Editing Ghalhal (section)

==The Great Crusade==
[[Gaspard Lumey]]'s diplomacy won the Markian pact for the Imperium.  But Ghalhal's return to the Mechanicum was more complicated.  Throughout the long Age of Strike the lords of Ghalhal had remained in fitful contact with the Red Planet, receiving data transmissions regarding newly uncovered technological secrets and making token obeisance to the Martian Parliament.  Being in direct contact with their nominal masters rankled at the independent spirit of the Ghalhallans.  A particular sticking point was the demand that the Forge World directly subordinate itself to [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]], rather than retaining its traditional pacts with the Markian worlds.  Initially, Ghalhal was able to defer any practical measures due to the desperate supply situation of Lumey's [[Void Angels|Space Marine Legion]], but the rediscovery of [[Al-Sherar]] not only rendered the matter of supply moot, but added another powerful world attempting to bring Ghalhal into the fold.  Ghalhal's leaders became increasingly adept at playing off Fabricator General [[Kalkas Tygian]] against the Kabeer Al-Mufteen of Al-Sherar.

For all their wheeling and dealing behind the scenes, the Ghalhallans were committed to the Emperor's vision for humanity and proved themselves on the battlefields of the Great Crusade. As eternal allies to the Markians, Ghalhal often joined campaigns with the Fifth Legion and later Markian Corps, where the Mechanicum's might helped bring worlds into the Imperium's fold. In the [[Al-Sherar Sector War]] and [[Core Worlds Campaign]] among others, Ghalhal fought alongside Winged Victory auxilia, and in the Mortekaiser and Nightkill Sectors they played a key role.

In the Nightkill Sector the Taghmata and Legio Cybernetica served as the anchor for Markian forces, while the Legio Cataegis and Ordo Reductor spearheaded the offensive. It was Ghalhal's void missiles that destroyed the hive-emperor, and it was Archmagos Khazal ibn Tekhalla who discovered the fragmented nature of the Arakan. Without Ghalhal, the Markian Corps would not had liberated the Nightkill Sector.

===The Mortekaiser Campaign===
The Mortekaiser Campaign was an independent campaign conducted by the Markian Corps in the tale-end of the Great Crusade against the Hereteks of the Intax Empire. Led by Princeps Ali Azar, Ghalhal joined their Markian allies in purging the sector with steel and fire. Though Verdun was famous for destroying of an entire titan section with only three tactical weapons, it was Legio Cataegis and the knights of Goda that faced and destroyed the lion's share of Intax titans. Likewise, it was the skitarii who relieved the 78th Grand Corps. The Ghalhallans were instrumental on the Burning World, where their immunity to the planet's sulfuric atmosphere met the cyborgs' and automata's.

The battle for Ulysses is somewhat embarrassing early on for Legio Cataegis, who pride themselves on their swiftness. Early in their march, the vanguard of Cataegis discovered the existence of enemy titans in a similar manner to how the 101st discovered it: painfully. Forward warhound titans encountered Intax titans while en route to purge a bridge-city. Facing the might of several battle titans enhanced with xeno-tech the scouts had no choice but to <strike>retreat</strike> advance backwards. The warhounds fled back to the core of the legion, bringing three enemies in tow for Ghalhal's few but mighty warlords and reavers to pummel them back to ash and formless ore. Other Intax titans followed their fallen comrades, as the Thallaxi and automata of Ghalhal swept like a storm through the elevated cities of Ulysses.

There came a world where not even the proud Markians could survive. The Imperial Forces found the Burning World to be an inhospitable planet that spewed toxic gases from its many volcanic ranges, its heat-scorched surface and seas of lava unforgiving to normal men. But still, there were Intax that needed to die on the Burning World, and so it was left to the Ghalhallans to cleanse the world. The Thallaxi and Legio Cataegis struck like fire, seizing the refineries and relentlessly pursuing the Intax forces. When the Burning World was taken for the Omnissiah, Ghalhal moved on to the sandy deathworld Kharybdis, and then regrouped with the Markians for the final assault on the capital Shazakh.