Deliverance

Deliverance is the barren, airless homeworld of the Raven Guard Chapter of Space Marines and the location of its fortress-monastery, called the Ravenspire. Deliverance was once known by the name of Lycaeum before the Great Crusade. The rugged planet is the moon of the Forge World of Kiavahr and once served as the primary source of strategic minerals for Kiavahr's vast hive cities and its ruling Tech-Guilds. When the Primarch Corax first arrived on Lycaeum, its people, who lived underground in the deep tunnels they dug as they mined the moon's interior, were all Kiavahran slaves required to mine Lycaean ores for their Tech-Guild masters. Corax led a great revolt against the Kiavahran garrison on the planet and eventually won the independence of Lycaeum and its people from their tormentors. The newly-freed rebels promptly renamed the moon Deliverance in honor of their victory. Deprived of Lycaeum's ores, the economy of Kiavahr collapsed, ujltimately leading to a period of intensive civil war among the planet's Tech-Guilds. When the Emperor's Grand Crusade reached Deliverance, Corax only agreed to aid his father once the Emperor promised to being peace to the people of Kiavahr. The Imperium restored Kiavahr to the control of the Adeptus Mechanicus since it was a Forge World and thus an ancient Mechanicus colony and it was soon transformed into a stable Imperial Forge World. The Emperor granted rule over Deliverance to the Raven Guard Legion, who built their fortress-monastery on its barren surface.