Editing Curis-4 Compliance (section)

==="Break the yoke"===

''You might wonder why there is no trial.  There is no trial because we did not come to bring these people justice.  We came to take the yoke from your backs and break it.  You will never be slaves again.''

''Firing squad, take aim - fire!''

- Gaspard Lumey, excerpt from the propaganda-vid "Break the Yoke"

[[File:The remnai soldiers by neolupetrooper9893.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Huks infantrymen]]

The Orvar had reason to think that their riches were well-spent when the Twenty-Fifth Expedition Fleet began operations.  While Rani Stolarz's Auxilia forces debarked in Orvar territory, Gaspard Lumey personally led Jalal Samaha's 2nd Corps of Astartes in a combat drop on the Huks capital.  With complete surprise on their side, the Space Marines slaughtered the disorganised defenders and captured almost the entire Huks Committee for Military Affairs (HCfMA) - the ''de facto'' national government.  Transitioning from military leader to politician, Lumey made a speech to vid in which he explained his purposes on Curis-4 to its people.  The rule of the citz was almost at an end and that the pacs of Curis-4 would soon live as free Imperial citizens.  Lumey promised to give restitution to any pacs that his forces encountered, while pledging that the Fifth Legion would liquidate any petty tyrants that they found.  To prove his sincerity, the Primarch concluded his propaganda piece with the execution of the Huks government.

Those few representatives of the HCfMA that had escaped, along with local leaders, quickly organised a counter-stroke aimed at the 2nd Corps.  The vaunted combat skills of the Adeptus Astartes, supported by pinpoint naval bombardment from the Fifth Legion's warships in orbit, were sufficient to beat back the initial, feeble efforts, but Lumey's men began to be stretched as the Huks forces besieging their own capital grew to Army strength.  The Primarch counseled calm in the face of the odds, for he knew that the 25th Expedition Fleet's Auxilia were about to commence their own offensive in conjunction with Fabrice Diallo's 1st Corps.

Diallo's offensive targeted the armies positioned on the Huks-Orvar border.  The three airmobile armies of Marshal Joseph Kolesnikov's 8th Expeditionary Front dropped into the operational depth of the defenders  while the 5th and 9th [[Ciban Chasseurs|Armies of Ciban]], commanded by Rani Stolarz and Ignace Blanchard, surged across the border.  Diallo's Space Marines deployed in company strength as a second wave, dropping in to attack hard-points identified by the Kondrus Aeroguard.  Already off-balance due to Lumey's audacious stroke at their capital and totally unused to the intensity of warfare that the Imperial forces had brought to their planet, the Huks armies on the Orvar border simply disintegrated.  News of the rout, along with Fifth Legion's propaganda broadcasts, devastated morale through the rest of the nation.  A handful of the troops besieging 2nd Corps threw off their uniforms and attempted to pass themselves off as pacs to the Space Marines.  Although the lie was not believed, Lumey had instructed his men to turn a blind eye to such deceptions and accept anyone presenting as a pac without question.  Once it became clear to the Huks soldiers that they faced a choice between being hunted down by the space-farers and being rewarded for deserting the colours, the handful became a multitude.

In just a few short weeks, the Twenty-Fifth Expedition Fleet completely conquered the Huks nation.  But they were still far from completing their objectives.