Following the Dark Elf raids of 227PC, Typhus, the despotic overlord of the Skaven, turned his attentions inward. Wary of future raids Typhus began expanding his domain down the coast of the Maemire Peninsula to protect Boiling Peak from future landings. Meanwhile he sought to secure his stranglehold on power by brutally suppressing all potential opposition and promoting his most loyal supporters to positions of authority. The increasingly paranoid Grey Seer's somewhat dubious grip on sanity meant that he always found plenty of conspiracies to crush!
After almost a decade of introversion the Typhurian Enclave had been all but forgotten by the other nations of Palurin but this complacency was shattered when an unknown fleet was sighted off the coast of the Holy Sigmarite Empire. The humans had thought the Skaven fleet confined to port, starved of the fuel they needed to power their warpstone reactors as no significant deposits had yet been located on Palurin. But unknown to them the Skaven had been busy building a new fleet. Consisting of wooden ships powered by the wind they were nevertheless armed with the most fiendish and deadly weaponry the Skaven could devise. The Sigmarites were in for a second unpleasant surprise: the Skaven armada contained a large number of war balloons, ranging from floating gun platforms to flying destroyers, all brimming with piratical raiders. Constructed from technology stolen from the humans and dwarves by Clan Eshin agents this fleet wasn't confined to the high seas and simply floated over the Armaethor Peninsula to steal slaves from the human's poorly defended interior farmlands.
A fleet scrambled out of Galamory to prevent the Skaven escaping with their human cargo but ignorant of the capabilities of the Skaven's new ships they were utterly crushed after inflicting only minimal casualties. The defeat was compounded when the crew of one Skaven frigate boarded a Sigmarite destroyer, stealing the rocket battery mounted on the prow before scuttling the ship.
Having been baptised in blood the raiding fleet returned to Boiling Peak, its holds stuffed with slaves and carrying yet more technology for the engineers of Clan Skyre to copy.
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