Betalis III Campaign - Epilogue: With the seeming retreat of the Craftworld Aeldari from Betalis III, the Space Wolves took to assaulting the Asuryani fleets in orbit of the world. There had been uncomfirmed reports of larger Aeldari vesels skulking in the system's outer reaches and in the Karina Nebula beyond.But Inquisitor Lord Hephastus Danzk remained suspicious about the real reasons for the xenos assault on Betalis III and he took his retinue alongside a force of two hundred Astra Militarum and planetary militia into the mines of Aresta IV to investigate what he believed to be loose ends. In truth, he went there to fight the true final battle of Betalis III.For Danzk had realised that the Aeldari were still on the Ice World despite their seeming retreat, having left a small strike force behind in the deep tunnels of the Aresta IV facility. The xenos were looking for something, and had already been within the mining tunnels for five solar hours by the time the Inquisitor and his force had arrived.Danzk ordered the door of the massive forge chamber of the mines that led back up to the surface sealed so even if the Aeldari defeated the Imperials within the Aresta tunnels, they would face another major obstacle to their escape. He used servitors deployed from his command Chimera within the forge chamber to scout through the lowel levels of tunnels and locate the Aeldari force within them.The reconnaissance of his servitors discovered that the Aeldari had sought out a cavern in the mines that had been revealed during a cave-in that had killed over forty Human miners just solar weeks before the start of the xenos assault on Betalis III.The Aeldari had cleared the rubble of the cave-in to reveal a vast space beyond filled with the corpses of dead Aeldari who had died in a battle fought millennia before the first Human colonisation of the Ice World. It was clear to the Inquisitor that the casualties had been the result of a battle fought between the Aeldari and another, reptilian alien species unknown to the Imperium.The Inquisitor's servitors discovered that five Aeldari had penetrated the cavern and had located the body of a long-dead warrior. Unknown to Danzk, this was Irillyth, the long-lost Phoenix Lord of the Shadow Spectres Aspect Warriors.The Asuryani party, led by the Farseer Bel-Annath of Craftworld Mymeara, conducted a psychic ritual to transfer the spirit of Irillyth to an Asuryani Exarch so that the Phoenix Lord could live anew.During the ritual, Inquisitor Lord Danzk was knocked unconscious when the power of the ritual flowed into one of the reconnaissance servitors he had been uplinked to through his augmetic implants and overwhelmed his senses.When he awoke it was to discover that the restored Irillyth and his accompanying Shadow Spectres had moved through the mining tunnels, killing all of the Imperial defenders and most of the Inquisitor Lord's own retinue of Acolytes.Only the Tech-priest Mydeaus managed to elude his pursuers, using his own extensive cybernetic implants to access the mining forge chamber's Machine Spirit (Artificial intelligence) and use its systems and automated mining apparatus to assault and obstruct the advancing Aeldari.Mydeaus proved effective, as Irillyth did not realise that only a single mind was directing the forge's systems against him and his warriors, and the Phoenix Lord began to waste precious time hunting for the Humans running the forge who did not exist.But Bel-Annath solved the problem, tracking one of the Inquisitor Lord's observing servitors back to him and then using his psychic abilities to merge his mind with Dansk's own.While the Inquisitor learned in his union with the Farseer the true motivation of the Mymearans in launching their attack on Betalis III simply as a diversion to enter the mines, the Farseer also managed to glean from the Human's thoughts the reality that only a single person was controlling the forge's defences.Swiftly relaying this information to Irillyth and his Shadow Spectres, the Phoenix Lord and his Aspect Warriors combined their firepower to blast their way through the forge's defences from above, ripping through the forge chamber's machinery and forest of cranes, unleashing pools of molten ore from damaged crucibles that flooded the forge and killed Mydeaus and eventually all the other Imperial defenders within the Aresta IV mining facility.With all the Imperials dead, the Asuryani blasted their way through the sealed forge chamber door and escaped. The Shadow Spectres Aspect Warriors would be fully restored to the Asuryani craftworlds, providing a small glimmer of hope for that dying species.The true victors of the Betalis III Campaign were the Craftworld Aeldari.Following his death at Aresta IV, the truth of the Asuryani assault on Betalis III was learned by the Ordo Xenos from data extracted post-mortem from Inquisitor Lord Hephastus Dansk's visual augmetic implants.An investigation of his actions led to Danzk being posthumously judged guilty of 172 crimes against the Emperor and His blessed citizens, including failure to retain xenos artefacts for further examination.As punishment, Dansk's mortal remains were sentenced to serve 2,533 consecutive standard years in the Archival Cremea Servitor Corps as a level B3 servitor.