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The '''Orphean War'''{{Fn|1}} (also - '''Orpheus War'''){{Fn|22b}} is a conflict being waged in the [[Orpheus Sector]] since 991.[[M41]] between the forces of the [[Imperium]] and the [[Necron]] [[Maynarkh Dynasty]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
Necron forces have launched renewed probing attacks against Myre and Amraphel, and these acts combined with the atrocious losses already sustained by the Imperial defenders have led Segmentum Command to believe that the Orpheus Sector can not be saved without a massive [[Crusade]]-level campaign that could not be organized for a minimum of thirty years. Faced with this prospect, Imperial strategists have recommended [[Exterminatus]] as the only tenable solution.{{Fn|1b}}
In 999.[[M41]], over eighty years into their century-long penitent crusade, the [[Executioners]] arrived at the war-torn Orpheus Sector. There they discovered a slew of planets decimated by war, and swear revenge for the fallen brothers of other Chapters.{{Fn|2a}} In the aftermath of the [[Great Rift]]'s creation, the [[Indomitus Crusade]] was launched and a [[Torchbearer Fleet]] also sent to the Orpheus Sector. There, they discovered that some Angels Revenant had actually survived on their homeworld, hidden beneath the surface in underground caverns. The Imperials then purged the remaining Necrons on Libethra, and reinforced the Angels Revenant with [[Primaris Space Marines]].{{Fn|3}}
==Imperial Order of Battle==
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 28-30
**{{Endn|1b}}: pgs. 33-58
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Second Edition: War Machines of the Adeptus Astartes]], **{{Endn|2a}}: pg. 23**{{Endn|2b}}: pg. 182*{{Endn|3}}: [[White Dwarf November 2019]], pg. 47 - ''Dawn of the Era Indomitus: Resurrection of Angels''
[[Category:Battles (Necrons)]]
[[Category:Battles (Astra Militarum)]]
[[Category:Battles (Space Marines)]]
