Editing Komra (section)

===The Age of Sorrow===

While the psykers of the Core Worlds Confederation prepared for a struggle against Rakizor, calamities overtook the Galaxy.  The Eldar Empire's vice and degeneracy began to cloud the warp, crippling the communications of the Terran colonies and driving their once-faithful Men of Iron to madness and destruction.  As the Terrans of the near-Core collapsed, Rakizor's new warfleets were unleashed upon the brutalized colonies and seized millions of human captives.  The most fortunate of those brought back to Rakizor were merely offered up as blood sacrifices to Krenz.  Others were worked to death as slaves, while the truly damned were used as subjects in vile biological experimentation and converted into the twisted ''Scab'' race of slave-warriors.

Although Rakizor's anti-Terran atrocities were unknown to the Komra at large, the proof of depravity won by Karnech's sacrifice was presented to the Brysojt in 18981LF (205.M25) and the council immediately moved to censure the dark world.  Its members were expelled from the Brysojt and Rakizor was to submit to a full investigation of its practices.  Edsten, aged but defiant, dismissed the ruling with contempt.  Even when hurled into the donjon of Valaya Station - a prison unused since the days of the Protectorate - Krenz's disciple mocked his captors and promised that soon they would kneel before him.

These were not idle boasts.  Even with the full strength of the other Stem Worlds arrayed against them, Rakizor's legions of Scabs, backed by ruthless warrior Gelkzaft, took a bitter toll on their kin.  Centuries of fratricidal warfare were required to slowly roll back the dark world's forces, but the Confederation lacked the strength to invade, especially as the Ork threat re-emerged and Waaaaghs! began to assail Komra worlds.  Under these conditions, Rakizor could not be conquered.  In 19542LF (766.M25) the Brysojt ordered the establishment of ''Karnech Squadron'', a force to perpetually blockade Rakizor and supported by all of the Confederation's member worlds.  Unfortunately, long-distance colony ships bearing fragments of the Krenz-stone had already spread Rakizor's corruption far beyond the borders of the Core Worlds.

For thousands of years, the Komra of the Core Worlds Confederation would stand vigil against the enemy within and the enemies without.  Their long watch would only be changed by the re-emergence of the Solar System and the coming of the Emperor of Mankind's [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]].  The initial contact between Komra and Imperial was made by the [[War Scribes]] of [[Arelex Orannis]], who greeted the Confederation with curiousity rather than wrath.  A slow feeling-out process between the two branches of humanity ensued, with the Komra glad to trade and the Imperials anxious to unify the galaxy.