Aeran Crusade

The Aeran Crusade was a Kennet 40k campaign, pitching Iron Hands, Guard,and the Emperor's Fists against Tyranids, The Absolvers, and the Eldar of Biel-Tan.

The mysterious Absolvers space marines had been discovered to have an innovative cloning system, and were cloning a ton of Orks to fight for them. This was branded tech-heresy by the Adpetus Mechanicus and Astartes were dispatched to deal with it. However, before they arrived on the Absolvers flagship, the Absolvers fleet ran in to a Tyranid fleet of Hive Black Pearl and Hive Yggdrasil. Their flagship crashed into the nearby world of Aeran IV (but the rest of their fleet remained in SPESS), close to the eye of terror. They called upon the Tau, and promised their loyalty and joining to the Tau Empire if they came to their aid. Imperial forces were dispatched to the planet to deal with the enemy and salvage the ship. The Imperial fleet that was brought to the system was engaged in a heavy firepower battle in the skies. The Absolvers had obviously stolen a lot of ships, as some were not of Imperial craft, and they had far too many for a single Astartes Chapter. The Imperium was outnumbered and out-gunned. There was a presence of Tzeench upon the flagship, which possessed the Absolvers' second captain. The Absolvers, obviously having zero knowledge of Daemonology, thought everything would be fine if they interred him in a Dreadnought. The Eldar farseer Elfric Stormsock sensed from his craftworld that the Dreadnought was unstable and if destroyed could create warp storms. They decided to side with the Absolvers. All of the Imperial forces were gradually dropped in, and eventually amassed for a huge attack on the Absolvers ruined barge, and successfully decimated all of the Absolvers ground forces, including Tau, Orks, and Eldar. Warp storms sucked up the planet, and the Absolvers true plans were revealed. Their ships were all focusing their warp drives at the same spot, creating a huge storm, and bringing a daemon infested Space Hulk into realspace. Everybody fled, and a while later Grey Knights were dispatched to deal with the Space Hulk. It is still unknown how they fared.