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Alentos System Pacification

768th Expeditionary Fleet

What was supposed to be a lightly, Xenos infested system quickly escalated beyond the 768th expeditionary fleets limited capacity. After meeting such stiff resistance, reinforcements were called in and as the conflict escalated and Xenos races begin to offer stiffer and stiffer resistance, more and more Imperial forces were poured into the system, until eventually even the primarchs had to make a showing to exterminate the alien filth and ..→

Excerpt from The Horus Heresy: Famous Campaigns and notable battles

by Reginald Archibald III, Official Remembrancer.

Most Imperial historians are in agreement that the campaign by Loyalist Imperial forces to retake the industrial juggernaut of the Pyre System, can roughly be broken up into four or five distinct stages. Starting out in the closing stages of the Baylonian Insurrection, a decisive victory for Horus’ forces, with a change of strategy from the Loyalist high command in the ..→

In the wake of Horus' treachery on Istvaan V, Systems have been declaring outright for either Horus or the Emperor, with many system choosing to play the waiting game.

A select few systems have declared independence, hoping the Imperium's internal struggles will keep them pre-occupied. One such system within the Australis Ultima Sector is the Cambrius Sub-Sector. The Governor on Grotto looking to carve his own domain with the galaxy in flames.

Cambrius Minor is a mining planet rich in ..→

Prelude

Even before the shocking actions of Istvaan filtered through to the Australis Ultima Sector, the situation in the Oteal System had degenerated to dangerous levels. Rumours of military build ups on the Kazitian loyal planets persisted along with the myth that Dur-Kazit was being secretly rebuilt, however without any evidence the systems Governor could take no direct action against the planets as they were sworn to the Red Planet and owed him no allegiance. With the onset of civil ..→

Prelude to War

While a number of Houses and at least one Company are known to have accumulated a great deal of wealth (enough to even purchase a new frontier Knight World) the final proceedings of the Hastilude of Raynes were interrupted by a violent intrusion; as the final procession was commencing great gouts of fire erupted in the sky and pummeled the ground as a concentrated orbital bombardment was focused on the scene of the games. Civilian and Nobles alike were ..→

Isolated in a far flung System in a newly opened Sub-Sector, the human world of Kaloran was a backwater planet which had barely progressed to a basic industrial tech level. Ear marked for future investigation due to the discovery of vast food resources on its neighbouring planet of Oligos by an advance Imperial survey team, the Kaloran system had a single automated monitoring station which transmitted regular, insignifant data back the Helix Expeditionary Fleet based on Corabie. ..→

The Eglurn System is on the outer reaches of the Cambrius Sub-Sector. Like most the systems within the sub sector they have attempted to remain neutral in the conflict to maxmimise profits, something which neither side appreciates. Elgurn has long considered itself more than capable of independence and been a major trading within and without the sector. While most of the major systems within the sub sector have had their major cities ruined by the war Elgrum has been able to avoid most the ..→

Along the South-Eastern arm of the Ultima Segmentum, lies the sub-sector of Pacificus Delta, a collection of frontier systems languishing far from Terra and the influence of the sub-sector’s Imperial founders. Consisting primarily of fringe systems, its Governing System is officially recorded as the Pacificus Delta IV however, even amongst most Administratum references, it is known as the Ghoststar Arc. The Sub-Sector has a number of well established Xenos civilizations which were the target ..→

The Ortious Cloud is a large area of space in the Coreward section of the Pacificus Delta Sub-Sector, renowned for being filled with endless irradiated dust clouds which stretch across four entire Star Systems. While it is hazardous to travel within the area via the warp due to an anomalous effect from the cloud, the Coreward edge leads to the primary warp lane to the Cambrius Sub-Sector and so a large number of trade routes connect the Imperial planets within the Cloud to the rest of ..→

With the flames of the Heresy spreading like wildfire throughout the Sector, both forces are rapidly scrambling to establish bases of operations and being co-ordinated attacks. Being the primary Naval facilities in the Sector, Savage is a vital planet for either side in the escalating civil war; capable of providing resupply and repair facilities but, more importantly, the ability to replenish lost ships or even create entirely new fleets.

Not only is Savage one of the most potent Naval ..→

The Aminira system, known by the 255th Expeditionary Fleet as the fifteenth world to be brought to compliance, was a cluster dotted by four major planetary bodies. Amiri, a non-compliant hive world, Hakkario, an arid inhospitable death world, Hap-Tarkis, a gas giant surrounded by two habitable moons Eplis and Corris and finally Jellar, a small ice planet on the fringe of the system.

The systems significance had risen to prominence after long range orbital scans identified the signals of a ..→

The Emperors dreams and hope are in ruin, his trust proved false, and his brightest son fallen to darkness. These are bitter times as nightmares are made flesh and the Empire is thorn asunder as brother fights brother.

The end of the War for Scandus is clouded in mystery. Ultimately the campaign was considered a Loyalist victory as the world remained largely under the control of the Imperium. Word later reached Terra from the Ultramarine fleet in orbit of Scandus Prime that the Warmasters ..→

In 880.M30, when the Imperial Explorator vessel Constance Heart first made contact with the Umbral kingdom, Explorator Captain Albinus Henricus gave the Queen of Umbra Major, Adrasteia I, the standard Crusade ultimatum: Join or Die. Adrasteia refused and, ever since that day, prepared for interstellar war. After making a non-agression pact with the forces of Horus, Adrasteia decided on a preemptive attack to put the potential Imperial invaders on the defensive. ===Opening ..→

In the wake of Horus' treachery on Istvaan III and the galaxy plunged into civil war, confusion and panic spreads along the whole Beneheventian Sub-Sector. With the ragtag survivors of the drop site massacre and shattered Imperial forces desperately trying to reach supply depots, shipyards, forge worlds and safe heavens to regroup and rearm the Lincon System has become a major focal point in the Sub-Sector. With the only Ship Yard capable of building and repairing capital ships in the sector, ..→

Prologues

The Warmasters great betrayal is announced to the galaxy with the bloody brutal shattering of the loyalist legions at Istvaan IV. The unthinkable has become reality, brother fights brother, the Imperium of man folds upon itself in conflict. Elements of the once vast loyalist forces withdraw in hast to systems beyond the Warmasters reach. They seek to repair, they seek to re-arm, but most of all, they seek vengeance.

One such loyalist force, larger than most, consolidates ..→

Prelude to War

The Golloch Cluster is a nebulous region of space containing thousands of stars, and hundreds of habitable worlds. Including over fifty primary level Imperial worlds of post industrial advancement. It was conquered during a twenty year campaign which drove out Orks and several other now extinct or extirpated xenos races. Almost simultaneously with the news of Horus' betrayal at Istvaan a large group of worlds swore to the Warmaster and a huge war erupted in the cluster. ..→