Murder
From Lexicanum
| This page contains spoilers for: | Horus Heresy Series |
Planetary Summary
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| Name: | One-Forty-Twenty (Murder) |
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| Segmentum: | Unknown | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Unknown | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Unknown | ||
| Class: | Death World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
Background
Murder, Urisarach or One-Forty-Twenty (signifying that it was the twentieth world to be encountered by the one-hundred-and-fortieth Expedition Fleet) is a Death World inhabited by an arachnoid race dubbed "Megarachnids" by the Emperor's Children and Blood Angels Space Marines that encountered them. The world was named after the last received transmission of Captain Khitas Frome, leader of the first (wiped out) Imperial force to land on the planet: "This. World. Is. Murder."
Due to atmospheric turbulance, all landings on the planet became disorganized and individual shuttles easily became seperated from one another, forcing the Space Marines to fight in relatively small groups while searching for each other. One such group, lead by Emperors Children Captain Saul Tarvitz, discovered large rock-like structures that resembled dead trees. These "trees" had the bodies of several Blood Angels Space Marines impaled on many of the branches with a flying variant of the Megarachnids feasting upon the bodies. Upon destroying a few of the structures Captain Tarvitz discovered that they were what was causing the massive atmospheric turbulance and managed to destroy a number of the "trees", thus allowing a relief force of Emperors Children, Blood Angels, and newly-arrived-Luna Wolves to land and begin a full scale assault on the hostile natives.
After a short, yet violent, campaign against the Megarachnids the forces of the Crusade were approached by vessels belonging to an advanced human society called the Interex. The Interex informed the Warmaster Horus, Primarch of the Luna Wolves and overall campaign leader, that the Megarachnids and the Interex had once met in a massive war. Upon the defeat of the Megarachnids the Interex removed all of their interstellar travel capabilities and transplanted them to the world of Urisarach. Their intention was for the world to act as a reservation for the violent and only semi-sentient species, one where they could live unmolested by outsiders, and vice versa.
