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Unheard War

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The Unheard War was a campaign waged by the Imperial Fists in the early days of the Great Crusade against pirates assaulting the Azurites of Uranus.[1]

Overview

Waged before the Great Crusade broke out of the Sol System, the conflict started in the wake of initial cooperations and peace. All went well initially when the Azurites greeted the Imperial envoys courteously and peacefully agreed to assimilate into the Imperium of Man. But as Imperial forces moved on Neptune's moons, Sol System pirates struck at the Azurites colony stations orbiting Uranus. Overwhelmed by the swift pirate assault, the Azurites called to the Imperium for aid. The Imperials rapidly deployed the Imperial Fists to save their new subjects.[1]

Launching boarding ships, fifty Imperial Fists deployed into the primary Azurite space station and within twenty minutes had broken the first wave of pirate boarders. After fighting off successive waves of pirates, the corsairs fled. However in an act of spite, the fleeing pirates ships fired three boarding torpedoes at the station. Two were shot down by the stations defenses, but one got through and disgorged a Psyker infected with a psychic plague known as the Screaming. Soon Azurite militamen were infected and as one began to ceaselessly scream until they mutated and died. All who heard the screams became infected.[1]

After nearly the entire station had become infected with the plague, the Imperial Fists deafened themselves and struck back at the walls of maddened people who were becoming mutated into daemons by the Warp disease. The Space Marines fought all the way to the stations reactor and overloaded it, destroying Azurite Station and preventing the Screaming plague from spreading across the Sol System. The fifty Imperial Fists had nobly sacrificed themselves, and it is said that the Emperor himself ordered the newly raised Bell of Lost Souls tolled for the first time.[1]

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