The 1st Lukitarian The First Planet

by Boltrig

The first founding from Lukitar takes its place in the Ophidian Campaign. The story is set in the year 285M41. The regiment has been dug in on Ifomiru Secondus for months. Can the arrival of the Navy break the deadlock? Please PLEASE review!

1. Chapter 1

In the year 144M41, Abbaddon the Despoiler decimated the Adeptus Mechanicus facility in the Lukitar system. With the war being fought by the increasingly on the defensive by the Imperium of man, there was little chance of rebuilding the station and investigating the habitable planets in the system.

158M41 saw the war against Chaos in the Gothic sector abate enough to let the Imperium dispatch fleets to settle the habitable planets in the Lukitar system. Two planets were settled.

Lukitar Prime was settled and claimed as a Forge World for the Adeptus Mechanicus and Lukitar Algocant, deemed suitable to become an agri - world.

The local government was set up so that a balanced comittee comprising citezens of both planets had rule. The Imperium gave the system a grace period of 50 years before it would ask for the first tithes of weapons and foodstuffs for the system. Provided that both were delivered as asked, there would be a further grace period of 75 years before the first regiments would be founded from the system.

As the ruling of the planets was done jointly, it was decided in a council between the system comittee and the Imperium that the regiments would be founded jointly.

The system held to its promise, and delivered its tithe to the Imperium in 208M41. The perishable foodstuffs were transferred to Brigia and other planets in the Quinrox sound to resupply passing warships. The weapons and armour produced by the Ad Mech facilities on Lukitar Prime were sent in a massive convoy to equip the 9th Sameter founding in 217M41.

In 283M41 the 1st Lukitarian regiment was founded. Since the troops came from both planets, the regiment took the system's title. The regiment went through a relatively swift but rigourous training period, before being dispatched to the Ophidian system to bolster Warmaster Honorius' campaign to clease the system.

The year is 287M41. The 1st Lukitar have been in active duty for a year and a half. They have assisted in the liberation of 2 worlds. They have been active on Ifomiru Secondus for 3 months. This is where we join them.