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A-MECH-3616
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Division	Mechanicum
Primus	Umbra Major
Designation:	A-MECH-3616
Cognomen:	The Risen
Allegiance:	Unknown
Owner:	User:GMSpectre

Umbra Major[Forge World of the Necrofabricators] (third planet of Umbra)

Classification: Forge World

Government: Independent Dark Mechanicum “Kingdom”; Dominion of Adrasteia I, Archmagos Regina Umbra Major, Fabricatrix General, Lady of Corpses, Heretek Necrocrafter, The Barrow Queen, Creator of the Unlife Algorithm.

Tithe Grade: Non Oboediens

Armed forces: Legio Revenantus Titan legion (at least six maniples on home station), Umbral Knight houses, The Risen (Skitarii and Secutarii), The Necromata (Revenant Adsecularis corpse-thralls reanimated via the Unlife Algorithm), weaponized Adepts and servitors, Umbral Air Corps (36 squadrons on home station), Umbral Navy 1st fleet.

Notable Locations: Umbra Forge, Umbra Hive, Necropolis Hive, The Barrows, The Charnel Foundries, The Death Forge, Umbra Major Orbital Docks & Fleet HQ, Umbral Air Corps HQ, Castrum Stativa Revenantus.

History

     Detailed records of the original settlement of Umbra Major did not survive the cataclysm which began the Age of Strife; however, the earliest surviving records infer that the original Martian colony fleet arrived in the Umbra System not long before the great disaster that ended the Dark Age of Technology.  The fact that Umbra only colonized the surrounding planets and systems in the relatively recent past has been taken as evidence that the Forge did not exist for very long before the onset of the Long Night.  This relatively late settlement date may have actually insulated the Forge from the worst effects the Age of Strife, since its lower technology level and simple colonial infrastructure isolated the planet from many of the suspected causes of the calamity.  Some of the Magos Scholasticae Umbra believe that the Umbral Forge did colonize the surrounding systems shortly after its founding and only lost control of them later during Old Night, eventually reconquering them millennia later after they had regressed to a primitive technological level.  Whatever the truth may be, the development of the Forge appears to have been severely hindered by the onset of Old Night.
    The forge spent many long millennia in isolation during the Age of Strife.  Isolation bred self-reliance and, dangerously, independence.  Eventually the Forge Fathers of Mars were forgotten, their prerogatives declared irrelevant, and knowledge of their very existence relegated to ancient data stacks archived in deep-sequestered storage.  Unrestricted by the Rule of Mars, the Magi of Umbra Major began to explore and utilize forbidden technology, Xeno-tech and Warp-tech, that would surely have made them heretics in the eyes of their Mechanicum brethren.  Many of the Forge's more macabre creations were developed during this time:  Ghostforges, Spectral Lanthorns, and Necro-tech horrors, fusions of dead flesh and clockwork animus that harbor a hatred for all living things.  Most infamous of all was the Unlife Algorithm that allowed the Necrofabricators to reanimate dead flesh and bone.

During the long years of Old Night, the leading position of Fabricator General of Umbra Major became a hereditary monarchy. The kings of Umbra Major turned expansionist in outlook and, sometime in the late 26th millennium, expeditionary fleets were created and sent to conquer the nearby planets of the Umbra Stars. During the next three centuries, over a dozen worlds within the Umbral binary and the nearby Cerulean Shoals co-moving group were colonized and feudally bound to the Magos Rex Umbra. The primary agents of this expansion were the Titans of Umbra Major’s own Legio Revenantus. Most of these planets were uninhabited, but a few hosted minor civilizations of techno-barbarians. These shredded remnants of lost colonies from the Dark Age of Technology were quickly awed and pacified by the god-engines of Revenantus. The primitive cultures adapted well to the feudal structure set up by the kings of Umbra and the new vassal worlds provided Knight lances and Skitarii “volunteers” for the defense of the Umbral Stars.

Umbra during the Heresy

The Umbral Stars first came to the attention of the wider Imperium in 880.M30, when the Imperial Explorator vessel Constance Heart catalogued the Umbral binary. Explorator Albinus Henricus quickly realized that he had rediscovered a lost world of Mars and attempted to make contact. The Fabricatrix General and Queen of Umbra Major, HRH Adrasteia I, who had ruled the Umbral Stars for the last two thousand years with the iron grip of the dead, wanted nothing to do with Henricus' ultimatum to rejoin the wider human empire or face annihilation. She valued the independence of her domain above almost all else and ordered the destruction of the Constance Heart before the Explorator could report on the existence of the Umbral Kingdom. Henricus, however, had followed contact protocol and sent his ship's log back to the regional Crusade Fleet before initiating contact. Fatefully, the Crusade Fleet in question was one that declared for Horus at the outbreak of the Heresy just a few years later. Rather than coming to destroy Adrasteia's dominions, the representatives of Horus offered a bargain: Horus would guarantee the independence of the Umbral Kingdom from further interference if The Forge would agree to send military forces into the wider conflict of the Heresy. Adrasteia quickly agreed.

Combat Reports for A-MECH-3616

Campaigns

The Diadem Cluster Compliance
	869.012.M31	Faroe	Ongoing	In 880.M30, when the Imperial Explorator vessel Constance Heart first made contact with the ..→

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