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===Assault on the Bastion Worlds===
Within hours it was clear the Marines had overplayed their hand. The Grendel, whom had been so flighty and reluctant to engage on previous battlefields, now assaulted Imperial positions with ferocity. Before the first day was over nearly a third of Achab's chapter lay dead, despite having dealt a crushing blow to the planetary infrastructure. Were it not for the Strike Cruiser's in orbit and their complete space dominance, the first Bastion world would surely have been the Star Kraken's tomb. By the end of the first month, and with decorous valour from both the astartes and the Imperial Guard, all the major warrens on the world had fallen. Although the back of the alien war machine was broken, on this world, at least, it was still the work of a year to root out and quash all alien resistance. An effort which cost Achab many marines. With the world conquered Achab still could not luxuriate, for the fleet had seen alien vessels retreating into the nebula, and so he knew more worlds like this one lay just out of sight.

Withdrawing from the nebula Achab consulted with the Administratum, requesting aid in the face of such overwhelming defence. Checking their records on the sector and approximated strength of the aliens the reply came back: "You have sufficient forces, cleanse these aliens via any means necessary." Being a holy man, and taking the words of the Holy Administratum based on Holy Terra to heart, Achab did just that.

He ordered his apothecaries to begin raising new marines. Many new marines. As many as they could, as fast as they could, without caution, haphazardly. With his new plan underway, Achab traced and found the second of the Grendel Bastion worlds, and launched an assault. The Star Kraken captured and fortified a small continent at the northern pole, and from there assaulted outwards, taking the Grendel down island by island, replacing their losses with raw neophytes from the liberated, shipped down to their beachhead from orbit. The losses mounted, and as he saw his brothers fall one after another, he began to hate the Grendel with a passion that went beyond holy.