Event · M41
Liberation of Verghast
The Liberation of Verghast marks the relief of Vervunhive during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade of the late 41st millennium. It concluded a protracted siege in which Vervunhive, the last loyal hive city of the forge world Verghast, had been encircled and assailed by the Chaos-corrupted forces of its rival hive, Ferrozoica, after the latter fell to insurrection and heretical infiltration. The hive war brought Verghast’s once-productive industry to the brink of collapse and threatened to deliver the world’s considerable manufactory output into the hands of the Archenemy. Relief came through the intervention of Imperial Guard forces diverted to Verghast in the course of the wider Crusade, most notably the Tanith First-and-Only under Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, who fought alongside the hive’s own defenders, the Vervun Primary, in the final actions that broke the siege and destroyed the Zoican threat. The fighting was costly on both sides, and command of the defence was marked by friction between Guard officers and Vervunhive’s civil and military authorities before the assault was finally repelled. In the aftermath, survivors of Vervunhive’s shattered population and militia were evacuated and resettled, and a number of Verghastite volunteers were inducted into the ranks of the Tanith First-and-Only, permanently altering the regiment’s composition. Verghast’s surviving manufactories were subsequently turned toward supplying the Sabbat Worlds Crusade, restoring the world’s strategic value to the Imperium.
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