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The '''Siege of Vervunhive''' took place during the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], when the fugitive [[Chaos]] warlord [[Heritor Asphodel]] took control of the [[Hive]] city of [[Ferrozoica]] on the world of [[Verghast]] and mobilized its entire population against [[Vervunhive]], a vitally important manufacturing hub for the rest of the [[subsector]], and the Crusade's war effort.
== Prelude ==Approximately 90 years prior to the Siege, Vervunhive and Ferrozoica had fought [[Trade War|a bitter war ]] over trade issues, in which Vervunhive was victorious. Relations between the two cities had been peaceful since then.{{Fn|1b}}
In the aftermath of [[Warmaster]] [[Slaydo]]'s crushing defeat of the [[Chaos]] forces on [[Balhaut]], several of [[Archon (Chaos)|Archon]] [[Nadzybar]]'s [[Magister]]s escaped the Imperial forces and several remained unaccounted for. Asphodel, one of the most notorious, infiltrated Ferrozoica and gradually corrupted its entire population to the service of Chaos.{{Fn|1x}}
