Heritor Asphodel, the Chaos Warlord in command of the Zoican rebel forces.Īfter receiving Vervunhive's request for assistance in facing the Zoican assault, the Imperial Crusade in the Sabbat Worlds Sector dispatched the Tanith First and Only Regiment of the Imperial Guard to aid the hive city's defense, as it was not known at the time that the Zoican forces were servants of the Ruinous Powers.

This edict allowed civilians to join Imperial Guard Regiments if they wished without going through the normal recruitment process. Many former Vervunhive citizens who had defended the city as part of its irregular Scratch Companies later joined the famed Tanith First and Only Regiment of the Imperial Guard which had participated in the defence of the city as part of the Act of Consolation declared by Warmaster Macaroth of the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. The surviving citizens of Vervunhive found refuge in the hive cities of the Northern Collective, established new, smaller settlements in the region where Vervunhive once stood or joined the regiments of the Imperial Guard engaged in the Imperial Crusade to retake the Sabbat Worlds Sector. The hive city was essentially abandoned in the wake of the attacks. So its leaders sent out an astropathic plea to the Astra Militarum for forces to defend itself and to the Northern Collective hive cities of Verghast for Planetary Defence Forces ( PDF) to hold the line against the vicious horde of Zoican Chaos Cultists, heavy armour and mutants.ĭuring the resulting battle, Vervunhive was all but destroyed by the forces of Chaos' assault. Vervunhive, despite having a larger population, could field military forces numbering only about 500,000 troops to meet the Zoican forces. These Chaos Cultists, numbering some 13,000,000 people, almost the entire population of the hive, in turn attacked their old rivals, the nearby loyal hive cities of Vannick and Vervunhive.

Verghast is an Imperial Hive World in the Sabbat Worlds Sector that became a crucial point of contention in the Sabbat Worlds Crusade in 761.M41 when Chaos corrupted the people of the hive city of Ferrozoica.

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