Augustus Corves sat at the end of the meeting table. With him were five captains, who commanded a company each. They were called to have this meeting because a number of companies had gone missing.
"Where is Tarek? He should be here by now" called out Wrex.
"Halef is also not here" said Javosk. From the other end of the room the doors opened and a space marine walked in.
"My lords, we have just received reports about Tarek and Halef. We have found the remainder of Tarek's fleet, it was destroyed. We have also found Halef's camp… also destroyed" he said and walked out of the room with the doors closing behind him.
"There is your answer" said Corves loud and clear. "An unknown enemy has killed five of our companies, four of our worlds and one of our fleets. We need to find out who this enemy is, where they are and we need to kill them."
"I don't think its Tyranids or Orks. We would know if they were here" said Javosk.
"This is too far away for the Tau and there have been no warp storm reporting's" said Wrex.
"That leaves the Eldar, Dark Eldar and Necrons" said Varus.
"An Eldar strategy would be to kill leaders or destroy supplies not take over planets in a couple of days" said Javosk.
"There are no tomb worlds near here and we checked our planets thoroughly for any sign of Necrons and we found none! It must be Chaos!" Shouted Corves.
"There is a chance we missed someth-"started Javosk.
"I refuse to believe that there are any Necrons here Javosk! So get that into your head!" Corves shouted. Javosk wisely remained silent.
"If it is Chao-"started Wrex.
"It is" interrupted Corves.
"What do you think they want?" finished Wrex.
"They are Chaos they have come here to kill that is all" said Corves.
"But where do you think they'll strike" asked Wrex.
"Here obviously, they must want to destroy this chapter. It is simple really but I would not expect any more from those barbarians" said Corves. "So we shall wait for them to come here and with the combined forces of five companies we shall destroy them. Adosh, you leave the first company here in the fortress monastery. Varus, you take the second company to guard the area around the fortress monastery. Wrex, you take the third company to the factory district and get the heavy weapons, tanks and artillery ready. Lander, you take the forth company and get the fleet ready. And Javosk, you can marshal the guardsmen. You are dismissed" he finished.
They all went their own ways with their own duties but Javosk couldn't help think that he got the worst job. He didn't want to be mean but in his view the guardsmen were hopeless. They didn't have proper training, weapons, armour and most of them would flee then fight but he said nothing and went to marshal the troops.