Battle of Helsreach - Purest Intent: As the preparations for the hive city's defence were carried out, the Ork fleet, the largest assembly of Greenskin warships to have ever beset the Imperium of Man, translated out of the Warp near Armageddon and engaged the combined forces of the Battlefleet Armageddon and the fleets of the Astartes Chapters engaged in the world's defence.The High Command's worst estimates expected that fleet would be able to deny the enemy landing for four solar days, with the best presuming nine. But as the space battle developed and the sheer size of the xenos forces was realised, this estimate was quickly abandoned.Despite the Imperial fleet's best efforts, thirty-seven Ork vessels breached the blockade, six of which made it through the orbital defence arrays and struck the surface. During the third night of the naval battle in orbit, one of these vessels crashed near Helsreach.The ship registered itself on Imperial auspex readers as The Purest Intent, a strike cruiser of the Shadow Wolves Chapter, created on the minor Forge World of Shevilar. It had been captured by the Ork raiders thirty-two standard years before the beginning of the Third War for Armageddon and appropriated by the xenos as their own vessel.Imperial Navy Lightnings under Korten Barasath intercepted the ship but it was apparent that their light armament was of no use against it. The strike cruiser burned through the skies over Helsreach and tore into the ground outside the city walls.Colonel Sarren proposed that the Orks that may have survived that landing be left alone, as in the end it mattered little if they were to add their strenght to the, infinitely larger, incoming onslaught. However, the city's attached commissar, Falkov, recommended that a Titan be sent to obliterate the wreck to give the troops a feeling of overwhelming victory even before battle was joined, in order to boost morale which he described as being "mediocre at best".The Shadow Wolves were known to Grimaldus, as he had fought alongside them eleven standard years prior against the Tyranid menace on their homeworld of Varadon. There, the Chapter was destroyed, as the last battle-brothers stood against the xenos onslaught.The Black Templars there were not able to break through the aliens to aid them, and Grimaldus could only watch as the last Shadow Wolf died, kneeling and holding his Chapter's banner high even as the xenos tore through him.Grimaldus had been greatly inspired by such a death that he could describe only as "beautiful," and it is perhaps for this reason that he offered himself and his knights -- all one hundred of them -- to cleanse the ship as a display of Imperial power.The Black Templars of the Helsreach Crusade were asked to stand at attention at the hive city's gates to allow for a live pict feed to be broadcast across the city. After this has been done, the Astartes sallied out of the city's walls -- the majority of them aboard their Rhinos and Land Raiders in order to hunt down any escaping xenos.Only fifteen Space Marines ventured into the wreck, led by the Reclusiarch. The Astartes did not consider the Orks to be of any significant threat and divided their forces to scour the ship in search and destroy pattern. One of the Black Templars, an individual considered vainglorious by his peers, strode ahead on his own and recklessly charged into a group of Greenskins -- unfortunately for him, however, one of the xenos possessed a weapon that could interact with an Astartes' power armour neural interface and overcharge it, causing the armour to power down and inflicting overwhelming suffering unto its user.The knight might have very well met his end at that moment, but for the Orks' inherent savagery and primitiveness. Once they brought the Space Marine down, they seemingly had no further idea as to what to do with the knight, and were instead searching his belongings for items fitting for a trophy, giving the Reclusiarch enough time to come to the warrior's aid -- rather fortunately, as the death of one of the vaunted Black Knights in this display of overwhelming Imperial power would have done little to invigorate the hive's defenders.Notwithstanding this occurence, the purging of the wreck was carried out with little trouble.As the Astartes emerged from the strike cruiser, Colonel Sarren voxed Grimaldus with newest tidings from the naval forces in orbit -- the Battlefleet Armageddon and the Astartes fleet were in full retreat, and the bulk of the Ork Roks were already breaking through the orbital defence arrays.This news forced the Astartes to hurry back into the hive city and take positions amongst other forces present in the hive.