As a planning meeting it had been a fiasco as a response to the military situation. The Governor of Bubo IX had rebelled folowing a raid on the systems' Administratum by the Ordo Hereticus. The rebellion had been a preplanned tripwire response as the only surviving Imperial forces loyal to the Emperor that had not been destroyed during the coup were the Sisters of Short Mercy and their indentured Imperial Guard Regiments beseiged in their planetary fortress. The embattled Ordo Hereticus forces that had triggered the rebellion and the recuperating Penal Legions were all that was left on Bubo IX. Inquisitor Lord Beisenhorn who had also been covertly investigating the administratum on behalf of the Ordo Malleus had assumed command of all Loyal Imperial forces as the surving representative of the Inquisition. He had used his personal astropath to summons help from the Imperium from the Penal Legion's base in the vast equitorial desert crater at the equator of Bubo IX. Help was unlikely to arrive within the year unless fortuitously a Space Marine battle force was transiting nearby. Only the Penal Legion had been left unmolested by the rebels, possibly because they assumed that sooner rather than later the legion would go over to them.
The meeting had started with recriminations and had ended with recriminations and improbablyimpossible orders.
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