CADIA, its Rise & Fall: Warhammer 40k LORE in 20 mins!

High gang of all the regiments of Warhammer 40k's Astra militarum the Canadian shock troopers are one of the most recognizable an elite Regiment of professionals from the completely militarized Fortress world of Cadia fated across the Imperium and copied by many other regiments so in this video I'm going to look into the law of Cadia it's history how its regiments were trained its rise and its fall [Music] the Astra militarum is a colossal organization as the imperium's primary fighting force it draws its regiments from every planet within it from regiments of parade drilled infantry to Guerrilla Fighters taken from the harshest of death worlds to Cavalry regiments from dark feudal worlds but looming disproportionately over all of this are the regiments of Cadia Cadia was a 4 Fortress World near the eye of Terror built as a bulwark against chaos incursions and the regiments raised there are considered some of the most elite in the Imperium trained almost since birth in combating the ways of the great enemy over its history as an imperial World Cadia contributed far far more regiments than normal to its defense each considered so effective well-trained and resourceful that the Canadian system was emulated by many other Astra militarian regiments and planetary Defense Forces across the Galaxy that particular skill and Grim resolve was bred into the people of Cadia over almost eight Millennia of constant Warfare as Kadir itself weathered raids invasions and black Crusades from the eye of Terror and its Shock Trooper regiments deployed across the Imperium defended planets from xenos threats heretical uprisings and rebellions but all this almost ended during abaddin the de spoiler's 13th Black Crusade when kadia finally fell the planet overrun by the loads of chaos and its crossed split apart but despite losing their home world the Acadian regiments still fight on replenishing their numbers wherever they can training new recruits in the field and continuing the traditions and techniques developed over 8 000 years of warfare the system of Cadia for most of its existence consisted of 10 planets and was situated in the segmentum obscurus of the Imperium right on the edge of the eye of Terror the eye was a colossal warp storm a vast area where real space in the walk crossed over created originally by the fall of the ancient Eldar Empire and the subsequent Awakening of the chaos power slarnash within the ice space and time had little meaning and reality was twisted by the powers of the warp it was a perilous place the Pirates Raiders and renegades who occasionally inhabited its fringes existed alongside the Demons of the warp themselves whole systems and worlds were forever caught within the eye many of them demon worlds fall over by the forces of the chaos power was and after the Horus heresy it also became a refuge for the traitors who had turned on the emperor heretic astartes and their mortal followers who fought great battles for dominance over the worlds within it but travel into and out of the eye was even more dangerous than just being in there the storms were strongest along its edges and getting a whole flea in and out intact was practically impossible except at one point the system of Cadia existed near a stellar phenomenon known to the Imperium as the Canadian gate the only stable route in and out of the eye of Terror no one knew for sure why the Acadian gate existed but one long hell Theory involved the Acadian pylons the planet of Cadia was studied with strange structures that predated any human settlement by Millennia thousands of these pylons existed across the planet tall thin lengths of inert Black Stone each reaching half a kilometer into the sky and threaded with tiny tunnels no one knew what they were or what they were designed for for and even probes sent into the tunnels would often never return but Scholars theorized that it was these structures that were in part responsible for the Canadian gate stabilizing the warp storms in some way and while Kadir itself had the majority of these other planets and systems nearby had similar structures but for Millennia their real purpose remained a mystery it's unknown when or how the planet of Cadia was settled or how it came by its name it was discovered by the Imperium around 150 years into the great Crusade by wordbearers forces exploring the segmentum obscurus and it was the word bearers who first recorded the existence of the eye of Terror and the strange Planet nearby investigating their Primark law guard discovered a tribal Society of viola-eyed humans who worship the four Great powers of chaos and spoke a language that at first glance was extremely similar to that used on his home world of colches before the coming of the Imperium it was the these chaos worshipers who first opened the word bearer's eyes to the powers Beyond the Veil eventually causing them to turn from the emperor and dedicate themselves to the worship of the chaos gods and to start their decades-long preparations for what would become the heresy itself but at the time so as to cover their tracks and Having learned everything they could the word bearers bombarded the planet with cyclonic Torpedoes and wiped out the tribes as well as any trace of human life but Katie has returned to obscurity didn't last for long after the Horus heresy the remnants of horus's Traitor forces were driven back many of them fleeing into the eye of Terror to escape the Judgment of the Imperium after several hundred years the Imperium mostly considered them dead and gone a memory from a darker time but in 781 M31 Aberdeen the despoiler launched the first of his black Crusades out from the eye and into real space his Fleet came into conflict with a black templar's picket Fleet led by sigismund himself former first captain of the Imperial office and now first High Marshal of the black Templars but after a short conflict the chaos forces narrowly escaped and they rampaged across a thousand nearby systems before their goals achieved they were eventually beaten back into the eye in the aftermath of this it was decreed that the sector should be reinforced to monitor further incursions and Acadia was resettled in the standard Imperial Style with a huge Naval Port built at the nearby Bellis Corona and an inquisition presence on Nemesis tessera but in fact this turned out to be more Allure than a threat in 597 M32 the second Black Crusade sailed out from the eye but this time aimed at besieging and destroying this new Imperial settlement over five years the new Imperial presence was systematically destroyed the fortress on Nemesis tesser are defiled and Bella's Corona itself cursed before the forces of chaos could once again be pushed back and it was after this as the Imperium realized that this was going to be a persistent threat that Cadia was transformed into the Fortress world it was mostly known as the system was seeded with orbital defenses and the surface of cadir itself was covered with defense laser silos and shield generators what remained of the previous settlements were demolished and rebuilt into the great Fortress cities known as Casas each surrounded by concentric ring walls separated by bastions and moats and topped with defensive weapon batteries even the civilian buildings Within These cities were to be fortified built to military specifications the street layouts designed to funnel any invading enemy into lethal crossfires the society that evolved in these Casas was heavily militarized at its peak over 70 percent of the total population were destined for service in the armed forces the recruitment rate was set as equal to the birth rate and the remainder of the population not conscripted were engaged in supporting Industries Cadia was an industrial world and the manufacturies of the Casas supplied its military with a constant stream of weapons and armored vehicles everything on cadio was affected by this local Fashions tended towards camera of large patterns and uniform Cuts social class was defined by military rank and childhood itself became a series of training exercises Katie and children were expected to be able to be performing field drills and stripping their Laz rifles before the age of 10 and would spend their teenage years in the youth armies known on Cadia as the white Shields this massive recruitment rate meant that cadia's main contribution to the Imperium was in the form of armed soldiers while about half of its armed forces would remain part of the Canadian interior guard serving their careers within the Canadian system itself as part of its massively oversized planetary Defense Force the other half would be shipped off world as part of the Astra militarum the Canadian shock troopers as these regiments were known developed one of the most famous reputations in the Imperium Canadian Troopers being widely regarded as consummate professionals the best of the best they fought on hundreds of battlefronts across the Galaxy only one in a thousand soldiers ever making it back to Acadia these regiments infantry armor and artillery became something of a pattern for other Imperial Guard regiments and planetary Defense Forces across the Imperium the distinctive Canadian tri-dome helmet and rugged can trial pattern last rifle are some of the most common models of arms and armor issued to astrom militarum recruits as were Canadian patterns of heavy and special weapons Sentinel Walkers and Chimera armored transports KDM regiments especially on and around Kadir itself were often supported by white Shield platoons of Guardsmen in training as well as their Elite grenadiers the kazakin grenadiers is a catch-all term for the many heavy infantry detachments fielded by regiments across the Imperium from Whole formations equipped as heavy infantry such as the fresh grenadiers to Elite veteran appointments like the Creed grenadiers amongst these the castlekin of Cadia were known as the elite of the elite heavily armed assault troops fanatically loyal to the defense of Kadir itself wearing karapasama an arm with Hotshot lasgun or Hell guns they will be singled out while still in training on Cadia but were expected to progress through service in the youth armies and Shop Troopers before any appointment to the kazakim was finalized so each would be a hardened veteran of multiple campaigns across the Imperium and within the Canadian system over the eight Millennia since its reconstruction Cadia weathered another 10 black Crusades some direct assaults on Kadir itself like the third and some attempts to bypass it as Abbott and the spoiler went in search of other targets Cadia endured all of these as well as countless raids and smaller attacks its attendant battle Fleet hunting and destroying Renegade ships and its dedicated inquisitorial conclaves hunting down Heretics across the sector but this proud Legacy wouldn't last forever like many of the other black Crusades the 13th was preemptive by a sharp Rising cult activity across nearby sectors as well as sightings of chaos War bands and fleets around the gate Rogue planet has fell to hordes of chaos worshipers as the followers of nurgle spread what became known as the plague of unbelief across the Imperium demagogues Rose against remote populations and even before The Invasion started properly the Imperium was sorely tested to contain it all knowing what this meant High command on kedia issued a muster order recalling all available Shock Trooper regiments to the Homeworld along with many other non-cadium regiments who owed debts of honor the casters themselves couldn't contain the mustard so many of these were temporarily stationed on the wide expanse known as the Thai Rock Fields but the opening Salvo of this Crusade would come sooner than they were expecting as Canadian High command came out to observe the landings at tyrock and to greet the prestigious regiments that were coming in their defense the volskani cataphracts an elite and well-regarded heavy Infantry Regiment turned traitor announcing their allegiance to the chaos Powers with a suicide assault on the heart of the Canadian Defense Forces though the acadians rallied and cut down the traitor regiment the the damage was done the assault had wiped out much of Canadian High command just as hundreds of chaos warships started to pour from the eye of Terror spreading out in every direction it fell to ursaka e Creed of the Canadian eighth to assume command taking on the title of Lord castellan of Cadia and sending hundreds of requests for Aid as the chaos forces barreled ever closer the initial chaos push was a huge success the outer planets of the system falling quickly to the Invaders solo mariatus became the traitor base of operations and the prison sinks of Saint Josephine's hope were cleared out their numbers added to the traitor forces the chaos Fleet swept aside the Imperial ship station nearby and the first of Aberdeen's forces started their assault on Kadir itself besieging Casas across the planet What followed was a grueling and desperate war in which the initiative would swing back and forth as both sides poured reinforcements into the conflict Aberdeen's initial Invasion destroyed many of the Cadian Casas and pushed Imperial forces back across the planet but was was halted as Imperial reinforcements started to arrive the blood angels Dark Angels and space Wolf chapters along with many others committed huge forces to the defense of the system astrum militarum and tempestos cyan regiments were dispatched by the Inquisition and Saint Celestine herself led a host of the adapter sororities to the planet's surface but throughout this chaos forces continued to pour from the eye word bearers warbands Unleashed a tide of demons and raised warp storms in an attempt to cut off the planet and other chaos warbands splitting off from the main thrust put pressure on nearby sectors the traitor forces regained the initiative as the second half of their Fleet emerged in the eye of Terror led by the Colossal Blackstone Fortress will of Eternity captured hundreds of years before during the gothic War the 12th Black Crusade as the will of Eternity grew closer desperate battles were fought for control of cadia's planetary defenses the Imperials barely holding on in time for a second wave of reinforcements aboard the Imperial fists battle station Phalanx to arrive and eventually destroy the Blackstone Fortress and while these battles raged above another was happening beneath the surface where the mechanicus majos belisarius call helped by the mysterious necron Overlord trazin the infinite managed to study and reactivate the ancient Canadian pylons as suspected they had been part of a system designed to hold back the warp itself and as his demon reinforcements dissipated Into The Ether and the warp storms disappeared the armies of the despoiler were finally forced to pull back from the surface of the planet but there was one last throw of the dice to come as the black Legion attached massive Starship engines to the remnants of their Blackstone Fortress and drove them into the planet's surface with the strength of a meteor strike the surface of Kadir itself cracked and split as the planet started to fall apart the Canadian eighth led by Lord castellan Creed led a valiant rear guard as the massed Imperial forces attempted to evacuate the dying planet and the remnants of battlefleet Cadia tried to recover the Millions were lost as Cadia finally fell and with it the ancient technology that kept the eye of Terror at Bay as the effects of the Canadian pylons dissipated the warp spilled over into real space and the psychiatrics maledictum the Great Rift started its spread across the Galaxy around 3 million Canadians survived the fall of Cadia in the holds of Imperial Navy ships but in the aftermath of the 13th Black Crusade and the loss of their Homeworld they continued to fight their surviving regiments bolstered nearby World attempting to contain the destruction while the forces of chaos burnt themselves out and retreated back into the warp storms and since then those regiments have continued to fight still recruiting still continuing the Canadian way of life despite the loss of their Homeworld raising and training new regiments in the same way they've always done but now in the holds of Warships on route to New battlefronts unchanging despite the Colossal changes that happened to the Galaxy during its demise in many ways Cadia is a microcosm of the Imperium or at least how the Imperium sees itself a totally militarized Society engaged in a permanent struggle at least in part of its own making and framing that as a heroic opportunity rather than as the tragedy we're meant to see but to the grizzled veterans of Arcadia well all that's irrelevant Cadia stands to them it can do nothing else and must continue to do so as long as there's an Imperium for it to defend thanks for watching foreign and if you'd like more lore videos about 40K well there's probably one just coming up there to the right and if you'd like to support the Channel please like subscribe and there's a link to the patreon in the thing below see ya [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you

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Published: Fri Nov 18 2022