Purging of Centrati's Eye

Out break
A great defence station in orbit above the newly colonized planet, 'Centrati', came under attack from a Dark Eldar lightning raid. The station (refered to as 'Centrati's Eye' by the garrisoned Imperial Guard) soon fell to the attackers. All remaining crew were rounded up in chains and sent to the Dark Eldars mysterious homeworld as slaves. (A fate worse than death as the Dark Eldar specialise in torture and 'soul stealing') This was apparently not enough for the aliens, as they began to charge up the mighty weapons adorning the Centrati's Eye station, and then brought them to bear against the planet. Thousands of colonists and many years worth of colonising work were instantly vaporized.

The Battle
Unknown to the Aliens, a Black Templar Battle-Barge was stationed in orbit on the other side of the planet. The Black Templars had been called to the planet a week earlier to asist in the 'removal' of an alien species native to the planet, that had been slowing the colonising process. The Black Templars are well known for their utter hatred of the Eldar wytches, and after uttering a short battle oath (swearing not to rest untill the wytches were totaly destroyed) they began to scramble ground forces with Thunderhawk gunships. Within an hour of the attack, Black Templar forces were on their way to the fallen space station. On reaching the station however, the Black Templars found that another force had already begun the attack on the Dark Eldar pirates. The Eldar had appeared out of no-where to fight their twisted sisters. Faced with such numbers of wytchs and aliens, the Black Templars unleashed a devestating attack.

Out Come
Although the fighting did spill out onto the planet surface, both alien forces were desimated over the comming months. Centrati's Eye was retaken and clensed of the aliens taint.

Refrences
Cosmo 438 07:25, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=600003&pIndex=3&aId=2300006&start=4
 * 2) Black Library
 * 3) Extracts from the 'Black Templar: Codex'