The Gaios Incident
On the inner reaches
of the Eastern Fringe lies the Vidar sector; an area of space that can loosely
be described as Imperial, but more accurately as a volatile warzone where both
Xenos and Daemonic threats are rife. Even in a galaxy of total war, in a sector
as dangerous as any, it is unusual for an entire system to go blank, but such
was the fate of Gaios.
As distant from Holy
Terra as almost any star in the galaxy, the Gaios system lay at the southern
tip of Galax rift, a stable tear in reality stretching for many light-years.
Nowhere near the scale of the Eye of Terror or tumultuous as the Maelstrom, the
Galax rift still allows a steady flow of the immaterial into the mortal realm
and with it, the forces of the Primordial Annihilator. Initially, the blanketing
of Gaios was assumed to be the rift tearing further apart, a disaster of some
consequence in of itself, however investigation soon showed the rift to be as
stable as ever it was (with stable being a relative term when used to describe
the Warp) and the Gaios system enshrouded by a bilious black cloud so dark that
it seemed deeper than the blackness of space. Attempts to probe the cloud with
sensors returned confusing future echoes of the ship's demise or the screams of
the insane and the damned, causing Bridge Officers to murder their crew and
Navigators to commit suicide in their shielded shrine rooms.
A once populous and
productive system, the Imperium wanted to reassert control of Gaios as soon as
the cloud receded, if it ever did. Naturally, the ability to make entire
systems disappear garnered the interest of other forces in the galaxy. Hordes
of Chaos Space Marines bolstered by nefarious Daemon escorts poured from the
Galax rift. Troupes of Xenos warships emerged from the darkness. All in
preparation to take what would be left of the Gaios system, and whatever
technology or magik had swallowed it whole, as the clouds dissipated.
The forces
of our enemies fall upon this place with ardour. Within this place lies a power
beyond their ken, or ours. To let it fall into their hands would be to invite
cataclysm for the galaxy, whether at the hands of the Mon-keigh or the debased
servants of the Primordial Annihilator. The only solution is to take it for
ourselves. I hope you see my reasoning, and thus understand why I should take
whatever the source of this power is back to Commorragh.
- Endyk Noyisoar, Archon of the Mailed Glaive.
- Endyk Noyisoar, Archon of the Mailed Glaive.
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