Ghesmei Kysnaros - The Armageddon Containment: The First War for Armageddon in 444.M41 was fought and won for the Imperium under the overall command of the Space Wolves Chapter of Space Marines, and more specifically, their Chapter Master, the Great Wolf Logan Grimnar. The Inquisition, along with a force of Grey Knights, became involved when the nature of the enemy was revealed: millions of Chaos Cultists known as the Children of Sanguinary Unholiness, a Khornate army of Chaos Space Marines from the World Eaters Traitor Legion led by the Daemon Primarch Angron and his elite guard of 12 Khornate daemons, the Cruor Praetoria. A hastily mustered Inquisition force made swift passage to the planet in order to join the ultimately victorious fight.Although Great Wolf Logan Grimnar should have known that the Inquisition would have to coldly and brutally suppress the truth of Chaos' role in the war after it was over, he made clear that he expected the Inquisitors not to because of the valour and selflessness displayed by Armageddon's defenders. As there was already mistrust and suspicion of the Space Wolves Chapter towards the Imperial hierarchy over past disputes, and the Space Wolves' constant disregard for Imperial authority, Grimnar's demand seemed either naive or an excuse to start a fight with the Inquisition. However, Grimnar was genuinely sympathetic to the human element on Armageddon, and questioned the wisdom of saving a planet if its inhabitants and defenders would then have to be "processed" by the Inquisition for the sin of knowing about the existence of Chaos or the secret Imperial organisations created to stand against it, like the Grey Knights.The Inquisition would not be moved as it believed that it was by law and the Emperor's decree the ultimate arbiter of what was right for the Imperium and Mankind: the truth of Chaos and the existence of the daemonic had to be contained. In practical terms, it made sense to the Inquisition to contain the situation on the planet itself, as this would affect a relatively small number of Imperial citizens compared to the numbers who would have been mind-wiped or liquidated if any had escaped the planet to spread Chaotic corruption elsewhere. The Armageddon containment would consist of several initiatives: One was the sterilisation and quarantine of the entire surviving civilian population in Adeptus Arbites work-camps scattered across the galaxy. A similar fate, or even outright liquidation, awaited the human defenders of the Armageddon Steel Legion and the Armageddon Planetary Defence Forces, who had valiantly faced the Chaotic hordes that had invaded the planet. The use of Exterminatus against the world in order to keep the secret of Chaos' existence was not an option: the industrial capacity of the planet was too important to the Imperium to be destroyed.Ghesmei Kysnaros was given overall command of the containment. His attitude to the Armageddon purge was typical of the Inquisition's pragmatic and calculating position: better to sterilise or kill millions on suspicion of a Chaotic taint than to eventually kill billions to keep that taint from spreading. As the war was winding down, over the objections of Grimnar which were broadcast to all Imperial forces in orbit, Kysnaros ordered the start of the first phase: Inquisitorial Storm Troopers began to evacuate the remaining hive cities and herd the population into camps for "vaccination" -- in reality, chemical sterilisation by injection. The civilians were told that the evacuation was a "temporary security measure."The Space Wolves on the surface engaged in only minor disruptions -- as they were clearly overmatched on the ground by the more than 100,000 Storm Troopers and other Inquisition forces. However, they had the advantage in space, with 16 ships to the Inquisition's 12 -- and the Space Wolves' ships were generally bigger, better armoured, and better armed. Grimnar's plan was to help the human defenders and civilians escape the Inquisition by making sure their transports safely jumped into the Warp at the first opportunity.