Editing Chelob Hammerers (section)

==Background==
Chelob Hold was settled near the Galactic core early in the Dark Age of Technology.  Initially, the settlement focused on mineral extraction.  However, with a growing population, the world became an important industrial centre.  Although the Men of Iron ravaged the Core as they did the whole of human civilisation, the doughty mining folk of Chelob Hold and its neighbouring worlds rebounded fairly quickly with a new and distinctive culture.  Powerful warrior-aristocrats, later to be known as the '''Core Lords''' arose, but they soon set aside the tools of war and focused themselves on trade as the best means of acquiring wealth and treasure for their worlds.  Though the industrial worlds of the core occasionally warred with one another, they were able to establish a loose alliance, known as the '''Core Worlds Confederation''', that obliged them to band together against external threats.  Chelob Hold stood as the second-most powerful world in the alliance, after their historic rival, '''Karazak'''.

The Core Worlds' first encounter with the growing Imperium was amicable.  Rogue Traders moving ahead of the Great Crusade were delighted at the economic opportunities on offer.  Due to the sophistication and relative friendliness of the Core Worlds Confederation, a ''modus vivendi'' of peaceful coexistence went on for decades, until the warlords of the Imperium determined to bring the matter to a close.  The dispatch of the Primarchs [[Shakya Vardhana]] and [[Gaspard Lumey]] - along with a powerful Expeditionary Fleet - was intended to cow the Core Lords into submitting without a fight.  To the dismay of the Primarchs, the Core Worlds Confederation was unwilling to surrender its liberties without compensation in full, and its representatives set out to bargain for all they could get.  Eventually, Gaspard Lumey called a halt to the diplomacy and began the harrowing [[Core Worlds Campaign]].

Chelob Hold tendered its unconditional surrender to Shakya Vardhana within minutes of learning what [[Void Angels|Winged Victory]] had done to Karazak.  The Primarch of the [[Eyes of the Emperor]], with his customary sense for such occasions, was already heading to Chelob Hold and informed the dignitaries of the world that he would receive their submission in person.  The lesser Core Lords, seeing the mightiest among the Confederation either destroyed or humbled, soon fell to the attacking Legions.  The Imperium's terms were harsh.  Gaspard Lumey ordered the execution of the surrendering aristocrats and imposed a heavy tithe of troops on their worlds.  Chelob Hold alone was required to raise one hundred and twenty regiments every year, with the smaller worlds issued with proportionately harsh demands.