Curis-4 Compliance

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Curis-4 Compliance
Date	868.M30
Scale	system-wide
Theatre	Curis system
Status	Decisive Imperial Victory
Belligerents
25th Expedition Fleet	the Fanz, Huks, and Wari nations
Commanders and Leaders
Gaspard Lumey Rani Stolarz
Strength
approximately six thousand Fifth Legion Space Marines one Army Group Ciban Chasseurs
Losses
Outcome
Curis-4 brought into compliance with the Imperial Truth.

The Curis-4 Compliance was a military campaign of the Emperor's Great Crusade. The 25th Expedition Fleet, under the command of the Primarch Gaspard Lumey, subdued an advanced, warlike culture through a combination of superior military tactics and political terror.

Situation Report

Late in 867.M30, the Rogue Trader Visant Le Gall contacted his handlers in the Victualary of the Fifth Legion. Le Gall was scheduled for a routine report, but Sergeant Mai Dac Kien noted that the Trader seemed particularly smug. The data retrieved showed that Le Gall was not merely happy to have made a fat profit - though clearly he had enriched himself in his journeys. Mai's keen eyes were quickly drawn to information regarding Curis-4, a technologically advanced but socially peculiar world in the newly-mapped Propice Sector. By careful analysis of Le Gall's reports, together with supporting information from other Rogue Traders, Mai was able to draw up a substantial picture of Curis-4 and pass it up to his superiors.

Curis-4 possessed a substantial industrial base and significant manpower. Population estimates varied between eight and ten billion. Technology was unevenly preserved, but military hardware was a particular strongpoint. Soldiers on Curis-4 went to war in sophisticated vehicles, wearing excellent armour and wielding deadly las weapons. And they went to war often. The planet was divided between four hostile "nations": the Fanz, Huks, Orvar, and Wari. Le Gall's contact had been exclusively with the Orvar, who had paid him handsomely for medical supplies. The Rogue Trader had observed a sharp caste divide between the "citz" who earned political rights by military service and "pacs" who lived as civilians but were barely regarded as people by their social superiors. Antoine d'Orléans' unsuccessful trading mission had involved brief talks with all four nations of Curis-4 and his brief contacts suggested that the Fanz, Huks, and Wari had similar social systems. Particularly notable was that the four nations spoke of endlessly warring with their neighbours.

Mai's report quickly became the basis for operational planning. Antoine Antonelle's signature went below the initial assessment that the still-small Fifth Legion could fairly quickly subdue a world like Curis-4 if either Ghalhal or Al-Sherar would lend the support of their Titans. Gaspard Lumey and Fabrice Diallo differed. The Primarch and his operational commander believed that the political situation was so favourable that going to the Forge Worlds was unnecessary.