Category: Naval Battles

Astartes retake mining station – Part 1

“Mayday! Mayday! Decora Mining Base reporting ork ships attacking. Main gun battery is inactive, and boarding torpedoes are approaching. Assistance is needed immediately.”—distress signal received by Imperial authorities Sculptor SystemImperial Voxcast (3 121 743.M41) One week after an ork boarding party seized the Decora Mining Base in the […]

Astartes retake mining station – Part 2

“Orks are a menace. They’re a cancer. Once they enter into a star system, they spread across planets, lurk in asteroid fields, propagate in dank caves and dark forests. They’re almost impossible to stamp out. They’re vermin—three-meter-tall, heavily muscled, insanely violent and dangerous vermin . . . and […]

Necrons ambush Imperial cruiser

Imperial Voxcast (6 127 742.M41)—An Imperial cruiser was attacked earlier this week by a dozen Necron warships during a routine patrol of the Vorta System. The Lunar Class vessel, Golden Drake, survived the encounter, destroying four of the xeno vessels and driving the rest out of the system. […]

Ork fleet attempts to blockade Hegira

Imperial Voxcast (3 833 741.M41)—For a few hours today, an ork fleet of more than a dozen warships attempted to blockade the moon of Hegira. The xenos failed. The arrival of Imperial warships drove them away. But the bold greenskin naval action resulted in a 20-hour interruption in […]

Tau ambush Imperial flotilla near Dar Sai

“It’s those damned xeno torpedoes. They’re giving the Tau an edge over our ships. We’ve got to find a countermeasure that will allow us to close with the xenos before they cripple our forces.”—Captain Marcus Speakeman, senior intelligence officer, Fleet Corvus + + Tactical Briefing M-13-Beta-281-SGU + + […]