The Argent System burns...yada, yada, yada. You know the usual hyperbolic way in which Warhammer 40,000 campaigns start out. I could do the whole "The Argent System burns, billions perish in the wake of a colossal Chaos invasion" but it's gonna sound as pretentious as feth.
So let's just skip the whole theatrics and get down to business. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Argent System. As most of you do not know, Argent is classified as a Death World. The surface is very radioactive, so none of you Guardsmen had best be getting out of your sealed void armor unless you want to die a very early death. Trust me, radiation poisoning is not a good way to go. It is also the home world to one of the most...uh, suspicious Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, the Encarmine Angels. Not to be confused with the Angels Encarmine, a more illustrious and well known Blood Angels Successor Chapter from the Second Founding. The Encarmine Angels are also a Blood Angels Successor Chapter, but they are known to frequently come into conflict with other militant arms of the Imperium, often pilfering archeotech and other weapons, probably in their quest to seek a cure for the Black Rage. They seem to specialize in using grav weaponry, though this is not confirmed.
Nonetheless, as an Adeptus Astartes Chapter, the Imperium cannot afford to lose them. Not in this dark age where countless other Chapters have already vanished into the Noctis Eterna, consumed by madness or worse. They have sent an astropathic signal for aid, and we shall answer. Argent shall not fall!
Shortly after our fleets made warp translation, we were able to piece together what had transpired in the Argent System from both vox chatter scattered around orbits of dead worlds, devastated orbital defense platforms and wrecked ships. The Death Guard has invaded in force. Their true motives, as of yet, remain unknown. What we do know, however, is that the XIV Legion has dispatched a plague company to the jungle world (also designated as a Death World, by the way) of N-th Lily. Reports are sketchy at the moment, but it appears that they are infecting large swathes of the planet's ecosystem and forests with warp-ridden diseases and unholy plagues, possibly to conduct a ritual there. They are commanded by the Plague Champion Alastor Karkinus, the Doom of Worlds and the Plague Lord Rhegorn, Chosen of the Seventh.
The Encarmine Angels, under the command of their Chapter Master, Varile Nosferatus, have assembled for a counterattack to drive the Death Guard and other disparate Traitor Marines out of N-th Lily. We shall attempt to land our forces there to reinforce their position, secure a beachhead, and then seize the planet back once and for all.
Fortunately, we are not the only Imperial Forces to have responded to the Encarmine Angels' call. A company of Dark Angels, under the command of Master Ian, has just translated at the Mandeville Point as well, in a small fleet of Strike Cruisers. In addition, a crusading preceptory of Adepta Sororitas under Saint Morrigan of the Adeptus Ministorum, have also answered their call for aid. By the light of Holy Terra, we shall drive these heretics from the worlds of the Emperor!
Wait, what's that? Oh...more bad news. Of course.
I have just received reports that a large warband of Orks under the cunning Warboss, The Cyba-boss, has decided to "join the fun" or so they claim. They are attacking an Adeptus Mechanicus facility on one of the moons of N-th Lily, Amor, presumably to acquire the large stores of ore and precious minerals there. We cannot allow such resources to fall in the hands of the greenskin...for if they do successfully obtain such a cache, their assault might erupt into a fullblown Waaagh!. We must stop them before that happens.
We shall divide our forces accordingly when we reach orbit. Until then, pray and look toward the Light of the Astronomican for guidance. The Emperor protects.
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