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| rdfs:comment | - The Siege of Vraks was an Imperial miltary campaign fought over the course of 17 standard years to retake the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks Prime from the heretical Forces of Chaos led by the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan. Vraks was besieged by the forces of the Imperium of Man in 813.M41, after the attempted assassination by an agent of the Officio Assassinorum of the heretical and traitorous Cardinal-Astra of the Scarus Sector, Xaphan, failed. The Imperial Guard's 88th Siege Army was raised from line regiments of the Death Korps of Krieg to undertake the siege of Vraks and bring the renegade cardinal down in a campaign of attrition that the Administratum's Adepts calculated would take 12 standard years to successfully conclude. Overall command of the army and the Vraksian Campaign was
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| Strength | - Apostles of Contagion, Berserkers of Skallathrax, Black Brethren of Ayreas, The Faithless, Lords of Decay, The Purge, The Sanctified, Skulltakers, Steel Brethren, Legio Vulcanum I, 50,000 Disciples of Xaphan, 10,000 Vraksian Traitor Guard, 500,000 Vraks Planetary Defence Forces, 1,500,000 Vraksian Traitor Militia, 1,250,000 Traitor Frateris Militia, 1,500,000 Labour Corpsmen, 500,000 Lost and the Damned, Uraka's Head-Hunters, 30 Chaos Warships, Unknown number of summoned daemon cohorts
- Angels of Absolution, Dark Angels, Grey Knights, Red Hunters, Red Scorpions, Ordo Malleus, 34 Regiments of the Death Korps of Krieg, Unknown Number of Regiments of Inquisitorial Storm Troopers, 22 Titans of the Legio Astorum, elements of Battlefleet Scarus
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| Commander | - Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan, Deacon Mamon, Arkos the Faithless, Necrosius, Zhufor
- Lord Commander Zuehlke, Marshal Amim Kargori, Lord High Commander Carab Culln , Supreme Grand Master Azrael , Brother-Captain Arvann Stern , Lord Inquisitor Hector Rex
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| Attacker | - Imperium of Man: Angels of Absolution, Dark Angels, Grey Knights, Red Hunters, Red Scorpions, Death Korps of Krieg's 88th Siege Army, Ordo Malleus, Legio Astorum
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| theatre | - Vraks Prime, Vraks System, Scarus Sector, Segmentum Obscurus
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| Outcome | - Though the Imperial reconquest of the strategic Departmento Munitorum Armoury World of Vraks Prime from the Traitor forces of the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan was achieved, Vraks Prime was reduced to a barren wasteland, and it and its surrounding star system were declared Perdita by the Inquisition
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| Casualties | - Significant, in the millions; Forces of Chaos abandoned the field
- Significant; 14 Million Imperial Guardsmen, hundreds of Space Marines, 4 Inquisitors, 9 Titans
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| abstract | - The Siege of Vraks was an Imperial miltary campaign fought over the course of 17 standard years to retake the Imperial Armoury World of Vraks Prime from the heretical Forces of Chaos led by the Apostate Cardinal-Astra Xaphan. Vraks was besieged by the forces of the Imperium of Man in 813.M41, after the attempted assassination by an agent of the Officio Assassinorum of the heretical and traitorous Cardinal-Astra of the Scarus Sector, Xaphan, failed. The Imperial Guard's 88th Siege Army was raised from line regiments of the Death Korps of Krieg to undertake the siege of Vraks and bring the renegade cardinal down in a campaign of attrition that the Administratum's Adepts calculated would take 12 standard years to successfully conclude. Overall command of the army and the Vraksian Campaign was given by the Imperial Guard's Segmentum Obscurus Command to Lord General Zuehlke, the son of a well-connected Imperial noble family from Segmentum Solar, who maintained his campaign headquarters on Thracian Primaris. The Zuehlke family's influence stretched across the higher echelons of the Imperial Navy and the Imperial Guard. His great-grandfather had once served as an attache to the Lord Commander Solar on Terra. Lord Zuehlke's qualifications for leading the campaign, apart from his social rank, were few beyond his martial upbringing and a detailed study of the Tactica Imperialis, but political pressure and a good family name yielded its rewards. At the conclusion of what became a 17-year-long campaign of attrition requiring 34 regiments of the Imperial Guard to re-take the planet for the Emperor of Mankind in 830.M41, 14 million Imperial Guardsmen had been lost and Vraks Prime's entire original population of 8 million souls had been consumed in the violence or exterminated after they fell to Chaos corruption. The world was then declared dead and "Perdita" by the Imperium and placed under an interdiction to cordon it off from the rest of human space as ordered by the Ordo Malleus' Inquisitor Lord Hector Rex.
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