"For 5,000 years the Red Shadows have served the Imperium and the Emperor with savage loyalty. Their strict observation to Discipline and survival in the harshest of enviroments have made them stand out as amongst the most adaptable Chapter since the Second Founding. Now declared renagades by the Imperium, due to the betrayal of half their Chapter, the Red Shadows can only find redemption through vengence and death. Yet for the inhabitants of Mycha_Adepta IV, the far reaching consequences of the Red Shadow Chapter's action will cost them there world and Commissar Navin Kormack must choose between his loyalty his people and his Oath's to the Imperium. When the Inquisition orders the destruction of an entire city, Kormack disobeys his orders to torch every living thing, throwing his Imperial Guard Infantry into a direct confrontation with the Imperium. Alone and without the support of the Red Shadows, one man leads his army to war that they are sure not to survive, but as with everything with the Blooded, death comes before dishonor."