Cheraut
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Name: | Cheraut | 
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| Segmentum: | Unknown | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Cheraut System | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium | ||
| Class: | Unknown | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
Cheraut was a Human world which viciously resisted the Imperium in the Great Crusade.[1]
Overview
The war for Cheraut was a long and bitter conflict. It took warriors from five Space Marine Legions (including the Imperial Fists, Night Lords, and Emperor's Children) and millions of Imperial Army troops to pacify the world after a gruelling months of siege. During the conflict, the Night Lords reaped many atrocities upon the populace.[1]
However the war itself was overshadowed by the events which followed its conclusion[1], when Rogal Dorn confronted Konrad Curze about the massacres his Legion had perpetrated and, more importantly, his prophetic visions of the Imperium of Man turning into a nightmare.[2b] The argument escalated, to the point Curze beat Dorn to a pulp[2a] and was arrested[2b]. He escaped custody[2c] and led his Legion to Nostramo[2d], which they utterly destroyed for its renewed corruption before evading pursuit[2e].
See also
Sources
- 1: Sigismund: The Eternal Crusader (Novel), Chapter 8
- 2: "The Dark King" (Short Story):
- 2a: first third, "Where before there had been light, now there was only darkness."
- 2b: first third, "The emptiness of space shimmered in the glow of distant suns beyond the armoured glass, faraway planets and unknown systems turning in their prescribed arcs without thought for the dramas being played out on the stage of human endeavour."
- 2c: middle third, "Curze lifted the last piece of his armour from the shadowed alcove and raised it above his head."
- 2d: last third, "Night Haunter turned over the last card and his jawline tightened as the familiar pattern emerged once more."
- 2e: last third, "Incandescent spears of blinding white light leapt from the barrels of uncounted batteries, stabbing down at the world below."
