Maypax

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Affiliation: Unknown,[1] formerly the Death Guard's Typhus the Traveller[3]
Class: War World,[1] Death World,[1] Jungle World[1]
Tithe Grade: None[1]

Maypax is a Jungle Death World, that is being fought over by the Imperium and Orks.[1]

History

It was initially a world of peace and purity, which had been unspoiled by the ravages of war and hate. Maypax also held a primitive Human population, which thrived and flourished under its perpetual sun. However this all ended, when the Death Guard's Typhus the Traveller arrived on the world and began being worshiped as a god by its population. The presence of the Herald of Nurgle not only turned the primitive Humans into Heretics, but Typhus also corrupted Maypax itself as well. The Traveller later left the world and gifted Maypax's population with a fragment of his power armour. The Fragment of Typhus contained a portion of the Herald's dark power and the Humans placed it in the Temple of Typhus, that had been built to honour him. Shortly afterwards, though, Maypax was struck by Warp Storms and was cut off from the Galaxy for five centuries. When the Warp Storms finally cleared, the Adeptus Mechanicus discovered the Fragment's existence and sought to claim the powerful artefact for themselves, before it fell into unwise hands.[4]

By then, though,[4] Maypax had been turned into a Jungle Death World, that contained many lethal threats. This included the Orks,[1] as well as flying insects who could drain a Human of fluids if they were attacked by a swarm.[2] The Temple of Typhus[1] was also filled with dangers, as Nurglings haunted its interior.[3] These dangers led to the deaths of two of the Adeptus Mechanicus' Explorator teams, as they sought to recover the Fragment of Typhus.[1][4] The Mechanicus, though, had sent its agent Jamona Hilt to Maypax, as a backup-plan and had him transferred to the Catachans' 19'ers Platoon. It was among the Imperium's forces that were now fighting the Orks, and Hilt masqueraded as a Guardsman for several months. When he learned that the second Explorator team died before it could recover the Fragment, Hilt acted at once and manipulated the 19'ers' Captain, Obdant, into recovering it.[4] Though the Captain did not known what the artefact was, he agreed to do so, after Hilt convinced him that it was likely valuable. Taking Hilt and a small number of the 19'ers, Obdant journeyed to the Temple of Typhus[1] and found the Fragment. However it was then that Hilt betrayed the ground and attempted to kill them, after explaining who he was and the Fragment's origin. Hilt then planned on escaping with the Fragment afterwards, but before he could kill them, the Mechanicus agent was attacked by the 19'ers Ogryn Moom. This knocked Hilt into the pillar the Fragment of Typhus was floating above and caused the Temple of Typhus to begin to collapse.[4]

The 19'ers escaped from the Temple, though, with the Fragment and Hilt, but were then confronted by a horde of Orks. Before they could be killed, though, a Valkyrie suddenly appeared above them and deployed a force of Serica Twenty-Seventh Guardsmen. They were led by Captain Crowvek, who told Obdant they had been ordered to defend the 19'ers and the Fragment of Typhus they carried. Working together, they killed the Orks, but Hilt ordered Crowvek to kill the 19'ers afterwards, for treason and disobeying orders. Crowvek refused to do so, and the matter was dealt with, when Moom attacked Hilt again. The Serica then left aboard the Valkyrie with an unconsciousness Hilt and the Fragment, which they would both deliver to the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars.[5]

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