Laernoth IV

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Map	Basic Data		Planetary Image
	Name:	Laernoth IV
	Segmentum:	Unknown
	Sector:	Unknown
	Subsector:	Unknown
	System:	Laernoth System
	Population:	Unknown
	Affiliation:	Imperium
	Class:	Unknown, former Industrial World
	Tithe Grade:	Unknown

Laernoth IV was an Imperium Industrial World, which contained a continent sized factory that constructed battle tanks. It was protected by several Astra Militarum Regiments, but they were easily killed by the Gorehounds Warband, when they invaded the word shortly before the Great Rift's creation.^[1]

Soon Laernoth IV was theirs, but the Gorehounds' Warlord Torkvar doomed the world, when he unleashed a blood madness upon its population. Whoever was infected by it degenerated into a frenzied killer and soon trillions of Laernoth IV's population began spreading mayhem across its surface. As the world became a cauldron of carnage, a thirty member strike force of the Crimson Fists Chapter landed upon Laernoth IV. Led by Captain Julias, they were charged with destabilizing Laernoth IV's thermal reactors, in order to start a chain reaction that would scour the infected population from its surface. Once they landed on the world, however, they became hunted by the Gorehounds and the infected population. This began a six month campaign of the Crimson Fists evading their pursuers as they destabilized Laernoth's IV thermal reactors. When their mission was complete, the surviving members of the strike force were evacuated by a Stormraven Gunship shortly before the reactors began to explode. Soon firestorms enveloped Laernoth IV and killed 86 percent of life on the world. Sometime later, an Adeptus Mechanicus reclamation force arrived at Laernoth IV and killed the Khorne forces that had survived its devastation. This allowed the Adeptus Mechanicus to then freely reclaim the world's subterranean riches.^[1]

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Sources

• 1: White Dwarf January 2019, pg. 107 — Codex Supplement: Crimson Fists