Gilead System Adventures in a forsaken system

The worlds of the Gilead System have stood for millennia as a beacon of Imperial order, located in the coreward region near the border of the Segmentum Solar and the Segmentum Obscurus. The numerous habitable planets and moons of the system were discovered by an Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator fleet. Heretics and corrupted Astartes had infested the halcyon system, and so the Imperium launched a war against the traitors to claim what was rightfully the Emperor’s territory.   This war is recorded in Imperial Archives as the ‘Gilead Crusade’, so named for the heroic leader of the Imperial forces: Saint Julyanna Gilead. The crusade expanded to worlds far beyond the Gilead System, but the first victories against the heretic legions began here.   Julyanna Gilead was supported by the Astra Militarum, the Imperial Navy, and the Adeptus Astartes. The Departmento Munitorium sent countless Astra Militarum regiments, while the Imperial Navy dispatched two full battlefleets. But most impressive was the almost complete deployment of the Absolvers Chapter of Adeptus Astartes, led by Chapter Master Tygranus Dalir, the ‘Emperor’s Archangel’.   Until the dawn of the Dark Imperium, these worlds thrived and prospered. The Gilead System was considered one of the greatest successes of its sector of space, a gleaming example of the Imperium’s majesty and righteousness. However, the Noctis Aeterna — the darkness that obscured the light of the Astronomican’s beacon — isolated the system, rendering Gilead’s previous glories meaningless and wreathing the region in the Warp-storms of the Great Rift. With no communication, transportation, or backup, the Emperor’s light no longer shines on the worlds of the Gilead, and has not for three grim years. Many wonder if it will ever return.