Editing Ryza (section)

==41st Millennium==

Despite getting the shit kicked out of it by Horus' forces, Ryza rebuilt itself and regained its former prominence in the Imperium, aided by its specialization in plasma technology. That said, it hasn't been doing well in recent 40K canon, having been invaded by two separate Ork WAAAGHs!. The first was WAAAGH Grax, which hit the planet in 925.M41 and required intervention from twenty regiments of the Imperial Guard, along with the planet's own skitarii legions and the Warmongers. For a while, the fighting for Ryza came as close to producing the state of "enuff dakka" as any conflict in the galaxy. Both sides were freely cracking open the planet's armories and reliquaries and turning whatever they found on each other, unleashing weapons the like of which hadn't been seen since the Dark Age of Technology. Ultimately, the Orks proved so impossible to shift that the Ryzans decided to drop a bunch of virus bombs on one of their own continents, using Kastelan maniples to clean up whatever survived, while modified Onager Dunecrawlers blasted greenskin asses in the hives and hastily rebuilt Titans waded into the fight against equally hastily patched-up gargants. After four decades of fighting, Warboss Grax was killed by the Warlord Titan ''Pugnus Vindictae'', and the WAAAGH! collapsed into the usual mess of infighting, allowing the Mechanicus to mop them up. A second WAAAGH!, led by another warboss named Rarguts, attacked at essentially the same time and was seen off in short order. Ryza didn't get much breathing space, however, as they finished the mop-up just in time for the [[13th Black Crusade]] to get going and the Great Rift to split the Imperium in half. The planet was promptly invaded by daemons and was only held thanks to all the Guard regiments who were still there from the Ork campaigns. Despite all this, Ryza was in sufficiently good shape to answer [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s call for reinforcements during the [[Plague Wars]].

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