Geonide Crusade

=Cause=

The Geonide planet is notable only for its massive reaserch facilities, and laboratorys. Brilliant Adeptus Mechanicus minds work feverishly upon such important projects as new propulsion drives for the Imperial Navy and the latest laser technologies. Then there are the classified projects involving artefacts and relics of bygone eras. Whatever the work, all is done with the interest of furthering the cause of the Emperor of Mankind. Without warning, violent rioting began in several major cities on Geonide. Attempts were made to subdue the attacks by the Planetary Defence Force (PDF) but were over-run and destoryed. Priceless experiments and artifacts were lost to this fighting, and Impirial reserch in the sector was set back many years. Before long, the true cancer behind the unrest was revealed to be a newly formed coven of latent psykers tainted by the lies of Chaos. These rogue phykers had been manipulated by Chaos Sorcerers to unleash the unholy energies of ancient warp drives to open a rift in reality. This allowed the Taint of Chaos to infect most of the planets population, the mostly insain (and sometimes mutated) citizens were proving very difficult to stop. Within a year, over 75% of the planets population had fallen to the powers of Chaos.

Black Templars involvment
Assistance arrived in the form of a Black Templar crusade fleet. But after many valiant efforts to reclaim the planet, Exterminatus was called for and carried out by the Inquisition who had been present from the beginning of the rebelion. However, the Inquisition held their fire while a group of brave Black Templars ventured to the planet surface to retrieved invaluable artefacts, research documents, and important Imperial personnel from being swallowed up by the ruinous powers forever.

As soon as this mission was compleat, the Inquisition charged the cannons of thir mighty space ship, and utterly destroyed the planet.

Refrences

 * 1) http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?categoryId=600003&pIndex=2&aId=2300006&start=3|
 * 2) Extracts from the 'Black Templar: Codex' book