Prolog

(PS. I don't own Warhammer40.000 in any fashion and I'm not doing this for any personal profit)

Charctus alpha had been a peaceful and wealthy world, known for its extravagant City's and beautiful natural environment. It was a young world, only colonized and founded no more than a thousand years ago and as such the population hadn't had the time to ruin its environment trough pollution.

It's citizens lived relatively happy lives that other worlds might only dream of. Their planetary Governor had a strong sense of responsibility for his people and thus ensured that they never had to suffer under a cruel regime. He did everything in his power to ensure that the effects of the wars being fought all over the galaxy where not felt be his world. He allowed much freedom for his people, never baring anybody from improving their lives.

Maybe he was a bit too hands off when I came to the power relations around him, allowing anybody competent enough to hold positions of power in all levels in society.

This freedom had unbeknownst to most people led to some suspicious people holding office in key areas of the world infrastructure. The Governor brushed this of as unfounded suspicion against people of lower birth and had shut down all investigations against them.

Trough this new found freedom thanks to the Governor these new members of the government soon began to construct worrisome schemes for the future. They pushed for increasing the defenses of their world. Calling for ever increasing defensive structures and military capacities. Arguing that it would only bee in their homes interests to defend their world and that all who opposed them clearly wanted their world open for everyone to attack. Who these attackers where was never mentioned though.

And thus with ever increasing pressure from the high ranking officials and his advisors the Governor allowed these plans to move along. Soon construction of massive orbital defenses began. Huge missile silos and laser batteries where built all around the hives. Ever increasing bunker complexes and trench lines where dug and improved upon over and over again. Vast recruitment campaigns where launched all over the world telling people to sigh up to defend their world from he treats that lye beyond.

The small PDF garrisons in each city grew into wast Armies practically overnight. Uncountable numbers of men and women, filled with a common urge to defend their homes and fight for the God Emperor , signed up. The quartermasters of the PDF regiments soon notes that the number of recruits vastly outstretched their stockpiles of weapons to arm them with.

Some of the government officials began to speak up against this massive up armament campaign. Arguing that surely there was would bee no need to increase the already vast defenses even more, that the newlevels of defenses where enough and in some cases excessive. These arguments where tough quickly silenced by the Governor in fear that it would anger the ones who where pushing for the increasing military capacity and that it would anger the people who would no longer be able to fight for the God Emperor. And so new decrees where passed that where to increase the production and stockpiling of weapons that where clearly needed by the PDF in their defense of their world from the great enemy.

After months of this up armament, the world of Charctus alpha could be considered by manny as a fortress world where it only was considered a hive world months ago.

The masses of new recruits where formed into new regiments of militia and stationed all around the hives in the newly constructed defensive positions.

At the end of the campaign to increase the defenses, political power had shifted from the Governor and his closest advisors to the people who pushed for all this to happen. The shift wasn't official but everyone with any hint of knowledge about politics could easily see how they Governor was now little more than a puppet for the new officials. Officials who had formed into one coherent ring of speakers and had started to call themselves the 'Disciples of the word'.

During all these months the rumors around these 'Disciples' hadn't gone away either. Quite the contrary, they had only increased. Rumors about far more controversial schemes where spreading like wildfire. Suspicion about whose disciples they really where had started to circulate as well and after weeks of constant complaints to the Governor, who still held official power was forced to comply with the wish of the ones opposing the Disciples to launch an investigation against them.

After that all had happened to quickly for anybody to stop the events that where to unfold in front of them. At first reports telling about the deaths of all those who where involved with the investigations against the followers of the Disciples began to come in to the office of the Governor. After that reports telling about terrorist attacks targeting all of the astropaths , who made communication with the wider imperium possible, came in. Now without any astropathic communication the planet was practically cut of from the rest of the galaxy.

Soon after, the Governor called for an emergency meeting with all of the officials to discuss how they where going to act in this unprecedented time of crisis. Before the meeting could really begin though the great hall used for the meeting was stormed by a group of armed militia soldiers. At the head of whom where the Disciples of the word.

They came to tell about how they where the masterminds behind all of these recent happenings. They explained that their intentions where to cut of the world from the imperium in the hopes of drawing a military response from the wider imperium and how they had forced the adtropaths to send a message to Holy Terra itself telling about how they renounced the emperor as a god and declared themselves independent from his rule. They explained how all of the campaigns to strengthen the world defenses where in reality to ensure that the imperial campaign to reclaim their world would be as bloody as it could possibly be and how they now where forced to fight their retribution if they wished to escape a painful death by burning at the stake as heretics.

After tilling the Government about their plan the members of the Disciples of the word began to chant in a language so offensive to all who heard it theta their ears began to bleed. During their chanting, the leader of the Disciples shouted out the words "glory to Lorgar Arelian and glory to the Four" before stabbing himself repeatedly with a knife in the chest and collapsing to the ground. His blood flowing in the shape of a eight pointed star on the ground. After that all of the Disciples handed themselves over into the custody of the Arbites, their mission now fulfilled.

(Wow, i can't wait for how it will continue. How will the population react to these recent events and their new situation. But most importantly…who will the imperium send as retaliation for the perceived rebellion of Charctus alpha?)