][][ SEGMENTUM TEMPESTUS / VEILED REGION / EXPLORATOR FLEET ][][
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Orbital Staging Area K12, Helgate.
Explorator task force assemble around Ironclad-class Capital ship Sargasso
in preparation for the Aperion Crusade.
Notable Adeptus Representatives:
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Adeptus Sororitas - Evangelicist Squad - Order of
the Cruciform Sword
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Adeptus Mechanicus - Explorator Team Iota - Gryphonne
IV
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Adeptus Astartes - Crusade Light Detachment VII- Dark
Angels Chapter
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Ordo Hereticus - Inquisitorial Sanctification Cell - (origin classified
under order 981)
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Imperial Guard - Force Recon Squad - Helgate Trencher
III Heavy Infantry Regiment
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Spaceport Primus and surrounding
Industrial Zones, Helgate.
Outbreaks of mutation formerly attributed
to hazardous working conditions in the industrial zones are, in fact, traced
back to a mutagenic virus later known as "Black Reckoning".
Kill teams are formed to contain and sanitize all mutants
and infectious carrier vermin.
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Enginseer Taluss determines the virus
is not indigenous, and the source of the vermin is rumored to be a bulk
freighter hailing from the Veiled Region. Taluss also finds evidence
of chromatic manipulation, suggesting an artificial origin.
This information is placed under suppression order by Inquisitor Rorke.
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Explorator taskforce leaders determine
that the feudal world of Ogun should be the first target of reclamation
by the Explorator fleet. Cleansing of the world would allow
the establishment of a forward supply center for the campaign.
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Warpspace Transition, The Sargasso
An investigation team is formed to go
below decks and find missing maintenance crew. Instead they discover
an infestation of vermin carrying the Black Reckoning, and must cleanse
the holds before the entire ship is infected.
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Waypoint 114, Veiled Region.
Warp Navigation directly to Ogun is
impossible due to warp storm activity in the sector, necessitating the
use of Waypoint 114 as a bridging zone. As the fleet drops out of
warp at Waypoint 114, Eldar raiders engage and destroy several smaller
ships. The Sargasso itself is hit by boarding torpedoes, and
all available hands are mustered to repel them from the engineering decks
below.
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Feral World Ogun, Veiled Region.
Fleet formation in orbit is disrupted
by massive magnetic storms originating on the planet surface. Landing
at the original colonization site is impossible as a result.
An Explorator landing team is sent to a secondary site, where remnants
of an Imperial outpost are found, but no survivors are present. Ork
raiding parties ambush the landing team, but are driven off.
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Feral World Ogun, Veiled Region.
The Explorator Landing Team take on
reinforcements, and commandeer an Imperial Service Train in order to enter
the magnetic storm and locate its source. Ork raiders in convoy attack
the service train in an escalating series of mobile engagements, but are
driven off by the Explorator landing team members.
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Feral World Ogun, Veiled Region.
Just as the epicenter of the magnetic
storms is located, the Explorator fleet picks up a distress signal from
the Imperial Cutter Dauntless, a ship claiming
to have escaped an Eldar blockade around the long lost colonial world of
Venatos.
Heavily damaged, the Dauntless plunges through the magnetic storm surrounding Ogun, crash landing directly on the epicenter of the storm. The Explorator team on the surface searches the wreckage for survivors, but just as they are found, an unknown force arises out of the surrounding terrain and engages the survivors with terrible weapons of alien origin. All but a handful of Explorator team members are lost.
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Feral World Ogun, Veiled Region.
Enginseer Taluss determines that the
magnetic storm is not a natural phenomenon, and determines the source may
be suppressable. Mine shafts long abandoned by local Orks prove to
be an inroads to the source, a subterranean Necropolis of unknown origin.
At great cost, the Explorator teams manage to infiltrate and destroy critical
workings within the Necropolis. With the magnetic storm abated, the
fleet moves into position and destroys the Necropolis complex with a 45
minute long orbital barrage.
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Feral World Ogun, Veiled Region.
With Ogun secured, the Explorator Task
Force reassembles in orbit. Using data collected from the Dauntless
before its destruction, a route to the lost colony world of Venatos is
plotted and pursued.
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
Upon arrival in the Venatos system,
the Explorator fleet encounters systemwide conflict between Eldar forces
and what appear to be Human survivors. With the help of the Sargasso
and her task force, the Eldar ships are driven out of the system, but the
world of Venatos itself remains embroiled in conflict with Eldar inserted
earlier. Explorator landing parties manage to reclaim the capitol
and locate survivors on the ground.
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
Inquisitor Rorke oversees the interrogation
of both the human survivors and the captured Eldar insurgents. Several
of the liberated human survivors go missing before they can be cross-examined.
The Eldar warn of a coming cataclysm, which they refer to as the Time of
Consummation, and that interfering with the Eldar will only hasten the
cataclysm at hand. All of the prisoners are summarily executed.
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
Tech Priest Taluss discovers traces
of the "Black Reckoning" mutagenic virus on Venatos, and proposes
the source is somewhere in the Forge zones. A team is sent to investigate,
and is attacked by both mutants and renegade
servitors.
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
Inquisitor Rorke leads a Purgation team
into the industrial warrens below Forge Zone Gamma. There, the Dark
Mechanicus
Renegade Tyrus is discovered and eliminated, but not before a great
toll is taken by his abominations. Inquisitor Rorke is killed during
the conflict, but his successor, Interrogator Cray, is already following
dangerous leads left in the wake of renegade Tyrus' work.
Tyrus' manifesto extolled the artificial
creation of the next evolution of mankind, citing the mutant genomes found
in Ogryns, Navigators and Sanctioned Psykers as justification for deliberate
corruption and mutation of mankind. This line of thinking parallels
the preachings of demagogue Krakus, a local cult leader repeatedly targeted
by Eldar attack during the initial invasion of Venatos.
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
As purgation teams converge on the Krakus
compound, waves of mutants attack but are driven back by stalwart fire
teams, notably those of the Helgate Trenchers. Unfortunately, Krakus
himself is revealed to be a powerful psyker, destroying the minds of heavy
weapons team members before they can retaliate at range. As the teams
close range to the compound, the Dark Angels Captain is first into the
compound, confronting the heavily armored and dangerously corrupt bodyguard
inside. Krakus' Hubrice brings him out into the open to engage the
Sororitas at close range. Unleashing the full fury of their cleansing
fire, the Sororitas heavy flamer incinerates Krakus, exploding in the process.
Interrogator Cray fears that with such volatile unsanctioned psychery at loose, Daemonic invasion cannot be far behind...
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Colony World Venatos, Veiled Region.
Aberrant life forms are discovered in
Venatos Secundus. Already several city blocks have been lost to the
encroaching tree forms and birthing pods. The purgation teams succeed
in destroying the aberrant tree forms, and discover some kind of heretical
cult ceremony being conducted in the central tower of the corrupted area,
projecting some kind of coruscating energy field into the sky.. After
forcing entry into the tower, the ritual is interrupted and the heretics
eliminated, but not before a signifigant amount of energy is broadcast
into space.
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Colony World Venatos outer orbit,
Veiled Region.
An unidentified fleet is detected emerging
from the warp on the edge of the Venatos system. Before the Sargasso
can investigate, several renegade strike cruisers take up orbit on the
far side of Venatos, deploying drop pods over the capital. Renegade
forces capture Defence Point 7, and turn the
defense lasers against the Sargasso, forcing
it to retreat from Venatos orbit. The Aperion Crusade forces are
cut off, and must reclaim Defense Point 7 before the Renegades completely
overrun the capital...
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