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==Overview==
Piscina IV is a world controlled by the [[Imperium]] but in constant battle with the [[Orks]]. Each time the Orks seem to be defeated, the [[Imperial Guard]] regiments stationed on the world come under fire from a new place under siege. The Orks tend to shore up in old abandoned mine heads and dig themselves in until they attain sufficient numbers to overwhelm the Guard troops that are sent to cleanse the area.
Piscina IV's stronghold for the Dark Angels is visited more and more infrequently by the [[Tower of Angels]] in recent years, only coming once a generation or so to take aspirants gathered from the barbaric world of [[Piscina V]] for further testing and modification.
==Garrison==
The Dark Angels squad stationed on the planet included:
*Interrogator-Chaplain Boreas, leader of the Dark Angels presence on the world
*[[Techmarine]] Hephaestus, in charge of equipment repair and the annihilus virus weapon under the keep
*[[Apothecary]] Nestor, keeper of the well-being of his squad and guardian of the [[gene-seed]] kept on the world
*Battle-brothers Thumiel and Zaul
*Veteran Sergeant Damas, who trained the aspirants gathered off-world until their departure on the Tower of Angels
All the members of this squad met their deaths inside their own keep due to an intricate plot by the [[Fallen Angels]] led by [[Cypher]] designed to steal the gene-seed kept in the Apothecarium vault. The keep's virus weapon failsafe had been activated, and was going to destroy all life on the planet. Boreas realized that the only way that they could keep the planet's population safe was to not break the air-tight seals of the keep's doors, therefore containing the virus inside until its eventual end. Nestor, having been charged with keeping the gene-seed safe, sought to leave and was killed by Boreas, using Hephaestus' [[plasma pistol]]. The rest of the [[Space Marines]] decided that ending their lives before the hunger or thirst of waiting to die pushed them to leave was the better idea, and detonated [[meltabombs]] clasped against their chest as they prayed to their [[Primarch]], [[Lion El'Jonson]].
