The night was bad. The company deployed in a rough circle in the forest, and, sure enough, the xeno attacks started as soon as visibility dropped. We had a normal allotment of night-vision auspices, so the attacks weren’t a total surprise. The troopers just had to shoot blindly […]
“Military authorities on Dar Sai have confirmed that xeno forces, after fighting two battles south of the Hanui Valley, have advanced 800 kilometers and now threaten the port city of Aruna. Two more battalions of Imperial Guard have been rushed to the city in an effort to slow […]
For several days after the defeat, PDF forces fled south, the Tau following closely behind. Although some units managed to maintain cohesion and fight a series of delaying actions, other units were highly disorganized and unable to account for fully half their roster of troops. Commissars shot dozens […]
“Military authorities announce that xeno infiltrators operating outside the Pradeep defenses were decisively defeated and forced to withdraw from the “no man’s land” between Imperial and Tau forces. Although news of this battle was not released to the public until now, it is a fine example of Imperial […]
Dropping like a fiery comet, its descent preceded by a thunderous roar, the drop pod of the Knights of Altair announced the beginning of the battle. All morning, Imperial and Tau troops had been advancing toward a satellite array that stood in the center of a pastoral valley […]
A bloody cornfield To the north, a Shaper known as Orek was leading a warband of Kroot on the Gue’la flank. He raised a claw, and the warriors behind him froze, their rifles at the ready. Sniffing the air, Orek scanned the cornfield before him. The tall stalks […]
Return to base His mission was complete, Shas’ui Vurael thought, as he ran out of the front hatch of the satellite array. The enemy security files were downloaded from the archaic Gue’la calculating machines, and the data carefully packed into the storage device inside the satchel on his […]
The Tau invasion of Dar Sai is, by all measures, a tiny war on a backwater moon when measured against the sector-wide conflicts that rage across the Imperium. As a result, the high commands of both the Imperium and Tau Empire put a low priority on supporting their […]
“The port city of Pradeep was attacked today by Tau invaders. A valiant defense by our brave troops managed to throw back the xeno invaders with heavy casualties.”—Imperial News Report, 3 857 736.M41. STRATEGIC OVERVIEW The fall of Volantis in early 736.M41, coming so quickly after last year’s loss […]
IMPERIAL TURN THREE Imperial forces continued to advance through the town on the west flank. Imperial fire was largely ineffective, although two Tau fire warriors were killed in the northern parts of town by Beta Squad. Pulling away from its infantry support, the Scout Sentinels turned east to […]
THE CORVUS CLUSTER 
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