{"id":517848,"date":"2026-04-07T15:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:46:08","slug":"lore-of-armageddon-part-1-the-armageddon-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/517848\/","title":{"rendered":"Lore of Armageddon Part 1 \u2013 The Armageddon System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The brutally inhospitable surface of Pelucidar belies a lush and vibrant ecosystem within its subterranean caves, where vegetation that purifies the sulphuric air appears so tailor-made for the environment that some Magi Biologis claim it was, in fact, tailor-made in pre-Imperial times. Monitoring probes have noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer.com\/shop\/warhammer-40000\/xenos-armies\/orks?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=warhammer-community.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orks<\/a> attempted to settle in the caves during the Third War for Armageddon to no success, proving just how lethal Pelucidar still is to sentient life.<\/p>\n<p>The final planet, a ringed gas giant called Iandai, sports few resources worth plundering and doesn\u2019t even have a moon to support resupply of scouting vessels at the system\u2019s edge. Its only real value would be as a hiding spot and staging point for invading Ork fleets, leading to the planet\u2019s ring being turned into an immense minefield.<\/p>\n<p>The Monitor Stations<\/p>\n<p>The Armageddon System was once guarded by three great monitoring stations, named Mannheim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/zn1tsuxB\/commander-dante-takes-your-breath-away-with-these-fantastic-community-painting-efforts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dante<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/sklouxc3\/new-animation-the-saviour-of-armageddon-returns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yarrick<\/a>, after some of the planet\u2019s greatest defenders.**\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These formidable installations were constructed after the Second War for Armageddon, and it was hoped they would provide early warning should the system be targeted once more. All three of these stations would be destroyed in the first stages of the Third War for Armageddon, as the Ork armada advanced on Armageddon.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we\u2019ll be pulling out a map of Armageddon and getting to know all of the delightful places you\u2019ll soon see filled with Orks when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/bmjvmce4\/adepticon-preview-2026-wazdakka-gutsmek-battles-commissar-yarrick-for-the-fate-of-armageddon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armageddon: The Return of Yarrick<\/a> goes up for pre-order soon. It\u2019s all gearing up for the Great Waaagh! when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer-community.com\/en-gb\/articles\/ctdexme4\/warhammer-40000-the-new-edition-is-revealed-at-adepticon-preview-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new edition of Warhammer 40,000<\/a> launches with the Armageddon boxed set \u2013 you can get a sneak peek of its miniatures with a fresh reveal every Monday.<\/p>\n<p>* If only the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.warhammer.com\/shop\/warhammer-40000\/xenos-armies\/leagues-of-votann?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=warhammer-community.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Leagues of Votann<\/a> were here.<\/p>\n<p>** You\u2019ll know two of them for sure. The third is Princeps Kurtiz Mannheim, a Titan commander from the Second War for Armageddon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The brutally inhospitable surface of Pelucidar belies a lush and vibrant ecosystem within its subterranean caves, where vegetation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}