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Macragge is a rocky, hostile world situated within the Eastern Fringe of the Galaxy in the Warhammer 40,000 science fiction mythos. It was there that the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth battled the Ultramarines chapter of Space Marines. The Hive Fleet entered the Ultramar System in 745.M41 (AD 40,745) with thousands of bio-ships and stripped the garden paradise of Prandium to bare rock before moving on, undeterred by Ultramarine strike fighters.

Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines, diverted most of Macragge's defensive fleet to draw the approaching horde into the planetary defense batteries and then struck at Behemoth's heart. Calgar also managed to destroy one of the largest bio-ships in Behemoth, crippling the Tyranids' Hive Mind. Behemoth responded by dropping thousands of spores onto Macragge's polar fortresses.

Calgar pursued the retreating Hive Fleet, entrusting the defense of Macragge to his Terminator-equipped 1st Company and Imperial Titans. On the surface, the Ultramarines made the endless Tyranid horde pay rivers of blood for every meter of ground they gained. Even in the polar cold, the Marines' gunbarrels glowed cherry-red and jammed. Mighty Titans, warmachines of the Imperium dozens of meters tall, fell under sheer weight of numbers. Ammunition stockpiles ran low, despite having enough to supply the Chapter for months.

Calgar drove Behemoth into the path of Battlefleet Tempestus, catching it in a pincer, but Tempestus was virtually wiped out. Only the sacrifice of the warship Dominus Astra at the edge of the Ultramar System sealed the victory for the Imperium in space. Calgar rallied the surviving ships and sped back to Macragge to support the ground battle.

The southern polar fortress had weathered the storm, but the Tyranids still attacked the north. The 3rd Company found the last battle-brothers of the 1st Company in the heart of the fortress, lying dead where they made their last stand, back to back, amidst piles of dead Tyranid gaunts.

The Ultramarines won the battle by a hair, despite taking immense losses. It would take more than 200 years to fully restore the chapter. Ultramarine veterans of the Tyrannic War would be organized into elite units for later encounters with Tyranids, and the next large-scale appearances of the Tyranids within the galaxy would come with Hive Fleet Kraken in 993.M41 and Hive Fleet Leviathan in 997.M41.

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