General Blasser's Doom

Aerial picts from Thunderbolt 457 of 1023rd Squardron, Captained by Squadron Leader Toren Blose shows the Eris Hive TAPs as they camped out around Manufacorum VII, in the Charon Subhives.  While the fighters of the Imperial Navy had considerable success in the skies, on the ground poor leadership and sloppy watch pickets led to a disastrous engagement where the Eris TAPs brigade was lucky to survive a ferocious assault from unknown an unknown Xenos species.  General Blasser was wounded in this battle, after bravely engaging the enemy in close combat.  All his command squad were slain about him.

A chance photo shows possible identification of unknown Xenos as they rampaged through the Charon Subhives.  Despite chaos on the ground, these picts were quickly sent up through Imperial Navy command to the attention of the Ordo Xenos.  It appeared that they already had advanced warning, and a member of the Ordo was already on their way to Orion-89 Zeta.