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Chogoris is a fertile world with lush greenery, soaring mountains and azure seas, which, at the time of the [[Great Crusade]], had achieved a black powder level of technology. The dominant Chogorian empire at the time of the Great Crusade was an organized aristocracy which had conquered most of the planet with well-equipped and highly disciplined armies. Armoured horsemen and densely packed blocks of infantry had won every campaign their ruler, the [[Palatine]], had fought.{{cite this}}

To the west of the Palatine's empire was a vast, wind-blown steppe, known as the Empty Quarter, home to nomadic tribes of savage horsemen who for centuries had roamed the vast grasslands. The tribes of the steppes lived in tents and followed a cycle of seasonal migration from summer pastures to protected winter valleys in the Khum Karta mountains. Consummate horsemen and archers, these disparate tribes frequently fought one another for control of ancestral pastureland. Chogorian armies had never invaded the Empty Quarter as the dry and desolate lands were of no value to the Palatine. However, Chogorian nobles would often lead hunting bands into the steppes and take whole tribes east as slaves or capture a lone tribesmen to hunt through the mountains for sport.{{cite this}}

[[Jaghatai Khan]] united the tribes of the planet's western desert into a single horde and overthrew the rulers of the civilized empires. When the Khan left, he put [[Ogedei]] in control of the world, but Ogedei was not strong enough to hold the tribes together. The tribes fragmented and returned to their old ways of constant inter-tribal warfare. This may have been the Khan's purpose, because it allowed the Chapter's potential recruits to maintain their warrior culture. There would be many attempts to unite the tribes of the deserts but none would be as successful as the Khan's.{{cite this}}

*???.[[M42]]. In the aftermath of [[Cadia]]'s [[Great Rift|destruction]], the nearby [[Maelstrom]] has grown in size and power and has begun affecting {{PAGENAME}} Chogoris itself. Now the world's grasslands burn from the [[Warp]]'s power and its beasts run wild, or turn to monstrous, deformed things. Worse still, the White Scars have not been able to protect the world's population from the predations of the Red Corsairs, who have begun building ziggurats from bodies of {{PAGENAME}}Chogoris' dead. The Chapter does not know why the Red Corsairs are building these mountains of dead flesh, but are sure the ziggurats are part of some ritual dedicated to the [[Chaos Gods]], that is close to completion.{{Fn|4}} Thankfully for the White Scars, [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s [[Indomitus Crusade]] managed to relieve the world and deliver new reinforcements of [[Primaris Space Marine]]s.{{Fn|5}}

*{{Endn|2}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pgspg. 30-4930–49*3: [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]]