Editing Second Battle of Kopt Dara (section)

==Background==

{{Main|Parthorum Xenocide}}

After the victory at the [[First Battle of Kopt Dara]] the 3rd Expedition Fleet had begun occupying worlds in the Southern Theater of the Parthorum Sector.  First Phalanx under Erasmus Sergius had seized the Hucrov subsector, while Lysimachos Fabius led the battle brothers of the Second Phalanx to victory in the Scomia subsector.  From the operations center deep within the ''Monarch of the Void'', Hektor Cincinnatus monitored the progress of his forces.  While pleased with the valour of his gene-sons, the Primarch was concerned that much of the time won at Kopt Dara had been expended securing just a handful of worlds.  To speed up his Expedition Fleet, Hektor had his Astropaths signal [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]] and request more warships from [[Kalkas Tygian]], securing an agreement from the Fabricator-General to dispatch a squadron to the Destoona System.  Hektor then directed his reserve forces to secure Destoona ahead of the Martian reinforcements.

The Osroene, reliant on courier ships for their communications, only received news of the First Kopt Dara weeks after the event.  Factions within the Imperial Court divided on a response.  Some argued for evacuating the Osroene population to the homeworld, Sevoold, and using the remaining fleet to guarantee their defence.  Hawks recommended that the full strength of the Imperial fleet be ordered to Destoona to avenge the defeat.  Empress Etuili Sevoold forged a compromise, sending her fleets at Sevoold and Udoya to Destoona while recalling those at the northern stations of Kuniat and Sulas to the homeworld.