The First Poxwar: Difference between revisions

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== The Bubonic Rift Bursts ==

[[File:First Poxwar Invasion.jpg|thumb|Initial invasion during the First Poxwar]]

The Putrilocus subsector had long been lost to the Imperium, locked and hidden away by the warp with the only route to and from lying within a small region of space permeated with warp-storms and the exits guarded by orbiting Imperial void fortresses and fleets, with any ship not marked by Nurgle doomed if they dared try to travel through the storms. The invasion began with these warp-storms coalescing into a burgeoning rift, which rapidly grew to encompass all space nearby even touched by the periphery of the storms, swallowing whole fleets and stations and sucking them into the warp. So rapid was this growth that no station or fleet had even enough time to send a distress call, with the first time the Imperium was even aware being when long range scanners saw the sickly green rift swirling as invasion fleets arrived in orbit over nearby worlds.

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The next target of the Rotbelchers with similar aims to the invasion of Edgeview was the hive world NuberrLen. A lethally cold world with hive cities protected by ancient archeotech domes, NuberrLen suddenly found itself attacked from within, with hordes of cultists rising up to overthrow the Imperial defenders. The brutal climate prevented combat outside the domes, with the rebellion taking full advantage of that and conquering two domes while pushing into others. The cultists had chosen their targets wisely, with their domes holding the primary military port and ammunition held for Makerus, any attack would bog down Imperials for years. Realizing the trap the Rotbelchers had set, the Crimson Hammer leading the defense opted to cut the knot and instead of assaulting the domes through the rail tunnels connecting the dome network they relied on their armor to carry through the temperatures that would freeze anyone else in seconds. Cutting into each dome, the Hammer strike forces sliced a path through cultist patrols to the ammunition depot and spaceport fuel stores, setting demolition charges. Leaving through the same holes they cut, they detonated the charges and watched as the fallen domes exploded and collapsed. Without their protection, NuberrLen's blizzards burst into the hives, freezing the cultist armies in a flash. They had successfully defeated the trap, but NuberrLen's use for the war effort ceased.

[[File:SectorEternum1stPoxwarZenith.jpg|thumb|The Rotbelcher's Furthest Occupation]]

== Zenith of Corruption ==

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 == The Bubonic Rift Bursts ==
+[[File:First Poxwar Invasion.jpg|thumb|Initial invasion during the First Poxwar]]
 The Putrilocus subsector had long been lost to the Imperium, locked and hidden away by the warp with the only route to and from lying within a small region of space permeated with warp-storms and the exits guarded by orbiting Imperial void fortresses and fleets, with any ship not marked by Nurgle doomed if they dared try to travel through the storms. The invasion began with these warp-storms coalescing into a burgeoning rift, which rapidly grew to encompass all space nearby even touched by the periphery of the storms, swallowing whole fleets and stations and sucking them into the warp. So rapid was this growth that no station or fleet had even enough time to send a distress call, with the first time the Imperium was even aware being when long range scanners saw the sickly green rift swirling as invasion fleets arrived in orbit over nearby worlds.
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 The next target of the Rotbelchers with similar aims to the invasion of Edgeview was the hive world NuberrLen. A lethally cold world with hive cities protected by ancient archeotech domes, NuberrLen suddenly found itself attacked from within, with hordes of cultists rising up to overthrow the Imperial defenders. The brutal climate prevented combat outside the domes, with the rebellion taking full advantage of that and conquering two domes while pushing into others. The cultists had chosen their targets wisely, with their domes holding the primary military port and ammunition held for Makerus, any attack would bog down Imperials for years. Realizing the trap the Rotbelchers had set, the Crimson Hammer leading the defense opted to cut the knot and instead of assaulting the domes through the rail tunnels connecting the dome network they relied on their armor to carry through the temperatures that would freeze anyone else in seconds. Cutting into each dome, the Hammer strike forces sliced a path through cultist patrols to the ammunition depot and spaceport fuel stores, setting demolition charges. Leaving through the same holes they cut, they detonated the charges and watched as the fallen domes exploded and collapsed. Without their protection, NuberrLen's blizzards burst into the hives, freezing the cultist armies in a flash. They had successfully defeated the trap, but NuberrLen's use for the war effort ceased.
+[[File:SectorEternum1stPoxwarZenith.jpg|thumb|The Rotbelcher's Furthest Occupation]]
 == Zenith of Corruption ==