Event · M41
Battle for Miral
The Battle for Miral was a conflict of the forty-first millennium fought on Miral and involving the Space Marines of the Scythes of the Emperor. It is placed in the Imperium’s current era, the 41st millennium, and Orrery anchors it to Miral on the map and to the Scythes of the Emperor on the timeline. Together these two anchors are the most secure elements of the record; more precise dating within the millennium is not reliably attested and is not asserted here. The Scythes of the Emperor are the Astartes force recorded as taking part, and the engagement is classed as a large-scale action rather than a skirmish, which suggests a sustained campaign for control of the location rather than a single raid. The identity of the opposing force, the immediate cause of the fighting and the full order of battle are matters on which accounts differ or are thinly recorded, and they are left unstated rather than supplied by inference. Readers should treat Miral as the theatre of the fighting and the Scythes of the Emperor as its principal Imperial participant, and nothing further. In the wider story, the battle is best read as one entry in the long sequence of defensive and reconquering wars that fill the forty-first millennium, in which Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes are committed to individual worlds as the Imperium contends with threats on every frontier. Its consequences for Miral, and for the Chapter’s later fortunes, are not firmly documented, and later tradition should not be assumed to settle them. The neighbouring pages for Miral and the Scythes of the Emperor give the surrounding context, and the timeline shows the engagement alongside contemporary events of the same millennium.
See where Battle for Miral occurred on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.