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To the southeast was the '''Croe Gate''', northeast was the '''Ontabi Gate Fortress'''. To the south, the '''[[Heironymo Sondar]] Gate''' led into the '''Square of Marshals''', which was bordered by the '''[[Anko]] Chemical Plant'''. The '''Veyveyr Gate''', also to the south, was bordered by the '''Ore Works''' and the '''Basilica'''.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}
Various mining districts lay outside the southern gates, with [[The Spoil ]] and the Mud Flats to the southeast, past the walls.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2}}
The Hive was a busy place during most times of the day, with many of its citizens attending jobs for the various Noble Houses, such as [[House Sondar|Sondar]] or [[House Chass|Chass]]. Public address plates displayed holos about the day's news.{{Fn|3a}}
Vervunhive was a place heavily dependent on trade for survival. The Commercia was where most of this was arranged, from inter-house trading in Vervunhive, to arrangements with other hives on Verghast.{{Fn|3a}}
Reinforcements were duly sent to Vervunhive; the [[NorthCol]] Hive [[PDF]] and the Imperial Guard regiments consisting of the [[Roane Deepers]], [[Royal Volpone]], [[Tanith First and Only|Tanith]] and [[Narmenian Armoured]].{{Fn|3c}}
The allied [[Vannick Hive]] was the first major casualty of the War when Ferrozoica deployed [[nuclear weapons]] and all but destroyed it. With the Vervunhive leaders debating reasons why Zoica would destroy rather than capture, [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]] made the judgment that with the size of Zocia's forces and the tactics they were using, that the whole hive had actually fallen to [[Chaos]] and that this was more than just a Trade war.{{Fn|3d}} This proved to be a correct judgment, and it would transpire that the whole population of Ferrozoica had become the thralls of the Chaos [[Chaos Lord|Warlord]] [[Heritor Asphodel]].{{Fn|3e3g}}
During the war, Vervunhive was protected from artillery bombardment by its Shield. However, the corrupted High Master [[Salvador Sondar]], following orders from [[Heritor Asphodel]], lowered the Shield at the most critical moment.{{Fn|3f}} Much of the Hive City was destroyed until a strike-force led by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt managed to infiltrate the High Master's quarter and brought the Shield back online.{{Fn|3f3h}} Gaunt then proceeded to lead another strike force of [[Scratch Company|Scratch Troopers]], Tanith and Volpone into the mobile base of Heritor Asphodel and destroyed it. With the base destroyed, Zoican forces were left disoriented and swiftly fell apart.{{Fn|3g3i}}{{Fn|3h3j}}
Soon after this, [[Warmaster]] [[Macaroth]] deployed massive reinforcements to the planet, which included 6 million [[Guardsmen]], 500,000 tanks, 3 companies from each of the [[Iron Snakes]] and [[Imperial Fists]] Chapter, and 2 [[Titan Legion]]s. The Imperial reinforcements then proceeded to hunt down and exterminate the last of the Zoican forces. The battle was finally won.{{Fn|3i3k}}
With the hive all but destroyed Warmaster Macaroth created the Act of Consolation, whereby civilians could join up with the Imperial Guard regiments or move onto the new hive cities being created.{{Fn|3i3k}}
==See also==
**{{Endn|3c}}: Chapter Three
**{{Endn|3d}}: Chapter Four
**{{Endn|3e}}: Chapter Five**{{Endn|3f}}: Chapter Six**{{Endn|3g}}: Chapter Eleven**{{Endn|3f3h}}: Chapter Fourteen**{{Endn|3g3i}}: Chapter Seventeen**{{Endn|3h3j}}: Chapter Eighteen**{{Endn|3i3k}}: Chapter Nineteen
[[Category:Cities and Hives]]
