Below is the fluff for the campaign myself, Pershore and Nasty are about to embark upon.

I should be putting up the rules for the campaign and a load of special missions over the next couple of days (if I remember).

The Story Of Faaris

The peaceful world of Faaris had long ago been part of the Imperium but had been under the control of the Tau for countless years until the present conflict erupted, until the tyranids came.

A tendril of hive fleet Charybdis assaulted the planet and the Tau resisted with all the weapons at their disposal. Seeing an opportunity to retake the world in the Emperors name the Lords of Terra dispatched a large contingent of space marines from various chapters with the backup of a substantial Imperial Guard force.

Marines from the Blood Angels, Black Templars, Space Wolves ,Ultramarine and a few other allied chapters arrived on the planet and immediately began the process of eliminating all alien life.

They may have managed to contain and even beat the Tyranids and the native Tau but other foes were soon to arrive. Seeing a big fight brewing some eager mek sent a large ork rok crashing into Faaris bringing with it thousands of battle hungry boyz.

Another enemy announced their arrival at this time as well, the Dark Eldar saw the turmoil of a battle this grand and chaotic as the perfect place to gather new and interesting slaves for the fighting pits back on Comorragh.

With titanic weapons of war being unleashed all over the planet on such a large scale Faaris was being strained right to its very core and this was where the real threat lay.

Imprisoned tens of thousands of years ago in a powerful Tezzeract Labyrinth fused to the planet as a whole, a volatile and incredibly destructive C’tan Shard was partly released when his prison was weakened by the force of the weapons being brought to bear in the war raging on the planets surface.

His release sent a mental shockwave rushing over the planet, effecting each of the combatanting armies in its own insidious way, calling upon them to throw all their might into the conflict, to hold nothing back, to kill everyone.

The war raged to new heights of destruction, with burning piles of the dead growing each day. For this was what the C'tan wanted, if the planet was ravaged and destroyed there was a chance that his prison would fully break and he would be free once more.

Death on such a scale has other consequences, rifts into the warp appeared where the fighting had been the most intense and Chaos Daemons imerged to join in the slaughter, much to the C'tans glee.

Not all were so pleased at the events happening on Faaris, the Swordwind of Prince Euthrace of Biel-Tan have arrived to contain the threat of the C'tan after Farseer Fiathrandael forsaw its imminent release.

Inquisitor Damgrad of the Ordo Malleus, along with a strike force of Grey Knights, have come to put an end to the Daemonic incrusion and purify all those affected by the C'tan be they friend or foe.

Lord Commander Kelly of the 659/656th Air Corps, redeployed from the conflict in the Iraqistan area and arriving as backup to the spacemarines, has been ordered to take the planet back for the Emperor. He intends to see those orders through even if it means fighting against those warriors of the imperium who seem to be under the influence of some kind of filthy xeno skum.