Armageddon Sector - Third War for Armageddon: If the Imperium made one mistake in the aftermath of the Second Armageddon War, it was in assuming that Ghazghkull had been defeated. This was far from the truth. On the day of the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension, 998.M41, fifty-seven standard years to the day after the first Ork invasion, Ghazghkull's Greenskin hordes descended on the world of Armageddon once more.The Third War for Armageddon, the greatest of the Armageddon wars, had begun. This time the defenders of Armageddon were better prepared than they had been prior to the earlier invasions. Unfortunately for them, so was Ghazghkull.At the head of an Ork WAAAGH! many times larger than any the galaxy had ever seen before, Ghazghkull was able to smash aside the defending Imperial fleet and land his forces all across the surface of Armageddon.A battle of unprecedented ferocity erupted -- entire hive cities were destroyed by asteroids hurled at the surface from orbiting space hulks, the sulphur-yellow skies of Armageddon became interwoven with the twisting con-trails of thousands of aircraft battling for aerial supremacy, while on the ground, invading Ork hordes clashed with Astra Militarum armies.Such is the size and enormity of this latest war that neither side had been able to gain the upper hand. Hive cities had fallen and been recaptured, andmillions of Ork and Imperial warriors had died, but still the war continued with no end in sight. Armageddon was consumed by the greatest single planetary battle the galaxy had ever known.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 Crusade 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 Crusader Fleet, as the Black Templars' High Marshal Helbrecht began a new Crusade to seek out and finally destroy Ghazghkull.In a daring covert operation by the 13th Penal Legion under the command of Colonel Schaeffer, the traitorous former Imperial Governor Herman von Strab was killed in the occupied Hive Acheron when he was tackled over the edge of a balcony by one Lieutenant Kage, both men falling to their deaths.Though the war is now considered officially over by the Adeptus Administratum, 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 Valhalla where they can always come to find a good fight.The Imperium must still send more troops into the stalemated battle to keep the planet in Imperial hands and prevent the seemingly permanent Greenskin infestation from becoming a major threat once more.The state of Armageddon and its surrounding star systems in the Armageddon Sector is currently dire. Billions of Imperial soldiers and citizens died in the latest war, and many of the hive cities of Armageddon lie in ruins.The damage done to the world by the Third War for Armageddon is some of the most devastating ever suffered by any 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 several standard 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.