A trio of Angels Encarmine Dreadnoughts deploy upon the Industrial World of Stromark Secundus.
The Stromark Civil War was a civil conflict fought in 991.M41 between two Imperial worlds and ended by the intervention of the Adeptus Astartes when a political rivalry between the two Industrial Worlds of the Stromark System, Stromark Primus and Stromark Secundus, led to a civil war between them, despite their previous peaceful coexistence.
Flesh Tearers Terminators assault Stromark Primus.
The escalating violence halted the flow of much-needed weapons and materiel from these planets to the wider Imperium, a situation that the Departmento Munitorum's adepts determined could not be allowed to continue without adversely affecting the security of the Emperor's realm. As a result, elements of two Successor Chapters of the Blood Angels, the Angels Encarmine and the Flesh Tearers, were despatched to the Stromark System with the mandate to end the conflict by any means necessary.
The fighting on Stromark Prime was the first to cease. The first engagement by the Flesh Tearers Chapter was also the last, as stories of unstoppable, frenzied Space Marines hacking a vicious and bloody path through literally tens of thousands of Stromarkian warriors quickly terrified the planet's recalcitrant population into submission.
Stromark Secundus took longer to be pacified, as the Angels Encarmine used less "direct" methods than their savage brethren amongst the Flesh Tearers. Several solar hours of difficult combat ensued that was brought to an end when 5 of the Chapter's Furioso Dreadnoughts smashed into Stromark Secundus' military headquarters and tore the planet's High Command apart, literally limb from limb.
The surviving officers of the Stromark Secundus Planetary Defence Force wisely agreed to immediately end the conflict with their neighbours and resume meeting the system's crucial production quotas. In the wake of the slaughter, officials from the Administratum estimated that the damage caused by the civil war and the Sanguinary Brotherhood's assault would take standard centuries to repair.
Sources[]
- Codex: Blood Angels (5th Edition), pg. 16
- The Stromark Massacre (Audio Book Anthology) by C.Z. Dunn and Andy Smillie