Imperial Reinforcements arrive: commissars conduct mass executions of the institutionally corrupt hereditary leaderships

An advance force of Commisariat officers landed in specially prepared landing zone in the Charon Sub-Hives, and wiped out the failing officer classes of the Charon Guard, and the TAPs brigades.  While some units suffered the indignity of the ancient practice of decimation, where regiments were lined up and every tenth man was executed: in fact the purges had a dramatic effect across the surviving forces.  Commissar General Skyros later said 'To make those armies fight, the men had to fear me and the commissariat more than they feared the enemy.  They were terrified of the enemy.  I put the terror of damnation into them.'  With support from Imperial forces, the hastily reorganised armies struck south into the isthmus to recapture Orax Point Star Port.  It was here that Commissar General Skyros would see if his men feared him more than the foe.