Editing Goda (section)

=History=
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==Early History to the Hektor Heresy==
Goda was discovered during the Great Crusade by Mechanicum explorators. Their knights being worn down by centuries of fighting with other great clans, the Goza Clan bargained with the forge world of Ghalhal to make Goda a vassal if the Mechanicus assisted in the unification of the planet. A great conflict followed, and in its conclusion the great clans agreed to recognize the Goza Clan as the dominant power.

In the Hektor Heresy, Goda threw its lot in with the loyalists as the vassals of ghalhal. As it was a world a log the borders of the Al-Sherar Sector, Goda was a bastion which invaders of the north would have to pass near to reach the sector. To defend itself and the worlds behind it, Goda fortified itself and its moon into a fortress and star-port.

===The War for Goda===
''"Do not insult me by comparing that soulless lump of steel with true armor. Do you see this armor that I wear? It was my father's, and his father's. For generations it has been in my family, ever since the first of my clan commissioned a smith, a true master of his craft, to build this fine armor, carefully overlapping its plates and pouring his soul into every inch of it. I am honored to have inherited from my father, and as he died in honorable combat wearing it, so shall I; and I hope my son shall do the same when I pass the armor to him. You shall not deny me or anyone else in my clan an honorable death, Markian."''
-Lower Lord Oron to a Markian quartermaster.

Both renegade and loyalist efforts were concentrated on the knight world to defend or capture it, and to either continue or end the existence of House Goda. Assigned to the defense and fortification of Goda was Magos Zaman, an esteemed member of Ghalhal's priesthood, commanding elements of the Ordo Recuctor and Legio Cybernetica. As the Al-Sherar Sector was already being assaulted on two sides by renegade Solar Auxilia and Mechanicum, Zaman had limited resources to fortify Goda with early on. Although the might of House Goda counted for much, many of their knights were fighting for Legio Cataegis against Legio Nova. All there was available were token Mechanicum forces, a quarter of House Goda, the lower clans' forces, and exhausted Imperial Army regiments retreating to the sector.

Zaman's first effort was the organization of the rabble of regiments and retainers available to him into a cohesive fighting force. Though seemingly primitive, Goda's warrior caste and their weaponry were fearsome and abiding. Those that didn't carry ancient laslocks wielded mighty bows, or handled large clubs or spears;all of which their masters had spent a lifetime practicing with. What their armor did not protect them against, they shrugged off with adrenaline and courage. The feudal armies of Goda were organized into a mighty forty regiments under forty lords of the lower clans, ten times over the numbers of the other regiments present.

====The Deluge====
It was with a thunder and a fire that the renegade forces descended on Goda. Thousands upon thousands of rebels poured onto the planet's surface, burning the lower lands and setting siege to the eight fortress cities of the Greater Clans, where the Imperial forces holed up to weather the storm. The guns of the heretics hammered day in and day out on the walls, shaking the earth and shattering stone; but throughout the battle not one of the fortresses fell to the enemy, thanks to the ferocity of Goda's warriors. Where the bulwarks were breached, warriors armed with swords and clubs charged in to fill the gap with the enemies' bodies. Where others faltered, Goda soldiers were sure to be standing, even when death was assured. Of all the forces present, those that suffered most after the renegades were the Goda, such that by the end of the siege only a quarter of their regiments remained. One year after the Deluge began, the 99th Army of the Markian Corps arrived with their fleets to slaughter the renegades and relieve the Imperial Army on Goda. This was not the end of Goda's woes, as the destruction wrought by the renegades left many of the peasantry without a home, a family, or a clan. With no place to return to, thousands of Goda residents swore vengeance upon Hektor and his minions, and joined the Imperial Army in a great campaign to cleanse the segmentum of rebellion.

===The Push===

==The Age of the Imperium to the Time of Ending==
Following the Hektor Heresy, Goda evolved from a mere agri-world to an industrial world. Soldiers of the lower clans, having served valiantly as auxilia for the Imperium during the Heresy, returned to Goda to forge a new planetary defense force, the Planetary Retainers, which would serve as the basis for the Imperial Retainer regiments of the Imperial Guard. The old men-at-arms of the Great Clans evolved into the siege retainers, heavy troops and fortress-smashers of the Imperial Retainers. Goda was set on the path of greatness within and without Ghalhal's ward.