Editing The Markian Corps (section)

==The Hektor Heresy==
Near the end of the Mortekaiser Campaign, the traitor Hektor initiated a civil war to take the Imperial Throne, taking with him half the primarchs and a large portion of the Imperium's territory. Compared to other segmenta, Pacificus was peaceful at first glance; no space marine legions were present in the segmentum. However, that is not to say it was a trivial matter, as the traitors of Pacificus, while still only human, were countless in ways the Astartes could never be. Rebels were hiding in every crevice and dark corner of the galactic west, renegade Solar Auxilia were rampaging across the segmentum, and countless forge worlds were defecting and supplying the traitors with materiel to match the Imperials. Marines or no, the battle for Segmentum Pacificus would be a long one.

===The Markian Front===
''"We don't talk about the Wolverines."''

At the dawn of the Hektor Heresy, the 2394th Solar Auxilia Cohort "Wolverines" launched an invasion of the [[Al-Sherar Sector]] from the galactic east with various allied forces. To assist the home front, Grand Marshal Caieton sent back only the 78th Grand Corps under the command of Grand Marshal Judas Ranc, and upon his return he gained command of the the 99th Army, a fresh force of raw recruits hardly fit for combat. His mission: prevent the Wolverines from reaching the Markian Pact and push the traitors out of the sector.

Ranc's strategy was simple: hold the Wolverines off in the neighboring Subsector Doxe. Ranc disbanded the 78th Grand Corps and dispersed its veteran regiments into other grand corps, and onto the worlds of the subsector to train locals and stationed Markians. The three remaining grand corps were placed on the worlds of Dahlia's Rest, Burrock, and Korintus, to defend them from direct attack while other worlds organized for asymmetrical warfare against the Wolverine's allies.

====The Battle for Dahlia's Rest====
The first major battle of the campaign was on the swampy world of Dahlia's Rest, where the head of the Solar Auxilia's spear met the 300th Grand Corps's shield amid the planet's flowering season. Covered in thick vines and moss for most of the year, the forests broke the dull brown-green shades with bouquets of flowers so thick that entire trees wore blankets of white, red, and violet. Such a beautiful sight the world was from an eagle's view, it was a shame that battle unfolded in the spring of Dahlia's Rest.

Initial efforts to repel the Wolverines were widely successful. Markian fire bases hidden across the main continent suppressed and destroyed advance forces, keeping their enemies from gaining a firm grasp in the world's major cities. Especially successful were the mountain infantry who explored the swamps, and the air and marine regiments which kept the skies clear and laid down heavy fire on landing troops. However, once the Wolverines brought superior numbers of aircraft against the Markians they held the upper hand and secured air supremacy. Markian movement along open roads became heavily restricted, and overall mobility decreased while the Wolverines were hardly impeded by the remaining air defense regiments. Dahlia's Rest would soon be lost along with the 300th, as its remnants hid to fight against the Wolverine garrison from the shadows.

====The Battle for Thenar====
The continued strategic importance of Subsector Doxe had hinged on all three worlds resisting the Wolverines. After losing Dahlia's Rest, Ranc withdrew the grand corps from Burrock and Korintus to defend Markia. Even without grand corps defending them, Karmia and Atashia were too well-defended for the Wolverines and their allies, and the environments of Lemartia and Kouralia were too hazardous and skewed towards their natives. However, the agri-world Thenar was the perfect choice, as it was the bread basket of the entire subsector, and compared to its sister worlds it was lightly defended and safe to navigate. On this world the 99th Army regrouped for the final battle against the renegades.

For three weeks the armoured fist of the heretics battered against the 99th. A million brave citizens of Markia died in the fighting, and countless miles of countryside were poisoned by phosphex and leaking engine fluids. The bodies of both the loyal and the treacherous littered the fields and forests of Thenar, but still standing among the ruins was the 99th. Such heavy casualties were inflicted upon the Wolverines that they could not follow the conquest of Thenar with a siege of Atashia, and with their naval support too occupied with the Markian armada to evacuate them the ground forces had no choice but to surrender. After taking the prisoners to camps on Atashia and securing Subsector Doxe, Grand Marshal Ranc led his army to retake the knight world Goda, while the Sky Marshal set about raising the 100th and 101st Armies of the Markian Corps from draftees and refugees to prepare for the greatest and bloodiest campaign in the history of the Sector: a northward push from the Al-Sherar Sector all the way to Rosskar, bastion home of the Silver Cataphracts.

===The Al-Sheraran Front===
Whilst Judas Ranc returned to Markia to ready for the Wolverines' invasion, Grand Marshal Broussard brought the 35th Army straight to the fight against Legio Nova and its slaved hosts. In the northern parts of the Al-Sherar Sector the 35th joined the Taghmata and knight vassals of Ghalhal and Al-Sherar in combating the renegade titans. While their auxiliaries were nothing compared to the organized might of the Imperium, the god-machines of Legio Nova were not to be trifled with, for their strength exceeded Ghalhal's own Legio Cataegis. In the Battle of Holgirth the superheavy regiments of the Markian Corps proved instrumental in stopping Legio Nova once and for all, as their massive guns successfully crippled multiple titans in combat against Legio Cataegis.

===Battles Abroad===
During the Hektor Heresy there were many grand corps outside of the Al-Sherar Sector engaged in combat against traitor forces. Although they participated in many pitched battles, the Markian Corps are most well-known in Segmentum Pacificus for raising and training new regiments from other worlds' populations to fight the heretics.