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|Conflict = [[Unification Wars]]/[[Great Crusade]]
|Date =[[M32]]
|Location =[[Terra]]
Up until the Thousand Sons took control of the theatre, a [[conservator]] team led by [[Kasper Hawser]] and [[Navid Murza]] operated in the area during the campaign, exploring and recording the contents of an ancient shrine to the gods of a more superstitious age. The shrine had been uncovered by a wayward artillery strike, and the decision made to catalogue the contents at once; conservator teams had been assigned to the Army's tail, along with [[iterators]], engineers, aid workers and other groupings designed to ease Boeotia swiftly into the Imperial fold once it had been successfully annexed. Hawser's team was ultimately ejected before their analysis could be completed, despite their [[Unification Council]] credentials, by warriors of the [[Thousand Sons|Fifteenth Legion]]. Sixteen months after the Boeotian Conflict was ended, conservator teams were finally allowed back into the region. No trace of the shrine could be found.
<sup>1a</sup>
==Triviaand Notes==
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*The nation of Boeotia draws its name from its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeotia real life] Greek counterpart; several significant archaeological sites exist there.
*Boeotia was a battleground during the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Wars Greco-Persian Wars], when it was invaded by the armies of the Achaemenid Empire. The recruiting ground for the Astartes of the Thousand Sons is also known as the Achaemenid Empire and appears to effectively be the same place; thus, if Terran history is taken to mirror real world history by default, Boeotia has been invaded by warriors originating from the same place twice, but many, many millennia apart. If not, it remains a simple reference.
*The Great Crusade was said to have already begun when Boeotia was pacified; Space Marines already existed and the bulk of the Legions had previously left Terra to conquer the galaxy. The Boeotian Conflict currently holds the distinction of being a war of Unification that took place during the Great Crusade, the last and first currently known battle of each grand campaign respectively.
==Sources==
*<sup>1</sup>: [[Prospero Burns]],
**<sup>1a</sup>:Chapter One, pp.29-41
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