Karlack - History: Karlack now maintains the single most powerful concentration of the Imperium's military might in the Jericho Reach. Yet in the lost days of the old Jericho Sector, Karlack was little more than an outlying, largely unremarkable colony world.Its population never rose high enough to make it a power in sector politics, nor did it possess resources of sufficient calibre to make it of particular interest to the Adeptus Terra. When the sector's "Age of Shadow" came, Karlack's relatively marginalised status protected it somewhat and cushioned its slide into isolation, sparing it much of the war and disaster that stalked worlds closer to the sector's core.Over the centuries, it descended slowly into pre-industrial feudalism. After the discovery of the Jericho-Maw Warp Gate, Karlack's fate was decided by a simple expediency of stellar geography: it was the closest life-sustaining system of any strategic worth in the Jericho Reach in proximity to the Warp Gate.Thus, it was the first system on which Lord Militant Tiber Achilus set his eye. The mass forces of the crusade were welcomed with open arms by Karlack's natives whose local culture had long kept alive the hand-me-down traditions of the Imperial Creed and the mastery of the Emperor.The crusade's Adeptus Ministorum contingent quickly set about bolstering that faith and rooting out heresy and corruption in the population. Mountains were swiftly levelled to provide raw materials, rolling steppe land planed into mustering grounds for tens of thousands of troops, and vast fortifications raised both on the ground and in orbit.Not to be outdone, the Adeptus Mechanicus hollowed out orbiting asteroids into gun-stations and crafted orbital docks to serve as the crusade's primary anchorage. Since this time, Karlack has remained the primary seat of the crusade's power and the principal rallying point and supply hub for the Imperial forces in the Jericho Reach.In 817.M41, investigations into the disappearance of one Inquisitor Zaer Vincent of the Ordo Xenos drew the attentions of Inquisitor Adrielle Quist to the planet. In so doing, the Deathwatch would be sent to uncover a terrible truth hidden beneath the heart of the Achilus Crusade.Inquisitor Quist arrived aboard her starship the Angelus Invictus alongside her Vindicare Assassin and protector, Nihl Zee, as well as a Deathwatch Kill-team. Landing at Citadel Primaris, she would be greeted by Lord General Castus Iacton and a dozen guards in black flak armour.According to Iacton, Inquisitor Vincent had left behind a lacquered box for the Lord General to deliver, under the strictest orders, into Quist's keeping. Sealed behind a small, adamantine vault, the box had been held shut by a series of warded locks even more diabolical than the one on Iacton's safe.Though Quist was able to bypass them, it turned out to be a trap, as the box contained nothing save a virulent contact poison laced into its seal mechanism. With the attempt on her life, the Inquisitor is forced into the care of the Citadel's medicae staff under the watchful eye of Nihl Zee.While she recovered, the Kill-team was sent in her stead to find her would-be killer as well as continue the mission.