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There are probably quite a few people out there who don?t have the old magazine, so here is the fluff bit from the article. The rest of the stuff was basically a scenario based on rules from the old Epic system (which sucks compared to the new in my humble opinion).
Hope you enjoy.
LOCATION
SEGMENTUM OBSCURUS
QUADRANT 7FG38WL8928
HEFELL REGION
Ref: 51-L46/15/9/349
KHALDUN SECTOR
SUB-SECTOR 45/388-5/KS/N `TOLKHAN?
DICIO ADEPTUS MECHANICUS
SYSTEM DATA: 15 Primary Systems, 12 Inhabited
PRINCIPLE SYSTEM: TOLKHAN
O-class Forge World
Terran Registry: Stellar Chart P-22-94844T-89-14A
Seat of Sectorial Government
Home to Legio Pallidus Mors (Pale Death)
Population: 8 Billions
Skitarii: 95 regiments
Tolkhan is a night world that orbits a small orange dwarf star and has a single moon called Rubicante. The inhabitants of Tolkhan appear very pallid because of the reduced illumination of their weak sun, which is the reason the Titan Legion took the name Pale Death.
HISTORY
When settlers from Mars arrived in the Khaldun Sector some 800 years into the first exodus, they found a region torn by war. A few systems were controlled by humans that had obtained the knowledge of space flight, but not warp travel. Two systems were Eldar Exodite worlds and some systems were orkoid domains. The Titan Legion quickly allied itself with the human worlds, brought their internal strife to an end and settled on one of their planets, Tolkhan. In the following decades the Orks were hunted down and destroyed and a peace treaty was signed with the Eldar, acknowledging the borders of their worlds, Avalath and Kathlan. For many centuries this peace was preserved although it was unstable at best. The Tech-Priests of the Cult Mechanicus suspected the Eldar to harbour technological secrets such as the much coveted STC on their planets and the feudal masters of Tolkhan`s surrounding Knight Worlds had not forgotten their many wars against the arrogant aliens.
Then one fateful day some 120 years ago, disaster struck. From out of nowhere Dark Eldar Pirates attacked the Mining world of Zembrie, slaughtering thousands of defenceless workers, enslaving even more and destroying what they couldn`t take with them. Before Imperial Forces could retaliate, the Dark Eldar had left, leaving behind them, a wasteland filled with piles of lacerated bodies and smouldering ruins. When the news spread to the rest of the sector, there was a public outcry, demanding instant retribution against what was wrongly regarded as a treacherous act of war from the Eldar. The Imperial response was swift and brutal, the lush world of Kathlan was virus-bombed and left a barren rock in space. On Avalath every male, female and child were butchered and dumped in city-sized massgraves. The Techno-magi now had access to immense amounts of Eldar technology and archives filled with knowledge, whose secrets it would take years to uncover and catalogue. They ordered it all to be collected, dismantled and shipped to Ilnor where the Adeptus Mechanicus Research Stations were located. The Tech-Priests even suspected that somewhere amongst this enormous amount of material, they might find and unlock the doors to the Eldar Webway and the legendary Black Library. What they didn`t know was that, prior to the invasion, a message had been send deep into space. A message destined for the Riellen Craftworld that had originally settled the two Exodite worlds.
120 years later the response to the message arrived. The Eldar of Riellen attacked the Tolkhan Sub-Sector without warning and with a series of swift and ferocious strikes, they managed to conquer some 80% of the systems in the short span of only 6 months. It was only on Tolkhan itself and Celetin that the Imperial forces managed to hold on and repel the invaders. Although the systems were well-defended they were no match against the onslaught of a whole craftworld. While the attack could be seen as simple revenge for the wanton destruction of Avalath and Kathlan, the real reason was in fact to either recapture or destroy the stolen Eldar technology in order to prevent their secrets falling into the hands of the mon-keigh. The first system that fell to the Eldars were the Explorator Base of Ilnor, much to the consternation of the Tech-Priests.
PRESENT DAY
8 years have passed since the Eldar arrived and the Tolkhan Sub-Sector is now locked in a perpetual war. Imperial reinforcements have poured in from the rest of the Khaldun Sector, among them several companies of the Harbingers Space Marine Chapter and Tolkhan has begun the construction of several new Titan Battle Groups. The Eldar is concentrating on defend and hit-and-run tactics in order to buy time for their activities on Ilnor, which is still years from completion. So far the Imperium has managed to liberate 4 systems and has recently invaded the Eryx system. There have been a few attempts to liberate Ilnor, at the request of the Tech-Priests but they have all been repelled with heavy losses, as large Eldar forces are situated here.
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