Wystengradt Raid
The Wystengradt Raid occurred in 198.M39.[1]
Overview
A piratical warband of Chaos Space Marines from the Night Lords Legion ambushed a Dark Eldar fleet and breached the hull of its flagship. Several Haemonculi from the Altered were sent spinning out into the cold void of space. Their desiccated corpses were eventually recovered by specially-made Engines of Pain and the Haemonculi were once more regrown, but the insult done to them was not forgotten.[1]
Before the year was out, the Night Lords warband – whilst plunging the Imperial planet of Wystengradt into a violence-haunted twilight – encountered the Dark Eldar once more. The Night Lords had robbed the planet of power using high-yield static bombs, ensuring that its cities were gloom-shrouded playgrounds for their terror tactics, but the horrors wreaked by the Traitor Legionnaires were mild in comparison to what was to befall the planet next. The Altered, having enlisted the aid of several thousand Mandrakes and deployed an ancient antiphoton engine from their deepest oubliettes, shrouded the world of Wystengradt in an unnatural darkness. War unfolded as Mandrakes and Wracks engaged in a deadly running battle with the Night Lords. The dearth of light was so supernaturally intense that even the acute vision of the Chaos Space Marines was rendered all but useless. The Traitor Legionnaires’ doctrine of psychological warfare was slowly and painfully turned against them, and the spark of paranoia that nestles in each Night Lord’s breast fanned to an inferno. Mandrake attacks came from impossible quarters as new scenes of stomach-churning vileness were uncovered with every hour. The Night Lords sought out the antiphoton engine with the intent to destroy it and wage the war anew on their own terms. The ancient machine was finally blown apart by melta charges, but when visibility was restored to Wystengradt, the Haemonculi were gone. Only a lingering fear of the darkness was left in their wake.[1]
Sources
- 1: Haemonculus Covens - A Codex: Dark Eldar Supplement — The Chronicle of Endless Woe
