Metalica - Notable Campaigns: Elucidan Schism (923.M39) - By their toil does the Forge World of Metalica thrive, imposing order and logic upon the worlds nearby. The only real blight upon Metalica's history of terrible efficiency came from within. In 923.M39 the Elucidan Schism saw hard-line Fulgurites shoot down a Corpuscarii congregation on a pilgrimage to Mars, claiming their wasteful ways would destroy the balance of the priesthood upon the Red Planet. The resultant civil war raged for several hundred standard years, and the planet has been a lodestone for militant Electro-priests of both factions ever since.First War for Armageddon - Battle of Blood Glade (444.M41) - In 444.M41 a Renegade host of unimaginable size appeared in the skies above the Hive World of Armageddon, its ranks teeming with Chaos Space Marines and daemons. At its head loomed the Daemon Primarch Angron, twisted by centuries in the Warp and filled with fathomless hatred for the Imperium. The armies of Mankind were quick in their response, for Armageddon was a vital munitions world and a lynchpin of the surrounding sector. Along with the Astra Militarum regiments and Adeptus Astartes Chapters came the Metalica Armageddon Excarnaclade. Created from twelve maniples, the Excarnaclade was a macroclade of cohorts drawn together by ancient oaths of allegiance. Almost since the time of Metalica's founding, the Excarnaclade had fought beside the armies of Armageddon, and the Skitarii hastened to the war-torn planet in order to honour that ancient record. As the greater forces of the Imperium, under the masterful leadership of Space Wolves Chapter Master Logan Grimnar, created a defensive line along the River Chaeron, the Excarnaclade entered the equatorial jungles to slow the enemy's advance. The two forces met in a ragged forest ravine between two broken cliff faces. On one side the hosts of Metalica, on the other, the Heretic forces of the Chaos Lord Gorterrox Soulreaper. Soon, a pitched battle ensued, as the Khornate warriors tore into the machines, massive blades destroying all before them. But this was merely a feint, designed to lure the Soulreaper to his inevitable doom, as a thousand Skitarii turned as one and took aim at the Chaos Lord. With a silent command, hundreds of energy carbines, calivers and rifles engulfed Soulreaper in a storm of fire. Screaming his rage, the Chaos Lord charged through the flames, his armour shredded by blasts and his body scorched by plasma. With practiced ease the Skitarii ranks parted and the Ironstriders sprinted forward. A dozen Taser Lances found their mark, and with a final blood-curdling scream Gorterrox was sent crashing to the smouldering ground. With the Chaos Lord's destruction, Angron's speartip had been blunted, and though his hosts were far from defeated, precious time had been won for the ultimately successful defence of Armageddon from the hosts of the Blood God.War of Slime and Metal (Unknown Date.M42) - Metalica is besieged by the Plaguehosts of Nurgle, the 3rd and 7th Plague Companies of the Death Guard, other Chaos Space Marines, the corrupted Titans of Legio Morbus, and no fewer than seven fallen Knight Houses. Only the arrival of the entire Knight host of House Raven staved off defeat, and only with the aid of a war fleet from Deimos was the attack finally broken and the Daemons banished.Charadon Campaign (Unknown Date.M42) - The forces of the Death Guard, led by Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle, once more assaulted Metalica, this time bringing a far larger invasion force intended to at last claim the Forge World for the Plague God.