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The entire [[Chapter]]'s forces were recalled to their [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld ]] of [[Haakonath]] due to a sustained attack by [[Ork]] [[Freebooter]]s. Ork [[Ramship]]s and [[Rok]]s invaded the system in a systematic assault with waves larger than anything encountered by the invaders previously. The Ork attackers however at first took heavy losses in the initial blundering waves through the interlinked orbital defences and minefields defended defending the Star Phantoms ' world. When the Star Phantoms ' fleet arrived, Ork ships were shot down in the hundreds and entire clusters of Rok's Roks were boarded and destroyed by the Astartes. The furious orbital battle lasted sixty days, and only then did the Ork Forces break and scatter. The Star Phantoms sensed victory was near, but at that point the true nature of the threat manifested.{{Fn|1}}

A vast temporal-[[Warp]] rift opened up, and at its vanguard came a massive [[Hrud]] migration. Realizing that the invading Orks had been fleeing this anomaly, the Star Phantoms mounted a valiant defense against the tides of the Warp and the Hrud, but as reality buckled in on itself and their fleet was destroyed in [[Warp Storm]]s it became clear that their cause was hopeless. The Hrud soon landed on Haakoneth Haakonath itself, defiling the planet and creating earthquakes and tremors wherever they seemed to pass. One by one, the Star Phantoms were swallowed up by the coalescing shadows that revealed Hrud. Rather than face certain destruction of the hands of the Hrud, the Star Phantoms [[Chapter Master]] [[Omadon Tiresias]] ordered his remaining troops to flee. The Chapter's last remaining [[Battle Barge]], ''[[Memento Mori]]'', led the ragged remains of their once -proud fleet and escaped from the rift-vortez vortices lashing the star systems. Many of the Star Phantoms' ships were destroyed in the desperate retreat and Tiresias himself was blinded when a rogue time-eddy speared the deck of the ''Momento Mori's deck'.{{Fn|1}}

In the aftermath of the battle, little more than a third of the Star Phantoms ' strength remained. Now without a world, the Star Phantoms began the long and arduous process of rebuilding their strength. The battle however earned the Star Phantoms the honor honour of being one of only a handful of Chapter's Chapters in the [[Imperium]]'s history to face a full-scale Hrud migration and survive.{{Fn|1}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Ten]] pg, pgs.155-156