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Okay then, I now set out on the long task of writing up the background behind Angels of Fire.

The campaign in Commagrah was over. Over a hundred battle brothers had fallen in the combat, and in the end they had lost control of the city. The Dark Eldar however would not enjoy freedom from daemonic war for many years to come with the fall of the Dark Sun province. Chapter Master Avatus had suffered many wounds during the battles, and was now greatly exhausted in mind and in body. He spent the following three months recuperating in the beautiful gardens in the heart of the chapter's fortress monastery on Navarone, but before long he felt that he could no longer justify his inactivity.

Over the next three years (so this is three years after Ransacking the Dark City and Secrets of Castallan) he fought in several battles against varying foes, two ork WAAAAGHS! and a mass heretical uprising were his body's occupations. But his mind was elsewhere. Even as he struck down his foes he found himself turning the events in Commagrah over and over in his mind. He had had discussed with Chief Librarian Nablanel and they could both confirm the presence of Tantibus had been felt within the city. His purpose however remained veiled from the sight of the Chapter Master and his fellows. They knew that he had travelled to a great library that supposedly contained information on nigh on all things in the galaxy's history, but what he had taken from the library, if anything at all was not known.

But Tantibus's mere presence anywhere in the galaxy was troubling. He was an echo, a thrice cursed echo of a horror long banished from existence. Or so it was presumed. The matter had been put before those few individuals who had knowledge of such things, but they did not believe that Tantibus could still be serving his old master, and that he must be working either for himself, or for one of the major black gods of chaos. Avatus however, still could not put him out of his mind, as well as growing dread that the dark powers he himself had only seen the faintest lingering of, might be turning its eyes to the galaxy it had been absent from for more than 10 thousand years.

But nothing could be done about that now, and Avatus simply continued on with his role of Chapter Master, all the time dreading a re-appearance by the Prince of Nightmares. It did-and has-not come however, and Avatus has no idea that the campaign he is about to participate in, will have far more to do with the Legion of Shadows than he-or anyone else-would care for.

The string of planets that make up the Nibeon System have long been heavily populated and thriving worlds of the Imperium of Man. One of these is actually a Forge World called Xelon, and it is here that the rioting first broke out. Vast numbers of civilians seized weapons of any and every variety and lead an attack against many of the armed garrisons on the world. They were backed by large numbers of armed militia from off world-who it seems were most likely responsible for starting the riots in the first place-and within a week or so the PDF and fallen and Xelon was lost.

Fearing that the rebellion would spread through the system like wild fire, the system's governor Isaac Pierce sent a request for military aid to any and all Imperial forces nearby. This message so happened to reach a small group of ships that had been transporting three companies of the Angels of Reconciliation (including Chapter Master Avatus) back towards Navarone after defeating the ork WAAAAGH! of Warboss Ornoota on Neskel Prime. Since the message was vague in its contents, but still very desperate in its wording, Avatus had the ships change their course to Nibeon.

Governor Pierce was very surprised when three companies of space marines arrived in the system, and was some what embarrassed, when he had to reveal the true state of the situation as merely being a local rebellion. The irony of the situation is revealed however, when several unidentified ships appear in the system, and rioting simultaneously breaks out on the other worlds: two agri worlds called Barra and Justek, a hive world called Nibeon and the fortress world of Sal.

With the help of the space marines much of the rioting was quelled, and many of the rioters revealed that they had in fact been forced to participate against their will. With the arrival of the ships, it was clear what was actually happening in Nibeon: a chaos incursion. The attackers were two warbands who owed their allegiance to Khorne: The Knights of Blood [] and a portion from the Skulltakers []. A few forces from chaos undivided were also present, along with a small handful of Tzeentch followers who were seeking to lay a few claims of their own whilst the slaughter commenced.

The Angels quickly assumed a defensive stance against the attackers, as they were heavily out numbered with only around 250 in their own forces against well over 1000 of the enemy. Their purpose in this system is unknown to the Imperials, and even the chaos forces themselves are not aware of their true purpose here. They are being manipulated by a power that does not have an army of its own yet, the warriors who lurk in the shadows of the chaotic vessels, and some of whom stalk through the streets of the planets below.

Welcome to Chapter 3: Angels of Fire! Players in this RP can be either Imperials who have answered the call for aid and are on the defensive, or they can be leaders of chaos forces within the attackers. If you want to be someone else then you're going to need a REALLY good explanation as too your presence here. And I mean good. The RP will open with the chaos forces descending on Barra which is the most outlying planet. Imperial forces there must be limited, and this battle will cover the first thread and perhaps a second, before the situation changes. Fleets will not do very much in this RP, since the chaotic forces have brought warp storms with them, making space travel that isn't short ranged very difficult (plus I want to do most of this on the ground). So, please feel to join in people and state your exact forces. I will put mine up a bit later as I have spent the last 45 minutes writing this thing and want to go find something else to do for a little while. Come one come all and join the coming battle!