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Contact with Urdesh was first established by the [[Explorator Fleet]]s of [[Mars]] during the [[Great Crusade]]. During the [[Age of Strife]] the world had lost much, including the knowledge to build new [[Titan]]s. It proved of great interest to the Imperium thanks to it possessing the knowledge required to produce vast numbers of arms for the [[Imperial Army]]. The world peacefully assimilated into the Imperium after being offered a chance to replenish their [[Titan Legion]], the [[Legio Damicium]].{{Fn|9}}
During the Great Crusade Urdesh was still only a minor world in the [[Belt of Iron]] that fed the war machine of the Imperial Army. When the [[Horus Heresy]] began the world was desperate to maintain its sizable Titan Legion and was dependent on [[Mars]] for aid, which saw it join the forces of the [[Warmaster]]. During the Heresy they ferried supplies into [[Segmentum Solar]], aiding the traitor Mechanicum in establishing small cells of saboteurs that worked to undermine Imperial defenses around [[Terra]].{{Fn|3a}} Urdesh served as a supply hub for Dark Mechanicum saboteurs, and . From this world many tech-priest cadres and corrupt [[automata]] were smuggled into loyalist territory to cause disruption and havoc. The leaders of Urdesh gravitated towards the [[Chaos]] power known as [[Slaanesh]].{{Fn|10}} For this crime [[Malcador the Sigillite]] dispatched a force of [[Legio Ignatum]] from Terra, which together with loyalists in the Belt of Iron purged the planet in the final stages of the [[Cataclysm of Iron]].{{Fn|3b}}
===Between M31 and M40===
