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Raids by unknown assailants occurred in the Dentor, Sarlax, Amistel and Malin's Reach systems, each resulting in the planet's population partly slaughtered. Possibly Chaos Space Marines of blue and gold armour. Naval forces then proceeded to retreat to their bases but on Lelithar, the [[Voice of the Emperor]] rose to public power. He was an orator of fearsome skill who could rouse entire planets to his cause. The people overran the remaining Imperial facilities. Cults to the Voice emerged on Yayor, Amistel, Albitern and even inmates of Bar-el. Kill-teams and assassins were sent to kill the Voice, however none succeeded. It is possible that a report by a [[Vindicare Assassin]] shows that it was [[Cypher]] pretending to be the this Voice, as he was armed with a sword and a pair of exquisite pistols.<sup>2</sup>
After a combat with the Chaos ship [[Darkblood]] which saw it crippled, Imperial forces retreated in the face of overwhelming numbers to Aurent. Also, a decisive battle which saw a small number of Imperial ships hold back a Chaos fleet at the Ilthirium Belt allowed the [[Battlefleet Agripinaa]] to arrive and allow the remaining ships to retreat. This however left the Agripinaa sector open to invasion and the planets of this and the Belis Corona subsector soon became nightmarish hells of death and pestilence. Amistel Majoris became the site of a major conflict, [[Plague Marine]]s of the [[Death Guard]] slaughtered the defence population until the [[Drookien Drookian Fen Guard]] reinforced their numbers. Colonel [[Pertaj]] orchestrated a masterful defensive plan however he died of the plague before the plans could be put into action. He had devised a cunning series of trenches which would lead their enemy into traps and ambushes. Eventually the [[Howling Griffons]] and the [[Legio Astorum]] arrived to man the defences, impervious as they were to the plague due to being sealed off from it. The fighting devolved into brutal trench warfare.<sup>2</sup>
Lelithar was attacked by the [[Jouran Dragoons]] and [[Legio Ignatum]] in an effort to retake the planet after it rebelled under the rule of the Voice of the Emperor. They landed at Gorgosa and laid siege to the Imperial palace, but it decimated much of the city and millions of the city's population rose up against the Imperial forces and were killed. Eventually the Death Spectres arrived and the siege ground on.<sup>2</sup>
