Tartora
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Name: | Tartora | 
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| Subsector: | Carmynus Sub-sector[1] | ||
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| Affiliation: | Imperium[1] | ||
| Class: | War World[1], Fortress World[1] | ||
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Tartora is an Imperial Fortress World, that is currently being invaded by the Orks of Waaagh! Gozmod and the Daemons of Khorne, led by the Bloodthirster Agoth'Kar.[1]
History
It had stood watch over the Carmynus Sub-sector for 800 years and was so heavily fortified, with a massive garrison and replete with orbital lasers and deep-void missile silos, that Tartora's Castellans had long claimed it was unconquerable. In M42, Tartora faced a great threat in the Orks of Waaagh! Gozmod, who had overrun the Hive Worlds of Styxen and Hador. Disheveled refugees from their worlds arrived at Tartora seeking safety and brought tales of massacre and cruelty to the Fortress World's garrison. However its troops could do nothing but wait for the Orks to come to Tartora, which left them frustrated. Meanwhile, the garrison's Preachers gave sermons that stoked their hatred of the marauding Xenos and caused it to blaze like a bonfire in the Warp. Waaagh! Gozmod's vast horde soon attacked the Fortress World and while Tartora's orbital defenses took a toll on the Xenos, they were soon overwhelmed. When the the Orks landed upon its million miles of criss-crossed trench networks, bunker complexes, ferrocrete fortresses and gun emplacements, though, the Waaagh! clashed with Tartora's fury filled garrison.[1]
What followed was week upon week of constantly escalating butchery that saw hundreds of miles of trenches clogged with Imperial and Ork bodies alike. On the eighth hour of the invasion's eighty-eighth day, however, the dreadful clangor of war melded into a single monstrous howl. It loudly echoed around Tartora and shattered every window, cracked the walls of every bunker and send rapidly widening fault lines racing across the Fortress World's surface. A seemingly endless tide of the Daemons of Khorne, then surged forth from these vents after being drawn to Tartora by the hatred and bloodshed that had engulfed it. Led by the Bloodthirster Agoth'Kar, the Daemons came to reap a monstrous tally for their wrathful god and fell upon both the Fortress World's Imperial population and the invading Orks of Waaagh! Gozmod. The Daemon's appearance would have a devastating impact upon Tartora, which began to be corrupted by Khorne's power. Many of the world's millions of miles of trenches became vast maws of gnashing brass teeth, or flooded with boiling gore or molten metal. They were also swarmed by countless Daemon Engines of the Blood God, after Manufactorums and Mekboy Workshops were transformed into Khorne's forge-engines. The Bastion Adamant was transformed as well and spat out its garrison defenders to face the attacking Daemons, while vast reservoirs of purified aqua turned a brackish blood-red and turned those who desperately drank from them into murderous berserkers. Those who fled from the Blood God's forces were transmuted into statues of brass and bone as punishment for their cowardice. And after Khorne bellowed forth a roar that rang through Tartora's skies, Preachers sermoning words of hate found their Vox-horns and hailers turning to molten brass that flowed out to encase them. Now cocooned in searing-hot metal, the Preachers were transformed into tormented gargoyles and were compelled to howl the wrathful praises of the Blood God, as they suffered ceaseless agonies until the end of time.[1]
Related Articles
Sources
- 1: Codex: Chaos Daemons (9th Edition), pgs. 14-15 - War Zone Tartora
