Editing The Markian Corps (section)

====Second Battle of Struthis====
The Imperial forces followed the liberation of Hauser with a second attempt on Struthis. Once again the armoury world was strengthened by traitor reinforcements, but with the support of Legio Antsar, knights and regiments of Goda, and the Taghmata the Markian Corps could now better penetrate the enemy defenses. The god machines of Al-Sherar strode over the trenches and shrugged off the barrage of profane guns, laying waste to the rebel Markians all the way to their fortress capital of Bastion Primus. There the guns of Markia shook the fortress's walls to pieces, and warriors of Goda and grenadiers of Markia poured into every hole, fighting for every room in that confounded lump of plascrete until the head of the governor was brought to the Grand Marshal in a wooden box. While much equipment was destroyed in the battle that could have been used by the Imperial Army, there were still miles upon miles of motorpools and storage facilities untouched by the battle. With sufficient materiel now secured the Imperial Army could truly begin the Pacificus Campaign.

In the wake of the battle Imperial forces discovered that the fallen rebels, while Markian, were not serving Hektor willingly. Techpriests of the Mechanicus performed autopsies on multiple traitor cadavers, and discovered they were implanted with strange cybernetics; dangerous cybernetics. Archivists on Ghalhal researched these cybernetics, and concluded they were a blasphemous tech-heresy known as Vitae ex Machina: Life from a machine. A technology prohibited by Mars, the implants can revive a corpse and slave them to the will of their nominal savior. Based on the evidence, Markian High Command concluded the 56th had indeed been destroyed by the traitor forces at the start of the Heresy, but what force was responsible for their revival was as of yet unknown. Depleted and Demoralized, the 99th Army withdrew from the conflict to garrison the worlds the Imperial Army had liberated in the early stages of the Pacificus Campaign.