The Compliance of Caldera (Unknown Date.M31) - An unusual campaign during the Great Crusade for the Salamanders involved bringing the world of 154-4, known as Ibsen by its inhabitants, into Imperial Compliance. The Salamanders, lead by Vulkan himself, were joined by the Iron Hands and the Death Guard Legions, both lead by their own respective Primarchs. The world was undeveloped, and largely inhospitable to human life, but possessed valuable mineral deposits. However, the Imperial forces faced stiff resistance for control of the planet from the Eldar, who had placed a garrison upon Ibsen. The Eldar forces -- including Seers, Warlocks and other combat psykers -- could not have expected to defeat one Legion of Astartes, let alone three. The mystery deepened when the semi-feral, primitive human tribes inhabiting the planet seemed more sympathetic to the Eldar, or at the very least, not welcoming to their human liberators. The Salamanders and other Imperials defeated the Eldar relatively easily as expected. After the conquest, the Salamanders learned that the Eldar had been defending a network of menhirs which served as psychic nodes and that fed into a giant arch, where the final and most brutal confrontation between the Astartes and the xenos had taken place. The arch itself had been located thanks to a mysterious Remembrancer attached to the Salamanders, with whom Vulkan had had an unsettling conversation before the battle. After the slaughter ended, Vulkan saw the Remembrancer loitering by the arch and then suddenly disappearing. Following him, Vulkan and his elite Pyre Guard descended into the chambers beneath it, through a portal at its base. There they found a crude warding ceremony taking place, conducted by the primitive human tribal priests, who were ready to sacrifice an ancient Dark Eldar witch. Finally, Vulkan realised the truth: the arch was in reality, a Webway portal (though none of the Imperials, including Vulkan, knew this at the time); Vulkan had seen a "gate" like this before, in his Nocturnean youth, when Dark Eldar repeatedly utilised such a portal to raid and pillage the planet. The Eldar had taken control of the portal by defeating their dark cousins, and in the process had freed the indigenous human population of Ibsen from the horrors of Dark Eldar raids; the Eldar had been seen by the humans as liberators. Terrified by the defeat of their liberators at the hands of the Imperium, the natives had sought to sacrifice their Dark Eldar captive to ward off the inevitable return of her race; the mysterious "Remembrancer" who was nowhere to be seen had actually been the Emperor in disguise, who must have had a great interest in the particulars of this mission since he had ordered so many resources committed to it. Vulkan ordered Ibsen and its irredeemably corrupted population cleansed by flame. He renamed the scoured, Nocturne-like Dead World that remained Caldera. The world was now ready to receive new human colonists and to be exploited for the benefit of the Imperium.

Alas. Some imperials just won't stay dead. Any word on how he survived? Or how he got off of Istvaan?

Pyriel- wrote:

Alas. Some imperials just won't stay dead. Any word on how he survived? Or how he got off of Istvaan?

Didnt you know?
Angron, the lobotomized schitzo that he is offered him a ride home in his personal shuttle.
Of course when he realized his blundering mistake caused by said lobotomization it was already to late.

Pilau Rice wrote:Couldn't it have been the big guns that the Lion gave to Perturabo though?

Those were some Big guns

Hey. Berserkers have feelings too ya know.

sumi808 wrote:I think kharn is having tea and biscuts with the DE

How did he end up at their place anyway ?

Pyriel- wrote:

Hey. Berserkers have feelings too ya know.

True, they are binary. They do have two feelings.
One is "Duuuuuh..."
and the other is "raaaaage!"

GreatGunz wrote:

Pyriel- wrote:

Hey. Berserkers have feelings too ya know.

True, they are binary. They do have two feelings.
One is "Duuuuuh..."
and the other is "raaaaage!"

A common misconception. In truth the world eaters are a noble band of brothers, fighting for justice and truth throughout the galaxy.
The legion is home to many a philosopher, poet, artist, humanitarian, or benefactor of mankind in general.
One must evaluate the facts, and not simply repeat imperial propaganda.

GreatGunz wrote:Also the leading researchers in the developing (and sadly neglected) field of axe-technology.

Durza wrote:True, but there's always the option of using your voice to set stuff on fire if you're willing to share a budget with Luciustech.

sudojoe wrote:

Durza wrote:True, but there's always the option of using your voice to set stuff on fire if you're willing to share a budget with Luciustech.

I thought that firm was deep into sonic armor as well as flesh whip design? Whey did they cross over into the fire breath side of things? I might have to dump that stock now as I am fairly sure the Tzeentch Flamers Company woud file some intellectual property suit. I'm fairly confident the law suit would fail but that would just let me rebuy the company on the rebound due to market instability and speculation.

Mr Morden wrote:Isn't there a new novel looking into the Primarchs disapearance by Nick Kyme