The Cathedral of the Holy Throne burns after being hit by incendiary shells fired by traitor forces outside the city. Hundreds of hab blocks, manufactorums, and Administratum buildings have been set afire since the artillery barrage began.

Mygor burns under traitor artillery barrage

On the war-torn world of Dozaria, the industrial city of Mygor is aflame. Invading forces, led by traitor Astartes known as the Death Guard, have managed to advance close enough to the city to open fire with hundreds of massive artillery batteries.

“Thousands of Imperial civilians have been killed, and unrecorded numbers injured,” said one Imperial official, who later was executed by the Commissariat for “spreading unfounded rumors intended to undermine citizen morale.”

Several key manufactorums have suffered severe damage, with fire crews still working to bring raging flames under control. The loss of this manufacturing base is worrying to military officials, as Mygor is a key manufacturing center for the weapons and ammunition necessary to maintain the planet’s defenses.

Dozaria is a major industrial planet to the galactic northwest of Belliose III. It was invaded by a massive traitor force seven years ago, and Imperial forces have struggled to stop the invaders’ advance across the planet.

“While it is true that the traitors have managed to fire some artillery shells into the city of Mygor, it is reckless hysteria to suggest the industrial capacity of the city has been in any way inconvenienced,” announced High Marshal Mikhail Botha, supreme commander of Imperial forces on the planet.

Despite such reassurances, rumors suggest that at least 100 Earthshaker-class artillery pieces—capable of firing 132mm-caliber shells more than 15 kilometers—are targeting the city with thousands of shells each day.

Wreckage of The Emperor Defiant is scattered across the lifeless surface of Perdide.

Imperial destroyer crashes on Perdide

The Imperial destroyer, The Emperor Defiant, has crashed on the world of Perdide after its squadron was ambushed by a small Necron flotilla.

Squadron X-128, consisting of three Cobra-class destroyers and a light cruiser, entered the Perdide System on 6 771 744.M41—one of multiple systems the squadron regularly visits as it patrols the western edge of the Dryillian Quarantine System.

As the squadron approached the planet Perdide, site of a colony believed destroyed by the Necrons, five xeno ships appeared over the horizon of the planet and accelerated toward the Imperial warships.

Captain Katelin Bonnet, commander of the Dauntless-class light cruiser Furious Vengeance, was forced to meet the approaching enemy warships. After firing a volley of torpedoes, the squadron opened fire at a distance of 30,000 kilometers.

Firing continued as the two enemy forces closed and passed through one another. The Necron vessels appeared undamaged by the exchange of fire, but the lance of Furious Vengeance was severely damaged, the destroyer Pyre Eternal lost its port weapons battery, and The Emperor Defiant lost all power.

Explosions aboard The Emperor Defiant altered its trajectory, pushing it into a collision course with the planet. Unable to intercept the stricken destroyer before it crashed, Captain Bonnet ordered the crew to abandon ship after overloading its engine reactors. She then ordered the remainder of the squadron to retreat to the edge of the system and enter the Void.

It’s not clear whether the Imperial Navy will launch a rescue operation to seek out survivors of the crash. Although the only Imperial colony on the planet was destroyed, most likely by the Necrons, it is possible that survivors could survive on the world’s meager but viable ecosystem.

What’s more, the Imperial Navy must consider, after this battle, the danger of a major naval engagement in any future foray into the Perdide System.

Formerly a water treatment plan for rural agricultural needs, this plascrete structure has been a haven for the few survivors of the tragedy of Daxim III.

Daxim III survivors still survive in arctic hell

Although a massive asteroid collided with Daxim III and killed billions of Imperial citizens, and despite the planet’s biosphere collapsing into an arctic hell, small groups of survivors have managed to stave off starvation and build small yet still-surviving communities.

No Imperial rescue effort have as yet landed on the planet, as severe atmospheric conditions following the asteroid’s landing make it impossible. It is believed that the site of the asteroid’s landing wiped out all life for hundreds of kilometers around its epicenter, and billions of initial survivors perished as billions of tons of the planet’s crust was vaporized into a thick cloud that covered the planet and sent temperatures dropping to frigid levels.

Despite freezing temperatures and arctic blizzards,survivors managed to build this small assembly of metal shanties that keep them alive. Whether food supplies will hold out, though, is unclear.

A recent orbital survey of the planet by an Adeptus Mechanicus survey craft, however, recently picked up vox signals broadcast from various points on the planet.

“The signals are mostly static, as electrical storms in the atmosphere are obscuring any broadcasts with static,” said Captain Jamol Wythe, senior public liaison at the Nguyen Naval Base at Belliose III.

Still, one broadcast was relatively clear, and it included two vox-picts of surviving communities: one of a still-standing water treatment plant, and one of a ragtag collection of metal shanties.

“We’re looking into the potential of dropping supplies from orbit to locations near these broadcasts,” Wythe said. “But it’s still unclear whether any cargo container—dropped by grav-chute or flown aboard a servitor-piloted supply hauler—can survive descent through the severe turbulence and electrical storms in the planet’s upper atmosphere.”

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