Massacre of Kormarg

The Massacre of Kormarg was an Imperial campaign conducted by the morose Star Phantoms Space Marine Chapter against the vile xenos Khrave marauders on the Fortress World of Kormarg II in 718.M39. By the 710s of M39 the fortress world of Kormarg II on the edge of the Sakkara sector had been besieged for more than two centuries by Khrave marauders. Kormarg had held out against the odds stacked against it and had not fallen, but the world had been laid waste in the process. Taking it upon themselves to answer the defenders' long-standing plea for help, the Star Phantoms Chapter fleet atttacked en masse, swiftly encircling the Khrave nest-webs in orbit and blasting them apart with concentrated fire from their bombardment cannon.

Once they had scattered the remaining enemy snare-ships, the Star Phantoms launched a full drop-strike against the Khrave feasters on the surface, crushing them between the anvil of the extensive Kormarg bastion network and the hammer of the Chapter's drop-pod onslaught, swiftly annihilating the foul xenos. As the defenders threw wide their gates to their liberators however, it quickly became apparent that in their years of struggle against the alien, the human garrison had become genetically and spiritually corrupt. The Master of the Star Phantoms was swift in his judgement. With their defences already open to the Space Marines, the bastions which had held out for centuries against the xenos became blood-drenched killing chambers as the Star Phantoms purged Kormarg II of its tainted people. After the massacre, the Star Phantoms used the macro-shell craters from the planet's long war as giant pyre-pits for the liquidated population, and the Chapter's chantry servitors sang solemn hymns to honour their martyrdom as the Star Phantoms consigned the bodies to the flame. Shortly after the Star Phantoms' actions, Kormarg II was re-garrisoned as a Departmento Munitorum penal colony.