Kaurava system
The Kaurava system is a star system located in the Lithesh Sector of the Ultima Segmentum. It was the battleground of the Kaurava Campaign, a major war involving nearly every major faction and power of the galaxy.[1]
History
The Kaurava Campaign
Much of the background and events leading up to the Kauarava Campaign have been described by Remembrancer Theta-Scion, whose account of the lead up to the war is as follows:
"It was the sudden appearance of a warp storm on the outer edge of the Kaurava system that first caught the attention of the Imperium. And not just the Imperium. After hundreds of years under the neglectful watch of the Planetary Defense Force descended from numerous Imperial Guard regiments, nearly every force in the galaxy would descend upon the planets of Kaurava, bent only on domination and victory. Three races had long dwelled in there. The PDF, enforcing the system's supposed rulers, the Ork tribes of Karauva II, whom the Defense Force had never successfully put down, and the Necrons, who had slept undisturbed for untold millenia beneath Karauava III.
Where the Chaos Marines came from, or how, no one can say. Did the warp storm bring them or did they bring the warp storm? Both appeared suddenly on Karauva IV, and in an eyeblink half the system's Imperial forces were gone, killed or claimed by the madness of Chaos.
In quick succession, the others flocked to Karauva. The Blood Ravens Chapter of the Space Marines descended on Karauva II, bent on finally cleansing the system, both of the Orks and the Chaos Space Marines, their sworn enemies. The Tau appeared next, not far above, on one of the planet's moons. In the interests of protecting its ordered empire from the effects of human folly, the Tau came seeking to contain the warp storm, and in so doing expand their territory's border by annexing the system. On that moon, they built a mighty fortress, and there forged a space cannon capable of interplanetary devastation.
Among the wastes of Karauva III, the necrons, perhaps awakened by the disruptive forces of the storm, slowly massed their lethal legions. In quick response, webway gates, long unused, flickered to life and Eldar poured forth, ready to battle their dark death-dealing adversaries.
Meanwhile, in the shadow of an ancient portal gate, the Dark Eldar slipped stealthily out of the murky depths of the webway. They would be like carrion birds, flying above the battlefield, and when all were weary from the fight make the battle into a feasting ground.
Last to arrive, and perhaps most to be feared, were the Sisters of Battle. Holy maidens and bearers of the God-Emperor's faith, they had come to cleanse the system of corruption and filth. Their faith left them fanatical, unafraid of death and sallied to the cause. Nothing here was clean. All must be purged.” — Remembrancer Theta-Scion of the Inquisition, elucidating on the lead up to the Kaurava Campaign[3]
The ultimate victor of this interstellar conflict would be the Orks under Warlord Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter[2]
