Editing Stone Men (section)

====The Isstvan Massacre====
The Stone Legion returned to Imperial space, but were immediately contacted by the Emperor. He warned that Aubrey had apparently rebelled against Imperial Rule, slaughtering the citizens of Isstvan III and allied with a league of fiendish xenos. He also commanded them to stop at the Atlantos worlds and join up with Arelex, who was preparing to go after the Eternal Zealots. After gathering both of their forces, the War Scribes and the Stone Men set off for the Isstvan System. After enduring a strangely turbulent warp-journey, the twin fleets emerged in the outskirts of the Isstvan System. A few small fighters and frigates hid among the countless asteroids surrounding the outer ring of the star, but nothing close to the resistance Arelex had estimated, making him slightly uneasy. Onyx, undeterred by the initial conditions, shot directly into Isstvan III's orbit, and deep struck the Zealot's numerous bunkers and fortresses. The Stone Men plowed through the flimsy defenses, beginning the initial assault. Arelex, realizing that the battle had already begun, cast off his suspicions and attacked as well. The two legions tore through the Zealots' ranks planetside, with the two fleets providing orbital bombardment above. Strangely, Aubrey had failed to deploy any kind of orbital defenses. In fact, Aubrey himself was absent from the fight. Onyx thought him simply a coward, but Arelex felt the itch of suspicion in the back of his mind grow. After 5 hours of brutal combat, the Stone Men and War Scribes stood victorious. The Eternal Zealots had been defeated, and the few survivors scattered to the wind to be hunted down. Arelex could no longer remain calm and collected, as he knew the exact amount of marines employed by the zealots, AND that the amount they had just killed was nowhere near that number. Then, from the east end of the system, thousands of warp signatures lit up the two legion's sensors like the glowing eyes of a pack of wolves that had just foubd their prey. The immense fleet of the Wolves of Dawn emerged from the empyrean, sending a devastating salvo of torpedoes and batteries into the fleet, destroying the smaller vessels instantly and heavily damaging the larger ones. Arelex was exasperated, unable to understand how many variables he must have missed or miscalculated to be so wrong. Onyx, unburdened by Arelex's mathematical mind, saw it clearly and with grim despair. With the fleets, shattered Hektor advanced his armies towards Isstvan III, and Onyx struggled to prepare some sort of defense before the wall of destruction hurtling towards them finally hit. The Wolves descended from the sky like angels of death, accompanied by knights and titans, all converging upon the two legions' positions. Behind the wolves followed the Crimson Teeth, who waited with feverish anticipation to clean up any survivors left by Hektor's combine of death. The Stone Men and War Scribes fought in a bloody tempest of blades and guns, surrounded on all sides by Hektor's forces. Eventually, Onyx and his honor guard managed to break through the Wolve's line on one side, and facilitated the retreat of the War Scribes before retreating himself with his legion. The remnants of the brothers' fleets fled Isstvan along with the few survivors, and Hektor set his sights on his next objective.