Piscina IV is a stable and well-fortified Imperial world, long counted a model of order in its region and watched over by the Dark Angels, whose recruiting interests and vigilance gave the planet a measure of security few worlds enjoy. Its cities were prosperous, its garrisons disciplined, its skies quiet, until the day that quiet was shattered by war erupting from within.
The Orks that had long dwelt as a subject underclass upon the world rose in sudden, coordinated rebellion, their uprising sparked by the schemes of a cunning greenskin warlord and the meddling of forces that sought to distract the Dark Angels from their own dark secrets. What began as scattered violence swelled with terrifying speed into a full WAAAGH!, and the sons of the Lion were forced to wage a desperate campaign to prevent the world's ruin.
The Dark Angels prevailed, crushing the greenskin tide with characteristic grim efficiency, yet the war for Piscina IV lingered in Chapter memory as a reminder of how swiftly complacency invites catastrophe. A world thought secure had come within a hair's breadth of destruction, its stability revealed as a thin crust over a smouldering fire, and its defenders learned anew that vigilance in the Imperium can never be permitted to sleep.
The atlas continues
