Event · M41–M42
Raukos
The Battle of Raukos is a large engagement of the Indomitus period, associated with Macragge and the Ultramarines’ realm of Ultramar. It is placed at the turn of the forty-first and forty-second millennia, when the Indomitus Crusade was assembling its fleets and the Ultramarines’ home region was among the first to be brought back onto a war footing. On the Orrery map the event is anchored at Raukos and nested beneath Macragge, the seat of the Ultramarines and the base from which Roboute Guilliman directed the early stages of the crusade. The causes and course of the fighting are only thinly attested. The engagement is recorded as a conflict of large scale, but accounts differ on its precise date within the Indomitus era, and no complete order of battle is established on this site. It is therefore not possible to name the opposing commanders or the exact forces involved without inventing detail. What can be said is that the Ultramarines and the wider forces of Ultramar are the natural defenders of this region, and that the battle belongs to the period in which the Imperium answered the widening Great Rift with concentrated counter-offensives. The aftermath is best read through the map and timeline together. Raukos sits within the sphere of Macragge, so its outcome bears on the security of the Ultramarines’ heartland at a time when Guilliman’s crusade drew upon that heartland for ships, warriors and supply. Readers seeking context should follow the links to Macragge, the Ultramarines and the Indomitus Crusade, which describe the contemporaries and neighbouring events of the same window. This entry will be extended if further detail on the battle’s participants and consequences is established.
See where Raukos occurred on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.