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The [[Vespator]] Front is the eastern theatre commanded by Tetrarch [[Decimus Androdinus Felix]], though Titus also is leading forces. Consisting of the largest campaign theatre, its forces been assigned a sprawling enormity of interlinked [[Sub-Sector]]s to conquer, making it the most diffuse of the four campaign zones. A high proportion of the systems marked for reconquest contain high-value worlds whose manufacturing and agricultural output will be vital to Greater Ultramar.{{Fn|1b}}
Felix began his campaign with a massive flanking maneuver conducted on a galactic scale. Besides Tyranids, his forces also battle [[Necron]]s under [[Nekrosor Ammentar]] and [[Death Guard]] holdouts from the [[Plague Wars]].{{Fn|1j}}
Meanwhile, Captain Titus personally led a taskforce in early victories at [[Boruta II]] and the [[Battle of the Osymanden Way]].{{Fn|4}} He then moved to the world of [[Idarus]] in the [[Heliodras System]], seeking to save the precious [[Agri-World]] from [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]]. Directed by [[Commodore]] [[Gaius Silva]], Ultramar warships caught the orbiting Tyranid [[Bio-Ship]]s unawares in a flanking maneuver. The 2nd Company conducted boarding actions of the Bio-ships before planting explosives and evacuating via [[Thunderhawk]]. Meanwhile, waves of [[Drop Pod]]s rocketed to Idarus' surface followed by dropcraft carrying vehicles and [[Ultramar Auxilia]] under [[Aemelia Minervas]]. In the following three days of bloody fighting, Idarus was purged of the Xenos taint and Titus personally slew a [[Tyranid Prime]].{{Fn|1c}}
Before the fighting on Idarus had ended, Titus and his advisors tracked the Xenos fleet movements and found it had deliberately bypassed the nearby world of [[Novamagnor]]. Veterans of the [[Deathwatch]] knew what this often meant: that it was a [[Necron]] [[Tomb World]]. Knowing that Novamagnor likely represented a great danger to the region, Titus organised that the world be their next destination.{{Fn|1c}}
**{{Endn|2c}}: pg. 29
*{{Endn|3}}: [[500 Worlds: Titus – Dread Incursions]], pg. 60
*{{Endn|4}}: [[White Dwarf 520]], pg. 18
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