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[[Image:Vervunhive Burning.jpg|thumb|right|Vervunhive after the shield failure]]
{{Main|Siege of Vervunhive}}
A producer of large quantities of materials for the [[Imperial]] [[Crusade]] that was occurring in the [[Sabbat Worlds]] [[sector]], it was drawn into the crusade directly when it was attacked during an attempt to conquer the world for [[Chaos]]. Initially, the inhabitants of Vervunhive thought they were under assault by the rival hive of [[Ferrozoica]] in a replay of the "[[Trade War (Verghast)|Trade War]]" of 90 years earlier.{{Fn|3a}}
However, when [[Commissar]] [[Pius Kowle]] led a Vervunhive armoured division out to meet the forces of Zoica, it became clear that this was no conventional assault; the Zoican army massed in the millions.{{Fn|3b}}{{Fn|3c}} In comparison, Vervunhive could muster only approximately 500,000 troopers out of a population of over 40 million people. What made the force imbalance all the more disturbing was that Ferrozoica was approximately 1/3 smaller in population and size than Vervunhive.{{Fn|3c}}
