Fenright Tithe Wars

The Fenright Tithe Wars was an Imperial Crusade launched against the long burning civil wars that had riven the neighbouring Cal-Sek, Nepthis and Sadusyne Sectors. In their baptism in blood as fully active Chapter, the Fire Angels Space Marine Chapter committed their full strength to the Third Imperial Interdiction force under the command of Lord Militant Helstrom in 760.M39. The Fire Angels were also committed to the heretic world of Jhoppa to break the deadlock between the Imperial Guard forces on the vital industrial planet and the massed ranks of the rebel 'juggernaut' companies; the heretics being supplied with large quantities of battle tanks and field artillery from Jhoppa's massive defence armouries. The Fire Angels tipped the balance in a three-year-long bloody campaign, matching their swift moving Predators and Razorbacks against the rebel-crewed Leman Russ and Malcadors tanks in open battle on Jhoppa's ash-plains, while their tactical and Sternguard Squads wreaked untold havoc in close-quarter fighting in the tangles and treacherous terrain of the planet's extensive shatter zones.

Through a string of victories, the Fire Angels were instrumental in turning the tide of the war for Jhoppa and brought back a world into the Imperial fold that had lain in the hands of the Apostate for more than three centuries. The Fire Angels remained active throughout the latter part of the Tithe Wars through 411.M40, and gained noteworthy victories contesting the Ork incursions into the Vorsk sub-sector where they held out against the Speed Freek horde one Lambast's End, and struck deep into enemy-held territory to relieve the besieged Ecclesiarhcy Shrine World of Lament. It was this last action in particular, fought against the nightmarishly power Psyker-cult forces of the Seven Daughters of Oblivion and their mind-slaved followers, for which the Chapter was awarded the high honour of the Order of the Martyr's Heart by the Holy Synod of Gathalamor.