Aura Novis
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Name: | Aura Novis | 
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| Sector: | Stygian Sector[1] | ||
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| Affiliation: | Imperium[1] | ||
| Class: | Industrial World[1] | ||
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Aura Novis is an Imperial Industrial World, that lies within the Stygian Sector.[1]
History
However it had once fallen to the Thousand Sons and the Traitor Legion's million-strong Cultist armies. Years later, the Imperium's Stygian Crusade was launched into the Sector and Aura Novis was initially a target for its forces. The Crusade's two Commanders, who came from the Dark Angels and Space Wolves Chapters, later decided an invasion of the world would be too costly for their forces, though. This was because the Thousand Sons had used the time they had held Novis, to not only build up its defenses, but to also churn out countless weapons with its formidable industrial capacity.[1]
This decision was disagreed with by the Iron Hands, whose forces were also serving in the Stygian Crusade, however. The Chapter claimed Aura Novis' reclamation was not only achievable, but essential if the Crusade's previous victories were not to suffer any reversals. It would also secure the Iron Hand's own Medusan Reach, which led the Chapter to abandon the Stygian Crusade proper in favor of launching their own to reclaim the world. When they did, the Chapter took with them not only their own forces, but those they had commanded in the Crusade as well. The Chapter and its allies were ultimately victorious and the Industrial World was the Imperium's once more. Its shipyards meanwhile, would find themselves placed under the Iron Hands' direct control. The price of victory was substantial, however and many Imperial Navy warships, along with half a billion Guardsmen, eight Skitarii macroclades, twenty-one of House Callivant's Imperial Knights, six Imperial Titans and the entirety of the Adepta Sororitas' Order of the Iron Rose were lost in the battle. Aura Novis also suffered severely and nine-tenths of the world's habitual surface was destroyed.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: First Founding (Background Book), pgs. 210-212 - Iron Hands: The Chapter at War
