Through the influx of the massive Warp energies unleashed at the Great Rift's birth, Armageddon has been transformed into a hellscape. This great tear in reality, known also as the Cicatrix Maledictum in High Gothic, was a galaxy-wide Warp Storm that has rent the galaxy in half, spreading from the Eye of Terror to the Hadex Anomaly on the Eastern Fringe. With a good portion of the network of Necron-built Cadian Pylons that had long prevented the Eye of Terror from naturally expanding into the Cadian Gate lost with the fall of Cadia to the forces of Abaddon the Despoiler, that ancient Warp rift began to expand across the galaxy, opening the Despoiler's coveted Crimson Path to Terra and birthing the Great Rift. Due to the inhospitable environmental conditions that exist outside of the planet's hive cities, almost all regiments of the Astra Militarum's Armageddon Steel Legion are trained as mechanised infantry who operate from the relative safety of their vehicles.ĭuring the 13th Black Crusade of 999.M41, the Fortress World of Cadia was destroyed. Thousands of standard years of intense industrial activity has reduced the surface of Armageddon to barren wastelands and polluted oceans humans can only survive within the artificial environment of the world's hive cities (the massive arcology-like structures that stand several kilometres tall) and Imperial military facilities.įood must be imported from off-planet, and clean air and water are precious commodities. Many worlds within a several light-year radius of Armageddon rely on it for its large industrial output. The world of Armageddon is the fourth in its star system of ten planets and is the industrial hub of both the Armageddon Sub-sector and the greater region of the surrounding Armageddon Sector. It was the site of several of the greatest conflicts ever fought by the Imperium of Man, including the First War for Armageddon against Chaos, and the Second and Third Wars for Armageddon against the massive Ork WAAAGH! of the Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka. Exactis Extremis reduced to Solutio Tertius Armageddon is an Imperial Hive World and Industrial World located 10,000 light years to the galactic northeast of Terra in the Segmentum Solar.
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