Gelmiro System

A normally quiet and productive system spinward of the Markayn Marches, Gelmiro’s main tithe planets (Gelmiro Primus, Gelmiro Secundus and Gelmiro Tertius) are now desolate wastelands, the home of abominable mutations and crazed zealots. In 738.M41, an uprising that engulfed the Calixis Sector unlike any conflict since the Angevin Crusade emerged that came to be known as the "War of Brass."
The Gelmiro Cluster and its hive worlds fell into sedition following the charismatic leadership of the insane cleric Anolian Hesh, calling himself the "Emperor of Brass," debasing themselves into the worship of the Ruinous Powers. Loyal to the Emperor of Brass, frenzied fanatics
from the wealthy and powerful worlds of the Gelmiro Cluster
murdered every functionary of the Adeptus Administratum,
ritually desecrating the bodies of the fallen. Significant portions
of the affected planetary populations accompanied their new
overlords into treachery beyond redemption.
His heretical followers ignited stolen atomics on the three worlds, destroying nearly all of the system’s key military assets. Dissatisfied with holding the powerful worlds of the Gelmiro
Cluster in his augmented fist, the Emperor of Brass and his renegades sponsored heavily militarized and bloody, the renegades quickly sponsored and armed rebel groups on worlds throughout several nearby worlds. Soon after,
a full-scale rebellion threatened the wider Calixis Sector. The
death toll continued to rise as he publicly tortured and executed
loyal Imperial servants and citizens. The Sector Governor was
forced to call upon all available forces to stem the bloody
tide. From across the Calixis Sector and beyond, loyal units
converged upon the Gelmiro Cluster. Investigating forces were greeted with attacks from planetary defenses and traitor naval ships, and it was only after intense orbital battles that land forces could be deployed. When counter-attacked, these groups revealed the hand of dark forces drawn from the Eye of Terror in their number.
These Imperial forces
first pushed through the neighboring regions, and crushed
the nascent rebellions there with heartless efficiency. Amongst
these forces that rose to answer the Governor’s call were several
battle Titans of the Legio Venator, and an entire Explorator
fleet with support from the mysterious Ordo Reductor.
Crusader Welgon Rouss became a hero amongst the
Inquisitorial personnel attached to the endeavor for his
actions on the world of Gelmiro Tertius during the War of
Brass. When the daemonic forces of the enemy attacked the gates of Sub-Hive Mortia–5,
Rouss stood alone against their onslaught. Though the
main gates were wrought asunder, the breach was only wide
enough for three men to stand abreast, and this was where
Rouss made his stand. With suppression shield and blessed
power sword, he held back the daemonic incursion for four
hours, until the forces of Daemonhunter Markus Eddards-Konnor launched a drop-pod assault into the heart of the
malefic beings and scattered them to the winds. Rouss would
go on to lead the bodyguards of no less than four Lords of
the Calixian Conclave. This conflict is also responsible for the birth of the Radical Inquisitorial Faction known as the Oblationists.
The campaign against the Emperor of Brass and his
burgeoning rebellion, known as the War of Brass, lasted
just over three years, but even in that short time the fighting
proved especially vicious. In the end, several companies
of Space Marines were needed to reduce the final hives
to rubble. In the final, desperate battles at the heart of the
Gelmiro Cluster, several records were discovered hinting
that support and reinforcement had been supplied directly
from the Eye of Terror itself, linking the Emperor of Brass
to far more dangerous threats.
At the end of the conflict, the once-rich worlds of the
Gelmiro Cluster had been reduced to smoking remnants of
ruin and shame. Many planetary populations had become
nothing more than scav-mutants, doomed to wander across
the devastated wastes, surviving off the rotting remains of
their once-great civilizations. The Imperial agencies of the
Calixis Sector avoid the haunted worlds of the Cluster, now
classified as war worlds, to this day.
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Category:Calixis Sector
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