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Pre-Compliance

The Oteal System is a turbulent system of planets which came into the Imperium with great reservations. Originally Kych and the former twin Cipaar planets contained the primary inhabitants under the protection of a series of Knight Clans who ruled over vast city states. At some point well before the Great Crusade set out from Terra, a Mechanicum exploratory fleet arrived in the system and established itself on the mineral rich world of Baylon.

Within two centuries the Mechnicum forces, now known as the Kazitian Synod, on Baylon had spread to the systems outer world, renaming it Dur-Kazit, and created a vast network of orbiting defence stations and converting the entire world into a veritable fortress. Sealing the system off from its neighbours and the regular trade which flowed through to the Knight Worlds, the Kazitian Synod demanded the allegiance of the three Knight Worlds under the formation a Baylonian Conclave.

Believing themselves to be militarily superior to the reclusive Priests, the Knight Houses united and rejected the ultimatum; mustering on Cipaar-Yahrum in preparation for the inevitable war. The Kazitian Synod, however, had not been idle since their founding on Baylon, in response to the rejection the Synod mobilised its Navy.

The subsequent war was brief. The Mechanicum fleet punched through the overconfident planetary defences and quickly encircled Cipaar-Yahrum, giving them a single day to surrender; still believing that their forces could withstand a ground war the Knight Houses refused. Without hesitation the Synod unleashed twin stage cyclonic warheads against the planet, less than two days after issuing the call for surrender the planet was gone, replaced by a swirling field of debris, slowly stretching out to what was to become the Yahrum belt. When the Mechanicum fleet, already encircling Cipaar-Amnam, issued their second call for surrender, the remaining planets, now largely defenceless, quickly complied.

Although merciless in its execution of the war, the Synod did not view the Knight worlds with disdain or contempt, but rather they saw potential and as such invested heavily in the worlds. Cipaar-Amnam, now known simply as Cipaar, suffered greatly from the destruction of its twin, tidal patterns were thrown in chaos and planet wide flooding ensued. Within months of the wars conclusion the Mechanicum had established huge orbiting ‘counter weights’ around the planet to bring the rampant tidal patterns into check. New factories and manufactorum plants were built on Kych to help replace the colossal loses of Knights and colonies were established on the worlds of Uruq and Laigach to help expand the newly formed Baylonian Conclave.