Siege on Kai (890.M33)

The first signs of traitors in Kai were found during late M32 as some machinery employed by Chaos forces was traced back into Kai forge-world, namely the heavy weaponry of Black Legion Havocs. It was basically ignored due to more urgent matter regarding the 3rd Black Crusade. As the black tide was turned on 909.M32, a strike force of two companies was dispatched upon Kai. The Sword of Penance was one of the strike cruisers used in the assault. (The other is not recorded.) A swift assault was made into the surface of Kai from magnetic North Pole and from where the forces advanced to the northern hemisphere where the large cities lay. The 3rd and the 8th company assaulted the capital city of Kai’gur with such a force that the hive went reeling after a day’s siege. The governor was duly executed and half the population was put to judgment (and afterwards executed). This all happened during the first two days of assault. The city remained as a ghost city where the empty halls of manifactorums and factories remained.

Word Bearer war band made a counter assault to the Kai’gur on the third day resulting in minor losses for the 8th company. The 3rd company made successful counter attack and destroyed the command structure behind the Chaos lines. Judge Prothius had a duel with a towering Daemon Prince Aphorrion. Despite the fact that Aphorrion wielded the newly created Kai-gun the Judge came out victorious. His left side was effectively destroyed with the warp bolts of the Kai-gun, but afterwards rebuilt. The duel took a better half of the day during which the 8th company annihilated the war band and the daemons that had possessed the bodies of the dying. The Judge is afterwards dubbed as “Daemon-Fist”.

The second factory concentration, Kai'phen, was bombarded from the space and after which the 8th company made siege. The city fell in four days after 3rd company destroyed all power supplies and cut the underground supply routes. There was little resistance after the power fell as millions of servitors resulted in a mind lock and were rendered immobile. The PDFs were quickly destroyed being few in numbers to begin with. It is known that the execution of the populace catalyzed the extinction of Kai. The bodies were piled and burned in the outskirts of the city. During the following millennia the rest of the populace was butchered by daemons (some say as a punishment of weakness). What remained was the arcane bolter-like weapons called Kai-guns.