The Chaagrut Sector
THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS
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Sector Overview
The Age of the Dark Imperium, also known as the Era Indomitus, is the current period of Imperial history, beginning after the destruction of Cadia in the Thirteenth Black Crusade and the formation of the Great Rift. During this period we find ourselves in the Chaagrut Sector where war has broken out dangerously close to Holy Terra. Chains of catastrophic Warp Rifts have isolated the sector while depositing enemies of the Imperium originating from across time and space.
A Tau fleet, fleeing from unknown battlefields, has arrived in the Sector, trailing the sinister Hive Fleet Nihiloor. At the same time, The Hive Fleet Raksasha immediately began a horrific campaign of planetary infestation and consumption in the agri-world cluster known as The Vines. Genestealer cults rose to meet them, using industrial fertilizers and waste to help create bio titans of unfathomable size before being consumed in turn. It is suspected that Raksasha appeared a few decades ago trough the Storm of Ending, probably by accident after the Cicatrix Maledictum opened; and avoided detection while sending spores of genestealers to nearby world to prepare for invasion. Now its numbers are massive.
In response the Order of the Twice-Blessed Towers has mobilized from the hives of their Shrine World, bringing with them the combined might of the Imperial Guard Regiment Skaði's Thralls and the warhound hosts of the Knights of the Autumn Court. In Hǿjager, The guerilla warfare of the Thralls and the heavy reconnaissance of the Legio Cavall warhounds, are directed by Order Palatines who set up devastating shock and awe attacks that leave the surviving Tyranids reeling. Despite their victories the outnumbered Imperial Forces are unable to slow the progress of Hive Fleet Raksasha, who absorbs its losses with distressing ease.
A Shield Company of the Adeptus Custodes arrive on the Shrine World of Skaði XVIII, to the joy and awe of the Sector's citizens. Tensions rise however as it becomes apparent the Custodes are there to fortify and cleanse the shrine world ahead of possible attack. While the Shield Host is successful in rooting out heretics and mutants, their activities draw troops and supplies that could be used at the front. After this time-costly purge, they procede to move with two maniples of the Legio Cavall, four regiments of the Thralls with five special squads of Company Deystivye, drawn directly from the Inquisition special forces, 150 Sisters of the Twice Blessed Towers and the Adeptus Custodes Company themselves, numbering 60 custodes, two dreadnoughts and their thralls.
Their main goal is to save the homeworld of Cavall, Titania. The remmants of the Legio Cavall and their securatii hold the assault of the genestealer cults and the Hive Fleet Raksasha; their biotitans already pushing trough the lines of the warhounds, three of the god-engines already lost under the giant scythes of the xeno monstrosities. If the forgeworld falls, there won't be enough supplies to sustain the rest of the campaign. The arrival of the combined fleet, lead by Prefect Listorias, Shield-Captain of the Refulgent Hunters, is the only change of pushing back, and eventually flanking, Raksasha.
But Fleet Raksasha is not the only threat the Chaagrut sector faces. Hive Fleet Nihiloor is smaller, but potentially even more dangerous. Worlds ravaged by Nihiloor are left as graveyards filled with poisonous gas and corroded metal. Worse still are rumors that Nihiloor captures prisoners, infecting them with worms that carve their way to a victim's brain and take control. These enthralled prisoners are then released, traveling to safe worlds to sabotage Imperial defenses. Some even say that their infiltration of infected spies was executed before they started consuming their first worlds.
The tyranid invasion unfortunately comes during the 70 year cycle of the Tide, a chaos warband that emerges from the ruins of the now extinct space marine chapter headquarters on Skaði VI. Skaði's Thralls, the planet guard highly prized for their combat prowess is forced to retain a large portion of their forces to contend with the threat.
And there are rumors the greenskins and drukhari are on the move.....
A History of the Sector
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Worlds of Chaagrut
- Skaði VI: TBD
- Skaði XVIII: TBD
- Rezelkgulda: TBD
- Navy Port Ceadora: TBD
- Narsea Ciryn: TBD
- Gradhyllan: TBD
- Mamalm: TBD
- Lomka X: TBD
- Lomka I: TBD
- Pallisadus: ITBD
- Rika Armamamentarium: TBD
- Nixa: TBD
- Uglah: TBD
- Sandhärad V: TBD
- Sandhärad XI: TBD
- Højager: TBD
- Ceta-Proxima: TBD
- Molvâg: TBD
- Bolga III: TBD
- Gurtragard: TBD
- Oserheim: TBD
- Sophia's Bounty: TBD
- Tatal V: TBD
- Arcillian II: TBD
- Arcillian III: TBD
- Arcillian V: TBD
- Nevoghast: TBD
Military Forces of Chaagrut
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| Battlegroup A: | Port A | TBD | TBD |
| Battlegroup B: | Port B | TBD | TBD |
| Battlegroup C: | Port C | TBD | TBD |
| Battlegroup D: | Port D | TBD | TBD |
Battlefleet Chaagrut is TBD
Order of the Twice Blessed Towers
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Legio Cavall
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Sept Mang'Ro
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DA WURST Freebotas
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Hive Fleet Raksasha
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The Tide
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Imperial Guard Regiments
“Stand true, you dogs of the Emperor! Steady that line!” *BLAM*
- -Commissar Ranmothe encouraging the 2nd Company, 4th Heavy Dragoons, at the Battle of Heresy Field
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| Skaði's Thralls
Nickname: "Thralls, The Thralls, Those Feral Cannibles" |
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Hailing from the ice covered feral world of Skaði VI, Skaði's Thralls are experts of winter and guerilla warfare. Long ago the world was the site of a space marine chapter, drawing upon the thousands of tribes on the planet for their recruitment. However, chaos cultists in the Imperial Navy delivered a devastating sneak attack from orbit, before leading a final purge of the area in person. None now remain who remember the name of the chapter, and records of it are conspicuously absent from the data scrolls of Sandhärad. The tribes, however, have not forgotten their planet's history and are eager to strike down servants of the ruinous powers wherever they appear.
Skaði's Thralls are expert troops, skilled by nature and training to operate in any cold weather theater. Most dangerous of all are the "Winter's Soldiers", a special unit that recruits tribesmen convicted of cannibalism. These soldiers are led harshly by their commissars, their lives already forfeit. A Winter Soldier may spend weeks living in a frozen hole, waiting for the enemy to approach, before taking a single shot to eliminate an enemy commander. When the enemy draws in they often find themselves flanked by snipers who catch the now leaderless army in a withering barrage of sniper fire. |
| Ceadoran Voidwalkers
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The Ceadoran Voidwalkers are the defense force for the Imperial Navy Port of Ceadora that orbits the Gas Giant Emperor's Might. Rumored to be built during the Great Crusade the port has seen countless ships and armies pass through on their way to the Imperium's Crusades. These thousands of passing crusader armies have deeply influenced the generations of dock workers, who dream of the opportunity to join in such an endeavor.
In the past riots have broken out over limitations on imperial guard recruitment, damaging the port, and so recruitment is now done by lottery overseen by a priesthood of Regiment Officers who are in turn overseen by representatives of the Ecclesiarchy. Recruits are natural experts in operating in the void of space, having so often worked on the outsides of ships with only a rope to keep them grounded. The guard drills their natural ferocity until they are masters of shock and awe tactics, utilizing armored personal carriers and specialized breach cutter lasguns to break through defenses. At some point in the past Port Ceadora was attacked by Chaos Space Marines who managed to destroy vast sections of the Port and killed dock workers and their families in the hundreds of thousands. The Ceadoran Voidwalkers have never forgotten this outrage and are eager to earn revenge for their ancestors in battle with the Imperium's enemies. |
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Power Groups
- Svetozara Korsakova, Black Duchess of Skaði XVIII:
Sector Lords
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Pauldron Decoration of the Order of the Twice Blessed Towers
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Battle Sister of the Order of the Twice Blessed Towers
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Captain of the Regulgent Hunters
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Venomthrope of Hive Fleet Nihiloor
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A Member of the Chaos Warband The Tide
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A rising in The Tide Chaos Warband
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Early concept art of the thralls from the Chaagrut Sector
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Concept art for Jobba da Grot, leader of Da Wurst Freebootas
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A Princeps of the Legio Cavall from the Forge World Titania
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A Cavall Princeps with her Warhound Pattern Titan
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Symbol of the Tau Sept Mang'Ro
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Heraldry of Legio Cavall, also known as the Autumn Court of Forge World Titania
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Insignia of the Imperial Guard Regiment Skaði's Thralls
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A Fire Warrior of the lost Tau Sept Mang'Ro
External Links
- Dark Heresy
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- Lexicanum - Everything you always wanted to know about 40k (but were afraid to ask)