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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}}
Having concealed themselves in caves to the south, the White Scars had waited for the Chaos forces to over-commit themselves to taking the orbital defense complex, stringing out their lines in the process. Launching [[Rhino]]s and [[Space Marine Bike|Bike]]s at the Chaos lines, the White Scars first destroyed the ''Ironsoul'' and then sent the traitor forces into a retreat. Squads of White Scars bikers swept through the Chaos Space Marines that stood their ground as the Raven Guard led a vicious counter-attack. Though they had defeated the Chaos forces fielded before them, Voldorius and his remaining troops still held Mankarra and commanded its imposing defenses.{{Fn|1a}}
