Editing Plague Wars (section)

==Nurgle starts seeding his new garden==
And isn't '''THAT''' just the most horrifically disgusting title you've ever read. In~uen~do!

Way back before the [[13th Black Crusade]] had started, the Chaos God Nurgle was trying to absorb the Ultramar Realm to his Garden. He promoted and favoured small cults of pestilence and corruption to grow and prosper, unbeknownst to imperial authorities. Starting from neighboring Imperial systems to the galactic North of Ultramar, now known as the [[Scourge Stars]], small nurglite incursions tried to spread the plagues to the rest of the systems, to little effect. It wouldn't be until the start of the 13th Black Crusade and Roboute Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade that the scenario would be right for a Nurglite campaign to become a real threat.

The main forces leading the Nurglite forces were the [[Death Guard]] Legion, led by the Traitor Primarch Mortarion and [[Typhus]] plus a major force of daemons under the Great Unclean One [[Ku'Gath]] (the Plague Guard and its seven Great Unclean One leaders). These forces could not launch a direct invasion on the core planets of Ultramar due to its massive defenses and fortifications, not to mention the infights between the three chaos leaders, who each wanted to gain Nurgle's favours for themselves. Thus, they started a campaign of fear and attrition on nearby worlds, attacking and corrupting nearby agri-worlds, forge worlds and hive worlds. Taking advantage of the situation, Nurglite forces launched plague after plague unto these planets, ranging from zombie plagues to nurglings exploding from inside the victim's body, helping to grow their forces.

When news of escalated aggression made it to Roboute Guilliman, <s>he dissolved</s> [[Retcon|declared the first phase of]] the Indomitus Crusade over and launched his forces to reclaim and rescue the Ultramar Realm. This may sound foolish but you have to remember that Ultramar is extremely important to the Imperium. A mere five hundred worlds may be insignificant numerically, but even ignoring the spiritual importance the realm's been largely untouched by the degradation of the Imperium and so is a vital part of keeping the Imperium's knowledge from fading away, which would doom humanity in a few short millennia.