Lords of Decay

&nbsp Lords of Decay are all followers of Nurgle. They are mostly members of other traitor legions who have deemed their previous legion's attitude towards terra too fearful. They are known to be the only traitor warband in existence to have attempted an attack on the Solar System and to have ever defeated a custodes in combat since the Horus Heresy. This event was recorded by Typhus, ex-first captain of the death guard, who was present on his flagship overviewing the scene from orbit. Over Pluto, the Lords of Decay and allied Nurglitch fleets broke out of the warp and quickly dispatched the nearby merchant ships. They quickly descended to the Nitrogen cysterns of Pluto where the Chaos Lord Festernius unleashed a plague of Nitrogen Fixing bacteria that turned all of the cysterns into toxic ammonia deposits. Battlefleet Solar broke out of the warp 6 hours later and engaged the Nurglitch fleet above. A strike force of Custodes teleported down to the surface supported by Howling Griffon forces that were in the vicinity at the time. In single combat, Festernius was claimed to have challenged the Custodes guard to combat and reportedly slew the strike force of 6 to a man. Festernius was reported to have vomited on the sergeants breastplate, melting through the ceramite layers and then, thrusting both his hands into the hole, tore the custodes in two. Despite this brief victory, four thousand traitor marines were slain to a man by the Howling Griffon and Grey Knight force,s with festernius being defeated in single combat by the Brother-Captain of the Grey Knights who was elevated to the rank of Inquisitor after this encounter. He was recorded to have burst apart Festernius' plague spewer with a stormbolter shot before extinguishing his mind with a psychic blast. Of the Traitor fleet, 27 ships were destroyed by the wrath of Battlefleet Solar for a loss of only 3 ships on the Imperium behalf.