The Empyrion Crusade was an Imperial Crusade declared by the Black Templars Space Marines against a force of Khornate Chaos Cults on the world of Empyrion IX. The Chaos force is composed of over 4,000 traitors of the renegade Gathalamor 24th Imperial Guard Regiment along with Guryan mutineers and some cavalry. With only a force of just 30 Black Templars and not enough ammunition to hold the Heretics at bay the Black Templars commander, Castellan Athellenas, attempts to put into a motion an audacious plan that requires his troops to follow his orders to the letter, no matter how distasteful they may find them. Athellenas's second, Sergeant Valerian began to question his commander's going against everything the Black Templars believed in. He ordered his men to make a tactical withdrawal, for