The Battle for Eris Hive

Men of the the Command squad of Platoon 214, on dawn patrol, were the first to encounter Xenos forces and successfully raied the alarm.  Here they are shown scrambling back to the Hive.  It is thought that they were all killed before they could make it back safely.

While the manufactorums outside Charon Hive remained in Imperial hands, after Charos Hive fell, and the Charon 7th were scattered, the leaders of Charon Guard fell back in good order to Eric Hive in order to secure a home base for the expected Imperial support.  Their arrival came too late, however, as Xenos forces had already begun their attack -  Dreen Charon prooved too inexperienced for the task at hand, and the armies were temporarily scattered.  With two of the PDF armies in tatters, attention now fell on the commanders of the two army units still funcitonal.  The TAPs,Bridage, mainly of 2nd and 3rd Phase conscripts, who had been repelled by a screening force of Eldar warriors around a manufactorum, had so far managed to avoid major conflict.  The Eris Hive TAPs retreated up the Charon Isthmus, hoping to meet up with Charon Hive forces, but instead they ran into the most terrible of the Xenos threats to their planet: Tyranid infestation.