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Sector: Unknown
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Population: Unknown. 900 million prior to 845.M41[1]
Affiliation: Chaos[1]
Class: Daemon World[1]
Tithe Grade: n/a

Golia VII was once an Imperial Civilised World with jade-green skies and a population of 900 million. In 845.M41 it fell victim to a Warp Storm and the entire population was wiped out in an orgy of blood, becoming a Daemon World.[1]


History

At noon on the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension, the skies of Golia VII turned rust-red, and three days later began raining blood. The Planetary Governor publicly called for calm, but in a private council meeting learned that his world was within the projected path of a Warp Storm. The council questioned why the planet's Astropaths had not warned them earlier, noting their absence from the meeting. They were found later that same day, blood drained from every orifice, their bodies locked in twisted, tortured screams.[1]

Golia VII's Planetary Defense Force was mobilized, and one hundred eighty million soldiers began preparing their planet's defenses. Six major cities were ringed with mile upon mile of defensive trenches and fortifications, each protected by millions of troopers and thousands of artillery pieces.[1] However, the skies continued to rain blood day after day, and the soldiers were haunted by nightly dreams of torture, pain and suffering, further eroding morale. Military police were forced to institute summary mass executions for desertions after entire companies began leaving their posts.[1]

By the third week, vast processions of doomsayers and flagellants were parading through the major cities, proclaiming that the God-Emperor of Mankind had abandoned them and damned them for their faithlessness.[1] The fanatics were initially tolerated, with the Governor only sending in local police and Arbites to contain them after it was too late. Running battles erupted in the streets between both sides, with PDF regiments pulled from the defensive lines to further stop the violence.[1] As word spread about the anarchy consuming the cities, those soldiers left manning the blood-filled trenches became frustrated and began abandoning their posts en masse to defend their homes. Vast columns of soldiers snaked back into the cities, leaving the defensive lines empty within days.[1]

It was during this orgy of blood that the Warp Storm finally erupted, engulfing the planet in the power of the Warp. Lightning the colour of lava split the sky, and nightmares that lurked at the edge of men's minds assumed terrifying form to join in the slaughter. Many were driven mad in an instant, becoming little more than gibbering idiots, while the less-than-sane drank in the horror, becoming for a brief moment gods among men, their every thought becoming reality.[1] At the storm's height all sanity and reason disappeared as hundreds of millions of people, their will replaced with primal rage, tore at each other with inhumane wrath. The ground below them splintered and fractured, gushing fountains of gore that swept away the dead and dying in torrents of blood.[1]

The last person to die on Golia VII bore witness to the mad laughter of a thirsting god before their last vestiges of sanity were stripped away, and the planet was left a lifeless, damned world.[1]


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