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{{quote|"Seven times shall the Putridum Bells of the Grandfather ring, heralding the birth of your feculence. Eternity will rot and fester under the hordes of disease and decay, the Gold Walls breached and forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall kneel as the air creeps with infection and the ground melts, the Daemon shall lie with the machine, brother infecting brother with the glories of the Grandfather. The putrid wound pours its malice forth. The rotted herald his malfeasance, his gifts. The fate of Eternity shall be decided on holy infected soil."

Excerpt from the Liber Contagione}}

| -Excerpt from the Liber Contagione}}

== Overview ==

The First Poxwar launched by the heretic Astartes [[Rotbelchers]] resulted in the largest clash between the Imperium of Man and Chaos forces in [[Eternum Map|Eternum]] since the Horus Heresy ~~10,000 years~~ before. The Rotbelchers raised an enormous army from the fallen worlds of subsector [[Putrilocus]] and a massive fleet from the corrupted [[Port Uralplagush]] intended to bring an end to Sector Eternum and corrupt the trillions of souls contained in her. Although launched far before the Eye of Terror split the galaxy in twain, the First Poxwar would be a portent of things to come for a battered Imperium.

The First Poxwar launched by the heretic Astartes [[Rotbelchers]] resulted in the largest clash between the Imperium of Man and Chaos forces in [[Eternum Map|Eternum]] since the Horus Heresy millennia before. The Rotbelchers raised an enormous army from the fallen worlds of subsector [[Putrilocus]] and a massive fleet from the corrupted [[Port Uralplagush]] intended to bring an end to Sector Eternum and corrupt the trillions of souls contained in her. Although launched far before the Eye of Terror split the galaxy in twain, the First Poxwar would be a portent of things to come for a battered Imperium.

The campaign began with a massive assault out of the [[Bubonic Rift]], spilling forth into subsector [[Caligulas]] and [[Makerus]] and launching brutal fights on dozens of worlds with the ultimate goal of seizing the power secreted away by the Inquisition in [[Confedus]] and destroying the [[Crimson Bulwark|Crimson Hammer]] along with infecting hundreds of billions. The First Poxwar forever changed Eternum, but details are lost and the rest secreted away by the Inquisition and now-Crimson Bulwark, with little known for certain in current times.

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The Imperial forces dug in at key worlds in the path of the invasion, with forces and fleets arranged for rapid redeployment once the enemy arrived at their next target designed to take advantage of Redobti's stable warp routes that connected her to far away systems. The fortress [[Redobti]], the Brass Gate, was key to stalling the tide of traitors, though the world [[Regina]] was also an expected high priority target due to its ties to the Crimson Hammer. Imperial forces fortified both with each preparing to reinforce the other when the Chaos fleet had chosen its next priority. Chaos arrived at Redobti and began their invasion, as Astropaths burned out telling their counterparts on Regina. Planetside forces on Regina began preparing to depart for Redobti, with all Battlegroups except the [[Battlefleet Arkamedes|Arkamedian]] 12th Battlegroup leaving for the battle while they remained to safeguard the ground forces redeployment. Unbeknownst to the Imperium, the Arkamedian 12th had fallen to Chaos, lured by promises of power to retake their home subsector from the Orks and waiting for the opportunity to strike at their former compatriots. With Regina's orbital defenders gone, the 12th signalled a waiting Rotbelcher sorcerer's ship which soon arrived to deliver the sorcerer's demonically enhanced virus bomb from the Dark Age of Technology. With all orbital defenses controlled by the 12th, the Crimson Hammer marines, Imperial Guardsmen, and Sisters of Battle could do nothing but watch as the virus bomb spread its miasma over the world and rapidly engulfed all life. Even the hermetically sealed power armor of the Marines and Sisters corroded under the power of the warp infused virus, choking the life out of the planet in a rapid chain reaction. Mercifully for the defenders, the virus was far more powerful than the sorcerer foresaw, and the gasses released as the pestilence rapidly decomposed Regina's life were ignited by a lightning strike that quickly grew into a conflagration that burnt the entire planet. The traitor was dismayed at the loss of raw material for his biological experiments, but his objective to destroy Redobti's relief was successful.

Redobti, commonly called the Brass Gate, formed a critical link in Eternum's defense as it was a locus for almost all stable warp routes deeper into subsector [[Gothar]] and even further away worlds in Makerus, [[Richmon]], and Confedus. Situated on the sole mandeville point, Redobti protected Eternum's most key Battlefleet anchorages and prized worlds, thus it was an irresistible prize for the Rotbelchers and would soon see fought a brutal battle for survival, with the combined Imperial forces of the Crimson Hammer, [[Order of the ~~Purple Communion~~]], and Imperial Guard fighting the Rotbelchers, their daemon allies, and hordes of zombies and traitor regiments. Although the defending Battlefleets bolstered by Regina's fleets engaged the arriving traitors fiercely, the unending swarm of vessels kept the strongest Imperial ships tied up in furious close range engagements. The terrifying Rotfleet led by their most bloated and disfigured flagship forced their way through the orbital melee, with each fetid ship shrugging macrocannon fire that would obliterate any ship not blessed by Nurgle, towards the heavily fortified surface. Disgorging scores of landing craft, droppods, and pustules filled with cursed cultists and daemons, the invasion of the Brass Gate had begun. The sky filled with flak and macrocannon fire and hordes of flies, with defenders assailed by unending scores of cultists, plague zombies, and other creations of the Rotbelchers, line after line was slowly pushed back. Only the fortress design that created reinforced enfilade points afforded the defenders the time to hold off the enemy horde, time to regroup and hold out for reinforcements that were due to arrive soon.

Redobti, commonly called the Brass Gate, formed a critical link in Eternum's defense as it was a locus for almost all stable warp routes deeper into subsector [[Gothar]] and even further away worlds in Makerus, [[Richmon]], and Confedus. Situated on the sole mandeville point, Redobti protected Eternum's most key Battlefleet anchorages and prized worlds, thus it was an irresistible prize for the Rotbelchers and would soon see fought a brutal battle for survival, with the combined Imperial forces of the Crimson Hammer, [[Order of the Last Candle]], and Imperial Guard fighting the Rotbelchers, their daemon allies, and hordes of zombies and traitor regiments. Although the defending Battlefleets bolstered by Regina's fleets engaged the arriving traitors fiercely, the unending swarm of vessels kept the strongest Imperial ships tied up in furious close range engagements. The terrifying Rotfleet led by their most bloated and disfigured flagship forced their way through the orbital melee, with each fetid ship shrugging macrocannon fire that would obliterate any ship not blessed by Nurgle, towards the heavily fortified surface. Disgorging scores of landing craft, droppods, and pustules filled with cursed cultists and daemons, the invasion of the Brass Gate had begun. The sky filled with flak and macrocannon fire and hordes of flies, with defenders assailed by unending scores of cultists, plague zombies, and other creations of the Rotbelchers, line after line was slowly pushed back. Only the fortress design that created reinforced enfilade points afforded the defenders the time to hold off the enemy horde, time to regroup and hold out for reinforcements that were due to arrive soon.

The first waves that already cost the Imperium dearly were merely cannon fodder cast aside by Nurgle's followers, and soon the defensive lines came under attack from the true Rotbelchers. Fortress complex after fortress complex fell to plague, unending tides of zombies, and the Plague Marines themselves, with the Imperium soon realizing the expected relief forces were not coming. Although the defense was fierce and cost the attackers, the Rotbelchers succeeded in commandeering Redobti's central command nexus, allowing them full control of the planet's formidable weapons, weapons which thanks to traitors amongst the Guard had not fired a single shot in defense.

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 {{quote|"Seven times shall the Putridum Bells of the Grandfather ring, heralding the birth of your feculence. Eternity will rot and fester under the hordes of disease and decay, the Gold Walls breached and forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall kneel as the air creeps with infection and the ground melts, the Daemon shall lie with the machine, brother infecting brother with the glories of the Grandfather. The putrid wound pours its malice forth. The rotted herald his malfeasance, his gifts. The fate of Eternity shall be decided on holy infected soil."
-Excerpt from the Liber Contagione}}
+| -Excerpt from the Liber Contagione}}
 == Overview ==
-The First Poxwar launched by the heretic Astartes [[Rotbelchers]] resulted in the largest clash between the Imperium of Man and Chaos forces in [[Eternum Map|Eternum]] since the Horus Heresy 10,000 years before. The Rotbelchers raised an enormous army from the fallen worlds of subsector [[Putrilocus]] and a massive fleet from the corrupted [[Port Uralplagush]] intended to bring an end to Sector Eternum and corrupt the trillions of souls contained in her. Although launched far before the Eye of Terror split the galaxy in twain, the First Poxwar would be a portent of things to come for a battered Imperium.
+The First Poxwar launched by the heretic Astartes [[Rotbelchers]] resulted in the largest clash between the Imperium of Man and Chaos forces in [[Eternum Map|Eternum]] since the Horus Heresy millennia before. The Rotbelchers raised an enormous army from the fallen worlds of subsector [[Putrilocus]] and a massive fleet from the corrupted [[Port Uralplagush]] intended to bring an end to Sector Eternum and corrupt the trillions of souls contained in her. Although launched far before the Eye of Terror split the galaxy in twain, the First Poxwar would be a portent of things to come for a battered Imperium.
 The campaign began with a massive assault out of the [[Bubonic Rift]], spilling forth into subsector [[Caligulas]] and [[Makerus]] and launching brutal fights on dozens of worlds with the ultimate goal of seizing the power secreted away by the Inquisition in [[Confedus]] and destroying the [[Crimson Bulwark|Crimson Hammer]] along with infecting hundreds of billions. The First Poxwar forever changed Eternum, but details are lost and the rest secreted away by the Inquisition and now-Crimson Bulwark, with little known for certain in current times.
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 The Imperial forces dug in at key worlds in the path of the invasion, with forces and fleets arranged for rapid redeployment once the enemy arrived at their next target designed to take advantage of Redobti's stable warp routes that connected her to far away systems. The fortress [[Redobti]], the Brass Gate, was key to stalling the tide of traitors, though the world [[Regina]] was also an expected high priority target due to its ties to the Crimson Hammer. Imperial forces fortified both with each preparing to reinforce the other when the Chaos fleet had chosen its next priority. Chaos arrived at Redobti and began their invasion, as Astropaths burned out telling their counterparts on Regina. Planetside forces on Regina began preparing to depart for Redobti, with all Battlegroups except the [[Battlefleet Arkamedes|Arkamedian]] 12th Battlegroup leaving for the battle while they remained to safeguard the ground forces redeployment. Unbeknownst to the Imperium, the Arkamedian 12th had fallen to Chaos, lured by promises of power to retake their home subsector from the Orks and waiting for the opportunity to strike at their former compatriots. With Regina's orbital defenders gone, the 12th signalled a waiting Rotbelcher sorcerer's ship which soon arrived to deliver the sorcerer's demonically enhanced virus bomb from the Dark Age of Technology. With all orbital defenses controlled by the 12th, the Crimson Hammer marines, Imperial Guardsmen, and Sisters of Battle could do nothing but watch as the virus bomb spread its miasma over the world and rapidly engulfed all life. Even the hermetically sealed power armor of the Marines and Sisters corroded under the power of the warp infused virus, choking the life out of the planet in a rapid chain reaction. Mercifully for the defenders, the virus was far more powerful than the sorcerer foresaw, and the gasses released as the pestilence rapidly decomposed Regina's life were ignited by a lightning strike that quickly grew into a conflagration that burnt the entire planet. The traitor was dismayed at the loss of raw material for his biological experiments, but his objective to destroy Redobti's relief was successful.
-Redobti, commonly called the Brass Gate, formed a critical link in Eternum's defense as it was a locus for almost all stable warp routes deeper into subsector [[Gothar]] and even further away worlds in Makerus, [[Richmon]], and Confedus. Situated on the sole mandeville point, Redobti protected Eternum's most key Battlefleet anchorages and prized worlds, thus it was an irresistible prize for the Rotbelchers and would soon see fought a brutal battle for survival, with the combined Imperial forces of the Crimson Hammer, [[Order of the Purple Communion]], and Imperial Guard fighting the Rotbelchers, their daemon allies, and hordes of zombies and traitor regiments. Although the defending Battlefleets bolstered by Regina's fleets engaged the arriving traitors fiercely, the unending swarm of vessels kept the strongest Imperial ships tied up in furious close range engagements. The terrifying Rotfleet led by their most bloated and disfigured flagship forced their way through the orbital melee, with each fetid ship shrugging macrocannon fire that would obliterate any ship not blessed by Nurgle, towards the heavily fortified surface. Disgorging scores of landing craft, droppods, and pustules filled with cursed cultists and daemons, the invasion of the Brass Gate had begun. The sky filled with flak and macrocannon fire and hordes of flies, with defenders assailed by unending scores of cultists, plague zombies, and other creations of the Rotbelchers, line after line was slowly pushed back. Only the fortress design that created reinforced enfilade points afforded the defenders the time to hold off the enemy horde, time to regroup and hold out for reinforcements that were due to arrive soon.
+Redobti, commonly called the Brass Gate, formed a critical link in Eternum's defense as it was a locus for almost all stable warp routes deeper into subsector [[Gothar]] and even further away worlds in Makerus, [[Richmon]], and Confedus. Situated on the sole mandeville point, Redobti protected Eternum's most key Battlefleet anchorages and prized worlds, thus it was an irresistible prize for the Rotbelchers and would soon see fought a brutal battle for survival, with the combined Imperial forces of the Crimson Hammer, [[Order of the Last Candle]], and Imperial Guard fighting the Rotbelchers, their daemon allies, and hordes of zombies and traitor regiments. Although the defending Battlefleets bolstered by Regina's fleets engaged the arriving traitors fiercely, the unending swarm of vessels kept the strongest Imperial ships tied up in furious close range engagements. The terrifying Rotfleet led by their most bloated and disfigured flagship forced their way through the orbital melee, with each fetid ship shrugging macrocannon fire that would obliterate any ship not blessed by Nurgle, towards the heavily fortified surface. Disgorging scores of landing craft, droppods, and pustules filled with cursed cultists and daemons, the invasion of the Brass Gate had begun. The sky filled with flak and macrocannon fire and hordes of flies, with defenders assailed by unending scores of cultists, plague zombies, and other creations of the Rotbelchers, line after line was slowly pushed back. Only the fortress design that created reinforced enfilade points afforded the defenders the time to hold off the enemy horde, time to regroup and hold out for reinforcements that were due to arrive soon.
 The first waves that already cost the Imperium dearly were merely cannon fodder cast aside by Nurgle's followers, and soon the defensive lines came under attack from the true Rotbelchers. Fortress complex after fortress complex fell to plague, unending tides of zombies, and the Plague Marines themselves, with the Imperium soon realizing the expected relief forces were not coming. Although the defense was fierce and cost the attackers, the Rotbelchers succeeded in commandeering Redobti's central command nexus, allowing them full control of the planet's formidable weapons, weapons which thanks to traitors amongst the Guard had not fired a single shot in defense.