wulfen packs that remain lost amongst the stars. It is at this time that tendrils of madness coil from the void, and Daemons beyond counting pour into the Fenris System.The Trickster of Tzeentch (999.M41) - As the Space Wolves return to Fenris to purge it of the invading Daemons, they are met by an Imperial fleet with the Dark Angels fortress monastery, the Rock, at its head. The fleet's commanders intend to bring the Wolf Lords to judgement for accepting the deviant Wulfen into their ranks. Tensions rise as the servant of Tzeentch known as the Changeling, having infiltrated the Dark Angels, spurs the ancient rivals to war. The disguised Daemon announces that the Space Wolves have fired upon Grey Knights vessels in the system, and that the savage Wulfen have turned on their Dark Angels allies. With no Wolf Lords present to defend the Space Wolves, Azrael, Supreme Grand Master of the Dark Angels, orders his fleet to bombard the Daemon-infested planets of the Fenris System, despite the fact that Space Wolves still fight on the surfaces of these worlds. On the hive world of Midgardia, the rain of fire is so extreme that the surface is reduced to a scorched wasteland, and billions of its citizens are obliterated. By a strange twist of fate, Logan Grimnar and Egil Iron Wolf are trapped below the surface and avoid the destruction of the Exterminatus. Brother-Captain Arvann Stern of the Grey Knights, along with Ragnar Blackmane, arrives on the bridge of the Rock, just as the bombardments commence. Confusion and anger reign, but into the madness speaks Stern. He alone senses the traitor in their midst - Mendaxis, the vox seneschal, who is in fact the corporeal form of the Changeling. With its ruse exposed, the trickster Daemon flees into the heart of the Rock. Though it sows much more havoc, it is eventually cornered and sent back to the warp by the blade of Ragnar Blackmane.The Wrath of Magnus (999.M41) - In the wake of mayhem created by the Changeling, nine Silver Towers of Tzeentch appear above Fenris. As the Rune Priests cast their stones, each reading is more foreboding than the last, and in the Imperial fleet construals of the Emperor's Tarot point to a ravenous serpent of flame. The Silver Towers descend through Fenris' orbit to disgorge their legions, each citadel's sorcerous master using its power to pollute a sacred site of Fenris. As the warriors of the Thousand Sons begin their implacable advance across the death world, the Sons of Russ charge to meet them. On glaciers, volcanoes and mountains the Space Wolves battle the Traitor Legion, and the snows are reddened by blood. On the third day, the fortresses of the Thousand Sons arrange themselves to form the ancient Prosperine symbol of vengeance, and from the nexus of power at its heart bursts forth the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red. Aided by Ahriman, the most gifted of his Legion, Magnus seeks to corrupt Fenris itself – and therefore its people – turning the fiery world-spirit of the planet against those who had been his persecutors millennia ago. In the final concerted attack against Magnus the Space Wolves are joined once more by the Dark Angels, though their Ravenwing jetfighters are disintegrated by lancing sorcerous blasts. The Deathwolves are next into the fray, supported by Grey Knights of the Wardmakers Brotherhood. Step by step they hack their way through ranks of summoned Daemons to reach the Crimson King. More Imperial warriors charge the infernal Primarch as the most powerful Rune Priests, gathered under Njal Stormcaller, call on the rocks and chasms of Fenris to trap Magnus in their jaws. With a bolt of Chaos energy Magnus transmutes the Grand Master of the Wardmakers, Valdar Aurikon, into lifeless metal. Egil Iron Wolf is next to fall, with Magnus shifting the Wolf Lord telekinetically so that he is vaporised by his own lascannon blast. This gruesome end to Egil's saga buys Grimnar the opening he needs. Pouncing from his chariot, the Great Wolf calls out a challenge to Magnus before hewing the Daemon Primarch's chest with the Axe Morkai. As Magnus howls in pain, Grey Knights Purifiers chant rites of banishment, and in a blinding explosion, Magnus is expelled from Fenris.13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - When Abaddon the Despoiler spilled forth from the Eye of Terror to launch the 13th Black Crusade, the Space Wolves were one of the first Chapters of the Space Marines to meet the challenge. Logan Grimnar and the Space Wolves were among the first Imperial defenders to arrive in the Cadian System to stem the tide of Chaotic filth. The entire Chapter deployed to support the Cadians, as the Space Wolves committed all 12 of their Great Companies against the Forces of Chaos. As Grimnar was among the oldest and wisest Space Marine commanders in the Imperium and possessed a stalwart reputation, he was elected to overall command of the Imperial defenders for the conflict. The Space Wolves are one of only four Space Marine Chapters to have fought in both the Third War for Armageddon and the 13th Black Crusade.The Disaster on Voidsoul (999.M41) - During the 13th Black Crusade, an Imperial Guard regiment of Cadian volunteers, who dubbed themselves "Creed's Blade," sought to bring battle and retribution to the Daemon World they named Voidsoul. The world designated E678, as it was known to the Ordo Malleus, proved far more hazardous than the Cadians could have imagined in their darkest nightmares. What was to be a battle proved almost immediately to be a disastrous slaughter. Only a handful of landers made it to the surface intact, as most were torn apart by the howling, blood red storms constantly sweeping across the skies of Voidsoul. Those unfortunate few who made it to the surface lasted little longer than their comrades, ripped apart by the blades and hellish talons of a horde of horrors spawned from the raw stuff of madness. The slaughter would have been complete were it not for the intervention of the 13th Company. Emerging seemingly from thin air, the long-lost warriors of Russ carved into the daemons with all the savagery and viciousness that the monsters had shown while slaughtering the Cadians. Not only were the Wolves undaunted by the horrors before them, they could hurt them as well, and the daemons howled in pain and terror as they faced a foe who was more than their equal. Those few who survived the slaughter stumbled to whatever drop-ships still functioned and made their escape. Upon returning to the Imperium the survivors were rounded up and taken to the ironclad moon fortress of Inquisitor Lord Torquemada Coteaz, for interrogation and destruction. Before the survivors could be destroyed, however, the 13th Company struck. The mighty Inquisitorial fortress thought impregnable proved utterly vulnerable to the Wolves, who breached the citadel with lightning speed, taking the Cadian survivors and withdrawing before any resistance could be mounted. Whether the 13th Company was unwilling to see innocents harmed in such a manner or simply sought to prevent knowledge of their existence from reaching the Inquisition is unknown. All Coteaz could do was bluster in impotent fury and frustration as his mighty fortress was so easily violated and his prisoners taken.The Fall of Elixir (999.M41) - The unforgiving Wolf Lord Dvorjac banished Lukas the Trickster to the Ork-infested Agri-world of Elixir. Once rich in iron, the Orks had since mined the planet dry and used the raw materials to forge a vast horde of metal monstrosities -- Deff Dreads, Stompas and Gargants of all shapes and sizes -- ruled by the Ork genius Megamek. Examining the available data on Elixir the cunning Blood Claw discovered that the world's temperate climate was actually the result of an ancient STC Climatrope housed in a complex now serving as Megamek's headquarters. Lukas and his Blood Claws undertook a daring jump-pack assault on the complex and managed to disable the Climatrope with bundles of Krak Grenades. Over the weeks that follow a devastating winter descends on Elixir, freezing the Ork hordes in their tracks and turning the Greenskin warmachines into rusted piles of scrap. Wolf Lord Dvorjac leads his Great Company to Elixir to clean up the remaining Orks, the Wolves finding the frigid conditions much to their liking while the few remaining Orks are too frozen to offer much resistance.The Assault on Wilderness Outpost Delta (999.M41) - During the 13th Black Crusade two Packs of Grey Hunters under the command of Wolf Priest Thokar were despatched to capture an enemy fortification known as Wilderness Outpost Delta. Aerial recon had determined the outpost to be in the process of being hardened by the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion. Upon making planetfall the Space Wolves quickly discovered that the outpost had already been overrun and its defenders not only slain but used as bait to lure in five Chosen Terminators who had also been cut down. More troubling was evidence that the lost 13th Company had perpetrated the assault. Before Thokar could report his findings the outpost came under assault by Iron Warriors reinforcements. Outnumbered and outgunned Thokar's Wolves might have been defeated had the 13th Company not intervened once more. A Warsmith of the Iron Warriors and his warband were slain before the murderous ferocity of the 13th Company, who withdrew as quickly and mysteriously as they had arrived. Wolf Priest Thokar hid this discovery from allied Imperial forces.The Purging of the Messenger of Woe (999.M41) - The Blackmane Great Company was tasked with purging the Space Hulk the Messenger of Woe. Six squads of Wolf Guard Terminators led by Rune Priest Soren stormed the hulk and fought their way from chamber to chamber, cleansing the hulk of scores of ravening Genestealers. Ultimately the Space Wolves were successful in hunting down and slaying every last xenos and claiming the hulk and it's priceless salvage for the Imperium.The Battle of Moreal's Great Flat (999.M41) - The Great Wolf Logan Grimnar despatched a quarter of the Chapter to Moreal to oppose the Forces of Chaos, comprised of mortal Traitors and bolstered by daemonic legions drawn from the Warp by blood. Among the strike force despatched to Moreal stood the legendary Bjorn the Fell-Handed. It was at the height of the fighting, as the outcome seemed to teeter in the balance, that Bjorn came. Launched from orbit in his immense Drop Pod the mighty Ancient came like a comet of vengeance -- a spear of retribution -- thrown by the arm of Russ himself. Crashing to earth in the midst of the bitterest fighting, Bjorn charged out and crushed all that stood before him, including the dread commander of the enemy, a mighty Bloodthirster of Khorne. Yet fate and time could be cruel indeed, for this dread beast was none other than the same foul creature that had slain Bjorn's Packmates ten millennia earlier during the Horus Heresy. The very same creature that had driven Bjorn to the path of the Lone Wolf and who had finally fallen only after many years of vengeful hunting. Even as Bjorn carved apart the daemon it laughed and challenged Bjorn to repeat the names he had screamed at the daemon the last time they had fought. Bjorn did so, speaking the names of Alvi, Brynjolf, Eirik, Gunnald Shieldbearer and Hiorvard but the last name, the name of Hiorvard's twin, the ancient Bjorn could not remember, for time had robbed him of his memory and thus a measure of his vengeance, his honour and his very identity. Try as he might, the name of Hrani would not come to him. The daemon howled in glee for it remembered and gloated as much to Bjorn even as the Ancient carved him apart, cutting and burning until nothing was left. Long after the daemon was dead and the battle over, Bjorn kept burning, and none of the Space Wolves would dare tell him to stop.Battle of Kasr Tyrok (999.M41) - The Dark Angels and the Space Wolves set aside their ancient vendetta when Supreme Grand Master Azrael and Great Wolf Logan Grimnar came to a mutual, but temporary, understanding. Both Chapters took to the field together, in the defence of Kasr Tyrok upon the world of Cadia against a substantial force of Chaos mutants. The combined force of Dark Angels and Space Wolves smashed into the rear of the mutant mob, cutting them down without mercy, as each Chapter sought to outdo the other in their skill at arms. As the last few mutants were despatched, the rival Space Marines' friendly banter soon turned to insults. Victory had been achieved, but the Sons of the Lion and the Sons of Russ parted ways, their long-time rivalry rearing its ugly head once again.The Fall of Cadia (999.M41) -  	 	<a href="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/9/9b/FallofCadia.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170508225948" class="image"><img alt="FallofCadia" src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/9/9b/FallofCadia.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20170508225948" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="250" height="202" class="thumbimage" data-image-name="FallofCadia.jpg" data-image-key="FallofCadia.jpg" data-relevant="1" data-src="https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/9/9b/FallofCadia.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/250?cb=20170508225948" /></a> 	 		 			 		 		 		 			The fortress world of Cadia falls to the Forces of Chaos. 		 	 After a series of gruelling orbital battles, the Imperial fleets are left all but crippled, and the invasions shed much Imperial blood on the planet's surface. In a last effort to halt Abaddon's Blackstone Fortress, the Will of Eternity, Wolf Lord Sven Bloodhowl leads his Firehowlers along with other Adeptus Astartes and Astra Militarum forces in a boarding action. He has not been seen since. Whatever their fate, the flight of the Blackstone Fortress continues towards Cadia. Many other Space Wolves are slain on Cadia itself as traitors and Daemons pour across the planet. Among them is Orven Highfell, successor to Egil Iron Wolf, who is torn to shreds by a rampaging Bloodthirster. His valiant sacrifice, along with those of countless other Imperial warriors, are ultimately in vain, as the Will of Eternity is sent crashing into Cadia. The pylons scattered across the world, that for ten millennia had held back the warp, are rendered useless, and the planet is transformed into a roiling Daemon World.The Jaws of the Warp (999.M41) - The Rune Priests on Fenris hear the bestial howl of the immaterium as warp storms tear through the Imperium. For a moment, the guiding light of the Astronomican is snuffed out, and the Emperor's realm is plunged into darkness. The worlds of Humanity are buffeted by empyric energy, tearing apart the links between them, and many are lost forever. The opening of the Great Rift renders each planet a solitary island, alone in the savage Sea of Stars.The Gift of the Primarch (999.M41) - Word reaches Fenris that Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, has been awakened from his millennia-long stasis, and has been made Lord Commander of the Imperium once more. The Great Companies are summoned to Fenris to receive the Primarch as his Indomitus Crusade passes through the sub-sector. Upon Guilliman's arrival he presents the Space Wolves with new ranks of warriors – the Primaris Space Marines, created from the genetic stock of Leman Russ by the Archmagos Dominus of Mars. Despite the Great Companies being severely understrength in the wake of so many recent wars, there is still division amongst the Wolf Lords as to whether or not the warriors of Guilliman's Ultima Founding should be accepted into the Great Companies – after all, the Primaris battle-brothers are not born of Fenris, they have not braved its savage winters and violent summers, and they have not taken the Test of Morkai. Some of the Wolf Lords see the gift of Guilliman as a ploy to undo their proud traditions and bend the Space Wolves Chapter finally to the precepts of the Codex Astartes. Though he hears their protests, Logan Grimnar sternly counsels is Wolf Lords to follow the will of the Lord Commander at this time.The Return of Mangus (999.M41) - Magnus the Red launches a colossal assault on the Stygius Sector, located on the far side of the Great Rift in the region now known as the Imperium Nihilus. To reach the war zone, seven Great Companies wend their way through the treacherous channels that cross the Cicatrix Maledictum. The Space Wolves, along with Dark Angels, Iron Hands and Astra Militarum forces, launch a counter-attack against the invading Thousand Sons on the crystallized world of Tarkan. It is the first major campaign in which the Primaris Space Marines are deployed, and they fight with the same ferocity and passion as any son of Fenris. Yet despite their tenacity, the overwhelming numerical superiority of the Chaos forces soon turns the counteroffensive into a desperate last stand. It is only the sudden and unexpected arrival of an Aeldari strike force from CraftworldUlthwé that allows the Imperial forces to make a fighting withdrawal, leaving much of the Stygius Sector to its grim fate.The Curse of Russ (Unknown Date.M42) - Having shown their strength and savagery in many battles, packs of Primaris Space Marines are deployed by Wolf Lords more readily. Though they do not know the customs of Fenris, they are innate hunters, and show a preternatural ability to coordinate their attacks with those of other Space Wolves. Ulrik the Slayer proposes that within the Primaris Marines, the key to curing the Wulfen's curse may be found. But he is soon proven wrong. Whilst purging a Drukhari raiding party on the mining world of Smelter's Heap, several packs of Inceptors fighting alongside the Wulfen succumb to the bestial affliction. Rather than using their assault bolters to outrange the Wyches they fight, the Inceptors charge heedlessly into their enemy and use their firearms as brutal makeshift bludgeons. Through sheer animal fury the Inceptors are able to drive off their foe, and with the battle over, they regain control of their passions once more. But it is revealed that, through their genetic link to the Primarch, these Sons of Russ are just as susceptible to the Curse of the Wulfen as any other member of the Space Wolves.The Primaris Trials (Unknown.M42) - To prove their mettle and dedication, to both themselves and to their Chapter, many Primaris Space Marines travel to Fenris to undertake the Test of Morkai. Though they have no need to drink from the Cup of Wulfen, they must still make the thousand-mile journey across the Fenrisian barrens bereft of any clothing or weaponry without succumbing to their bestial instincts. While the majority pass the test, no small few do not return.Night of the Hellblasters (Unknown Date.M42) - Repulsors laden with Hellblasters assault the Iron Warriors fortress on the drifting orb known as the Midnight Moon. The dark planetoid glows bright in the void as the Space Wolves unleash the fury of their plasma weaponry.The Great Portent (Unknown Date.M42) - On Fenris and in war zones across the Sea of Stars, Rune Priests receive riddling visions and cryptic visitations. Time and again their casting bones point to the same future. The return of the 13th Great Company, the emergence of Magnus the Red and the awakening of Roboute Guilliman are the last verses of the saga that will culminate in the Wolftime – the prophesied return of Leman Russ. After undertaking a perilous spirit-walk, Njal Stormcaller petitions Logan Grimnar and Ulrik the Slayer to wake Bjorn the Fell-Handed, so that the ancient warrior may grant the High Rune Priest an audience. The request is granted, though what they speak of is kept secret.