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The '''Assault on Sortiarius''' was an attack by the [[Grey Knights]]'s [[3rd Brotherhood (Grey Knights)|3rd Brotherhood]] and the [[Dark Angels]]' [[5th Company (Dark Angels)|5th Company]] on the [[Daemon World]] [[Sortiarius]], sometime during the [[Age of the Dark Imperium]].{{Fn|1a}}
==History==
The two strike forces would meet in the [[Prospero System]] and as they approached [[Sortiarius]], they determined that [[Magnus]] was conducting a massive [[Chaos]] ritual. The site itself was protected from orbital bombardment, due to power supplied by a nearby temple-complex and so the two forces split before launching their attack. Because of their special nature, the [[Grey Knights]] directly attacked the ritual site, while the [[Dark Angels]] attacked the temple. Both in the hopes of disrupting the power protecting the ritual site and to draw in enough of the [[Thousand Sons]]' forces, so that the Grey Knights could succeed{{Fn|1c}}. As their attack commenced, however, the Grey Knights became entrapped by powerful illusions created by the Thousand Sons, which prevented them from reaching the ritual site. Though they knew doing so could draw in [[Daemons]], the Grey Knights' [[Grey Knights Librarian|Librarian]]s used their powers to try and banish the illusions. A [[warp]] portal appeared instead and out from it emerged their lost [[Grey Knights Grand Master|Grand Master]] [[Kaldor Draigo]], whose power cast away the illusions. With the path now revealed to them, the Grey Knights and Grand Master marched towards the Chaos ritual site. However the Thousand Sons forces outnumbered them greatly and Stern knew they would need to call upon the Dark Angels for help.{{Fn|1d}}
Due to [[Sortiarius]]' [[Daemon World|nature]], however, [[vox]] contact was impossible, so instead the [[Grey Knights]] made [[psychic]] contact with the [[Dark Angels]] [[Librarian]] [[Baraqiel (Librarian)|Baraqiel]]. They were shocked by what they heard from him, though, as the Dark Angels had succeeded in disrupting the temple's power, but had then begun to escape after [[Arvann Stern|Stern]] told them the ritual had been ended. The [[Brother-Captain]] knew that [[Daemon]]s were behind the duplicity, and informed the Dark Angels that the ritual still continued and the Grey Knights needed their immediate aid to stop it. The Dark Angels were too far away, though, and to reach the Grey Knights in time drastic measures needed to be taken. It was determined by the strike forces' Librarians that a temporary tunnel through the [[warp]], would need to be created in order for the Dark Angels to join the Grey Knights. Though they knew it would cost them their lives{{Fn|1d}}, the Librarians successfully created the warp tunnel before dying as a result. Afterwards, the Grey Knights and Dark Angels fought to reach the ritual site, but were still heavily outnumbered. Stern then knew they would not stop [[Magnus]] in time and ordered his forces to form a [[psychic]] beacon, so that the Grey Knights' [[Strike Cruiser]], [[Purging Sword]] could fire upon their location. Though it killed many of the nearby Dark Angels and Grey Knights, the Purging Sword succeeded in destroying the ritual site and ended Magnus' plot. The surviving members of the strike forces then began evacuating Sortiarius, while under fire from the vengeful [[Thousand Sons]]. Stern, [[Kaldor Draigo]], [[Lazarus (Dark Angels)|Lazarus]] and the strike forces were able to successfully escape the [[Prospero System]], but they had been forced to leave many of the Grey Knights and Dark Angels behind. The thought of what fate awaited those [[Space Marine]]s captured alive by the Thousand Sons on Sortiarius, filled the strike forces' survivors with dread{{Fn|1e}}. The Grey Knights soon sent the [[Castellan Champion]] [[Garran Crowe]], to rescue their lost Brothers.{{Fn|2}}
==Sources==
*1: [[Psychic Awakening: Ritual of the Damned]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 10-11 - Sons of Titan
**{{Endn|1b}}: pgs. 12-13 - Sons of Caliban
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Psychic Awakening: Pariah]], pg. 21 - Echoes of Awakening
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