23 July 2011: Breaching The Dragon Gate of Hive Targaryen

23 July 2011:  Colonel Sir Zeller personally led the Uradeln 21^st Regiment to a Glorious Victory in securing entrance to Hive Targaryen by blasting through The Dragon Gate in the northeastern sector of planet Rhaegar’s principle hive city.  The mighty gate, built long ago in The Dark Age of Technology, withstood heavy punishment before finally collapsing under the guns of no less than our Regiment’s Super Heavy Tank, the Malleus ira Dei, as well as from the guns of numerous Leman Russ Battle Tanks and Basilisk artillery pieces from the Uradeln 21^st and the Vostok 19^th.  The venerable Malleus ira Dei led a mighty armored spearhead, crushing the puny tank traps that had been thrown up by the cowardly PDF(Planetary Defense Forces) troopers who now fight for The Enemy.  A strike force of Imperial Space Marines from the Blood Angels Chapter also took part in the assault, using their jump packs to leap over the city walls and assault the vile traitors.  Their vanguard elements penetrated deep into the outer city blocks where they discovered and killed five Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion who had been manning one of the wretched AA guns that laid low our Vendettas and Valkyrie.  If there were more Black Legionnaires in the vicinity, they must have fled ahead of our victorious forces.  The traitor PDF commander kept feeding squads of reinforcements into the meat-grinder, determined to stop us at the gate, but the Malleus ira Dei blasted the traitors into oblivion as she emerged, wounded but vital, through the wreckage of The Dragon Gate, and into Targaryen Hive. 

“Hellhammers, for when you are finally sick of just Holding the Line.” – Colonel Sir Zeller

Cleaning up planet Scelus and moving on to planet Rhaegar

24 June, 1 July, 4 July 2011:  The mighty and righteous Uradeln 21^st Regiment crushed the last of the enemy forces on planet Scelus in battles on the 24^th and the 1^st.  First, the last of the cultists were annihilated in a woodland battle.  The following week, the last of the Traitor Black Legion on Scelus were hunted down and slain within an urban ruin. 

As soon as victory was achieved, the Uradeln 21^st began boarding Imperial Navy transport.  Their destination is very near: planet Rhaegar.  The 13th Black Crusade of Abbaddon the Despoiler has engulfed Rhaegar.  The hive world has largely fallen to Chaos following an uprising of cultists of Khorne who were native to the planet.  They have been joined by a small number of Chaos Space Marines from the Black Legion, who typically assume individual leadership of groups of cultists.  Unfortunately, a large portion of the Rhaegar Planetary Defense Force, the PDF, have also turned traitor, taking whatever war machines they had with them over to the enemy camp.  Rhaegar, like Scelus, is very near the Eye of Terror, where Warpspace meets real space and where the Forces of Chaos hide. 

On 4 July, the Forces of the Imperium began the reclamation of Rhaegar by landing Imperial Guard reinforcements to aid the beleaguered and greatly diminished loyal Rhaegar PDF, who still hold out within districts of some of the Hive cities.  Elements of the Sons of Sajuuk Space Marine Chapter cleared a landing zone by knocking out anti-air defenses in a strongpoint in the eastern hemisphere, near Targaryen Hive, which is the principal Hive city on Rhaegar.  The Uradeln 21^st is even now on its way to Targaryen Hive and other Imperial forces have already begun landing in the vicinity.  This includes a full company of the Sons of Sajuuk, a half company of Blood Angels, half a company of the Order of the Lady Adeptus Sororitas, one battalion of the Vostok 19^th Imperial Guard, and rumor has it that a handful of stormtroopers from the Caladan 101^st have arrived, and they usually accompany a certain Inquisitor…