Editing Imperium Asunder Campaigns (section)

=Campaigns of the Heresy=

==Oathsworn Compliance==
Realizing that the greatest barrier to his rebellion is the Oathsworn, The Warmaster plots against them.

===Prelude===
>Censure of the Oathsworn

997.M30: Four entire sectors brought to compliance and garrisoned by the Oathsworn go silent

998.M30: Reports filter in that the Oathsworn have declared independence from the Imperium

999.M30: A compliance fleet drawn from ??? legions arrives in sector and finds this to be the case and engages in a pacification. Though troubling, the event is seen as an aberration.

002.M31: Six chapters of the Oathsworn are reported missing and are later seen raiding outlying sectors.

003.M31: A massive psychic shockwave rocks the palace on Terra. Custodes are seen on high alert and Sisters of Silence are recalled en mass to Terra.

004.M31: These Oathsworn are brought to battle by ??? and in the resulting boarding action, documents are found linking this insurrection to the one of 997.M30, along with something further.
An additional chapter of the Oathsworn goes rogue, turning on the Judgement Bringers.

The world of Paladins of Kor world of Monarchia is found having been scoured of all life, presumably by Oathsworn gene-weapons. Kor swears vengeance.

005.M31: [Redacted] calls Faustus to account for these acts, but the diplomatic party is returned to Terra as a flesh-ooze. Communications break down and war breaks out on Luna.
The call for Censure goes out to the Legions.

Here begins the Siege of Luna.
Here begins the Censure of the Oathsworn Proper.

===Siege of Luna===

005.M31: Judgement Bringers and Paladins of Kor are deployed as part of the first wave on Luna, with Judgement Bringer forces forming the fortifications and manning the artillery while the rest of their forces ostensibly rotate in. The Paladins bear the brunt of the casualties, alongside forces from the Storm Hammers.

006.M31: The Silver Spears and Eyes rotate in, alongside Sky Serpents and Fists of Mars forces. The Paladins are beginning to be rotated out, but the Fists are redirected to Mars.
Massacre at Cadia goes down.

The full extent of the Heresy is revealed as the Paladins, Hammers, and Knights expeditionary force is exhausted and daemons take the center stage.


To jump over to the Oathsworn, I'm thinking once the heresy breaks out in earnest and Terra comes under siege, Faustus pulls out the stops. He'd been figuring that the Emperor and Malcador would bring an end to this nonsense. Kor and Enoch were both fools, but when the magnitude of the betrayal is revealed, Faustus pulls his really weird experiments, the ones that pushed the bounds of acceptability, things of the sort that the Warmaster had accused him of having.
Simultaneously, the betrayal at Cadia doesn't go quite as well as Enoch had claimed it would, with rumors of Oramar's interference.
This diverts the Warmaster's resources from the Sol System, meaning that Faustus gets some breathing room and starts launching meteors to Terra.
This is where we end up with Silent Knights fighting daemons while riding on gene-dragons.
Faustus manages to get in touch with Sinistrum on Mars, but Sinistrum is doing everything he can to keep the red planet from falling as it is.
The Battle for Terran Orbital space is insane, with the fronts shifting based on orbital alignments of Lunar and Terran anti-ship weapons and the positions of orbital plates and weapons platforms. So it is in the skies of Terra that the Angels and daemons fight as stars fall from he the skies.
Battles rage at a thousand forts on both worlds as forces seek ways into the heart of the loyalist centers of resistance and the daemons just keep coming.

That's what's etched into the Oathsworn psyche, visions of a mad battle, holding positions for other legions to take up. It happens, finally, but in the end, the Warmaster infiltrates the palace somehow and assassinates the Emperor, the rest of the traitor legions having done their job and kept the loyalists at bay for long enough.

===Campaigns Outsystem===

===Tournament and Betrayal at Cadia===

The Warmaster calls a test of strength called the [[Tournament of Blades]] in honor of the Emperor. The winner of the tournament is to be named the Praetorian of Terra, tasked with guarding Segmentum Solar for all time. The Primarchs and their honor guard are invited to the newly compliant world of Cadia, where a mighty coliseum has been erected. There, brother will compete against brother to prove their superiority, and thus their worth to the Warmaster. The Judgement Bringers, Warhawks, The Knights Exemplar, Iron Hearts, Paladins of Kor, Silver Spears, Second Sons, Storm Hammers, Bohemoth Guard, Sky Serpents, and of course the Eyes of the Warmster, are all in attendance. The Loyalists are lead to believe that repulsor fields and Oathsworn medica teams will keep the tourney relatively safe, but they are fools to believe so.

The Primarchs and equerries of the legions muster in the arena with their honor guards. Above them in the stands are ranks and ranks of armored Astartes, here to cheer their fathers' names. The arena floor before them is so massive that the competitors set up their preparation camps and tents inside the arena itself, along the outer edge. The first (and only) match-up is the Crimson Warhawks against the Silver Spears. Cheers from both legions echo the clashing blades of the two forces, but when the spear of Milvious Garmon pierces the Crimson Warhawks commander Samandrial Huss, the whole arena goes dead silent. Garmon screams his treachery for all to hear, and tells his fellows now is the time to turn on their brothers. Garmon's screams are cut off by the telltale whistling of a thousand whirlwind missiles, which hit the stands. All hell breaks loose among the Astartes, with men charging down the stands for vengeance, safety, and out of sheer confusion. Those who knew of the treachery beforehand begin slaughtering their comrades, and the loyalists begin to defend themselves. The arena turns into a charnel house of death and gore, and the Primarchs stand dueling at its center.

Despite the best efforts of the Warmaster's puppets, many loyalists manage to escape the carnage. Chief among them is Bannroud Tenriel, equerry of the Paladins of Kor. The moment the battle breaks out, Bannroud realizes what has happened and rallies his men to him. They fight their way out of the arena while others fight to reach the center. Bannroud and his men escape to orbit, and bring news of the Heresy to Anders Kor.

===Penance of the Warhawks===
Once the Warmaster calls for the Censure of the Oathsworn, Raydon openly rejects the orders - ordering his men to hide / protect the Oathsworn attachments.

He then goes to the Warmaster and hands himself in, for what he sees as an act of 'righteous treason'.

The Warmaster is furious, but sees this as an opportunity to 'turn' the Hawks (after all they did just demonstrate a willingness to be treasonous).

The Warmasters plan is thus:
> send the Hawks away on 'penance quest'
> Heresy occurs
> Ravenloft (closest thing to a home Hawks have) is destroyed, conclusive evidence shows it was done by who we would call loyalists.
> Warmaster beseaches Raydon through Enoch - Come back and help us (the loyal defenders of the Imperium, these traitors are trying to kill papa)
> Raydon is like "Opportunity for absolution, fuck yeah"
> All of Raydons bro's are with the Warmaster except Klaus (who is dead by now)
> Tell Raydon one of the others killed Klaus though trickery or witchcraft.
> Have Hawks fall to chaos

Unfortunately for the Warmaster, Raydon secretly assigns his Vigilator Primus (his top operator) to go the Tournament, where he sees what REALLY happens. 

> Enoch seeks out Raydon and tell him his version of events
> Raydon is like "bro you lying"
> Enoch gets mad
> Raydon is like "oh btw, while you've been monologuing I had your ships engines sabotaged - imma go now

Which leads to The Return of the Warhawks, which is their arrival during what I call 'The Exodus' which is the loyalists fleeing East.
They arrive and throw themselves into the pursuing forces, this is the first instance of their inner darkness coming out, with the ferocity and recklessness that they throw themselves into this. 
>im talking piloting ships into pursuing vessels
>kamakazie pilots
>self destructing void engines to temporarily incapacitate the traitor fleets.
They also do their normal hit & run, space guerrilla fighting as well. Long story short is they feel shit for missing most the heresy, and figure 'the void is our turf' so they do as much as they can to halt / slow the traitor forces chasing the loyalists.

In return they take fairly large losses both in material and personnel, more than they can reasonably bear being such a small legion to begin with, but the Loyalists make it to the East with the Hawks falling in close behind.

> flying right into the heart of the worst Warpstorm front ever recorded.

I am having a lot of fun coming up with the speechs the Hawk commanders give to their men before entering the warp storm. So far I have.

>We will not complain about the wind before us, nor will we expect the winds to change, no, we are Astartes of the Emperors chosen legion, we are Warhawks, we will set our sails and ride the wind like none have ever done before!

>This is the True Storm, the roughest that will ever be known. Let it prove us. Let it redeem us. Let our strength be known!

>There are some great sessons that can only be learnt in the calm of the void. There are others my brothers, that can only be learnt in the storm.

>If my highest calling brother was to preserve this ship, I would never have taken it from its home port. We ride.

>Chapter Ancient: My Lord, our fleet cannot withstand this storm.
>Raydon: No my friend, this storm cannot withstand us.

==War on Mars==

>Civil War breaks out somehow on Mars
>It takes a lot longer than it does in Mechanicum, perhaps the Vaults of Moravec aren't opened until midway through the heresy, since the early heresy is being masked as a campaign against Faustus and the Oathsworn.
>With the traitor's most potent weapon neutralized, they have to start with 'conventional' war.
>Sieges of Mondus Gamma, Magma City, among other sites.
>Absolutely massive Engine War, as Knight and Titans are unleashed in their whole Legio glory
>Loyalists being pushed back, losing ground
>Sinistrum is rerouted from Luna to go deal with the situation
>Great advances are made, he takes back all the way to the Yalu rim.
>Gengrat comes
>Oh shit. Daemon engines.
>Loyalists retreat, taking what they can with them
>Gengrat chases them off world, but other than a token fleet, he strangely stays encamped on Mars, guns towards Terra.
>They say he's looking for something in the Noctis Labyrinthis

==Battle of Armageddon==

>clad in his Knight Thanator chassis, Sarco besieges the central manufactorum-hive of Armageddon
>its population are soon revealed to be long dead, and a deranged Gengrat emerges from between the hive's teetering spires piloting a gargantuan biomechanical monstrosity wrought from mechanicus steel and woven hiver flesh
>a retinue of similar beasts tear free of their abhorrent wombs buried in the deeps of the hive and lumber toward Sarco
>securing his mammoth power sword and shield-mounted graviton imploder, Sarco transmits a hellish roar, tearing through the beasts. Their claws rake the adamantium from his chassis, tearing loose thick arterial pathways of ancient tubing, spilling prometheum across the hive by the gallon. Still he advances
>his beasts torn asunder, Gengrat charges his own steed. The battle shakes the surface of Armageddon, but eventually Sarco tears a chink in the abomination's armour, plunging the barrel of his graviton imploder into its innards and collapsing the beasts' internal organs in upon themselves
>tearing Gengrat from his steed by his mechandrites, he hurls the traitor down, every bone in the Primarch's body shattering as he crashes down amidst the ruins of the hive
>offering his devotions to the Emperor, Sarco moves to crush the maniac traitor underfoot, but is stilled by the sound of warning sirens calling across Armageddon, indicating that someone has initiated the planet's own Exterminatus Protocols, and the world's surface will soon be bathed in nuclear fire
>bringing a nearby hab block down on Gengrat with a sweep of his blade, he leaves the crippled Primarch to die in the blaze
>Gengrat's laughter echoes across the wastes, even as tons of concrete wash over him

==Solar Rim Campaigns==

===Knights Exemplar===

===Storm Hammers===

===Sky Serpents===

==Siege of Terra==

===The Exodus===
At Terra, the Warmaster sneaks in, disguised as a Custodian and assassinates the Emperor. There's a few primarchs on hand, and they're on the walls in the maelstrom of battle, so Klaus goes after him while Faustus and Engerand? (or one of the other Primarchs) remain to keep the front stable, as best they can. They organize a retreat.
Faustus takes the Emperor's body and puts it in a stasis casket guarded by a special Oathsworn detachment. Probably an honor guard of Custodes, too. He loads it onto a ship. Engerand loses track because FUCK FUCK FUCK, Klaus is dead too, now.
All seems lost when the combined Scion and Sky Serpent drops out of the warp. They cover the retreat as Faustus drops the moon.
Somehow, the Casket ends up on the Scions flagship. Cue dramatic scene where Sarco looks down from his casket and can't even touch his father.
Dreadnought tears.

So the Scions and Serpents cover the retreat all the way back to Amaranth, mostly Scions since Xun speeds off to Tepectitlan.
They reach Amaranth as the storms worsen. Ships are unloaded with the treasures and relics of the lost West and hidden in the catacombs of Amaranth as a bunch of Judgement Bringers begin the Century Siege.
So the Custodes and Oathsworn stay with the Casket down in the Omega Vault, while above them the siege rages. The whole sector is under siege, really. (The other option is that the Casket is picked up by the Scions, it's guard having been slain or something.)

==The Harrowing of Tepectitlan==