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Event · M41

Cociaminus assault

The Cociaminus assault was a large-scale hive-city conflict fought on Cociaminus during the 41st millennium. It is recorded within the narrative tradition of the Gaunts’ Ghosts series, which situates the engagement among the wider chronicle of Imperial military campaigns of the period. The assault’s designation as large in scale indicates the commitment of substantial forces and the strategic importance attached to the hive city as an objective. As with other hive assaults described within the Gaunts’ Ghosts corpus, engagements of this kind are typically fought across the vertically stratified architecture characteristic of Imperial hive cities, in which approaches, sub-hive levels, and manufactoria districts become contested ground in their own right. Such fighting commonly draws in infantry formations obliged to operate amid dense urban structures, where the scale of the settlement itself shapes the course and duration of the campaign. The precise belligerents, chronology, and outcome of the Cociaminus assault are not detailed in available records. Its inclusion within the Gaunts’ Ghosts series nonetheless situates it among the broader body of Imperial Guard campaigns chronicled through that narrative tradition, reflecting the recurring pattern of large-scale hive-world conflict within the Imperium’s ongoing military history.

See where Cociaminus assault occurred on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.

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