Second Ilios Conflict

Some time during the 41st millennium, an Inquisitor of the Imperium Tertiatus was dispatched to the Ilios System to rid it of various Nurgle cults descended from survivors of the first war.
== History ==
=== The Cry for Help ===
At some point in the 41st millennium, a Union salvage team was sent to the Ilios System to harvest rare materials and possibly set up a future mining base. The Union themselves were under the impression that the Ilios System was completely abandoned, following the Alliance's terrible conflict with the deadly Ilios Conglomerate.
After a few days of mining, the salvage team were assaulted by a tribe of Nurgle cultists on the world of Galbhor. Instantly, the head of the operation attempted to send a distress signal to the Alliance, but due to the severity of the situation, they were only able to send the signal to a few surrounding systems.
Luckily, an Imperial trade convoy en route to Minecraftia picked up the distress signal. Immediately they had one of their astropaths contact one of the nearby Imperial core worlds.
=== The Inquisitorial Response ===
Inquisitorial agents on the world sent one of their Inquisitors, Thoren Konma, to the Ilios System with an army of Tempestus Scions. 
The Union salvage team managed to fend off their attackers for some time, but by the time Konma arrived, the salvage team's ship was destroyed and the operatives infected with Nurgle's deadly poxes. 
Seeing that the system had fallen to the Ruinous Powers once more, the Inquisitor chose to remain in the system to deal with the Chaos forces.
=== The Second Ilios War ===
The Nurgle cultists had taken over nearly every world in the system, save for Kaleth, which still lay in ruins from the last war. Surprisingly, the tribe-cults were quick to detect the Imperial presence in the system, and sent their militias to attempt to destroy his efforts. 
The war lasted over one year. On some worlds, the Inquisitor's victory was easy, with the tribes being scattered, feralized, and overall disorganized. Other worlds, particularly those that hosted Nurgle cultists during the first war, had organized militias.
One planet still lay host to Nurgle's great infestation. From here, Plaguebearers and Rot Flies were spawned to assist the cultists' efforts.
On the last day of the war, one of the tribes had managed to reactivate a starship, loading it with hundreds of cultists, Plague Marines, and Plaguebearers. The ship was to be sent somewhere else in the galaxy, possibly somewhere within the Alliance core worlds. Inquisitor Konma barely managed to destroy it before it reached the outer edges of the system.
At this point, Konma called for assistance from the Imperial Navy, who performed exterminatus upon every world in the system. Now, the Ilios system was truly a dead husk.
Category:Wars
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