Loebos - Geography: The world of Loebos possessed several areas of ultimate strategic import for any force seeking to maintain or seize control over the planet during the Plague Wars. These included:Circle of Mehnauris - Whatever sanity Loebos' Aeldari World Spirit once possessed was replaced by mindless agony and hatred. Nurgle's fell influence further corrupted the ancient Wraithbone circle of Mehnauris, once the spiritual centre of the planet's Exodite society. Now the enormous and intricately decorated monoliths pulsed with sickening energy, like infected wounds. Nurgle's touch weighed heavily here. The canopy of forest surrounding the Mehnauris Circle was thick with slime-dripping larval sacs and desiccated corpses, and home to buzzing swarms of plague flies and daemonic drones. The tangles of venomgorse and grapple weed that wound around the stone circle lashed out with a predatory sentience, spilling the blood of any who pressed too close -- Chaos forces were no less vulnerable to the predations of Loebos than their Imperial foes. Imperial psykers and Grey Knights commanders identified the Mehnauris Circle as radiating an intense aura of psychic energy, and theorised that if this key target was neutralised, the presence of daemonic entities upon Loebos would be significantly reduced.The Decay of Hope - In order to hurl Loebos out of its orbit of Konoris and use it as a weapon against the rest of the Konor System, the Death Guard broke apart a number of enormous Space Hulks, securing their fusion-powered Warp-Drive engines to the Death World's southern hemisphere. The extraordinary power of these engine arrays, designed to move planet-sized vessels through space, ripped Loebos out of its circumsolar orbit and sent it hurtling towards Imperial space within the system. The greatest source of power comes from the remnant of the Decay of Hope, a monstrous vessel once commanded by Plague Marines of the Mouldering Claw warband. This mountain of metal and Warp-touched rock reaches into the upper atmosphere, where an enormous city-sized engine burns with the power of an imploding star. Imperial forces unleashed an all-out assault upon the Decay of Hope, with the aim of penetrating its formidable defences and detonating Cyclonic warheads deep within its infrastructure. To do so they had to brave not only the formidable Chaos defences that surrounded the former Space Hulk, but the insane nightmare of its labyrinthine interior.Trifectum Putris - The Death Guard contingent upon Loebos occupied three monstrous redoubts arranged in the shape of Nurgle's tri-lobed rune, together known as the Trifectum Putris in High Gothic. Surrounded by moats of bubbling corpse-water and swarms of plague flies, these fortresses were almost impregnable. They dominated an imposing swathe of lowland jungle through the use of airburst plague-canisters and ceaseless volleys of viral bombardments, and transports regularly deployed from their fortified gatehouses and landing pads, heading for the world's heavily-contested combat zones. Until the Trifectum was breached, the Imperium found it almost impossible to force a significant beachhead upon Loebos. Yet the act of storming these imposing bastions was to reap a truly horrific tally upon its armies.