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The [[Celestarii]] cult came to prominence during the civil unrest. [[Adeptus Arbites]] and [[Ordo Hereticus]] forces suppressed it wherever they could but they could not completely stamp it out. The Celestarii rejected the [[Imperial Creed]] and venerated a superior race that would bring eternal life to their loyal servants when they awakened. The cult took xeno-archeological remains from across the sector as their sacred relics and secretly carried out cannibalistic rituals{{Fn|1a}}.
A sudden and mysterious attack struck the [[agri-world]] of [[Tlaloc (Planet)|Tlaloc]] in [[889.M38]]. A squadron from [[Battlefleet Orpheus]] found the world annihilated with no intact bodies or recording devices to tell them what enemy had destroyed the world so swiftly. The Lord Commander declared the world under permanent quarantine while [[Inquisitor]] [[Kussan]] of the [[Ordo Xenos]] believed the [[Dark Eldar]] were responsible for the attack.{{Fn|1a}}
After nearly a thousand years of strife and warfare, its worlds bleeding resources to fight wars elsewhere and reinforce the sector capital's defences, and infighting amongst sector nobility, the Orpheus Sector erupted in [[Orpheus Revolt|civil war]]. Rebels in the [[Drucillan Cluster]] overthrew the government and declared their secession from the sector, rallying other rebels to their cause and undermining the sector's stability. The parliament of [[Amraphel]] hired xenos mercenaries to fight their enemies, only to become the victims of the [[Khrave]] they had hired. Imperial authorities learned that the [[Chaos|Great Enemy]] had orchestrated most of the unrest.{{Fn|1a}}
*[[Saint Marduk's Bane]] — [[Imperial]] World
*[[Thamyris]] — Abandoned World
*[[Tlaloc (Planet)|Tlaloc]] — [[Quarantined World]]/[[Death World]]
===Prohibited Worlds===
