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In the wake of a war against an infesting [[Genestealer Cult]]{{Fn|2}}, Nova Terra was plunged into anarchy by the renegade [[Space Marine]] [[Constantinus the Liberator]] of the [[Sons of Guilliman]] [[Chapter]], who renamed the world '''Constantinium'''. Following Constantinus' fall to [[Chaos]] and the addition of several [[Chaos Space Marine]] warbands to his forces, he began a war of conquest in the surrounding [[Viridis Sector]] which he eventually conquered after a campaign lasting ten years.{{Fn|2}} Ultimately, Imperial forces led by the [[Iron Knights]] Chapter{{Fn|2}} were sent to stabilize the area and reconquer the [[sector]]. Their campaign lasted 13 years and culminated with the death of Constantinus at the hands of the [[Officio Assassinorum]].{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|3}}
A major incident in the war took place when the [[Shrine World]] of [[Salvation-Gamma]] is abandoned to by the [[Night Reapers]] to the massed [[Chaos Space Marine]] and [[mutant]] forces closing in upon it, turning the guns of their gathered war fleet on the planet in order to grant the population what they consider a merciful end. The [[Ecclesiarchy]] lodges such objections with the [[High Lords]] that the Night Reapers are consigned to the [[Laanah Rifts]]. Within a decade, contact with the Chapter is almost entirely lost.{{Fn|4}}
Despite the Imperium's efforts, pockets of resistance still loyal to Constantinus have survived in the volcanic plateaus of the world.{{Fn|1}} In the late [[M41|41st millennium]] Constantinium, now renamed Nova Terra, has been reclaimed for the Imperium.{{Fn|2}}
