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Pyrocataclysm of Vilidad Prime

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The Pyrocataclysm of Vilidad Prime was a battle fought between the Imperium and the forces of Chaos in 006.M40.[1]

Overview

After broadcasting a terror message condemning the lack of beauty in the populace, the Chaos Space Marines of the Flawless Host invaded the world of Vilidad Prime. The 122nd Imeldan Destriers, a veteran Imperial Guard regiment, made a valiant attempt to hold back the renegades. Modified nova charges were set by the Flawless Host throughout the adamantium mines and the population centres above them. Though the surviving Destriers fought the Chaos Space Marines every step of the way, the vast majority were slain in battle, their persecutors claiming the kills were ‘for the sin of mediocrity in the face of true beauty’ [1]

Though the Destriers were reduced to their bare threshold within the first three days of fighting, reports of strange Space Marines appearing in the mining districts cropped up again and again, each time engaging the Flawless Host and driving them back. At first, the strikes were so sudden and brutally effective that the Destriers thought they had a real chance of outlasting the renegades. When the Chaos Lord that called himself the Visionary joined the fight, a hundred daemonic handmaidens at his side, the tide swung back again, for many of the Legion’s number were banished by the claws of the Slaaneshi daemons. Those Legionaries that remained became searing columns of fire, fighting with a fury that made them every bit as frightening as the renegade invaders. During what came to be known as the Pyrocataclysm, the fire of the Legionaries proved able to burn even Daemon flesh, and the Slaaneshi entities were sent screaming back to their master’s realm.[1]

Though they committed a number of spiteful acts during their retreat, the Flawless Host fled back to their ships rather than risk disfigurement and defeat. During the fighting, a dozen new seams of adamantium were revealed by weapon blasts that scar the surface of Vilidad Prime.[1]

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