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|Location =[[Quintus]]
|Outcome =Imperial Victory
|Combatant1 =[[File:Ravguardlogo.png|20px]] [[Raven Guard]]<br>[[File:White_Scars_Symbol.png|20px]] [[White Scars]]<br>[[File:800px-Aquila1.jpg|20px]]Pro-Imperial rebels{{Fn|22d}}
|Combatant2 =[[File:Alphalegionlogo.gif|20px]] [[Alpha Legion]]
|Commanders1 =[[Shadow Captain]] [[Kayvaan Shrike]]<br>[[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Kor'sarro Khan]]
|Commanders2 =[[Kernax Voldorius]] (d)
|Strength1 =[[3rd Company (Raven Guard)|Raven Guard 3rd Company]]<br>[[3rd Brotherhood (White Scars)|White Scars 3rd Company]]<br>Unknown number of pro-Imperial rebels
|Strength2 =Entire Quintus [[PDF]]<br>Unknown number of Approximately 600 [[Chaos Space Marines]]{{Fn|2g}}
|Casualties1 =Unknown
|Casualties2 =Defeated; Voldorius killed
==Prelude==
Voldorius was high on the list of the [[White Scars]]' enemies who, through luck or design, had managed to survive their last clash with the chapter. Kor'sarro, the chapter's fifty-first Master of the Hunt, was ordered by the [[Great Khan]], [[Kyublai Khan|Kyublai]], to return with Voldorius's head to [[Chogoris]], or not to return at all. It was a hunt that lasted more than a decade, Voldorius eluded him at places such as [[Zoran]], [[Modanna]], and [[Kavell]].{{Fn|1a}}
At one point, Kor'sarro thought that he had cornered Voldorius on [[Cernis IV]], only to be caught in another of the Daemon Prince's snares.{{Fn|2a}}{{Fn|2b}} Kor'sarro escaped the trap and in the process learned that Voldorius was on the planet [[Quintus]].{{Fn|2c}}
==An Unexpected Alliance==
On [[Quintus]], one of the Imperium's chief bulwarks against [[Ork]] warbands in the [[Jagal Stars]], the Daemon Prince's warband managed to corrupt the local [[PDF]]. {{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2d}} Thus the White Scars faced an entire planet in their hunt for Voldorius in a battle that soon found the White Scars in an unexpected alliance with the [[Raven Guard]] [[3rd Company (Raven Guard)|3rd Company]] under [[Kayvaan Shrike]], which was also deployed on Quintus to end its heresy. {{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2e}} The fiercest fighting erupted around the planet's capital city of [[Mankarra]].{{Fn|1a}}
The two [[Space Marine Captain]]s held a council on Quintus, neither fully trusting the other due to the historic rivalry between their chapters. {{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2f}} However, both Shrike and Kor'sarro knew they had no choice but to set aside their differences and unite to track down Voldorius. An alliance forged, the following morning before dawn Shrike led his company in a surprise attack against [[heretic]] lines around an orbital defense battery in an ambush formation he and his men had perfected against [[Waaagh! Skullkrak]], throwing the traitor forces into disarray. Sensing the danger, Voldorius dispatched half of his [[Alpha Legion]] forces to retake the complex. As Shrike led [[Assault Squad]]s into the heart of the complex, his remaining forces entrenched themselves around its perimeter.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|2g}}
So it was that Voldorius' tide of reinforcements crashed against the Raven Guard perimeter. The Alpha Legion commanders sent waves of [[Cultist]]s, [[Traitor Guard]], and [[Mutant]]s against the Raven Guard defenses to exhaust them before committing his own elite [[Chaos Space Marine]] troops. After the traitor [[Baneblade]] ''Ironsoul'' created a breach in one of the Raven Guard's defensive bastions, three hundred Alpha Legionnaires flung themselves forward at this single point. Shrike was forced to lead the defense against this attack personally, but little by little the Raven Guard was giving ground and the Alpha Legion advanced. It was at this point that the White Scars struck.{{Fn|1a}}
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 42-43
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 49
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Hunt for Voldorius (Novel)]], **{{Endn|2a}}: Chapter 1**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter 2**{{Endn|2c}}: Chapter 3**{{Endn|2d}}: Chapter 4**{{Endn|2e}}: Chapter 7**{{Endn|2f}}: Chapter 8**{{Endn|2g}}: Chapter 9
[[Category:Battles (Alpha Legion)]]
