Piamen
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Piamen | 
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| Segmentum: | Unknown | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Unknown | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium[1] | ||
| Class: | Unknown | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
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History
During the Age of Strife, Piamen fell under the cruel occupation of the Dark Eldar but an uprising by the human population managed to drive them off-world. As a result, the Piameni had a strong independent streak and felt no outsider should rule them. Sometime after, Imperial officials on the Great Crusade arrived and the Piameni rejected their demands to assimilate into the growing Imperium. The Piameni prepared for war, but were not prepared for what the Emperor sent: the Night Lords under Konrad Curze himself.[1]
Curze struck at the Piameni fleet and boarded their flagship with 100 Space Marines. The Piameni Triarii warriors were no match for even this smaller force of Astartes and were utterly crushed. The bridge was captured and transformed into a charnel house of gore and mutilation by as Curze flayed the crew before explaining to his legionnaires the importance of fear. Curze next gathered all 150,000 crew of the flagship, entered low orbit over Piamen, and dropped their flayed corpses from the sky for the masses to see. The act drove Piamen into blind terror, and they sent out warnings of the gruesome action out to their allied planets. Instead of blocking the signal, Curze ordered it amplified to spread the fear before ordering his men to make planetfall.[1]
