Tuisto

The Forge World, or more accurately Moons, of Tuisto are the beating heart of the Feuerreich's industrial production. Located due galactic south from Feuerstadt the Tuisto system is home to a vast, mineral rich asteroid field at the edge of the system while closer to the star of Tuisto sits a barren planet twice the size of the Earth. For reasons unknown Tuisto Tertius as the world is known had most of its atmosphere stripped away leaving barely breathable air and a scalding surface temperature made worse by the constant tectonic activity. While together these features make it wholly unsuitable for large scale colonization there are two less inhospitable moons, Tuistos Primus and Secundus, these are where the local Mechanicum make their homes and factories, dispatching servitors and penal laborers to extract the raw minerals from Tuisto Tertius.

Tuisto Primus and Secundus were initially settled sometime during the Dark Age of Technology and weathered the ravages of the Age of Strife better than most as the system was cut off from outside aggressors by a Warp Storm. It was rediscovered by one of the countless Explorator fleets dispatched from Mars to spread the word of the Omnissiah to distant worlds with the Tech Priests soon securing dominion over the vast refining and manufacturing industries of the moons through superior technology. However the brief window of calm that allowed the Martian Priests to enter the system was short lived and Tuisto would become isolated once more for centuries. During this time period the Cult Mechanicum underwent tremendous upheaval as orthodox and reform camps arose and clashed time and again. Eventually the reform camp won out, leaving the orthodox priests either dead or cowed into submission. Primacy secured the Cult of Innovation was declared the principle faith of the Tuisto moons, an act that would have consequences in the future. An immediate one however was that the Titans that had been brought from Mars were all either destroyed or otherwise rendered combat ineffective in the civil war, leaving Tuisto without a legio of its own.

Tuisto was brought into the Imperium in 841.M30 when the forces of the Feuerreich Crusade, consisting of the newly christened Obsidian Guard, Imperial Army regiments, and several Taghmata formations under the direct command of the Emperor and the Primarch Lukas Keath, arrived in system. The Master of Mankind treated with the Fabricator-Generals of Tuisto aboard his flagship for several days before a suitable arrangement was agreed to. Although heavily outgunned the Tuisto Priesthood were well aware of the strategic and political value their moons represented and bargained expertly. They secured for them freedom to continue practice of the Cult of Innovation as well as limited autonomy from Mars. In exchange the Skitarii, Basilikon Astra, and industrial output of Tuisto was bent to the prosecution of the Feuerreich Crusade specifically and the Great Crusade more broadly.

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