Armageddon Prime
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Armageddon Prime is the western end of the Armageddon penninsula. There are three, well distanced, Hives on the planet:
At some point, there may have been another hive in the Plains of Anthrand, but it is said that the Hive melted under a three hundred year acid rain period. Now there is nothing but molten metal rivers and bubbling acid pits.
There is little in the way of Industrial production here, and as such supply lines are thin and come mostly from Armageddon Secundus.
It has been the site of the main invasion forces for all three wars, the enemy forces rapidly overruning the region quickly each time. There is little defences compared to that in Armageddon Secundus and it is much harder to maintain control of the population if any of the hives revolt.
It was this that led to the disastrous events of the early part of the First War for Armageddon. A large proportion of the population of many of the hives on Armageddon revolted, forcing the Planetary Defence Forces to spread thinly in an effort to hold the hives. This was what allowed the forces of Chaos easy reign in Armageddon Prime. During the Second War, Ghazghkull simply threw huge numbers of Orks at the region, easily overwhelming the defenders and taking over what little armaments production facilities there were in the region. It was similar to the Third War.
It was here that Commissar Yarrick sent his daredevil shuttle pilots to help arm the local population and also the Squat forces landed here and beat back the Orks during the Second War.
