Event · M41–M42
Charadon War
The Charadon War is a conflict of the forty-first millennium involving Death Guard forces under Typhus and the Imperial defenders of the Charadon region. It is recorded as extending from the closing centuries of the forty-first millennium into the forty-second, and it belongs to the wider pattern of Death Guard incursions in which the Traitor Legion, aligned to Nurgle, seeks to spread contagion through Imperial systems. On Orrery the entry is nested beneath Terra, the seat of Imperial administration, so that the war can be read against the centre of the Imperium; the fighting itself is anchored on the Charadon marker on the map. The conflict is associated principally with the Death Guard and with Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle and former Death Guard Legionary whose name is bound to the Legion’s later campaigns. Accounts of the war’s precise causes and of the order of its engagements differ, and no single sequence of battles is established here beyond what the timeline hooks attest. The opposing side is understood to comprise the Imperial garrisons and forces committed to Charadon, and the war is best regarded as a prolonged contest for a region rather than a single decisive battle. The outcome and aftermath are recorded only in general terms. The war is relevant to readers tracing the Death Guard’s activity across the forty-first and forty-second millennia, to the career of Typhus, and to the way Imperial authority responded to Chaos-aligned incursions far from Terra. It can be read alongside the entries for the Death Guard, Typhus and Terra, and the timeline places it among the contemporaneous Traitor Legion campaigns of the period. Where canon is silent on casualties, commanders or final dispositions, this entry declines to supply them.
See where Charadon War occurred on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.