Bastion (Planet)
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Bastion was a heavily militarized planet that retained its neutrality in the early days of the Horus Heresy.[1]
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Planetography
Bastion's surface was occupied by nine continents, whose landscapes included ice-plains, desert flatlands, and mountain ranges. Beneath these, its inhabitants had built shielded hubs to stockpile the planet's naturally occurring geothermal nuclear energy.[1]
History
Contacted by the Iron Warriors, Bastion willingly complied to the Imperium's expansion, and hosted a contingent of the IV Legion until shortly before the Horus Heresy. Each of its nine continents was ruled by a political center known as a clave, and the prime-clave Cullis was its de facto capital.[1]
When civil war broke out, Bastion initially gained its independence as it would have been too consuming a military campaign for either side to engage in, at a time when direct confrontation required all available resources. But as the conflict expanded in scope and brutality, the Bastionite elites feared they might end up on the wrong end of an atomic bombardment, and organised a negotiation during which representatives of both sides would present their arguments, which the Senate would consider before siding with either the Emperor of Mankind or Horus Lupercal.[1]
However, the negotiation was subverted by agents of the Warmaster: a Lacrymole assassin attempted to kill the Horusian representative and frame the Imperium of Man as the perpetrator. Simultaneously, an Iron Warriors Astartes was erasing weaponry schematics from the planet's database and placing explosive charges in the Cullis thermo-nuclear hub. The ensuing detonation led to a chain reaction which destroyed the planet.[1]
