Jerulas Station
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Jerulas Station | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Tempestus[1a] | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Unknown | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Unknown, formerly Imperium[1c] | ||
| Class: | Dead World[1c], former Forge World[1c] | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
Jerulas Station is a former Imperial Forge World, that is located in the Belt of Iron.[1]
History
Before being claimed by the Imperium during the Great Crusade, it was known as Dironth and was the heart of an empire that encompassed the Systems surrounding it. The Forge World's population exhibited an ingrained militant culture and had a fervid belief in Dirnoth's ability to dominate any force it encountered. Thus when the Imperial fleet of the Rogue Trader Militant Pierant Jerulas located Dirnoth, during the Great Crusade, the Forge World obliterated it without warning. Dirnoth then prepared to battle the Imperium and the war between them last several years. While the records of the conflict are still heavily redacted, Dirnoth is noted to have committed astrocities while fighting the Imperium. Among them are unleashing biological agents that turned the Hive World Kakandila, into an inhospitable graveyard, and veiled references to Dironth's use of esoteric mechanical constructs that possibly contained Abominable Intelligence. Despite these actions, though, Dirnoth was defeated by the Imperium and its population was punished for the war. Against the repeated objections of the Mechanicum, the defeated Forge World was stripped of much of its wealth, had its production grade heavily downgraded and was only permitted to engineer the most basic weapons of war. Further to this, a garrison, consisting of Imperial Army regiments supplemented by a handful of Legio Ignatum Titans, were stationed upon the world, assigned as permanent observers. Lastly, in a final act of punishment, the name Dironth was cast from memory and the world was renamed Jerulas Station in honor of the Rogue Trader Militant slaughtered by the Forge World's actions.[1b]
Such measures did little to earn the loyalty of Jerulas Station's population and over three dozen instances of notable disorder were recorded there by 001.M31. These, though, were easily suppressed by the Forge World's Imperial garrisons. When the Horus Heresy began and word reached the Belt of Iron of the Warmaster's treachery, the people of Jerulas Station awaited the moment when they too could turn against the Imperium. Across the Forge World, Tech-Priests labored in secret, manipulating long-forbidden technology that they hoped would secure Jerulas Station's ascendancy amongst the stars[1b]. Contact was lost with the Forge World, however, in 010.M31 while the Cataclysm of Iron engulfed the Belt of Iron. The last message anyone received from Jerulas Station, was a distress call from its Imperial garrison stating a world wide rebellion had occurred there. The garrison had also made note of the presence of unknown entities within the ranks of the insurrectionists. This was not acted upon by any Loyalist or Traitor force and the Forge World was ignored until 182011.M31. At that time, the war for the Iron Belt was going poorly for the Traitors and an Urdesh fleet was sent to secure an alliance with Jerulas Station. The Traitors had known its population had a hatred of the Imperium and were hoping to bring its resources to bear against the Loyalists. However when the fleet arrived, they discovered the Forge World in ruins and its population no where in sight. Urdesh's fleet did discover edifices of metal placed where productive forge-fanes once stood and the remains of countless space vessels in orbit of Jerulas Station, indicating a prolonged and brutal conflict. A research team was then sent to the dead Forge World by the fleet, but this revealed the attackers who had killed Jerulas Station. With binary data-bursts, the metal edifices flared into life and dozens of unknown metallic vessels then powered up amongst the space debris around Jerulas Station's orbit. These vessels, of a design not encountered by Urdesh or the Imperium, began unleashing cascading beams of energy upon the unsuspecting fleet. In quick succession, Urdesh's fleet was reduced to a third of its starting strength, and they were forced to abandon Jerulas Station and the research team upon its surface.[1c]
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