Third War for Armageddon - Uncertain Future: The end of the Third War for Armageddon is clouded in mystery. Ultimately the campaign was considered a narrow Imperial victory as the world remained largely under the control of the Imperium. Word later reached Yarrick from the Black Templars Chapter fleet in orbit of Armageddon that Ghazghkull had fled the world once the planet's Season of Fire had begun and bogged down the Orks' offensives, possibly in his command space hulk, The Perversion of Pain.With this news, Yarrick gathered together his own forces and gave chase alongside the Black Templars Crusade Fleet, as the Black Templars' High Marshal Helbrecht began a new Imperial Crusade to seek out and finally destroy Ghazghkull.In a daring covert operation conducted by the 13th Penal Legion under the command of Colonel Schaeffer, the traitorous former Planetary Governor Herman von Strab was killed in the occupied Hive Acheron when he was tackled over the edge of a balcony by the Daemon-possessed psyker Lieutenant Kage. Kage had led the 13th Penal Legion into a trap, allying himself with von Strab in his possessed state, but had managed to overcome the Daemon's will just long enough to tackle the treacherous governor and prevent his comrades' execution. Both men fell to their deaths.Though the war is officially over, fighting still continues on the planet at present. Though Ghazghkull has left the world, pursued by Commissar Yarrick with a full Black Templars Crusade at his back, the remaining Orks have come to regard Armageddon as a kind of Greenskin utopia or Valhalla where they can always come to find a good fight. As such, the Imperium must still send more troops into the stalemated battle to keep the planet in Imperial hands and prevent the seemingly permanent Ork infestation from becoming a major threat once more.Countless Orks still infest Armageddon and the conflict between Human and Greenskin continued to rage. For the Orks, the war became known as the "Big Scrap" and "Ragnarork." More Orks arrived in the system with each solar day as word spread of the great battle raging there. The death toll for the Imperium spiraled towards the billions. The Imperials knew one thing, however: whatever the cost, Armageddon must not fall.The state of Armageddon and its surrounding planets is currently dire. Billions of Imperial soldiers and citizens have died, and many of the hive cities of Armageddon now lie in ruins. The damage done to the world by the Third War for Armageddon is some of the most devastating ever suffered by the people of the Imperium.Dozens of Imperial armies were decimated or destroyed altogether by the ferocious combat, and the damage done to the planet itself may take Terran centuries to repair. Most of the settled planets in the Armageddon System have been ravaged by Ork forces, and with Ghazghkull having fled into deep space, it is likely he will quickly rebuild his forces and carve out a new Ork Empire for himself, unless the Black Templars and Yarrick prove able to stop him.Not even the great Warp Storms unleashed by the birth of the Great Rift in 999.M41 could halt the fighting, but they did change its nature. During the period of the Noctis Aeterna, reinforcements were cut off for both sides, and those en route to the system were swept into oblivion in the Warp. Those combatants who remained on Armageddon were forced to face not just each other, but oncoming waves of Chaos Daemons. At times, so desperate were the defenders that Orks and Humans fought alongside each other against the greater threat. Such temporary ceasefires never lasted long.By the time the beacon of the Astronomican burned bright once more and easy travel through the Immaterium was possible in the Imperium Sanctus, an Imperial relief force arrived to find the landscape of Armageddon greatly changed. At the height of the Warp Storms, the Daemonic forces of Tzeentch and Khorne had battled each other as part of their eternal competition in the Great Game.The Orks and Imperial defenders sought cover as titanic Greater Daemons duelled for supremacy. Fully half the planet was reshaped into a hellish landscape reminiscent of many Daemon Worlds -- a nightmare born of the Warp merged with the ruins of a war-torn Hive World.The Imperial reinforcements, led by elements of nine Space Marine Chapters with the Salamanders in overall command, succeeded in halting a Daemonic ritual that would have brought Angron, the Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters, back to the world that had defied him during the First War for Armageddon.