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After two years spent assembling their forces, and training and re-equipping auxilia, the Fifth Legion were champing at the bit. However, they faced serious material deficiencies. The need for experienced warriors to train the new recruits had required demobilising all but one reinforced squadron, now led by Fabrice Diallo as Gaspard Lumey's field commander. Furthermore, the Fifth's Auxilia were far from perfect. If the people of Ciban IV, proud of their revolutionary traditions and great admirers of Lumey, were flocking to the colours, they came from a black-powder culture and struggled with technical tasks. Men and women of the more advanced Markian Pact were also more complacent. A relative handful of volunteers from these peaceful worlds had enlisted, really too few to meet their tithe obligations. Rather than risk an incident by attempting to discipline his new vassals - or complain to his new country, depending on your perspective - Lumey chose to created mixed formations largely staffed by Cibanese but augmented by Markian drivers, gunners, mechanics, and tank commanders. It was far from perfect, but the Primarch felt ready to begin his conquest of new worlds with the forces in hand. | After two years spent assembling their forces, and training and re-equipping auxilia, the [[Void Angels|Fifth Legion]] were champing at the bit. However, they faced serious material deficiencies. The need for experienced warriors to train the new recruits had required demobilising all but one reinforced squadron, now led by Fabrice Diallo as [[Gaspard Lumey]]'s field commander. Furthermore, the Fifth's Auxilia were far from perfect. If the people of [[Ciban IV]], proud of their revolutionary traditions and great admirers of Lumey, were flocking to the colours, they came from a black-powder culture and struggled with technical tasks. Men and women of the more advanced [[the Markian Pact|Markian Pact]] were also more complacent. A relative handful of volunteers from these peaceful worlds had enlisted, really too few to meet their tithe obligations. Rather than risk an incident by attempting to discipline his new vassals - or complain to his new country, depending on your perspective - Lumey chose to created mixed formations largely staffed by Cibanese but augmented by Markian drivers, gunners, mechanics, and tank commanders. It was far from perfect, but the Primarch felt ready to begin his conquest of new worlds with the forces in hand. | ||
Though the Al-Sherar sector had many primitive and feudal human worlds that might have been pacified with ease, the officers of the Fifth first set their sights on a significant threat. Rogue traders had identified the twin worlds of the Chwiorydd Hardd system as an outpost of the Amatteir. These foul xenos slavers raided nearby systems for booty and captives and would greatly complicate the stabilisation of the sector. Negotiation was not even considered. | Though the Al-Sherar sector had many primitive and feudal human worlds that might have been pacified with ease, the officers of the Fifth first set their sights on a significant threat. Rogue traders had identified the twin worlds of the Chwiorydd Hardd system as an outpost of the Amatteir. These foul xenos slavers raided nearby systems for booty and captives and would greatly complicate the stabilisation of the sector. Negotiation was not even considered. | ||
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''It was not their physical deprivations that struck me so. I had seen men and women lost in the wilds of my homeworld and returned to civilisation starved and sick before. It was their eyes. Our poor kinsmen, brutalised and degraded, looked at me with the mute ignorance of beasts. Foul aliens have taken human beings and made into them animals! How many more worlds is this happening on?'' | ''It was not their physical deprivations that struck me so. I had seen men and women lost in the wilds of my homeworld and returned to civilisation starved and sick before. It was their eyes. Our poor kinsmen, brutalised and degraded, looked at me with the mute ignorance of beasts. Foul aliens have taken human beings and made into them animals! How many more worlds is this happening on?'' | ||
==Aftermath== | |||
Many of the Auxilia who served in the Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd would resign from service due to the trauma. However, the circulation of reports such as Boucher's stirred the fighting spirit of the Markian subsector. New volunteers flocked to the colours, determined to end the suffering of Old Night. | Many of the Auxilia who served in the Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd would resign from service due to the trauma. However, the circulation of reports such as Boucher's stirred the fighting spirit of the Markian subsector. New volunteers flocked to the colours, determined to end the suffering of Old Night. | ||
The Fifth Legion resettled the slaves of Chwiorydd Hardd on Ciban IV. CH-3 and CH-4 would lie fallow for the next decade, before being colonised by settlers from across the Markian subsector. | |||
Although the Amatteir in the Chwiorydd Hardd system were wiped out, other members of their species would gradually piece together what had happened. Their response would severely test Gaspard Lumey's new Legion. | |||
Revision as of 18:19, 11 October 2014
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| Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd | |
| Date | 853.M30 |
| Scale | system |
| Theatre | Chwiorydd Hardd System |
| Status | Decisive Imperial Victory |
| Belligerents | |
| Fifth Legion | Amatteir (Xenos) |
| Commanders and Leaders | |
| Gaspard Lumey | Prelate Laamis |
| Strength | |
| 150 Astartes plus 36,000 Auxilia | estimated at 60,000 to 100,000 troops, concentrated on CH-3 |
| Losses | |
| 3 Astartes injured, 178 Auxilia killed in action, 921 Auxilia wounded in action, extensive psychological trauma among Markian recruits | wiped out |
| Outcome | |
After two years spent assembling their forces, and training and re-equipping auxilia, the Fifth Legion were champing at the bit. However, they faced serious material deficiencies. The need for experienced warriors to train the new recruits had required demobilising all but one reinforced squadron, now led by Fabrice Diallo as Gaspard Lumey's field commander. Furthermore, the Fifth's Auxilia were far from perfect. If the people of Ciban IV, proud of their revolutionary traditions and great admirers of Lumey, were flocking to the colours, they came from a black-powder culture and struggled with technical tasks. Men and women of the more advanced Markian Pact were also more complacent. A relative handful of volunteers from these peaceful worlds had enlisted, really too few to meet their tithe obligations. Rather than risk an incident by attempting to discipline his new vassals - or complain to his new country, depending on your perspective - Lumey chose to created mixed formations largely staffed by Cibanese but augmented by Markian drivers, gunners, mechanics, and tank commanders. It was far from perfect, but the Primarch felt ready to begin his conquest of new worlds with the forces in hand.
Though the Al-Sherar sector had many primitive and feudal human worlds that might have been pacified with ease, the officers of the Fifth first set their sights on a significant threat. Rogue traders had identified the twin worlds of the Chwiorydd Hardd system as an outpost of the Amatteir. These foul xenos slavers raided nearby systems for booty and captives and would greatly complicate the stabilisation of the sector. Negotiation was not even considered.
The Strike Cruisers Détermination, Endurance, and Ténacité warped into the system with their escorts, disabling and boarding the slave-ships they found. Xenos crews were summarily executed, while human captives taken aboard the Fifth's medical vessels for genetic screening and rehabilitation. As the transports bearing the Fifth's auxilia entered the Chwiorydd Hardd system, Gaspard Lumey and Fabrice Diallo were leading drop pod assaults against their designated landing sites on CH-3 and CH-4. The Astartes quickly secured their objectives and welcomed Marshal d'Orléans' charges to the surface of the planets.
On CH-4, Diallo's forces found minimal resistance and swiftly liquidated the Amatteir found there. The planet had been arranged as a pleasure park and the slaves, if mistreated, had been kept in fairly sanitary conditions. CH-3 was a work camp and Lumey's group faced much stiffer resistance, led by a skilled commander. However, the Amatteir garrison lacked heavy weaponry and their determination was no match for the Fifth's firepower. Auxilia, especially those from the Markian Pact, taking part in the action on CH-3 were horrified by the conditions of the slaves they liberated. The Karmian photo-journalist Verrell Boucher wrote in the introduction to his account of the campaign,
It was not their physical deprivations that struck me so. I had seen men and women lost in the wilds of my homeworld and returned to civilisation starved and sick before. It was their eyes. Our poor kinsmen, brutalised and degraded, looked at me with the mute ignorance of beasts. Foul aliens have taken human beings and made into them animals! How many more worlds is this happening on?
Aftermath
Many of the Auxilia who served in the Pacification of the Chwiorydd Hardd would resign from service due to the trauma. However, the circulation of reports such as Boucher's stirred the fighting spirit of the Markian subsector. New volunteers flocked to the colours, determined to end the suffering of Old Night.
The Fifth Legion resettled the slaves of Chwiorydd Hardd on Ciban IV. CH-3 and CH-4 would lie fallow for the next decade, before being colonised by settlers from across the Markian subsector.
Although the Amatteir in the Chwiorydd Hardd system were wiped out, other members of their species would gradually piece together what had happened. Their response would severely test Gaspard Lumey's new Legion.