Editing Jericho Reach (section)

=== History===
The story of the unending, sector-wide Verdun that is the Jericho Reach started during the [[Great Crusade]], where it, after a long and bloody campaign, was reforged into shining example of Mankind's dominion. It was verdant, prosperous, and strategically located near The Eastern Fringe. After The [[Horus Heresy]], not much changed, except for one thing. The [[Deathwatch]], formed after the war against [[The Beast]], decided to plonk themselves down there and set up camp, watching for signs of xenos activity from The Eastern Fringe. The [[Iron Lords]] guard the Grendl Stars here in the Hadex Anomaly.

Eventually, Anarchy descended over the Jericho Sector, with entire worlds turning to chaos and madness. This coincided with The [[Age of Apostasy]], so response was limited. Meanwhile, Chaos [[Cultist]]s were shitting themselves with excitement due to a prophecy that was about to happen. In 656.M40, a prophecized planetary alignment buttfucked a hole in reality, right in the economic capital of the Jericho Sector. Think if a gargantuan, reality breaking tornado just exploded into being in the middle of London, and then [[daemon]]s started rampaging over the beautiful english countryside, [[Khorne|slaughtering]]/[[Nurgle|infecting]]/[[Tzeentch|burning]]/[[Slaanesh|raping]] all over the UK. Now supersize every location into the size of a solar system.

Yeah, the already wartorn Jericho Sector went completely FUBAR, and though the Deathwatch kept watch and all the death happening in the sector, they never intervened, following some secret prerogative only they knew of. Many of the supplements talk about how that most of the stations were largely automated and only had skeleton crews. With shit going to fuck faster than they can even get wind of it, most decided to go into sleep mode and wait until the whole thing blows over. In 755.M41, The Imperium arrived through the rediscovered Jericho-Maw Warp Gate, a giant, ancient, webway-like structure connecting the Calixis Sector and the Jericho Reach, and plans were made to restore order. Meanwhile, the Tau continued to expand into the Jericho Sector, their first known appearance being in 400.M41. In 812.M41, The Shadow Of The Warp descended on The Jericho Reach, disrupting communications for The Achilus Crusade. Soon after, two Tyranid Ships are detected.

Following the theme of mankind's biggest enemy being itself, a lot of the struggles involve conflicting goals: the leader of the crusade has a raging murderboner for the Tau, at the point of always ordering the attack even when there is no strategic capability or benefit of doing so. As Tyranids start to encroach, and the taint of chaos and rebellion fuck up the territory that is held he continued to double-down against the Tau, to the point of becoming increasingly belligerent to everyone who disagreed with him. The Tau, for their effort, are trying to exploit is atavistic paranoia to their benefit by having neutral planets come to their side.