Archives of the Almire Apostasy

A civil war decades in the making that would split the galaxy in two. The events described below are those of the path leading towards the great betrayal and the events of the years that followed.

## **The Night of Blood**

* **Legions Involved:** Warmasters Justicars, Light Bringers, Consuls Exemplar, Silver Basilisks
* **Summary:** With a single word, an era ends, and an era begins.

## **A Meeting Between Brothers**

* **Legions Involved:** **Blight Wardens, Watchers of Akhet**
* **Summary:** With orders from Almire to kill one of his brothers, Lu Yueh invites Khnum onboard his flagship. Unable to kill one of his closest brothers Lu Yueh ignores his orders and attempts to convince Khnum to join the traitors.

## **Khnum's Assassination**

* **Legions Involved: Consuls Exemplar, Watchers of Akhet**
* **Summary:** After Lu Yueh's failed attempt to convert Khnum to the traitor's cause the Consuls Exemplar set to doing that which Lu Yueh failed, Killing Khnum. Having infiltrated the Wisdom of Techu years prior, they hatch their plan to cripple the first legion.

## **The Last Dream**

* **Legions Involved: Dragon Lords**
* **Summary:** While overseeing the forgeworld of Lucius Camelous sees a vision of events to come.

## **Istvaan Massacre**

* **Legions Involved: Blight Wardens, Palatine Wings, Brothers Encarmine**
* **Summary:** The Battle of the Istvaan System, or the Istvaan Massacre as it would come to be known, was one of the major turning points that occurred early on during the great galactic civil war that engulfed the Imperium of Man in the opening years of 31st Millennium.

## **The Sundering Erruption**

* **Legions Involved:** **Ashen Crows, Warmasters Justicars,**
* **Summary:** In the wake of the Night of Blood, the Warmaster leads his forces to take control of the Ablaze, or see them destroyed, willing to consign the XIth to the fires if it means taking the potent warriors out of the war.

## **Siege of the Ring**

* **Legions Involved: Star Guardians, Brothers Encarmine**
* **Summary:** The Siege of the Ring was a battle that took place in the earliest years of the Almire Apostasy, in a twofold attempt to deny the stations potent defensive bastions and shipyard capabilities to the loyalist forces, and to bait the Praetorian of Terra away from the throneworld.

## **One Minute to Midnight**

* **Legions Involved:** Star Guardians
* **Summary:** Having heard of the encroaching storm and Almire's betrayal, Shaaa Hydrades must face the very real possibility that he now stands alone against the might of a galaxy in open rebellion.

## **Watchers of Akhet Ambush**

* **Legions Involved:** **Blight Wardens, Claws of Xipac, Watchers of Akhet**
* **Summary:** Due to the unexpected and tumultuous nature of the Claws of Xipac and Blight Wardens betrayal of the Watchers of Akhet reports have been erratic at best. Primarch Khnum Anhuret ordered all possible information gathered together to fit into a report that best pieced together the events that had taken place. In this report lies various texts from primary and secondary accounts.

## Moloch

### Part One

* **Legions Involved: Seekers of Unity, Wisps of Acheron**
* **Summary:** As the galaxy descends into chaos, two legions discover the smallest strands of the greater betrayal, missing the larger picture as they are pitted against one another my the machinations of the traitor forces.

### Part Two

* **Legions Involved: Seekers of Unity, Consuls Exemplar, Warmasters Justicars, Wisps of Acheron**
* **Summary:** Narrowly avoiding an all out war, the lords of the VIth and XVIIIth Legion travel to beseech the Warmaster to intervene against the renegade Blight Wardens and Brothers Encarmine at the Istvaan System, little knowing that the betrayal they have seen is far larger than they can possibly imagine.

## **Black Flames**

* **Legions Involved: Wisps of Acheron, Warmasters Justicars**
* **Summary:** Almire attempts to sway the Phlegethon under his command to his side. Though near certain of their loyalty, after the dissapointment of their father's actions he will take no risks.

## **Blood and Fury**

### Introduction

* **Legions Involved:** Consuls Exemplar

* **Summary:** With the Apostasy coming into full swing and the majority of the Consuls engaging the Khazadi Empire at the command of the Warmaster. Schemes unfold beyond the sight of Gaius Augustus Caligula upon the owrld of Prospero. Forces left behind to advance the research of the United Cults have subverted their purpose. Bargains with forces beyond the veil of the warp now put the vital the research world in peril.

## **The Crippled Assassination**

* **Legions Involved: Consuls Exemplar, Star Guardians**
* **Summary:** Deep in the heart of the Solar Guardian Array, Shaaa Hydrades surveys the inner workings of the most ambitious defensive network within the Imperium. What would be near impossible to take through martial means however, may just be easy prey for another, more insidious, form of warfare, one that a single legion specialises in above all others.

## **The Lightning Struck Tower**

* **Legions Involved:** Silver Basilisks, Adeptus Custodes, Star Guardians
* **Summary:** Deep in the home territory of the Silver Basilisks lies a planet, known to most as The Tower. Once a beacon for psychic talent and knowledge within Primarch Artellion's domain, it is now more akin to a concentration camp under the rule of High Chaplain Omid. The occupants unconnected to the rest of the galaxy, the 15th's oldest psyker Dreadnought, Revered Cadfael Drystan, is unaware of Warmaster Almire's strike, and those of his sire, against the Imperium. This is his story.
	+ Part 1
	+ Part 2
	+ Part 3
	+ Part 4
	+ Part 5

## **Siege of Æsce**

* Legions Involved: Blight Wardens, Consuls Exemplar, Ashen Crows
* Summary: Having infiltrated the home world of the Ashen Crows, a small unit of Consuls discovered the vast array of technological progress made by the Ashen Crows in many fields. Including projects Set up by Galvarian himself. The grand prize among which, advanced vat growing technologies which can reliably grow Astartes. With the Ashen Crows preoccupied with chasing their father Æsce has been left sparsely defended, leaving the world as a prize that cannot be ignored. Entrusted with retrieving these technologies and securing the world for the Warmaster are the Blight Wardens, who fall ever closer to the influences of the so called Nurgleth.
	+ Prelude
	+ Landfall
		- Part 1
		- Part 2
		- Part 3
		- Part 4