Editing Vaxi Atrocity (section)

== Consequences ==

The Inquisitors saw what they had wrought, and deemed it sufficient: to carry on purging the heretics and fighting between themselves would only devastate the Sector further, and it was already almost defenseless against any outside threat. The traitorous governor was obviously purged in an appropriately public and gruesome manner, and all others saw the might of the Inquisition. Since then, all of the different Inquisitorial factions and heretic nobles act much more circumspectly, and try to avoid the repetition of such a cataclysmic event.

The loss of troops was great, but the loss of institutional knowledge in the [[Imperial Guard]] meant that the corpses of the defeated Orks were left unburned, which caused massive and regular outbreaks of feral Orks in centuries following the attrocity. Dark Eldar also started a string of mass kidnappings, which were stopped by the Imperial Navy on the world of Aventine, with the main guns of their ships. Surviving locals had a drop in appreciation of the Imperium and are tending towards separatism, with their planetary governor, Lord Sarawak also seeming to tend towards separatism and neglecting the psyker cull.

The Vaxi Atrocity was apparently planned by someone (or something). Of course the influential and powerful Inquisitor who confessed to this on his deathbed didn't name any individuals or factions before dying, but he did say that the Vaxi Atrocity wasn't just an attempt to do something: it was a success. What was achieved is unknown. A conclave of radical and successful Warp-savants known as the Abyssian Witnesses that studies the Pandaemonium warp storm noticed that its ebbs and flows were very odd during the Vaxi Atrocity (that's why they founded their order). Conveniently, there is/might be a group of Inquisitors known as The Storm Masters who seek to control the Pandaemonium, who seem to be the prime suspects. Obviously this might be a decoy (seeing as no Inquisitors have been formally identified as part of that group), and any number of radical groups could have masterminded the Atrocity (be they radicals like the or heretics).

The Vaxi Atrocity also spurred the rise of the so-called "Romonstrance" philosophy inside the ranks of the Inquisition. It holds that all Imperial institutions, including the Inquisition itself, are corrupt and should be torn down so that the entire structure by which humanity rules itself can be rebuilt. They believe that the original settlers in the Askellion Sector were fleeing some great injustice when they came to Askellon, unwilling to accept whatever regime held dominion at that shrouded time. All that has transpired in the galaxy, from the Age of Strife to the Great Crusade, through the Horus Heresy and into the Age of Imperium, these Inquisitors believe is the inevitable result of the evil of the regime those original colonists were fleeing. The Remonstrance wishes not just to tear down the Imperium, but to return it to an earlier, purer form, a template they believe is hidden in the very blood of the Lords of Askellon, passed down to them over countless generations. Seeing as the High Lords of Askellon are hinted to have sided with Horus during the [[Horus Heresy]] (and the population rose up against the Imperium under the leadership of a so-called "saint" during the Scouring) and are still traitorous, heretical and incompetent nowadays, this is unlikely to end well. To these people, the fact that the Pandaemonium appears inextricably linked to these noble houses and waxes and wanes in accordance to the fortunes of several of these High families is just a coincidence.

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