Ullanor Crusade (Hektor Heresy)

Ullanor Crusade
Date	994.M30 to 000.M31
Scale	multiple sectors
Theatre	Ullanor Empire
Status	Decisive Imperial Victory
Belligerents
Imperium of Mankind	Orks
Commanders and Leaders
The Emperor of Mankind Hektor Cincinnatus	Khork, the Megaboss of Ullanor
Strength
multiple Expedition Fleets	billions of boyz
Losses
heavy	uncountable
Outcome
Main strength of the Ullanor Empire broken

This article is about a battle in the /tg/ Heresy project, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40k universe.

The Ullanor Crusade was a military campaign in the Great Crusade. Under the command of the Emperor and Hektor Cincinnatus, forces of the Imperium destroyed the largest Ork Empire in the Galaxy, eliminating the last great threat to humanity.

Background

Rogue Traders had discovered the Ullanor Empire early in the second century of the Great Crusade and the Imperium slowly became aware of the scale of the threat. Although the War Council considered devoting forces to roll back Waaagh!s led by Khork's lieutenants, the demands of the Ruavu Grun Xenocide - not to mention wars in other Segmentums - ruled out the kind of offensive that would be required to break the power of Ullanor.

Instead, the Imperium endured decades of what Gufarnus Altmakar called a "loathsome stalemate". Orkish Waaagh!s regularly emanated from the fortress-worlds of Ullanor, but Altmakar kept massive Imperial Army forces on hand to contain and repel the greenskins. After the death of the Father of the Army, keeping watch against the Orks fell to Alexandri of Rosskar, who had assumed the title of Regent while the Emperor led the final crusade against the Ruavu Grun. Alexandri began to deploy his own Silver Cataphracts in anti-Orkish operations, believing that any Ork who escaped was one who would have to be defeated once again.

Following the end of the Ruavu Grun Xenocide, Imperial planners began to consider a war against Ullanor. By this point in the Great Crusade, most of the sages and generals who had served the Emperor since the Unification Wars had died of old age, and the decision was left to the war-like sons of the Emperor, the Primarchs.