Editing Battle of Rai (section)

===Vrach's escape===

When Wilmut Sachs appeared before his Primarch to report of his crushing defeat by the Loyalists, he expected a bout of fury from his master. But anger was an emotion utterly alien to Johannes Vrach; instead, the Primarch was overtaken by a heart-wrenching depression. This was the second time he had lost his homeworld to hostile forces he failed to stop: first, an alien plague took it from him, and now the lapdogs of the False Emperor. But while he was powerless to retaliate against the ancient disease, he had the means to punish the Loyalists for robbing him of his home. With a melancholic gleam in his eyes, Johannes Vrach quietly ordered to put Plan Centimanus into motion. The hands of his Genetors trembled as they pressed the glyphs releasing the Centimanus plague upon the planet down below, for even the depraved servants of Vrach were still afraid of certain things.

As the containment tanks on Rai released the terrible virus, the tortured wails of billions of souls filled the minds of everyone within the vicinity of the planet. What has been a lush jungle world has quickly become a giant ball of writhing red biomass, an unholy mix of living concrete, metal and demonic flesh rapidly growing gigantic tendrils which lashed and grabbed unfortunate ships in orbit while the pained screams of the entire planet echoed across the Warp. At the command centre of the Imperial forces, Gaspard Lumey frantically contacted the fleet, straining his voice to the limit to be heard over the deafening wails. The Life Bringers were fleeing, yet the unnatural abomination on Rai was an even greater threat, infecting every starship its tendrils touched and turning it into more of itself, another screaming demonic monstrosity rushing towards the Emperor's servants, firing its weapons at everything in range and corrupting more ships in turn. 

It was a relief to hear most of the Loyalists managed to teleport away from ground zero and escaped the gruesome fate of the majority of warships caught too close to the planet, but the battle was not yet won. With perfectly coordinated efforts under Lumey's command, the Void Angels and Imperial Navy routed and destroyed the terrifyingly deadly, but thankfully mindless infected vessels. Only when the Void Angels subjected Rai to extensive orbital bombings and completely annihilated the writhing monstrosity on its surface did the endless screams finally stop and the battle end in victory. This mission has claimed the lives of many, a sizeable number of Void Angel ships have met their end at the hands of the insane Chaos space marines and the corrupting tendrils of their unexpected creation. At last, the battle of Rai was won, but the victory was pyrrhic at best - the Imperial forces were battered to the point where they could barely continue fighting in the Scouring, and most of the Life Bringers managed to avoid justice.