Editing Second Battle of Kopt Dara (section)

==The fall of Jeglora==

The Primarch's bodyguard and warships signaled their safe arrival through the warp at 331/811.M30 and began to move towards the inner system and the fortress world Jeglora.  ''Black Joke'' remained in hiding behind Kopt Dara.  While en-route, the Primarch received signals from First and Second Phalanx announcing the arrival of forces in the Asturus and Ublade subsectors.  Hektor bade his Phalangiarchs to carry out their operations with all haste, even as the men under his direct command prepared for battle.

The limited voidship support available to the Chrysaspides made a gunnery duel with Jeglora's orbital stations a suicidal prospect.  Rather than throw his voidships into a battle they could not win, Hektor relied on his finest warriors to carry the day themselves.  At 370/811.M30, the ''Monarch of the Void'' launched a wave of boarding torpedoes to carry the Primarch and a few handfuls of his bodyguard to a station they knew only as Jeglora Orbital B.  The station's primary hull was breached, but the torpedoes struck far from the small pressurised section.  Although their position allowed the Chrysaspides to disembark peacefully, it also gave the Osroene security teams time to mobilise.  Cassander Honorius psychically signaled the ''Monarch of the Void'' that the situation was less than ideal but instructed the flagship to remain out of range and trust in Hektor.  Such trust was well-placed.  Disdaining the use of explosive charges, Hektor Cincinnatus tore open the first airlock the boarders sighted and led his men into the orbital's secondary hull.  Many of the defenders died convulsing as their environment depressurised.  Others, already wearing sealed encounter suits, held on to face the wrath of a Primarch and his chosen men.  The skirmishes were never in doubt and within an hour of landing the First Legion teams had slaughtered the whole complement of the station.  Such was the speed and fury of their assault that self-destruct protocols were not enacted.

Seizing Jeglora Orbital B had opened up a safe approach vector for the Imperial ships.  Jeglora Orbitals A and C scrambled assault shuttles and hastily dispatched boarding teams to reclaim the fallen station, but Hektor was confident enough in his Chrysaspides to order the advance of the fleet.  While the Primarch and his men held off Osroene warriors, Navarch Isokratos Vivianus slipped his ships into planetary orbit.  Superior torpedo designs allowed the Imperials to fire their munitions over the horizon and safely cripple Jeglora Orbital A, while the commander of the C station struck his colours before taking serious damage.  Unaware of the slight Imperial forces above, the planetary government surrendered to Hektor without an Imperial soldier setting foot on Jeglora.