Mitu Conglomerate

//Mitu Conglomerate\\

           

Summary

  The Mitu Conglomerate, whose core worlds would eventually be purged by the fires of Exterminatus, was a cabal of several psychically-empowered, pseudo-actinaric xenos species believed to have evolved from a common stock.      

Organizational Structure

  Governance Tpye: Federation   Leader(S): Unknown   Leader Titles: unknown  

Operations

  Located within the former Cyclotrathine Holdfast, over centuries the Mitu Conglomerate expanded deep into the Coronid Reach and the Cyclops Cluster. Where it encountered other populations, both human and alien, the Mitu did not push for expansion but culled the existing populations into submission, exacting a periodical tribute of flesh under the menace of more thorough purging. Those worlds that lived beneath the thumb of the Mitu Conglomerate did not suffer as harshly as under the iron-shod rule of the Orks or the sadistic depredations of the Drukhari, but they were slaves nonetheless.   However the Mitu did not interfere much with their tributary planets' governance: apart from culling the nascent human psyker population and forbidding any attempt at space flight, the planets were mainly left to govern themselves. The ruthlessness the Mitu displayed in their identification of psykers indicate that at the very least they had a notion of the perils that lie within the Warp, although it is unclear if they knew anything about the existence of the Chaos Gods. Perhaps they simply sought to deny a powerful weapon to the populations they oppressed, or safeguard their own technology.      

Diplomacy

  Allies: unknown   Enemies: Imperium of Man, Orks of the Grail Abyss, Forge World Mezoa   Imperial scholars know this from the archives of Mezoa and even distant Damaetus III/II, the home of House Vyronii, which both had to repeatedly fend off attacks from this growing alien empire. Other human worlds like those of the Manachea System were, however, less fortunate and were overrun by the xenos. Where it encountered other populations, both human and alien, the Mitu did not push for expansion but culled the existing populations into submission, exacting a periodical tribute of flesh under the menace of more thorough purging. Those worlds that lived beneath the thumb of the Mitu Conglomerate did not suffer as harshly as under the iron-shod rule of the Orks or the sadistic depredations of the Drukhari, but they were slaves nonetheless.   However the Mitu did not interfere much with their tributary planets' governance: apart from culling the nascent human psyker population and forbidding any attempt at space flight, the planets were mainly left to govern themselves. The ruthlessness the Mitu displayed in their identification of psykers indicate that at the very least they had a notion of the perils that lie within the Warp, although it is unclear if they knew anything about the existence of the Chaos Gods. Perhaps they simply sought to deny a powerful weapon to the populations they oppressed, or safeguard their own technology.   At the pinnacle of their might, the Mitu Conglomerate posed a serious threat to the Imperium of Man's expansion, effectively dominating a great deal of the Coronid Reach. It was held in check only by the Orks of the Grail Abyss and the might of Forge World Mezoa in the Cyclops Cluster.      

Military

  The Muti military leaned towards void combat.      

Culture and Society

 

Demographics

         

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Territories

  Capital(s): unknown   “The Imperium has thus far been unable to identify the original homeworld of the Mitu and it is likely that it never will as no resources can be spared to research the matter. Logic dictates that it would have to be one of the worlds ravaged by the Great Crusade that now form the Cyclothrathine Holdfast. However, the two principal worlds of this domain, Cyclothrathe itself and the Mining World of Arrian, seem not to have been colonised by the Mitu due to their inimical nature to life.” - https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Mitu_Conglomerate  

Territory or area of operation

  Located within the former Cyclotrathine Holdfast, over centuries the Mitu Conglomerate expanded deep into the Coronid Reach and the Cyclops Cluster.     Notable Places      

Technology Level

“On a technological level, the Mitu were a formidably advanced empire, mastering both space flight and interstellar travel. The damage sustained by the mighty Felweather Keep on Damaetus III/II constitutes a testimony of their military might, the imposing fortress proving no match for the high-power directed energy weapons used by the Mitu. It would seem that although technologically advanced, the technology of the Conglomerate was mostly organic in nature and activated by psychic impulse, thus explaining both the Mitu's reoccurring need for tithes of lives and flesh and the cull of human psykers. Such horrors could naturally not be permitted to live by the Imperium.” -    

History

  Founding date: Sometime in the Age of Strife   Dissolution Date: ca. 31M  

Historic write up

  “Almost nothing is known of the Mitu Conglomerate's inception or early history. What few archives or fragments remained from the Dark Age of Technology does not mention them, which leads to the conclusion that their empire emerged sometime after Old Night had taken its hold on humanity. The Conglomerate was a cabal of several psychically-empowered, pseudo-actinaric xenos species believed to have evolved from a common stock.   Warp-capable and possessed of advanced technology, the Mitu Conglomerate had forged a pocket interstellar empire, forbidding any attempts at space flight by their conquered peoples and ruthlessly purging any human psyker discovered within their domains.   From Manachea, as well as other subjected star systems (both human and alien), the Mitu periodically demanded a culling of the population and a tribute of flesh to provide them, it was believed, with the basic components to construct their technologies. In answer to the existence of such creatures, there could be no response but total annihilation, and the war the Imperium fought to end the Mitu Conglomerate was protracted and bloody.   ---   Their empire would eventually be crushed during the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium after a protracted and bloody war that would be led under the flag of the Primarch of the Imperial Fists, Rogal Dorn, and the contribution of the 7th Expeditionary Fleet of the I Legion, the Dark Angels.   Determined to carry out the total annihilation of the Conglomerate, the Imperium waged a bloody and protracted war against the Mitu. Several times the use of Exterminatus-class weaponry was sanctioned, for Mankind could ill-afford to let such monstrosities live.   The conflict itself was fought largely in the void as a series of brutal close-quarters boarding engagements interspersed with sudden and world-shattering assaults by both sides which would mobilise the forces of several Expeditionary Fleets and require no fewer than three Space Marines Legions and hundreds of Solar Auxilia cohorts of the Imperial Army to prosecute. The liberation of the Manachea System would prove to be the major turning point of the conflict and heralded the complete extermination of the Mitu, whose core-worlds were all subjected to Exterminatus.              

GW Canonized Lore

lore references go hear   Located within the former Cyclotrathine Holdfast, over centuries the Mitu Conglomerate expanded deep into the Coronid Reach and the Cyclops Cluster. Imperial scholars know this from the archives of Mezoa and even distant Damaetus III/II, the home of House Vyronii, which both had to repeatedly fend off attacks from this growing alien empire. Other human worlds like those of the Manachea System were, however, less fortunate and were overrun by the xenos. Where it encountered other populations, both human and alien, the Mitu did not push for expansion but culled the existing populations into submission, exacting a periodical tribute of flesh under the menace of more thorough purging. Those worlds that lived beneath the thumb of the Mitu Conglomerate did not suffer as harshly as under the iron-shod rule of the Orks or the sadistic depredations of the Drukhari, but they were slaves nonetheless.   However the Mitu did not interfere much with their tributary planets' governance: apart from culling the nascent human psyker population and forbidding any attempt at space flight, the planets were mainly left to govern themselves. The ruthlessness the Mitu displayed in their identification of psykers indicate that at the very least they had a notion of the perils that lie within the Warp, although it is unclear if they knew anything about the existence of the Chaos Gods. Perhaps they simply sought to deny a powerful weapon to the populations they oppressed, or safeguard their own technology.   On a technological level, the Mitu were a formidably advanced empire, mastering both space flight and interstellar travel. The damage sustained by the mighty Felweather Keep on Damaetus III/II constitutes a testimony of their military might, the imposing fortress proving no match for the high-power directed energy weapons used by the Mitu. It would seem that although technologically advanced, the technology of the Conglomerate was mostly organic in nature and activated by psychic impulse, thus explaining both the Mitu's reoccurring need for tithes of lives and flesh and the cull of human psykers. Such horrors could naturally not be permitted to live by the Imperium.   When the forces of the Imperium first ventured forth in the Coronid Deeps they encountered scores of worlds subjugated by the Mitu. Mezoa was by then involved in its own modest xenocidal campaign, which had already lasted for many solar decades, and on Damaetus III/II House Vyronii readied itself to make a glorious final stand before being overwhelmed by a new tide of alien horrors.   Determined to carry out the total annihilation of the Conglomerate, the Imperium waged a bloody and protracted war against the Mitu. Several times the use of Exterminatus-class weaponry was sanctioned, for Mankind could ill-afford to let such monstrosities live.   The conflict itself was fought largely in the void as a series of brutal close-quarters boarding engagements interspersed with sudden and world-shattering assaults by both sides which would mobilise the forces of several Expeditionary Fleets and require no fewer than three Space Marines Legions and hundreds of Solar Auxilia cohorts of the Imperial Army to prosecute. The liberation of the Manachea System would prove to be the major turning point of the conflict and heralded the complete extermination of the Mitu, whose core-worlds were all subjected to Exterminatus.   To commemorate this victory, the Imperial Fists Legion raised one of their fortresses, the great Bastion Kvet on the world of Manachea Lux, where the decisive battle against the Mitu was won, swearing that the worlds would never again fall under xenos dominion.   In the final days of this conflict, the Mechanicum war-barque Cyclopean Mind was so badly damaged that it was left behind on the savage world of Cyclothrathe to become the birthstone of the Forge World which would gain so much infamy as a member of the Dark Mechanicum during the Horus Heresy.   Homeworld   The Imperium has thus far been unable to identify the original homeworld of the Mitu and it is likely that it never will as no resources can be spared to research the matter. Logic dictates that it would have to be one of the worlds ravaged by the Great Crusade that now form the Cyclothrathine Holdfast. However, the two principal worlds of this domain, Cyclothrathe itself and the Mining World of Arrian, seem not to have been colonised by the Mitu due to their inimical nature to life.   Sources   The Horus Heresy - Book Four: Conquest (Forge World Series) by Alan Bligh, pp. 66, 72, 76, 124   ----------   The Mitu were a race of Xenos that dominated the Coronid Reach region of Segmentum Obscurus during the Age of Strife. This tyrannical empire, known as the Mitu Conglomerate, ruled both Human and other xenos worlds.[1]   The Mitu were pseudo-actinaric psychic beings who are believed to have evolved from common livestock. They were capable of manipulating the Warp thanks to advanced technologies which were biological in nature. They forbid any attempt of space travel by the enslaved worlds of their pocket empire and viciously purged all Psykers they came across. The Mitu were known to periodically cull the population of their slave worlds and demand a tribute of flesh which is believed to have powered their arcane technologies.[1]   During the Great Crusade, the Mitu battled against an invasion by the newly formed Imperium of Man. The conflict was largely fought in space and consisted of brutal close-quarters boarding engagement. Ultimately, the conflict required three Space Marine Legions including the Imperial Fists and hundreds of Solar Auxilia Cohorts. The Mitu were crushed and their worlds subjected to Exterminatus, while the enslaved human planets were liberated and reformed into the Manachean Commonwealth.[1]   Rogal Dorn built a fortress on Manachea Lux in the aftermath of the war, promising that never again would Xenos come to dominate the world.[1]   See Also   List of sentient species   Sources   1: The Horus Heresy Book Four, pg. 72