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General Summary

Following the the events during the Terror at Greyskull, with units reinforced and verhicles repaired, the 9th Reconnaissance Battalion wanted revenge and so Operation EDDA returned its focus to the Mecha System in a hunt for clues to where the Necrons of Krayvyn, Lord of the Hunt had gone to and where they could be found and vengeance could be had.
Upon arrival in system, augurs detected a xenos prescence on the ruined inductrial world of Sto'Lat. As soon as Recon flights soon confirmed it was a Necron force, drop sirens sounded around the fleet as drop ships were loaded.
Brevet Major Friedrich Hobart led a mechanised force planetward and found the Necrons slowly scouring an old mineworks, seemingly for a subterranean accessway, but to what he couldn't be sure. Regardless, he knew if he could find an entrance before his skeletal adversaries, he would be able to deal a greater blwo than if he engaged in all out c.onflict
The two forces engaged one another at range initially, as they both approaches a dried up riverway, then began a close quarters battle. The Emperor saw his subjects through the skirmish as no sooner had an entire necron unit been eliminated, thanks to the combined efforts of imperial firepower and targetting info being broadcast to the battalion from the scouts 1st Squadron, Tin Men , but the Imperium managed to find and secure two subteranean accessways in amidst the fighting.
Although eventually being wounded, along with the rest of his command squad, the last vision Hobart saw of the foe as he was medevac'd, was the eerie sight of them fading out of existance, knowing they had been defeated, with the ghostly words of Krayvyn lingering in the wind.

Rewards Granted

Necrons All units who participated received +1XP Krayvyn also received additional XP due the Necron agendas being met, giving him an advance and awakening points for allocating to his tomb world
Astra Militarum All participating units gained +2XP due to logitics points currently allocated to Operation EDDA In addition, for being Marked for Greatness, both 1st Squadron, 5th Tin Men and Squad 609 both received an additional +2XP Furthermore, in addition, due to agendas acheieved the following units received additional XP: 1st Squadron 5th Tin Men, Purple Squad, Squad 609 and Leman Russ 671 2 Commendation points were also received by 9th Recon Battalion

Missions/Quests Completed

Main Objectives Both forces took objectives and earned VPs, but the game ended with a win for the Astra Militarum, 85 - 60
Agendas Both forces had two objectives, with the Astra Militarum completing both of them, to gain a total of 9 additional XP acrossfoure units, whereas the Necrons acheived one out of the two agendas, failing the second by only 1 wound. this gained them additional XP and awakening points

Notes

For steadfast service to Imperium, the following units were awarded the Order of the Storm:
Lieutenant F Hobart Squad 4-C-9 Chimera 609
For foregoing early demobilisation to a non-line, garrison or training and for remaining in frontline service of the Emperor of Mankind, 1st Squadron, 5th platoon ("Tin Men"), 3rd Kuati Regiment have been awarded the Merit of Terra
For putting themselves in harms way and providing crucial targetting information to their comrades whilst underfire, 1st Squadron, 5th platoon ("Tin Men"), 3rd Kuati Regiment have been awarded the Ribbon Intrinsic
For risking their lives to not only destroy an enemy unit, preventing them for gaining a key objective, and for acting as a decoy to draw hostiles away from their comrades, Squad 609, 11th Platoon, 20th Kuati Combat Engineering Regiment have been awarded the Ribbon Intrinsic

Report Date

28 Dec 2023

Primary Location

Sto'Lat

Secondary Location

Mecha System

Related Characters

• Friedrich Hobart
• Krayvyn, Lord of the Hunt

Related Historical Events

• 13 SCM
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