THE IMPERIUM'S 10 WORST DEFEATS - PART 1 | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore / History

[Music] [Music] [Music] it's a difficult thing to choose some of the worst defeats for the Imperium of man especially when the term defeat could be interpreted relatively subjectively what we are considering today and not solely battles and combat engagements that led to crushing disasters suffered by Imperial military forces but events so severe that they'll be scratched into the collective memory and blood there are so many such events that it would take us many hours to compile a truly comprehensive ordering often the Imperium will go on to win ultimate victory for many of its campaigns usually through sheer gritted teeth and attrition Pyrrhic victories are commonplace for mankind but even if victory in a battle is the final outcome the associated costs for this may take decades or even centuries to recover from I'll be looking at today some memorable disasters not necessarily always on the most epic of scales but the most humiliating or staggering defeats heavy reeling gut punches that would knock the wind out of humanity's forces leaving them gasping for air choking on their own blood if you have some specific other disasters for the impairment you want me to look out that I don't cover today and as per usual discuss it in the comment if you have ideas for another best of the worst put that down below too in the early days of the Horus heresy there had been few major conflicts between the spaceborne legions of the Emperor won't become the traitor legions commanded by Horus looper cow the drop site Massacre was a devastating conflict which occurred early in the heresy and would become an unquestionable action that meant none could ignore the truth of things any longer it followed the atrocities of istván 3 where Horus had instigated a battle between the loyalist elements of the legions that would turn against the Emperor namely the sons of Horus the death guard emperor's children in the world eaters this would culminate in the virus bombing of the planet a horrific ly fast form of exterminators where the virus bombs release a life eat a virus which will break down all organic matter consuming the planet and turning it into a barren dead Rock albeit habitable after the viruses burned itself out of material to consume this would be the engagement where Nathaniel Gera would see the truth of things and flee aboard the eisenstein eventually meeting with the imperial fists and rogue or dawn to deliver the news to the Emperor on terror where they would realize the truth of the betrayal as a consequence the emperor would order the forces of 7 spaceborne legions to assault Horus and his traitor legions where they currently operated in the East Vance system the East won five assault will be carried out by the loyalists to start his legions the iron warriors Raven guard alpha Legion Knight Lords salamanders iron hands and the word bearers the Emperor believes the combined power of seven of his allegiance would quickly bring the traitors to heel and the whole situation could be prevented from becoming any worse of course the only problem unbeknownst apparently to the all-knowing emperor was that the pry marks and many ranking officers of the iron warriors alpha Legion light lords and word bearers had already betrayed the Imperium and secretly pledged their service to Horus the traitors believed the Imperium was fundamentally flawed it was founded on deceit by the Emperor himself and it's a so-called imperial truth of rationalism and atheism that was all a lie they felt they had seen the real truth this new human civilization did not deserve to live they would Forge a far more powerful and righteous Empire for mankind at this time it's questionable how many truly understood the gravity of their actions in terms of how much they knew about the warp and the chaos gods only really the word beerus and horace himself had the real understanding of what it would all entail and by this time so many were fully committed to the cause it would be entirely too late to change course the assault will begin in an area known as the or guard depression a narrowed valley where the traitors had set up a bastion of defense behind them were established long-range support units and Titan stood along the walls as well as bearing their guns bigger than most vehicles trained on where the Loyalists deployment was expected to come in an initial heavy bombardment from orbit did little to shake the traitors are loose from their heavily constructed defenses and it was clear that this was going to be a battle where every inch of ground must be paid for in blood the first assault rained down from the skies as thousands of drop pods and ships began to deploy the loyalists of the Iron Hands Salamanders and Raven guard while later the iron warriors night Lords alpha Legion and word bearers would drop in to hold a rearguard position and reinforce this first wave the battle field was an instant slaughter of apocalyptic proportions Titans of the mechanical and dark mechanical stalked the battlefield like true machine gods raining down world-ending firepower the legions of the estar T's were so massive in the battle so horrific thousands were dying by the minute this was a fairly even fight after the initial deployment and no side was faring especially well all had to pay a heavy price any lost ground would be immediately counted is this grisly battle of attrition continued unabated indeed the battle was so ferocious and on simply such a scale than any auxilary non estar t's human contingents struggled to cope with the sights they were faced with here at the drop site it wasn't so much fear as it was just beyond their comprehension to process what it was they bore witness to right here some were frozen like statues numbed by the sheer waste of life so many glorious Lords of mankind broken like dolls and scattered throwing themselves against their enemy time and again others just lost their minds overcome by the sight that they'd never imagined that they would ever see was shot by overseers this was never a fight for ordinary men it was a battle between a starties and its scale and ferocity was appropriately multiplied as the sky turned black the loyalists roared with cheers that shook the very ground as their reinforcements had arrived deploying behind them on masse to guard and push forward the four other legions had begun to deploy to the field the traitor forces began to withdraw now thinking that they would be instantly overwhelmed by such a massive force and they would have been were not for the fact that these reserve forces were no longer loyal to the Emperor of man they lined up behind the loyalists who were slowing their assault to allow the fresh unscarred forces to take up the fight allow them time to regroup and press a final attack as horace fired a bright burning red flare into the sky a hellish burning star thousands of barrels began firing down on the loyalist marines many of whom were carrying dead and wounded back to the safety of these fresh brothers to the battle they were instantly torn to pieces by the hail of bolt shells exploding ripping them apart they were treating traitors now turned back to continue the fight and the Iron Hands who had been caught up by their fierce desire to crush these betrays of the Emperor were now heavily outnumbered the situation only deteriorated from here many loyalists were crawling around cut down and critically injured by the already suffocating weight of fire being brought down upon them and this would only be compounded further by more fire more laser rounds being laid down by land Raiders predators speeders and bastian turrets that sought to finish the task at hand somewhere lost in the battle field of brothers slaughtering one another clashed Ferris and fulgrim to pry marks whose blades world around them the light of horror the reds and oranges from the fire of war reflecting and bouncing off their armor and swords crooks logger would fight their own battle with log are coming close to death and were it not for kurz of the light lords he would have certainly died that day gunships continue to ring down cluster bombs dreadnaught battered tanks it was a firestorm of carnage explosions rained across the battlefield in neverending hailstorm of destruction the initially even battle had turned into a doomed massacre and cracks of the Raven Guard the vulcan of the Salamanders knew all they could hope for now was to escape the slaughter the heresy had begun in truth here on East von 5 Horus had succeeded in the almost complete destruction of three of the nine remaining loyalist legions in one single battle the remaining loyalists refused defeat they fought on knowing their annihilation was inevitable but they would make the traitors pay for every single life they took the battlefield was an unrelenting storm of fire and blood Titans continued to obliterate scores of enemies with every shot as they continued rampaging across the killing fields once victory was assured even Horus himself took to the battlefield surrounded by his terminators and whatever remained of his more noble he stoked the battlefield crushing the weak and pitiful who stood to oppose him meaningful escape was all but impossible a few scattered units managed to get off of the field but they're orbiting vessels and drop ships had fed just as poorly as they themselves still some did manage to escape the Raven guard Frank better in the Salamanders or the iron hands the Salamanders had managed to survive well until the closing stages of the massacre when they would become encircled the Primarch Vulcan at their centre their increasingly crushed under a sheer weight of fire and the coup de Gras would be delivered by the iron warriors who would launch a tactical nuclear strike directly at the center of that position completely destroying any salamanders who remained Vulcan the Primarch they would survive to be unconsciously dragged from the battle by Conrad curse or the light Lords hundreds of thousands of Space Marines littered the battlefield a primark among them two others missing assumed also dead it was one of the most devastating defeats for the Imperium not only for their losses but also for the crushing defeat of the emperor's dream [Music] Heydrich or datas was an imperial forge world more importantly it was used to store gene seed by the adapters mechanicus in this instance Imperial fists chapter early in m31 Primarch of the imperial fists roy called dawn had brought the planet's rulers into the system of the imperial planetary government as was the norm for the crusades iterators and remembrances travelled the world encouraging the imperial truth dawn would leave behind captain felix Cassander to stand watch over this new world yet unknown to them Horus the war master had by now fallen to chaos and was instigating a galactic rebellion against the emperor and the imperial forces this was when rogue or dawn would command all of his imperial fists to return to terror to aid in preparing defenses against any assault by the traitors felix though would find him and his imperial fists on hydra stranded as a result of the death of his navigator he now had no means to travel through the war and had to await a replacement as news arrived of the horrors being committed by the traitors for Felix and his detachment of Imperial fists the frustration of their isolation only grew it soon enough they had their chance to fight as the iron warriors would arrive to begin saturation bombing of the planet the civilians of Hydra who had only recently with much joy found themselves once again as part of a galactic human Empire and were ready to embrace such a positive reconnection wholeheartedly now remembered the horrors of man the iron warriors began dropping magma bombs boiling away rivers and reducing the land to dust despite only being some 200 strong the Imperial fists and their human auxiliaries would make the iron warriors pay dearly for that betrayal staying strong in their Citadel fortress they would stand firm for three months as the iron warriors continued to assault and lay siege to the fortress yet overtime losses inevitably mounted regrettable but understandable given the scale of force they were attempting to hold out against Cassander understood that when the last stand came it would not be glorious or heroic only a slaughter eventually the iron warriors would inevitably overrun the defenses and they slaughtered any he remained loyalist the starties men and women of the Defense Forces in the refugees from the scoured landscape outside the city all would perish at this time only 52 Imperial fists Marines had remained along with some 13,000 men women and children inside the city itself any survivors were enslaved in the planet will be reduced to a barren desert world the end of the heresy would be converted to a mechanicus research station and vault for the Imperial fist gene seed the defense by the impure fists on hide record artists had been admirable but ultimately a crushing defeat however the interesting aspect is that history would repeat itself and the Masters of defense seemed to not learn anything from their previously crushing defeat because some 10 millennia later the end of M 41 as part of the 13th Black Crusade the iron warriors would return to hide record artists under orders from a burden they would assault an attempt to steal the Imperial fist gene seed stored securely here because the iron warriors needed new gene seed in order to increase their numbers this is an ever ongoing problem for chaos forces is their inability to easily replenish their numbers the warp and the chaos powers often cause severe mutations within the gene seed and as such many cursed traitor legions are unable to use it to create new space brains once again the defenders were outnumbered by the traitors and a vast battle including immense Titan war machines would ensue fierce fighting and the titanic machines led to the death of multiple notable iron warrior officers but the impure fists paid a far heavier price as the entire third company is slaughtered here the mechanicus who arrived to discover the aftermath decide to bomb the remaining Citadel into dust so nothing would remain of the shame of such a loss only a lone Imperial Guardsman survived the brutal onslaught he was found by an imperial fist relief force and taken from the blasted surface of Hydra quadratus this defeat sends shockwave through the Imperial fists felt most keenly by those captains who had forged these sentinels of terror this is without even mentioning the unspeakable treacherous filth of chaos who had by now stolen the stored samples of the Imperial fists gene seed it was a completely crushing and with all respect to the valiant dead an unforgivable defeat but it was one which the Imperial fists would seek to immediately repay by launching a campaign of white-hot fury and vengeance upon the iron warriors scouring them from anything like a dozen worlds to cross the edges of the eye of terror the new and inexperienced third company recruits would quickly earn new honors in their defense of the Phalanx a fabled Imperial fists battle station as a war craft is torn within the center of the vessel itself greedy demon princes one of whom being a foul former iron warrior pour forth along with their demon king seeking to upstage Avedon's Black Crusade and used the Imperial fifth station to launch an attack on terror and the emperor's palace itself the previously annihilated but now reforged third company fight a furiously bitter battle as the phalanx is taken into the immaterial and the fresh recruits face unspeakable horror at every turn it's a spectral fire of the Legion of the Damned busts forth appearing without even having been aware of it they lay down their legendary holy fire upon the demon entities of chaos the third companies invigorated yet ultimately victory was even now uncertain [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Battle of Lionsgate was not a strict defeat in terms of physical loss but it was a crushing mental defeat after the heresy and the scouring of the traitors from the galaxy pushing them back into the eye of terror it had been largely assumed that terror was largely well protected from such incursions they had very heavy defenses and felt relatively invulnerable the 13th Black Crusade brought about by Abaddon the Despoiler wrought terrible destruction on the Imperium not least for the destruction of Cadia and formation of the great rift which would tear the galaxy in half bleeding the warp into reality the gods of chaos filled with refreshed power from the devastation of Cadia and the newfound freedom to enter the galaxy from so many inlets allowed warp storms to form over terror itself a terrifying an unforeseen consequence not to mention a price to be paid by the Imperium and the High Lords of Terror for their many millennia of enforced ignorant and resistance to science and the accumulation of knowledge had Belisarius Cole and others in the mechanicus like him being given free rein to investigate and develop new tech they would have perhaps come to an understanding earlier of the black stone pylons and prevented the devastation unleashed by their destruction regardless it was too late for any of that now the damage of mankind's ignorance was done and there would be consequences chaotic madness would spread like wildfire across Terra only the Imperial Palace itself was shielded likely by the Emperor's power mass rioting orgies of destruction and depravity ensued it felt like the age of strife all over again men being flayed in the streets women dragged off into the dark corners of cities wholesale murder gore the stuff of nightmares these sights should never have been seen on terror again not in the glory of the Emperor's Imperium it was a true horror terror itself had ceased to be able to produce its own food source and long ago and was reliant on shipping to import much of its necessary supplies the disorder gripping the planet and help but history would repeat itself when the warp stalls prevented much of the necessary supplies coming in and so starvation and Anarchy began to plague the civilian population even more so cathedrals and churches across the planet began to be converted into shrines for the Dark Gods the Imperial forces were quickly losing control of the situation not even the custody's or imperial fists ventured outside of the Imperial Palace as the entirety of Holy Terror was at war with itself and then Korn struck out at terror he wanted to assert dominance over the other gods and consequently mass bloody sacrifices ensued millions of Guardsmen lay with their hearts cut out the streets were awash with blood for the blood god the warp storms only worsened until demons were pouring from the skies and their target was of course the Imperial Palace itself despite millennia of inactivity the defenses of the Lions Gate was strong the custodies and grey knights would lead the defense and charge out to counter the demonic hordes Roberge Gulman ultramarines Primark descended from the Luna after his battle with Magnus the red and would join the impairments finest encountering the horrors of the war along with his own ultramarines and the sisters of silence the demons would fail to breach the Imperial Palace corne so enraged obliterated the blood letters who had led the battle while technically an imperial victory the battle of Lionsgate was a devastating mental defeat Holy Terror is the very center of the Imperium it was meant to be a pure and untouchable holy site the emperor resides here and instead through the stubborn ignorance of the Imperium are more widely the ecclesia key the resistance to knowledge and science the lack of development and strength in the Imperium human weakness had allowed terror to be essentially brutally raped by the gods of chaos the planet was a mess blood washed like an ocean through the streets citizens who were came back to their senses saw what they had done mass suicide would ensue it was a catastrophic disaster by any measure but mostly by humanity in the wake of the Horus heresy the religious belief and faith that the emperor of man would be the only hiding force required by mankind even as he sat upon his corpse throne was shockingly misplaced the Battle of bata Garmin occurred shortly after the drop site massacre on Estefan 5 it would be one of the largest battles of the heresy alpha Legion cruisers had entered the beta Garmin star cluster region settled by humans during the Dark Age of Technology and a region that survived the age of strife relatively intact it made a peaceful and open transition into the burgeoning Imperium and was hanging to stable warp routes that enabled entry into the sol system and terror for this reason it was a significantly important strategically the Alpha Legion would initiate their standard tactics of stealth and precision assassination to destabilize the area in preparation for the emperor's children and elements of the Legion mortis who would also deal crippling damage to the imperial army and his orbiting star fought over beta Garman to the ensuing confusion and power struggle surrounding all of this initial contact led many of the planets in the system to collapse as was common place during the heresy into all-out civil war over a period of years the traitors would bombard the planets without much concern for who suffered the consequences many dire events would be inflicted upon the civilian populations in their defensive armies great starvation's sol plagues and the reign of plasma would all strike down to the ordinary individuals trying to understand their place in these apocalyptic events during the heresy log art would orchestrate a major bookstore known as the ruins store the goal was to divide and isolate loyalist forces and it proved very effective its impact on the beta garment cluster was no less significant it trapped in loyalist Marines and Titan assets here and they had little choice than to do the best they could and assign themselves to defending the loyalist forces here against ever increasing numbers of traitors przemek rogue or dawn would order a detachment of impure fists as well as salamanders to engage the emperor's children at the massive garrison of neocons city on the now traitor occupied beta garment 2 across the planet and on other worlds like beta garment 3 fighting continued on a mass scale often involving Titan conflicts leading to many thousands of dead titans themselves lost or destroyed and after many months of bitter fighting the traitors stranglehold and beta garment 2 & 3 would be broken the ruin storm would later weaken and it allowed for the first reinforcements to arrive to the beta Garman cluster but this does little to give any reprieve to either side and if anything the fighting only became more bitter and intense as more loyalists human imperial troops switch sides in hopes of saving themselves as the traitors also continue to pour in their own reinforcements rumors are abound of Korus the war masters own arrival swirling through populations a vanguard fleet arrives and begins bombarding the outline worlds of the beta gallant cluster the damage this fleet inflicts forces imperial commanders to split their force and reduce the defensive capabilities set up around the core worlds of beta garment 2 & 3 the second phase of the conflict though would make these initial stages look like a skirmish by comparison at this time roku dawn was awaiting reinforcements from Gulman and the lion and he would make his stand as Titan stood towering over Imperial defenses as the primary force these Titans concerned dawn most especially if they were to be used ever on terror because while Titans were war machines of apocalyptic stopping power they were so powerful they often a danger to friendly forces and even calots themselves such was the insane power and scale of their weaponry battles in the history of the Imperium often large but it cannot be overstated how massive the battles of beta Garman would be on the Imperial side they wielded anything like 27 Titan Allegiance at least 20 Imperial night houses mechanical Imperial Army forces and elements of the bloody angels white scars implore fists and salamanders the traitors wielded dozens of Titan legions themselves at least as many lighthouses a traitor Imperial Army and the sons of Horus iron warriors word bearers and the Emperor's children the conflict would be a literal apocalypse not long after his arrival Horace would initiate a massive assault towards the now impure occupied near crown city on beta garment to traitor Imperial armies swept across the planet assaulting hive cities while the traitor Titans broke a 100 kilometer defensive line of loyalist Imperial forces despite its formidable defenses the sheer scale of assault laid down by the Titans bargaining and annihilating those who even tried to resist them the very earth cracked as they stormed over the mortal men who could barely comprehend what they were witnessing anyway their weapons engaged turned a very sand to glass and vaporized all organic matter their irresistible force shatters the defences of near Khan and the city is opened for the traitors to pour in the city is lost in very short order not long after the planet itself is back in the hands of the traitors beta garment 3 remains in loyalist hands there's the titan legion of the navy guard stand resolute despite bombardments and siege assaults by the sons of Horus and iron warriors so horus instead turns his attention to the outlying planets the loyalists can do little are then to throw whatever they have available into their defenses there but the ensuing raids and defense organizations around these outline planets are disorganized bloodbath beta Gulman 3 would become the focus of a prolonged engagement now as multiple titan legions battle for control of the planet and so many vessels were destroyed that were previously orbiting the planet that for a time even the remnants and debris falling down onto the planet from orbit will become a problem for those on the surface as the huge pieces of starship came crashing down to the surface the iron warriors would engage the Loyalists Titans again with siege battalions and a long-range and finally the dark mechanical would initiate a solar event binding loyalist Titans and their sensor systems the traitor Titan Legion of the tiger eyes would now engage the loyalists who would fight to the last the conflict here it was a costly and grinding affair but after many months it was clear the traitors were slowly turning the tide in their favor loyalists reinforcements were arriving in an unpredictable and fragmented way making it very difficult to properly reinforce and planned counter assaults internal command structure issues were also becoming a problem with the loyalists leading princeps refusing to work under the authority of other legion commanders the traitors cared little for such petty power squabbles by contrast they simply wanted to annihilate the loyalists for their sole authority was horace himself finally arriving much later than expected due to the instability of the warp the bloody angels and whites cars would arrive with their fleets and they set about immediately reassessing the situation sanguinis the bloody angels Primark took a command and beta garment to the bloody angels now and some 30 Titan legions fought to capture the planet and retake it again for the Imperium despite their best efforts of orbital assad bombarding the planet heavily most of the traitors suffered minimal damage despite their gargantuan force of titans they were countered by a force of equal size heavily entrenched waiting for them at an air con city ensuing battle involved anything like 1,000 titans fighting across the now ruined and scarred landscape of beta garment to the sites and actions of such a conflict a truly difficult to describe in words the scale of the conflict and the power of the giant war machines beyond the comprehension of an ordinary citizen but it's enough to say that the battle would be later bleakly designated as titan death in orbit of beta command to the vast star fort known as the anvil would see its own internal conflict between the blood angels' and the sons of Horus but the defending force found by the bloody angels here was far less than they had anticipated with little time to spare they realized it was a trap and evacuated in time to see the space station detonate the volume of debris that came crashing down to the surface of beta gum and to inflicted heavy damage on both sites and for all of this apocalyptic warfare beta garland - had been a destruction is it now became apparent that the traitors real target was beta Garman 3 for his served the Astra Pathak choir the loyalist communications center Horace's traitors would detonate a vortex bomb vortexes of some of the deadliest weapons to exist in the far future and they function by tearing a hole in reality anything coming into contact with a vortex tear is torn out of real space and shredded as its dragged into the war itself the result of all this would be knocking out the void shield protecting the major city of caldera Primus on beta garment 3 Horus along with his legion and 100 Titans of Legion mortis would now assault the city while the Imperials had their own Titans defending the city the Imperial Army defense was overwhelmed and Horus would succeed in his goal of destroying the Imperial communications center by now in beta garment - the loyalists were significantly demoralized Sangren eosin con accepted that most of their forces have been destroyed and beta command three was now in the hands of the enemy as well as the communications choir being broken or controlled by the traitors Dawn's planned to hold these trait ism by time had run out of time and so the loyalists would be forced to retreat withdraw from the beta garment cluster with any materials and manpower they could gather or fighting running space and ground battles with the traitors when this conflict horus had secured a major victory in the beta garment cluster not only securing the communication center of the Imperium but also the Gateway to the soul system itself which would soon lead to the siege of terror while ultimately a victory for the traitors are a loss for the Imperials the casualties were immense on both sides the civilian death count for both loyalist and traitor was in the billions Titan legions were heavily crippled with thousands of war machines and their operators being destroyed it was simply one of the largest battles ever fought by humanity in the history of the Imperium of man the war of the Beast was a massive walk around the period of m32 during the thirty second millennium humanity and the Imperium was still trying to recover will reorganize itself after the gut punch that was the Horus heresy not simply in terms of repairing physical damage but also heavy restructuring will occur at all levels this made it less stable for many reasons the Imperium however did feel that it had endured survived and emerged victorious from its greatest threat the xenos were generally still considered an irritation and nothing more the sense of the power of mankind at this time was still very strong but as is all too often the case this arrogance leads to a dangerous underestimation of the enemies of man orcs especially are regularly underestimated and it's true that moderate rampages by orcs inflict easily resolvable damage and I'm not especially difficult to contain for orcs it's really a case of staying on top of things and managing them as a threat even then destroying a small orc force and allowing others to escape is rarely a sound plan because they'll often return and in greater numbers the impure fists have been conducting an ongoing campaign of the xenos purging as they battled an insectoid form known as the chromes the imperial fists had already suffered a severe kicking at the hands of these chrome insectoids leaving them humiliatingly decimated the remaining Imperial fists chapter was dispatched to aid the brothers on our demand tour but the planet became consumed by gravitational storms and these would turn out to be a result of an orc planetoid otherwise known as an attack moon which materialized around the planets orbit and quickly would begin laying waste to it now attack moons are massive oak vessels that are essentially planetoids that have been hollowed out and constructed converted into massive drifting war stations their construction is far from simple as their forged through a process of placing one gravitic Nexus into orbit and another on the surface of a planet which would send the contents of the doomed world into space to be then reformed into a massive spacecraft the technical knowledge to construct such ships baffled the Imperium and a mechanicus how such savage creatures were able to construct such complex war machines was way beyond their understanding of what orcs should be capable of but as with most things that are orc it's because these planetoid attack means were not really some end designed product they were just experimentations as are most all creations these just happened to be quite effective they also operated as an end exit point for orc subspace tunnels titled war gates by the orcs themselves what this means is that through the power of warg the orcs could use these stations to deploy endless waves of orcs warships Warcraft war machines even featured their own gravity weapon known as a groove it equip a lashing gravity weapon that could decimate Imperial cruisers and battleships the remaining Imperial fists on a planet did their best in a last-ditch struggle against the now panicked chromes and the strange gravity forces were intensifying not long after orcs began to appear on the planet would they slaughter the remaining Imperials a broken message was somehow sent out informing the Imperium that it was facing a dire threat like none before the arriving reinforcements were no match for the vast orc menace that they had severely underestimated the Imperial fleet was ruined and the Imperial fist chapter an i elated this in itself was a devastating defeat for the Imperium the orc moon began to phase out and would begin to move towards its next destination terror the Imperium would learn that in fact more than one orc attack moon existed lot the news that anybody wanted to hear the Orca campaign of violence was Swift and severe they swarmed entire systems and slaughtered any and all that stood in their path the strange gravitic psychic properties of the orc attack means even sent many a human across any number of worlds completely insane and cults began to spring up worshipping the orc beast the high loads of terror facing such an unstoppable threat were as usual bickering amongst themselves about what to do black Templars Marshall Bowman and the only surviving Imperial fist kept in Courland would activate the last wall protocol this order is designed to reunite the successor chapters of the imperial fists into a legion size once again should Terra itself come under threat this is a highly contentious order as it goes directly against all the lessons that should have been learned from the heresy that no 1 Space Marine Force should wield such immense power as a legion and this is why space cranes are now split into chapter sizes Imperial fists buck this idea along with others like the Dark Angels for the Imperial fists now though this was a necessity having been all but obliterated by the green-skinned Menace next would follow the battle port of Sanctus as a large force of anything estimated at half a sega mentum fleet arrived is difficult to estimate the numbers of such an Imperial fleet but you can be assured it would be in the many hundreds if not thousands of vessels the scale of what a segment inflate constitutes likely varies for each segment 'm and the period in which you would measure such a thing anyway but regardless it was a disaster after weeks of attempting to smash through orc asteroid fortifications it was clear that the Imperials were simply outmatched and could not break the insatiable war thirst of the orcs because the orcs were able to use smaller craft and then teleport orcs on board Imperial ships even with their void shields intact this proved immensely problematic because orcs in a confined space versus Imperial Navy crew who were more often than not more like a ship labor force than some elite fighters it was a bloodbath on board the ships Hawks crushing grinding bones ripping crewmen in half heads popping like grapes any such situation for the Navy resulted in a horrific slaughter but still the orcs will not be refined fighting force or technicians the Imperials were and a weakness appeared in the orc battle lines the decision was taken that this was an opportunity that could not be missed and so the Imperial Navy committed to piercing the [ __ ] in the orc armor or they would be destroyed in the process this near suicidal assault was a desperate act of much frustration as much as it was opportunity and it would with hindsight not be a wise choice losses were very very high but the repeat focused fire of the Imperials weakened the orc attack moons avoid shields and then they were able to destroy its gravitic generators from the inside as bombardment continued from the outside the orc attack moon was destroyed any celebrations they would be short for the cost of the victory had been immense and it soon seemed irrelevant as an orc attack moon would phase into real space directly over terror itself [Music] which brings us to one of the worst follies of mankind the proletarian crusade if you could call it a crusade the orcs had already expanded their campaign across the galaxy and every segment time saw bitter heavy fighting once of why he gathers this kind of pace it's self-perpetuating very difficult to stop the sheer weight of momentum behind it this is by design and why the orcs was so successful at such a rampage the likes of which had rarely been seen before in fact it was so successful they had even begun to assault chaos marine world's around the edge of the eye of Terror at holy Terra itself the arrival of the attack moon spread instant understandable panic and blind fear Mars refused to aid terror and the arbor T's were concerned with maintaining what little order could be controlled on the planet itself with the fleet having suffered such heavy losses and other battle fleets already deployed and engaged across the galaxy terror seemed defenseless the imperial palace itself and the high loads of terror in the Emperor always had strong defenses but this did not apply for the planet as a whole the only option suggested did by one of the high loads of terror overseeing the merchant fleet Justyna tal was a so-called proletarian crusade the idea being that millions of civilian volunteers in ecclesia ki militia would form the largest civilian mobilization in imperial history for the other High Lords this seemed madness but it went ahead nonetheless after a significantly small amount of planning which amounted to little more than let's just shove him up there and let him get on with it civilian craft from large-scale mass conveyer merchant ships to small shuttles flew towards the orc attack moon on board where millions of civilian Crusaders Sun Guardsman and Arbor teas the orcs almost instantly began to board the ships and inflicted severe losses on the poor untrained plebs aboard but perhaps positively or not a majority of ships by the sheer scale of the assault made it through to deploy on to the oak moon itself billions of civilian troops were landed including one hundred battle tanks fifty chimeras and even some hellhound variants despite suffering horrors never imagined by many of the civilians Reiter's the sheer weight of numbers were able to push the orcs back despite the confusion panic fleeing and despair it was working to a degree or so it appeared to this would be until the humans were approaching a gateway that led to the interior of the moon itself the orcs with their strange power of being able to just will things to occur revealed that they had constructed mechanisms that reached up through the stone itself the mountains walked humans were so baffled by what they saw and - couldn't even accept it at first the orcs had forced the surface of the moon itself to envelop and crush the entire invading army in a bizarre event none could have anticipated the vast waves of blood from the crushed force surrounded the feet of the humans as it surged like a ton from all the crushed civilian fighters a swelling mass of broken human bodies pushed together by the encroaching mountains barely 10 metres apart now any humans alive were drowning among the blood and bodies it was a true nightmare it was simply a disaster that was off the scale an appalling plan poorly executed and then suffering the loss of all but a few through the bazzara T of the orc menace there was no silver lining any absolute misery things would only become more bizarre when one of the civilian ships returning to terror carrying of all things an orc ambassador who demanded surrender or death as options to the High Lords the disturbing event only caused more bickering among the Imperials as they struggled to decide who was more to blame for such disastrous events ultimately with the arrival of the Emperor fists or should we say the arrival of the Imperial fists Legion through the last war protocol along with some persuaded aid from the mechanicus of Mars they were able to destroy the orc gate on the attack moon destroy the war boss and secure it however the estar T's would quickly come under stern criticism from the High Lords of Terror for essentially reforming their Legion described as being borderline heretical they were forced to break this up immediately in my opinion not punishment enough call of the Imperial fists had had enough of the High Lords ineffective leadership and was ready to lead a political coup which the high loads buckled under instantly declaring courland the new Lord Commander of the Imperium the whole campaign around the orc beast is well known but long and complex further power struggles would occur leading through and up to the end of the war imperial fists would be reformed from an amalgamation of their successor chapters the elder would also become embroiled in the whole affair and the attack moon over terror was far from fully dead for my thoughts though it was the sheer and absolute insanity of the proletarian crusade that goes down for me as one of mankind's most absurd defeats sending a mass force of civilians against a rampaging oplog any positive take away would of course be that so many humans actually stood up and took the tasks on board as well as preventing us from infesting the planet but even so it's very hard to see it in a good light that seems to be the case these days this video has become far longer than anticipated so we'll be continuing the remaining 5 in part two well we'll look at further annihilations of successor chapters The Forgotten walls of the Dark Angels abject lessons in humility and the worst disaster to befall the Imperium of man as always thanks for watching I'll see you very soon in part 2 [Music] [Music]

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Length: 46min 59sec (2819 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 19 2019