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==Background: The Fall of Omegon==

The cataclysm that ended the Age of Technology sent most human worlds back towards savagery, but fragments of the old human federation could be found scattered across the Galaxy. [[The Markian Pact]] is the best-known advanced realm in the Segmentum Pacificus, but were it not for the savagery of the terrible Orks Markia would have been a poor second to the Realm of Omegon. Sadly for the nascent Imperium, this sophisticated trans-stellar realm was annihilated by [[Xenos of the Hektor Heresy|Xenos]] before it could be peacefully incorporated into galactic human society. The full total of wisdom and advanced technology destroyed by the Orks can only be guessed, but Omegon was worse than lost. Though the weapons of the Omegon Annihilators had failed to halt WAAAGH! Rok'Ed, the Orks looted many sophisticated machines from the civilisation they had destroyed. Flush with stolen arms and advanced warships, Rok'Ed's warriors rampaged across a trail five hundred light years wide, devastating everything in their path.

[[Visant Le Gall]] was the first Imperial citizen to discover the Orkish threat. The Rogue Trader had established contact with the Realm of Omegon in the early 890s and had planned a second trading expedition for 897.M30. After re-supplying at the Civilised World Pandora, Le Gall's flotilla got underway towards Omegon space. However, within a day of subjective time in the Warp, the Rogue Trader's Astropaths reported profound psychic distress and a savage warp presence ahead of them.  The ships' Navigators confirmed a disturbance in the Warp. Le Gall was already one of the most successful traders of his day, and his success had been underpinned by sure instincts. These signs meant trouble, not profit. Rather than carry on, Le Gall had his warp ships make Realspace at a nearby uninhabited system designated LG52b so that the psykers could have time to read their portents.

The portents were grim. Le Gall was informed that the disturbance was a scattering of fearful cries preceeding a seething mass of aggression, the tell-tale signature of an Orkish WAAAGH! According to ''The Weatherman's'' Astropaths, the scale of the disturbance indicated a vast host of greenskins. Le Gall rejected a search for refugees or humanitarian effort out of hand.  There was no margin in it. He ordered his flotilla's Navigators to chart a course back to Pandora and instructed the Astropaths to summon the warriors of the Imperium.