Latoti Crusade

This article is about a battle in the /tg/ Heresy project, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40k universe.

Latoti Crusade
Date	897-898.M30
Scale	Multiple Sectors
Theatre	San Angelus Strategic Theatre
Status	Imperial Victory
Belligerents
WAAAGH! Rok'Ed	Imperium of Mankind
Commanders and Leaders
Warboss Rok'Ed Mek Boss Orkenheimer	Gaspard Lumey Fabrice Diallo Antoine Antonelle
Strength
	25th Expedition Fleet 333rd Expedition Fleet 581st Expedition Fleet Assorted Compliance Groups Pandoran Militia
Losses
estimated between five and twelve million	approximately two thousand Fifth Legion Marines between four and nine million Auxilia upwards of three billion civilians
Outcome
WAAAGH! Rok'Ed defeated.

The Latoti Crusade was a vast interstellar conflict fought between the Orks of WAAAGH! Rok'Ed and the Imperium of Mankind. Although the Orks held the strategic initiative early in the conflict, Primarch Gaspard Lumey used his Fifth Legion to draw the WAAAGH into a trap at Pandora. There, the Imperials inflicted a heavy defeat on their foes and Fabrice Diallo slew Rok'Ed in personal combat.

Prelude: 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 before it could be peacefully incorporated into galactic human society, robbing mankind of much wisdom and advanced technology. 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 ruined.