Editing The Pulmni War (section)

==The Taking of the Pulmni Core==

Not long after their hard-won victory at Carox, the 12th legion was reunited with those under Pneuren and Sachs during Hektor Cinncinatus' sweeping 3-sector campaign. The much needed services of the medicae had grown in skill during their time with the warmaster and the exchange of information left the Brothers of Death more capable of handling their latest weapon than before. It seemed that now was the perfect time for a strike, but the campaign against Mongo Mork's core forces was held back by Ork invasions on worlds previously thought clean. The 12th legion made short work of the comparably weak foe, but the loss of a sense of stability echoed throughout the legion. 

The Brothers had been fighting against the Pulmni Orks for nearly two years. Though the marines were stalwart in their duty and unerringly skillful at cutting down greenskins, the system was so infested with them that it often seemed a hopeless task. 3rd Captain Hashimoto, called The Red for both his skill with shedding blood and the peculiar coloration of the chemical burns on his hands, volunteered to lead the final strike into the heart of the beast. He and his men were eager to decapitate the enemy and finally put to rest a long and bloody campaign that had claimed so many lives. Hopes were high that the Orks would fall to infighting as soon as their leader was lost, as they had so many times before.

Hashimoto and his men touched down and began their push into the city of rubble and jagged steel the Orks called home, they were met with inaccurate artillery bombardments and a massive, poorly-concealed minefield. The so-called defenses of the fortress became steadily less substantial after the main wall was breeched, and they were met with a horde of green giants. Hashimoto understood the gravity of his situation at this point, the boyz were as big as nobz and the nobz were like the warbosses of lesser WAAAGHs, and he turned to face the beast called Mongo Mork. Mongo Mork himself was as large as an Imperial dreadnought and his retinue nearly so, he carried a rocket launcher in one hand and a sharpened fin from an Eldar jetfighter in the other as he charged headlong into battle. With characteristic calm, Hashimoto drew his blade and pulled out his gas grenades.

At the end of the fighting, both Hashimoto and Mongo Mork were dead. The man called the Red held his sword tightly even in death, even though the great greenskin had cleft him in twain at the waist, and it was lodged in the monster's eye socket. The greenskins were defeated, but much of Mongo Mork's inner circle had fled the planet with the death of their warboss. The Brothers of Death pushed them out of the Pulmn system for good during the Battle of the Bronchus Stars, but they did not fragment as expected. The heirs of Mongo Mork moved on, as did the Brothers of Death, but their paths were [[The Cleansing of the Mongoid Sector|fated to cross again in the future]] and fragments of Mongo Mork's high command would remain a threat to the Imperium for centuries as they each sought to out-achieve each other and their predecessor.