Sons of Orar - Notable Campaigns: Jorun Retaliation (143.M41) - En route to service in the Gothic War, an Astra Militarum battlegroup, the 15th Heraklion Ironclads, turned on their Commissariat detachment and went Renegade. Investigations into this turn of events uncovered the foul xenos taint of the Drukhari, who had managed to ensnare and corrupt General Jorun and his command structure. The Traitor General Jorun and his attached former Imperial Navy battlefleet raided planet after planet, enslaving whole populations for their foul xenos masters. The full Howling Griffons Chapter was given command of a strike force to deal with the Traitors, with support from the Ultramarines and Sons of Orar Chapters for a campaign that became known as the Jorun Retaliation. The Traitor Guard force was intercepted as it made planetfall on the Feral World of Asturia. Caught unprepared for such a fierce counter-assault, over 5,000 Renegade Guardsmen died in the first hour of the ferocious Space Marine attack, torn apart on their landing zones with much of their heavy armour yet to be unlimbered. General Jorun eventually met the Emperor's judgement at the hands of the Howling Griffons Chaplain Armand Titus. The Traitors' morale collapsed with the death of their leader and the swift desertion of their foul xenos allies. The disordered and panicked Heraklons were ruthlessly hunted down and slain in the aftermath; the Renegade forces had been completely wiped out within only six hours of the battle's opening salvoes.Assault on Alaitoc (Unknown Date.M41) - The Asuryani's Alaitoc craftworld had long been the source of a large number of Aeldari pirates who preyed with deadly results upon Imperial shipping in the Ultima Segmentum. This was because Alaitoc's was a highly structured society, even by the standards of the Aeldari of the Craftworlds, and substantial segments of its population found it attractive to pursue the Path of the Outcast, becoming Rangers or Aeldari pirates. Alaitoc was assaulted by a huge Imperial force after an attack by Aeldari pirates on an Imperial shipping convoy was traced back to the Asuryani Outcasts' home craftworld, which happened to be Alaitoc. Tired of the constant raids of the Aeldari pirates, the Imperium determined to make an example of the craftworld which allowed its citizens to attack Imperial shipping and take Human lives. The surprise assault upon Alaitoc utilised a large Imperial Navy fleet, numerous Imperial Guard regiments, and the Sons of Orar Space Marines Chapter. At the time, the craftworld was in fixed orbit around a dying star, using the tremendous energy of the star's dying throes to recharge its solar sails. There was no time to get away before the invading Human force was upon it. Therefore the craftworld's Autarch and Council of Seers mobilised all of its Aspect Shrines as well as the regular army -- comprised of Alaitoc's Guardians, civilian citizen-soldiers who had been trained in weapons and/or had previously walked the Path of the Warrior. Also awoken was the craftworld's Avatar of Kaela Mensha Khaine and several powerful Aeldari Phantom Titans to help in the defence of the great vessel. Additionally, the Phoenix Lords Baharroth, Maugan Ra and Karandras all offered their aid. The Aeldari's advanced laser technology proved effective against the Imperial Navy fleet, and the Alaitoc Bonesingers outsmarted the invading Imperial infantry by trapping them within the craftworld's hollow wraithbone structure. Despite these maneuvers, the Imperial forces held on to their initial beachhead, helped by a vicious Drop Pod torpedo attack led by the Space Marines that successfully penetrated deep into the craftworld but met increasing resistance from Alaitoc's Aspect Warriors, who were backed by the extraordinary combat abilities of the three Phoenix Lords. Yet the Asuryani were forced to retreat from the Imperial forces' onslaught in order to better defend the craftworld's Infinity Circuit and its core cities. This bitter retreat let the regiments of the Astra Militarum and the Space Marines overrun the settlements of Exodites that existed at the craftworld's periphery. Despite the Imperial might arrayed against the craftworld and the territory the Emperor's forces had already seized, the Farseers of Alaitoc foresaw the ultimate defeat of the Imperial offensive and the expulsion of the Mon-keigh from the sacred confines of their home.13th Black Crusade (999.M41) - The Sons of Orar were among the Astartes forces who answered the call to defend the Cadian Gate from the assault of Abaddon the Despoiler.Indomitus Crusade (Unknown Date.M42) - The Sons of Orar attached forces to the Erastus Battle Group of Fleet Primus which took part in the Ispolin Sub-sector offensive under the command of Captain Marius Venatoris. The Sons of Orar also fought on the Shrine World of Paradyce II during the operations of Fleet Primus' Battle Group Kallides in the Pariah Nexus where they aided the Darkspires Chapter in liberating that world from the Necrons.Plague Wars (ca. 012.M42) - The Sons of Orar contributed 3 companies to the "Spear of Espandor" campaign during the Plague Wars of Ultramar that resulted in the Loyalist forces retaking the Espandor System and cutting off the supply lines of the Nurglite invasion.