Vervunhive
From Lexicanum
Vervunhive was one of many Hive Cities on the world of Verghast.
It was arranged with the outer habs and manufactories running along the River Hass to the North, with two bridges leading inside the main Hive, one rail, and one road.
Central to the hive was the Main Spine, surrounded by more habs, the Commercia district, and the Shield Pylon in the very center. To the west was the Hass West Fort, the City Landing Field, and more habs outside the great walls.
To the southeast was the Croe Gate, northeast was the Ontabi Gate Fortress. To the south, the Hieronymo Sondar Gate led into the Square of Marshals, which was bordered by the Anko Chemical Plant. The Veyveyr Gate, also to the south, was bordered by the Ore Works and the Basilca.
Various mining districts lay outside the southern gates, with The Spoil and the Mud Flats to the southeast, past the walls.
A producer of large quantities of materials for the Imperial Crusade that was occurring in the Sabbat Worlds sector, it was drawn into the crusade directly when it was attacked during an attempt to conquer the world for Chaos. Initially, the inhabitants of Vervunhive thought they were under assault by the rival hive of Ferrozoica in a replay of the "Trade War" of 90 years earlier. However, when Commissar Kowle led a Vervunhive armoured division out to meet the forces of 'Zoica', it became clear that this was no conventional assault; the Zoican army massed in the millions. In comparison, Vervunhive could muster approximately 500,000 troopers out of a population of over 40 million people. What made the force imbalance all the more disturbing was that Ferrozoica was approximately 1/3 smaller in population and size than Vervunhive.
Reinforcements were duly sent to Vervunhive; the North Col Hive PDF and the Imperial Guard regiments consisting of the Roane Deepers, Royal Volpone, Tanith and Narmenian Armoured.
The allied Vannick Hive was the first major casualty of the War when Ferrozoica launched Nuclear weapons and all but destroyed it. With the Vervunhive leaders debating reasons why Zoica would destroy rather than capture, Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt made the judgement that with the size of Zocia's forces and the tactics they were using, that the whole hive had actually fallen to Chaos and that this was more than just a Trade war. This proved to be a correct judgement, and it would transpire that the whole population of Ferrozoica had become the thralls of the Chaos Warlord Heritor Asphodel.
The Imperial forces eventually won the battle. Ibram Gaunt led a strike force of Scratch Troopers, Tanith and Volpone into the mobile base of the enemy and destroyed it.
With the hive all but destroyed Warmaster Macaroth created the Act of Consolation, whereby civilians could join up with the Imperial Guard regiments or move onto the new hives being created.
