Editing Pacification of the Harakien Sector (section)

===Sledgehammer===

The Imperial Army carried out simultaneous offensives all along the border.  Harakien listening posts were assaulted by elite commando units.  Advance bases were overwhelmed by army-strength formations.  The frontier colonies of Rhenn'in, Koerendel and Geswyn faced army groups, the handful of Advance Detatchments of the 3rd Fleet stationed there gathered in a storm.  The 8th Expeditionary Front of [[the Kondrus Aeroguard]] at Koerendel faced the toughest opposition, the 2nd Advance Detachment were noted saboteurs and hastily prepared for the Imperials' arrival. Harakien jetfighters, the skilled pilots of the 2nd and 3rd Razorwing Squadrons, pushed the Kondrans into position. The gambit destroyed a full corps of Aeroguard during the initial landing and kept the Kondrans grounded during the first five days of the campaign.  Though they whittled away at the opposition, it only served to delay the inevitable. Even after losing over a hundred thousand men, the Aeroguard outnumbered their opponents by twenty to one.  Realizing too late the scale of the disaster, the sentinels of the Harakien frontier were nearly wiped out by the Imperium's elephantine offensive. The battered remains of the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Advance Detachment escaped into space. After days of futile attempts to contact the 3rd Division, they delivered the report of the terrible destruction wrought by the Imperial war machine.

Upon hearing of the unprecedented invasion, Ku'Motsk immediately summoned the full strength of his elite Sovereign Division. At his word, the widely spread specialist units of the Harakien army began gathering under his command at Ku Harai. While they mustered, The Void King ordered the 2nd and 6th Divisions of the Imperial Fleet to Gelden III to prepare a counter-offensive. The 1st, 3rd, and 5th divisions were set as home guard. Once the full strength of the Sovereign Division stood in the grand Harakien capital, Rhys, the Sovereign Fleet was split in a similar manner, with one-third sent to aid Alovar. The warriors of the division were likewise divided, and 10,000 men and hundreds of assault craft went along with Ku'Motsk and the Ur-Hierach Asmodae into the labyrinthine dimension of the webway. The Void King later remarked that he had been fool enough to laugh as he marched into battle.