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===The Doom of Arx===

Barely a hundred years into the 41st Millennium, the [[Imperial Navy]] frigate '''Ascendance''' received a garbled astropathic request for aid from '''Arx'''; the world was apparently under attack by unknown forces. When Imperial forces finally arrived four months later, they found the [[Imperial Guard]] garrison there wiped out and the bodies of its soldiers horribly mutilated.

In response, the [[Inquisition]] sent [[Inquisitor]] '''Thadus Valconet Horst''' to the planet to see if he could find evidence of who perpetrated the massacre. Unfortunately there wasn't a lot left to find, as the attackers cleaned up their tracks unusually thoroughly.

Barely a year after the slaughter at Arx, naval patrols in the neighboring Athena Sector made worrying discoveries of Imperial warships and merchant vessels drifting through the void, their crew all dead of disease and contagion. Rumors soon spread that these were caused by an ancient [[Nurgle]]-aligned warship called the '''Plagueclaw''', and with the increase in sightings of [[Chaos]] warships, Horst was worried that a new [[Black Crusade]] was in the making. The worlds around the [[Cadia|Cadian Gate]] were put on high alert and across Segmentum Obscurus Imperial fleets were roused to readiness.

Three years after the attack on Arx, a massive [[Warp Storm]] engulfed the Gothic Sector. Isolated from the greater Imperium and cut off from any sort of reinforcement, the brave men and women of the Gothic Sector were on their own.