Cyclops Cluster - History: In stark contrast with the neighbouring worlds of the Manachean Commonwealth -- whose history stretches back into the Dark Age of Technology -- but with notable exceptions such as the worlds of Mezoa, M'Pandex and Dark Haven; the Cyclops Cluster has only recently been colonised by humanity after the Great Crusade reached this region of space in the late 800s of the 30th Millennium. This is perhaps best explained by the Cyclops Cluster's astrography, which features only a few readily inhabitable worlds for such a vast stretch of space. The Cluster, however, proved rich in mineral wealth and other much-needed ressources that made it a valuable prize for the ever-growing Imperium. Apart from the Mechanicum Forge World of Mezoa, the Cyclops Cluster suffered little from the depredations of the xenos empire known as the Mitu Conglomerate which was successfully annihilated by the Emperor's armies. In the aftermath of this campaign the Cyclops Cluster received the visit of several Expeditionary Fleets, amongst these both the 611th and 7th Expeditionary Fleets, the latter proving the more active. Under the command of Commander Suleiman Grimm of the I Legion, the Dark Angels, the 7th Expeditionary Fleet would rally such worlds as Dark Haven and Mezoa and peacefully obtain their Imperial Compliance before sailing northwards to the Grail Abyss.As the Cyclops Cluster's wealth gradually became more widely known, the new sub-sector became one of the priority targets for Imperial colonisation efforts, counting as it did two fully-fledged Forge Worlds amongst its ranks and dozens of promising star systems ready to be exploited. The colonists needed to be shipped in from various regions of the Imperium's more settled heartlands, requiring the transport of entire planetary populations, much of them translating through the dormitory world of Moab before being shipped to their final destination. Soon the Cyclops Cluster counted sixteen primary-grade industrialised worlds and no less than ninety-three distinct resource extraction zones.By the end of the Great Crusade, the Cluster had become a powerhouse of activity, its economic output only surpassed by that of the Manachean Commonwealth. Harsh production quotas had been imposed on most worlds of the Cyclops Cluster, whose populations had to toil hard to meet them. This naturally bred dissatisfaction, which was often brutally repressed by the imposition of martial or Mechanicum law. Local power was nearly nonexistant, the world of Dominicia Minor's rise to prominence in the region manifesting only in the decades immediately preceding the outbreak of the Horus Heresy.Thus, for much of its existence, the Cyclops Cluster was governed by Imperial authorities residing in the Segmentum Solar, which did not fail to breed embittered and resentful populations that came to view the Imperium as uncaring, distant and harsh masters that gorged themselves on their misery and labour. As a result petty worker revolts and strikes were commonplace decades before the Warmaster Horus' treachery, the brutal repressions by Imperial power only perpetuating the vicious circle Horus would eventually prey upon at the dawn of the Heresy.