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Terminal This fanfiction article, Battle of Archangel's Rest, was written by Actene. Please do not edit this fiction without the writer's permission.
The long march

Frozen Legion, a rendition of the so-called "Long March" painted by Archangel's Rest veteran Nhat Tram.

"I've made my choice. We go forward. To victory or defeat. But forward."
― Commander Simon Venter to Captain Mohsin Shah

The Battle of Archangel’s Rest—colloquially known as “Stray’s War”—was a campaign fought during the Created Crisis between Shinsu 'Refum’s Cleansing Blade and Created auxiliary forces. Although the Cleansing Blade expedition was nominally under the command of Shipmaster Umbra ‘Vesic, a disastrous naval engagement all but annihilated the Cleansing Blade forces and left command of planetside operations to renegade Spartan Simon-G294 and his Kru'desh Legion. The stranded Kru'desh forces—a hybrid of Covenant remnant survivors and human Insurrectionists—maneuvered through freezing conditions to assault the Baran Keep, stronghold of the planet’s venerable ruling family. The keep fell after a grueling siege, though the Kru'desh victory proved largely inconclusive in the wake of Shinsu 'Refum's defeat at the Battle of the Gilboan Citadel. Cleansing Blade forces withdrew from the planet shortly after the battle’s end.

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