Worlds of the Narrative - Miridian

Planet: Miridian.
Segmentum: Obscurus.
Sector: Cadian.
System: Miridian.
Surveyed: Unknown.
Planets:
Miridian - Hive World.
Miridan's Belt - Asteroid belt.

Summery:
Miridian sits below the galactic plane on the edge of the Cadian sector. Until the 41st millennium it had never been invaded nor known the horrors of war. The planet was colonised by the Imperium about the same time as Cadia and while that world became a bastion of Imperial defiance, Miridian grew to become a populous hive world supplying many hundreds of thousands of men and women to the defence of Cadia through the millennia.

Miridian has no real manufacturing or agricultural significance. However, the asteroid field known as Miridian's Belt has assisted the world's of the Cadian sector with vital ores and metals to construct their weapons of war.
Size: Equatorial distance - 5,000 miles.
Gravity: 1.0G
Satellites: Two moons.
Population: 66,000,000,000 at last count.
Orbit: 120 million miles to it's star. Grendel III takes 400 days to complete one orbit.
Climate: Mean surface temperature of 19 degrees centigrade.

Before the start of the 13th Black Crusade, Typhus was dispatched by Abaddon to be the vanguard for his great invasion. Typhus had his eyes on the Lelithar system but first he would need a base of operations from which to launch his attack. Scouring the charts he soon found the world of Miridian and it's relative isolation made it a perfect target. The Death Guard caught the planet unawares and began with an atmospheric bombardment of poisons, plagues and bacteria. They then deployed to the surface. The planetary defence forces were no match for a battle-hardened force and the war was swiftly completed. The population not slain were rounded up and either enslaved or forced into the rapidly growing chaos cults of the plague father.

Not three weeks after the Miridian campaign was concluded, the planet came under surprise attack by a superior Drukhari raiding force. They had expected a weak and unprepared human population but instead found a renegade astartes force eager to slay the alien interlopers for their intrusion. The coming war against the Imperium was forgotten while the Death Guard waged war against the alien slavers.

Notes: Miridian is the world for games where the Death Guard face down the Drukhari.

Tide of Battle:
Drukhari victories: 2.
Death Guard victories: 3.
Draws: 0

The invading Drukhari are not doing well. The entrenched plague marines have the upper hand currently but will it last as more xenos raiders arrive to bolster the attacking kabals.

1. Into Darkness (7th edition).
2. The Scouring (7th edition).
3. Hold the Line.
4. Drukhari Ambush.
5. Death in the Rain.