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|Planetary Image Px=
|Name=Formal Prime
|Segmentum=[[Segmentum Pacificus]]{{Fn|3}}
|Sector=[[Sabbat Worlds]]{{Fn|3}}
|Subsector=Unknown
|System=Unknown
|Population=Unknown
|Affiliation= N/A[[Imperium]]{{Fn|3}}
|Class=Unknown
|Tithe Grade= N/AUnknown
}}
==History==
Formal Prime was one of the few [[Imperial]] holdouts in the Sabbat Worlds, having fought to maintain itself in the wake of the region's invasion by the forces of Chaos.{{Fn|3}} During [[Operation Redrake]], the initial phase of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], Formal Prime was one of the four objective worlds chosen by [[Warmaster]] [[Slaydo]] for the Crusade force's initial advance into the Chaos-held territory. Of these four, Formal Prime was the most strategically important, thus Slaydo chose to command the assault in person.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|3}}
Slaydo initially estimated that it would take six weeks for Formal Prime to fall, but reckoned without the difficulty of the terrain, or the competence of the enemy commander, [[Shebol Red-Hand]], who commanded a core of soldier-fanatics known as the [[Charismites]]. The attacking [[Imperial Guard]] forces became bogged down in the labyrinths of Formal Prime's [[hive]] cities; at one point, it was calculated that two hundred [[Guardsmen]] were dying for every metre of ground taken.{{Fn|1b}}
