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Then the hulk [[Alveus Alpha Alpha Sextus]] appeared from the [[warp]] in the [[Armageddon]] system. Instead of sending ships to investigate the hulk, von Strab simply said that no piece of "cosmic flotsam" could threaten his ancestral world.
He did only the minimum he needed to do to satisfy appearances. He complied with the standard instructions in the [[Codex Ministorum]] and notified the [[Administratum]] of the sighting, but that was all. Only after the first [[Ork]]s landed did a distress signal go out, and von Strab then banished the sender of that message, [[Commissar]] [[Yarrick]], to [[Hades Hive]]. Von von Strab didn't wish to trouble the [[Imperium]] with this fight, as he was confident he could deal with the Orks himself.
von Strab was an even worse military commander than he was a planetary governor: the poorly ordered forces he had at his disposal were quickly overrun and destroyed, and he adopted the tactic of small piecemeal attacks, which were quickly outflanked and destroyed. It was soon obvious that von Strab had underestimated the threat and cunning of the Orks.
