Forum:The Fires of Heaven

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Setting
Soren Primus was a peaceful world. The governor was firm but fair, and civil liberties were extended to all of pure blood. Even the mutant populace had a few rudimentary rights (althoutgh, typically, they lost them in favour of a pureblood keeping theirs). The government paid their Imperial tithes and sent the small PDF to aid their embattled neighbours whenever necessary. The crime rate was so low in the major cities that the Arbites were on a first-name basis with many of the common people. Education was valued, and free education was available right up to honours-level college degrees. There was a Schola Progenium situated on the northern ice cap (presumably to discourage escape towards the less harsh schools of the cities). Soren Primus has four landmasses and two ice caps at each magnetic and geographic pole.

The only thing that really stands out about the planet is the planet itself. Its surface is an almost perfect 50/50 split between land and water, with most of the land just high enough above sea level to prevent flooding during storms. The coastlines are remarkably regular and measured, and show little to no signs of coastal erosion or continental drift. It's axis of rotation it perfectly vertical to the galactic plane, and it's orbit around Soren (the creatively named system star) is perfectly circular. Bizzarely, it has no unique native lifeforms. These traits are shared by every world in the Soren System. All of this points towards terraforming by an extremely advanced civilization. Due to the verdancy and hospitable environment of all the planets, it can be assumed that it was performed by the Eldar at the height of their power.

Recent history on Soren Primus

 * Unexplained plague swept three major cities, including the planetary capital, and held for four years. The affected cities have been clear of the plague for almost a year now.
 * Crop yields for the past five years were the largest in recorded history, garnering record profits from exports.
 * The Steel Tigers Space Marine Chapter visited less than six months ago with the intention of inspecting Soren Primus as a potential garrison/vassal world.

The Campaign
But all was not well on Soren Primus. In the wake of the plague, and the balancing by the crop yields, which allowed the supply of superior medicines, a great beast has reared its head. War has come to Soren Primus. The reasons are unknown to all but the attackers, and the strikes in the rugged mountains of Soren Primus' Secondary Landmass, some of the most difficult terrain on the planet, are seemingly random and completely unplanned. And yet, every attack force sent after these mysterious attackers has been utterly destroyed, their bodies piled on the foothills and burned in fires that billowed in no earthly wind, and burned even through the rain. Many scholars would assume Daemons. The truly wise know that Daemons rarely leave so few clues, and Daemons need mass slaughter or the reviving energy of Warp Storms to sustain them.

It was not until four months after the first strike, which completely obliterated a large mountain resort town in mere minutes, that the Warp Storm began to form, creeping around the borders of the entire Soren System. Now the only safe route passes directly by Soren Primus, and it can only be assumed that this too will close soon. And when that happens, the Fires of Heaven will scorch the Earth.

Factions
Here is where you enter your faction and their motivations.

Black Legion 3rd Grand Company
Led by their Lord and Master, Alistair, the Third Grand Company have returned to Imperial Space once more. To those privy to knowledge of the Traitor Astartes (a tiny minority in the Imperium), the 3rd is synonymous with slaughter on an obscene scale. They are callous, merciless veterans many of whom have ruled a world in Abbadon's name at some point or another. None of them would think twice about slaughtering innocent civilians or gunning down a foe who had already surrendered. They are the Chosen of Chaos and the bane of all that lives.

It was the Third who made the first planetfall, Alistair conceiling his fleet's presence in the Warp until he could call in the Warp Storms threatening to overwhelm the Soren System. After planetfall, Alistair demonstrated his immense psychic power by blinding every target's sensors before each attack on the PDF detatchments or towns in his path. While the Imperium assumes that this attack is a random act on some Daemonic Quest or the price to be paid for one of Alistair's myriad Daemonic Pacts, it is not. The true reason, if it were known to them, would have the High Lords of Terra moving the entire Sector Fleet against the Soren System, once they had received a change of trousers. But they do not. Alistair is here to take as his own an ancient Eldar weapon from the time before the Fall. The Angel, as it is known, has unknown capabilities. All that is known of it, even to Alistair, is that it is incredibly powerful, and hidden somewhere on Soren Primus.