Galaspar
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Name: | Galaspar | 
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| System: | Galaspar System[1] | ||
| Population: | Billions[1] | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium[1] | ||
| Class: | Hive World[1] | ||
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Galaspar is a Hive World of the Imperium.[1]
History
Settled during the Dark Age of Technology, the ancient civilization of Galaspar grew distinct and separate from the emerging Imperium of Man. Its surface was covered with massive Hives that rival those found within Segmentum Solar. Outside of the fortified hives, millennia of unbound human population expansion and industrial spoil had obliterated the planet's environment and rendered Galaspar an arid, irradiated wasteland.[1]
During the Age of Strife, Galaspar fell under the control of a tyrannical junta simply known as "The Order", which reduced its population to nameless labour units that were immediately euthanized when they were no longer able to work. The Order maintained its rule through mass terror and spreading addictive substances throughout the population. Thus it was that the people of Galaspar were rendered into humble and meek masses who would quietly obey authority. Soon Galaspar expanded its power, taking control of the surrounding worlds of its system in a pocket empire.[1]
However The Order's rule of Galaspar ended when they refused assimilation into the Imperium during the Great Crusade and fired on Imperial Explorator vessels that attempted to make contact. In the ensuing Conquest of Galaspar, the Death Guard, led personally by Mortarion, obliterated The Order and killed every last one of its defenders, wreaking mass destruction and terror. Since then, the devastated world's population has obeyed the Adeptus Terra, replacing one tyrannical government with another.[1]
During the Horus Heresy, though, Galaspar was seized by the forces of Warmaster Horus. The Raven Guard's Primarch, Corax, later sent a battlegroup of his Legion's Deliverers and their Therion Cohort Imperial Army allies to seize the world from the Traitors. This group was composed of forces led by the Centurion Beyar Kedron and the Cohort commanders who had criticized Corax, for the losses they suffered during the Breaking of the Perfect Fortress.[2]
