House D'Kark
House D'Kark is a former Navigator House of the Navis Nobilite, which was destroyed[1b] in an Ordo Hereticus[2] and Ordo Xenos pogrom.[1b]
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History
Its Navigators once ruled the entire Magdallan System,[1b] sometime prior to 0.762.1324.M33,[1a] until House D'Kark's whispers of dissent brought the wrath of the Inquisition down upon them.[1b] The Ordo Hereticus[2] and Ordo Xenos led a force of Astra Militarum and began a purge of Magdallan Prime, where D'Kark's palace was located in Magdallakeen. However, when the Astra Militarum attacked the palace, they were repeatedly repelled by the Navigator House's private mercenary army. This led to the deaths of hundreds of lives and caused the Ordo Xenos to ask the White Scars for their aid in the battle. The Chapter agreed to do so and deployed two of its Companies to break through the defenses of D'Kark's palace, after it was struck by a heavy orbital bombardment. Once they did, the White Scars' Companies butchered everyone they could find, including the Navigator House's slaves and servants. Those that somehow managed to escape the massacre, were later hunted down and killed by the Space Marines. Magdellan Prime was then purged and its population was deported to selected Death Worlds.[1b]
Only D'Kark's Novator survived his Navigator House's destruction and he was taken prisoner by one of the Ordo Xenos Inquisitors who oversaw the attack. The Novator was then imprisoned and tortured for five years, until the Inquisitor finally had him beheaded. The Novator's head was later delivered to the Navis Nobilite's Paternoval palace on Terra, as a warning to all of the Imperium's Navigator Houses. Despite D'Kark's destruction[1b] being so long ago, however,[1a] the House's name is still remembered and so is the Inquisition's role in its downfall.[2]
Trivia
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House D'Kark, Magdallan Prime and the Magdallan System were created by the Games Workshop employee Warwick Kinrade. They were featured in The Citadel Journal 18.[1b]
See also
Sources
- 1: The Citadel Journal 18 - Navigators
- 2: Crossfire (Novel), Chapter 5
