Editing Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd (section)

==Preparations==

{{Infobox 40k Campaign
|title=Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd
|image=[[File:Moving into solar system.jpg|300px]]
|attacker=[[Void Angels|Fifth Legion]]
|defender=Amatteir (Xenos)
|commander1=[[Gaspard Lumey]]<br>[[Fabrice Diallo]]<br>Jean-Davide d'Orléans
|commander2=Prelate Laamis
|date=853.M30
|scale=system-wide
|theatre=Chwiorydd Hardd System
|strength1=150 Astartes<br>36,000 Auxilia
|strength2=estimated at 60,000 to 100,000 troops, concentrated on CH-3
|casualties1=3 Astartes injured<br>178 Auxilia KIA<br>921 Auxilia WIA
|casualties2=wiped out
|status=Decisive Imperial Victory
|outcome=slaves on CH-3 and CH-4 repatriated to Ciban IV 
}}

''Today we embark on our first effort in the Emperor's Great Crusade.  Our intelligence indicates that the forces you will engage are members of a species that has raided and enslaved human worlds throughout the sector for centuries.  Historical literature suggests that even Ciban IV was not exempt from their depravations.  Harden your hearts against this alien menace.  They are enemies of civilization and parasites on the human body.''

- Excerpt from Gaspard Lumey's address to his troops


After two years spent assembling their forces, and training and re-equipping auxilia, the [[Void Angels|Fifth Legion]] were champing at the bit.  However, they faced serious material deficiencies.  The need for experienced warriors to train the new recruits had required demobilising all but one reinforced squadron, now led by [[Fabrice Diallo]] as [[Gaspard Lumey]]'s field commander.  Furthermore, the Fifth's Auxilia were far from perfect.  If the proud people of [[Ciban IV]] were flocking to the colours, they came from a black-powder culture and struggled with technical tasks.  Men and women of [[the Markian Pact]] were more advanced - but also more complacent.  A relative handful of volunteers from these peaceful worlds had enlisted, really too few to meet their tithe obligations.  Rather than risk an incident by attempting to discipline his new vassals - or complain to his new country, depending on your perspective - Lumey chose to created mixed formations largely staffed by Cibanese but augmented by Markian drivers, gunners, mechanics, and tank commanders.  It was far from perfect, but the Primarch felt ready to begin his conquest of new worlds with the forces in hand.

Though the [[Al-Sherar Sector]] had many primitive and feudal human worlds that might have been pacified with ease, the officers of the Fifth first set their sights on a significant threat.  Rogue traders had identified the twin worlds of the Chwiorydd Hardd system as an outpost of the Amatteir.  These foul xenos slavers raided nearby systems for booty and captives and would greatly complicate the stabilisation of the sector.  Negotiation was not even considered.