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==History==
Attention from the wider Imperium was brought to Lost Hope during [[Warmaster]] [[Ryse]]'s [[Crusade]]. The Warmaster had charged [[General]] [[Ursarkar E. Creed|Creed]] with killing the [[Anckorite Brotherhood]] [[Cult]] leader [[Luciver Anckor]], but Creed had been unsuccessful in his hunt. Because of this, the Warmaster denied Creed further reinforcements and this led Creed to travel to Lost Hope with his [[Cadian 8th Regiment]] [[Honour Guard]], in order to secure ten thousand [[Penal Legion|penal troopers]] from [[House Kasky]]. He then met with Lost Hope's [[Planetary Governor|Prison Governor]] [[Irena Kasky]], who denied his request and stated aiding Creed would endanger the [[tithe]]s she must uphold to the Imperium. Creed would not relent though and Irena finally told him to go see the prisoners and he would discover many were not fit to be Guardsmen. Creed did so and roused the spirits of the prisoners, with offers to join him and earn the chance to redeem themselves. All the prisoners agreed and Creed left his [[Colour Sergeant]] [[Jarran Kell]] to organize organise them, while he returned to his ship, the [[Magister Thine]].{{Fn|1}}
However, when they were separated, Irena and her personnel revealed themselves to be in league with [[Chaos]] and butchered many of the surprised Cadians. Colour Sergeant Kell and three other Honour Guardsmen survived the ambush and killed Irena's personnel before making their escape, from where the prisoners were held. They then found Creed's ruined [[Chimera]], with its crew dead, but the General nowhere to be found. Kell could only conclude that Creed had been captured and brought back to the heretic Irena's residence. Though there were only four of them, the Colour Sergeant did not hesitate and told the Guardsmen they were going to rescue the General. Creed had actually managed to escape from his Chimera when it was attacked by the Anckorite Brotherhood and he had made his way into Lost Hope's wilderness. Luckily though, he was found by escaped prisoners, who told Creed of the atrocities Irena and her personnel had committed against them. Creed patiently listened, then asked for their help in overthrowing Irena's rule, but the prisoners angrily refused. The General persisted though and he told them the Anckorite Brotherhood Cult and its leader Luciver Anckor, who Creed was charged with killing, were on Lost Hope and were responsible for the horrors committed against the prisoners. His campaign against them had made them desperate Creed said, and if the prisoners aided him in contacting his ship, then the Cult would be broken. When the General was told the only comm on the world was in Irena's residence, he plainly stated that they would take the residence from her then. The escaped prisoners' leader, former [[Major]] [[Darr Vel]], then asked what they would get out of this and Creed told them he would take them with him and give them deaths that would earn them the Emperor's forgiveness. The prisoners readily agreed and now calling themselves the [[Lost Hopers]], they marched with Creed to Irena's residence.{{Fn|1}}
