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''As the Grendyllus tendril uncoiled across the [[Formidyre System]], its ravenous swarms descended upon the hive world of Oghram. The planet’s skies darkened with sporestorms and billions-strong swarms of winged bio-horrors, and it seemed Oghram was surely doomed. Yet the Imperial defenders stood firm. For every tide of Tyranids that overran artillery emplacements or boiled through breaches in Imperial fortifications, another was crushed beneath the treads and guns of massed tank formations, strafed to ruin by relentless wings of gunships, or cut to pieces by coordinated Space Marine strikes. Hope was kindled from embers to a roaring fire amongst the bloodied defenders as the [[Solblade ]] fleets returned from the furthest reaches of the [[Bastior Sub-sector ]] to reinforce the Formidyre System. Fresh hosts of Humanity’s most potent warriors streaked down through the atmosphere in heavy landers and [[Drop Pods ]] to join the fray. From Oghram’s sprawling factory hives to its subterranean engine-spires, from the city-sized spaceport of Saint’s Stair to the infested nightmare of its southern polar chem swamps, warriors of the Imperium turned back the [[xenos ]] flood with guns blazing.''{{Fn|2}}

''Yet the hunger of the Great Devourer is not so easily denied. Like a wounded beast, the Tyranid swarms reacted as one and lashed out with ferocious force. The fortress line on the Matasori Delta fell, defenders rotted alive by the thick bio-smog of countless toxin-beasts. Great Hive Thaddorius became a slaughterhouse after three million bioforms broke in via its aquifer shrines. The Imperial retreat across the Jatasora Heights ended in disaster after fast-moving swarms overran flank defence forces and encircled the fleeing Imperial armies. Finally, in the planet’s last hours, what vital relics and personnel could be salvaged were extracted from Oghram at great cost in rearguard troops and escorting void ships. They left behind a world that seethed with Tyranids in their billions, a planet whose hive cities had become hollowed-out mausoleums, and whose billions of inhabitants had been consumed by the hive fleet, their biomass already being transformed into fresh broods of warrior organisms to invade the other neighbouring worlds. Despite the defenders’ most valiant efforts, Oghram was doomed. With its fall, the entire Formidyre System – including the vital [[Anchor World ]] of [[Sanctum ]] – was placed in greater peril than ever before…''{{Fn|2}} ==See also==*[[Planets (List)]]