Zarvis 843J

Zarvis is a planet.

Zolfax Era (754-2G-757-2G) 3 years
The history of Zarvis 843J began with Zolfax Patriarch Gajun who was studying the solar system of Zarvis in 754-2G. He began colonization of the planet. Initial colonialism was successful. There were 3 colonies that were interconnected with eachother. However a Zolfax archaeological discovery of an Ancient Citadel rose eyebrows. Eventually they began a search of the Citadel. However the search team quickly found a parasitic organism which possessed the minds of the original inhabitants of the Citadel. Soon the Search Team radioed the three colonies and told them to quickly get out of the system. Two of the colonies were surrounded by thousands of infected and were broken through. The Zolfax Security Force tried their hardest to fight them off but the parasite quickly defeated them. They destroyed their ships to prevent them from getting off of the planet, and consumed any survivor. The other colony quickly escaped and set up T-21 Battle Robots to defend the abandoned colony.

Patriarch Gajun forbid any travel to Zarvis 843J or the Zarvis system in 757-2G, deeming it cursed. After the withdrawl the planet was dormant and abandoned for 100s of years. Overtime the parasites began starving and began eating each other to cope with the withdrawal, they almost became extinct aside from a few of them who survived in caves living off of dead bodies

Aquatarrian Settlement(1103-2G-1316-2G) 213 years
After the Aquatarrians realized they could not defend against the millions of parasitic organisms on the planet, they decided to cut their losses and sell the planet to the Golden Syndicate. They informed them of the organisms, but they refused to portray the situation as if the planet wasn't in their control. They hid the fact that they were driven off by the now millions of organisms. They sold the planet for 200 billion galactic credits to the Golden Syndicate, most in the Golden Syndicate thought that this was a great deal because they got the planet without any fighting. However one analyst was skeptical.

Golden Syndicate (1316-2G-15?-2G
At first the Golden Syndicate colonial expedition thought that the parasites were simply another alien revolutionary threat which they had become accustomed too over the years. As such they did little to adjust their tactics, weapons or strategies. As such it came quite a shock when the Golden Syndicate started losing battles rapidly. After 10 long years of fighting off this rapidly increasing threat, they lost morale and energy to continue fighting the war. Local Golden Syndicate subjects by the 16th year of fighting thought the war was lost, but outsider Golden Syndicate nobles believed that the local military was weak and inexperienced and thought a good general such as Navarch Julius Aurelian, Legate Brutus Gaius and Quanjan Raam could sort out the issue quite well.

Legate Brutus Gaius was sent with few reinforcements on the belief that his leadership was all that was necessary. However even for a great leader such as him, he was completely shocked at the fierce attacks, ambushes and sheer brutality that they conducted on Syndicate forces. As such after the first day he left the planet, but attempted to save face and claim that there were grander threats to attend too and that this planet was merely one itch for the Golden Syndicate. This comment was used against him by political opponents on occasion. Most experts from the Golden Syndicate said that the real reason he left was because he understood the war was unwinnable and did not wish to perish on a backwater irrelevant planet.

The Imperators disappointed with Brutus' progress sent one of their best generals Quanjan Raam to the planet. This time they brought additional reinforcements in the forms of new weapons, ships and soldiers. He was there fighting the war for many decades, he had lots of success in pushing the parasites back and securing several strongholds for the Syndicate during the decades. He believed that it was his duty and his final struggle before retirement to eradicate the planet from the parasites. He was so committed he made his sons generals in regions of the planet to stamp out the parasitic menace. He was so committed to the campaign that he became sick from the pressure and determination of winning the campaign. The Golden Syndicates Senate was largely pleased with his efforts and viewed him as a very capable and determined leader and they felt that his efforts were wasted in the planet, due to the last Military Imperators death they nominated Quanjan Raam for the role, however he rejected it and another was selected. He reached the apex of his campaign on the battle of the Marjuug Swamps, where he defeated a very large parasitic horde. He was following the remnants in a vehicle to wipe them out, when suddenly he was ambushed. However he died before they could kill him as noted in battle camera footage. After his death the Religious Imperator who was a good friend of Quanjan Raam canonized him as a Holy figure and gave him 2 weeks of celebration on the Religious Calendar. He is the Patron for Proginators in foreign colonies and for Golden Syndicate Soldiers fighting in war. The Golden Syndicate gave all of his sons senatorial roles in the Golden Syndicate Senate and one of his sons fufilled his fathers legacy and became the Political-Economic Imperator of the Syndicate. Raam was the grand protector of the planet for (21 years) 1326-2G to 1347-2G.

Julius Aurelian was deeply saddened by Raam's death, and thought it was his responsibility to carry his legacy. However he differed in a lot of aspects from Raam's more caring attitude due to his more bombastic approach to handling the crisis. He did a large campaign of carpet bombing their hives and key areas of growth until they went into hiding, however the damage to the eco system caused issues with future colonization. After this he formed a massive defensive barrier for a few regions and ordered settlements that were at severe risk of attack to move to more safer regions. He also refused to create settlements in regions that were covered in parasitic activity, much to the dismay of a few business elites. After this he created a program for foreign aliens and robots that if they fought against the parasites, they would receive a free citizenship to live on the planet. This brought a lot of manpower for his war effort. Julius Aurelian was the Grand Protector of the planet for (16 years), before he was ordered to be stationed in another planet. During this period the Golden Syndicate got tired of "winning the unwinnable war" so several Primarchs cutted the budget of the war effort and gutted troop numbers, even recalling a few local regiments to other sectors. They believed there were other planets that were far more easier to conquer then Zarvis 843J. But the greatest legacy of Julius Aurelian was solidifying the Proginator Diaspora in Zarvis 843J and to this day they are still strong in number but they did not succeed in conquering the entire planet.

During the Age of Collapse, as other planets and species were rebelling against the syndicate and with the Syndicate wanting too expand their numbers militarily they recalled half of all legions on the planet, but over the years the other half slowly defected and left the planet. This would cause a massive exodus of the Proginator population in the planet, but some still remained as they saw it as their home. These remnants were ordered to extract as much resources from the planet as they could.

During this period the former owners of the planet the Aquatarrian Empire offered the Golden Syndicate defense of the remainding enclave of the population on the condition that they can extract resources on the planet. The Golden Syndicate denied it for a while but eventually accepted. For 100 years they kept their part of the deal and provided security, but later on they would leave large parts of the planet undefended. This provoked tensions between the Golden Syndicate and the Aquatarrian Empire and would leave a bitter taste in the Syndicates mouth which eventually erupted in the Age of War.

Human Settlement
The Human Federation eventually found the system and started a period of colonization on the solar system. Zarvis 843J was the last planet they colonised in the system, as scans showed there was a lack of resources or gases in the planet. After they colonised every other planet in the Zarvis System, they sent a fleet of 2 Mega colony ships and 3 destroyers to protect it. They began mass colonization of the planet. They had no idea of the planets previous history until they found the 3 colonial ruins. Upon discovery of these they quickly moved all civilians to military strongholds on the planet and called in biotrooper teams to eradicate the infection, along with precision laser strikes on infection strongholds. This process has been going for a while, and is soon working, however the mass amount of infected is simply too much. But the process dropped the infected population from 25,000,000 to 5,000,000. Currently human forces have suffered losses of 5000. They also have set up a quarantine zone around the Ancient Citadel, picking off infected.