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...The Utem Campaign...

A Sentinels of War Campaign for the 'Liberation' of Utem...

A Blood soaked tale of Betrayal, trickery, loss, and vengances sworn.

It began when a single signal for help was sent out from the planet Utem. The message was Brief...

Bzzt "Requesting assistance, we are being attacked by heretics!" Bzzt...

A dry tone, and one of doubt. But that did not stop the 12th Chapter of the sentinels from going coming in full force, Lead by the arrogent Abonex kilt. Their fleet easily wiped away the traitor vessels in orbit, raining down pod after pod upon the surface to set up a forward base within the city. But when they arrived, their were no songs of praise. No humble bows. No... The first greeting given to the 'saviors' was an auto gun round through Abonex's head. That first shot signaled a massive ambush by the entire city... and later the planet... into a full on assualt upon the sentinels. Fighting valiently, the marines were never the less taken down one by one.

It wasn't long before the planets entire population of 1.2 billion people started to converge on the sentinels, with all the weaponry of the planets PDF, who had held several knights within their arsenel as well.

The situation only became worse when the rest of the chapter had to deploy as each of their ships started to explode, one by one.

Outgunned, Outmanned, Trapped, Surrounded... Doomed... the Chapter decided to fight to the last.

As the days turned into weeks their numbers, slowly but surley, started to dwindle along with their ammo. It was at this point that the almost endless legions of people were being led by single marines, which slowly grew over time.

However, as if the sentinel himself was looking down upon them, the chapter prevailed. Eliminating both traitor and heretic alike, the planets 1.2 billion had gone down to 0, within only 3 weeks of deployment. Despite their only being 20 survivors, the imperium still called it a win... despite the hellish losses.

It was on that last day that Granitis Beck, apprentice of Abonex, was named the new Master Sentinel, as was tradition for the 12th chapter.

As for who was responsible for the attack, initial reports would place the well known sindri myr as the head of this attack... but later intel reported that members of the forgotten legion were leading several of the heretics as well. Only after some time had passed, did a revelation occur that both of them were there, possibly against each other... searching for something?

That question has remained a moot point for centuries, as their is still no known reason... at least... to the sentinels...