Event · M41

Black Gulf Mines Attack

The Black Gulf Mines Attack was an assault on the Black Gulf Mines by the Zargosoan Smuggler Fleet, led by the renegade Cypher. The engagement is placed within the forty-first millennium, though no more exact date has survived, and the location of the Black Gulf itself is not fixed in any surviving record. Cypher is recorded as having risen to command the Zargosoan Smuggler Fleet, a raiding force operating outside Imperial sanction, before turning it against the Black Gulf Mines. The fleet’s wider purposes are not detailed, and the reason the mines were chosen as a target is not stated outright. In the attack itself, the Zargosoan Smuggler Fleet struck the Black Gulf Mines directly under Cypher’s leadership. Accounts allow that the true objective may have been one of the Fallen, a term for renegade former Space Marines of the Dark Angels Legion, though this identification is not confirmed. No other target is recorded, and the composition of the attacking force, the defenders encountered, and the eventual outcome of the fighting are not preserved.

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