Editing Vulpis Canem (section)

===The Counter-Attack===
Eventually, the Orks found their way to the Vulpine System. Expecting more of the same treatment they had been receiving, they were surprised to find the Canem waiting in defensive outposts across the system. As they attacked en masse, they found their weapons had significantly less effect. The humans also brought weapons whose firepower could burn through several Orks in a single shot. Ground and air would be torched as soon as a victory was won against the greenskins. Sites of major losses were often either the target of nuclear or incendiary attacks. The Orkish advance had slowed to a crawl. Over the next 5 years, the Orks pushed the Humans ever inward. Eventually, they found themselves in an unusual predicament. Though they had taken hundreds, possibly thousands of human planets before this, they could not so much as claim a foothold on Vulpis. The surface crawled with Canem, and the planet's upper atmosphere bristled with defensive satellites. Every orbiting body that could support weapons had been repurposed to do so. After 3 long years of fighting, the Orks were finally and definitively pushed out of orbit.

As one, the people of Vulpis let out the briefest sigh of relief before the immediate counterattack. They knew it was a mere matter of time before the Orks attacked again, and they still had to reclaim their lost systems. The next century saw a dragged-out fight as the Canem pressed forward in an exhaustive planet-hopping campaign. They focused on one body at a time, eradicating the Orks on the planet, asteroid, or moon and setting reconquered areas alight. The Orkish settlements were destroyed, burned, and the building materials melted down and recycled into more weapons and vehicles for the war effort. After a hundred years of war, the system was cleansed.

Vulpis was not content sitting on its laurels. They began building an interstellar fleet using the records they had as soon the landing started on the last planetoid of the system. Within a few years, they were almost ready to begin reclaiming their lost planets. The fighting never truly ended. The greenskins continuously launched invasion fleets. Some were utterly destroyed in the void. Others made planetfall and had to be eradicated. Xenos raiders managed to find ways around the Orkish territory to attack the Vulpis system. The planet, once a paragon of beauty and reason, became little more than a war factory. Paranoia was bred into the civilization. They believed they were the only humans left in the Galaxy, and were going to reclaim the glory they once held.