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The '''Orar Raid''' was a battle early in the [[Gothic War]] where two a [[Chaos]] warfleet led by Warmaster [[Slaughter Class CruiserMalefica Arkham]]s launched tried to launch a surprise attack on the [[Hive World]] [[Orar (planet)|Orar]].¹²

The planet was defended Unlike many such Chaos attacks up to that point, the defenders of Orar were far from taken awares. In fact, an entire battlegroup,² led by the [[Mars Class Battlecruiser]] [[ImperiousImperial_Navy_Captain#Captain|Captain]], which scored a telling [[Nova CannonCompel Bast]] hit on the [[SoullessMars Class Battlecruiser]], then finished it off with a ''[[lance]] salvo. The second Slaughter class ship was crippled by [[Starhawk BomberImperious]]s from the ''Imperious''¹, then was destroyed by Orarpreparing to leave orbit to help put down a rebellion in a nearby system and was already on full alert. They easily avoided the raiders's orbital defensesinitial volleys and launched a vicious counter-attack.¹²

Losses were extremely heavy for the traitor fleet as they tried to escape: the [[Slaughter Class Cruiser]] ''[[Soulless]]'' was crippled by a [[Nova Cannon]] hit from the ''Imperious'' and then destroyed by [[lance]] fire; a second Slaughter, the ''[[Deathskull (Ship)|Deathskull]]'', was reduced to a hulk by [[attack craft|bombers]] from the ''Imperious'' and was destroyed as it fell out of orbit¹; even Arkham's own flagship, the ''[[Deathbane]]'', had its bridge smashed by fire from the [[Iron Duke]].² In the aftermath of the battle, the ''Imperious'' was outfitted with a salvaged targeting matrix, and her [[Imperial_Navy_Captain#Captain|Captain]], [[Compel Bast]], received the [[Imperial_Battle_Honours|Solar Cluster]] for the actions of his ship and crew.¹