The Fires of Phaistos Osiris was a notable Imperial campaign conducted by the Salamanders Space Marine Chapter against a large invading Ork WAAAGH! on the Cardinal World of Phaistos Osiris, located in the northern Segmentum Ultima, to the galactic northeast of the Warp Rift known as the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath. Of all wars in which they have gained glory over the millennia, it is the actions of the Salamanders in defending this important Cardinal World from an Ork onslaught that have most often been held up as a shining example of the role of the Adeptus Astartes in the protection of the Imperium of Man. The story of this great battle has since been mythologised and praised time and again in tactical treatises and pulpit sermons alike. Phaistos Osiris had long been a rare beacon of hu