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==Overview==
===Early Actions===
Striking suddenly and essentially without warning, the Necron forces of the sector struck not a single [[Imperial]] world but scores of planets and outposts, conducting total genocide of the local populace wherever they struck. The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] world of [[Harrow Watch]] and the [[Frontier World]]s of [[Pallasite]], [[Khatris]], and [[Borrus]] had their populations erased seemingly instantly. On [[Libethra]], the [[Fortress-MonastaryMonastery]] of the [[Angels Revenant]], contact was also quickly lost. Only at the [[Inquisitorial Fortress]] of [[Apollyon]] was the alarm first raised, allowing for the sector [[Battlefleet]], [[Imperial Guard]], and local [[PDF]] units to be mobilized. However at this time, the Imperium was still unaware of who exactly they were facing. The Sector Commander, [[Calibron Laan]], took the opportunity to strip away garrisons from other world and instead protect his domain of [[Amarah]].{{Fn|1a}}
Though the Imperium expected more devastating attacks after the initial round of devastation, months went by without any sightings of the enemy. [[Lord Inquisitor]] [[Hiram Ntshona]] of the [[Ordo Malleus]] was firm in his belief however that the enemy was [[Daemonic]] in nature, not heretical or [[xenos]]. After many months of waiting however, the enemy again made itself known in the form of a massive pulsing signal that overtook the sector, initially overloading the minds of [[Astropath]]s. In the signal were the sounds of agonizing screams, whispers is an unknown tongue, and most disturbing of all the phrase ''[[Maynarkh Dynasty|Maynarkh]] comes'' in Imperial [[Gothic]]. Even worse, it became known that Libethra, the Angels Revenant homeworld, had been reduced to a pile of ash. Soon, terror and panic gripped the entire sector in the face of this frightful message and the true scale of the mysterious foes initial strikes became known.{{Fn|1a}}
