The legend of the EDF

[AshotNINJA]

ok guys here is my story connected to my 21st century styled fighting force the EDF from the planet Eden...
please be aware that if you do take the time to read it...that 50% of you will proberbly hate the story and the other 50% of you will be offended by all the grammer and spelling mistake that are undoubtedly contained within it... im not a novelist... but i try...

anyway just be aware... thanks for reading


The history of the Eden


M37 The largest terraformer Titan class vessel ever constructed by the hands of man leaves mars on a mission to claim unknown space. The ship is called 'Eden' and is commanded by Admiral Constratis, one of the finest and highley decorated leaders of the imperial navy fleet.
Eden, by far the largest ship ever constructed was a new breed of terraforming ship capable of landing on an usually habitable planet and within time, able to transform the planet to become fully capable of sustaining human life. On board the ship was a half a chapter of 'Nova Marines', 10 regiments of imperial guardsmen and all their families. Eden also held 10000 various vehicles accociated with the imperial guardsmen and space marines as well as earth moving equipment and construction vehicles.
The ship quickley became famous as the imperial navys greatest achivement, never before had a ship, in acsess of 26 km length ever sucessfully been launched from the planets surface. The 30 hypernova class afterburners created a massive blast on the surface of mars it can still clearly be seen from orbit now.
Eden had everything it needed to create a new civilisation, on a new planet in another galaxy... the mission was simple, carve a path through the darkest unknown space and make a new, clean Earth.

The passengers of Eden were all vollenteers, the ranks of the guardsmen were all from a mixure of imperial planets. The Novamarines Took the mission apon them to accompany Eden, beliving that this was in fact a truely worthy cause and needed them if they were to sucseed.
The commanders of Eden were hand picked by the emperor himself to lead the mission and see that they got the job done. Although amongst the 1.1 million people aboard the Eden, the most important man had yet to make his mark on the universe, a seargent called Jim Straxious who would some day become the most important man aboard Eden.

The Massive ship left the port and headed a course towards the unknown 'ghoul stars'. The ship moving at maximum speed still had a millenium to reach the edge of known space and beyond to find the perfect planet.
27 months after the mission began the ship was intercepted by an tiny unknown vessel with unknown racial markings. Hailing the alien ship proved useless and the alien ship followed Eden at speed for a week before the alien vessel made contact with Admiral Constratis. The aliens looked unlike any known Xenos they had encountered before and spoke an unknown dialect that had not been heard by any of the transcribers in the command chain.
The aliens seemed desperate to pass a message, the alien, now known as k'sth began to show images of a spacial anomily that he showed layed ahead of Eden and the alien showed drawings of the ship entering the anomily. Admiral Constratis became warey of the unknown alien and decided to ignore the warnings and continued to head towards the goal. After 17 hours the alien ship vanished from scans and Eden was alone again... but heading for disaster.

The anomily was big, so big infact that by the time they picked it up on the scans, it was already too late... the massive pulsing swirling hole drew the ship closer to the center, a cataclysmic event thought to be a black hole, the same studied by scientists for millenia. As the ship got closer to the event it became apparent that this was not infact a black hole, but a wormhole.

Throughout the studies of mankind, the theorys behnd wormholes were created but never proven. Scientists belives entering a wormhole would transport you to another place in the universe. Some belived that you would be sent to a parralel universe, while some pbelived that it was a gateway to time travel itself. The day the Eden travelled through the giant wormhole, all these theories were finally proven.... correct.

The titan class ship spun and shook, everyone on board the ship thought that they had shifted from their universe to the galaxy of chaos. When the ship finally stopped and the wormhole had collapsed, they found themselves in a vast inky blackness with few stars. The kind never seen before. Astropaths desperatly tried to locate their positions, trying to comminicate with others via the warp... nothing happenned, no message could get through... they were somewhere far out of reach from the rest of the imperium, in a area of space unimagined.

Navigators ploted a course towards the nearest star hoping to find a planet within the system, years past and new gererations were born and the old died. Many inhabitants of Eden chose to sleep in stasis for the journey many did not and the circle of life was not kind to the hopeful who thought that the mission would end, or even start within thier lifetime.

After 117 years the ship finally reached the destination star and found many uninhabited planets, many were unsuitable. Lava planets, planets with methane atmosphere and some barren frozen rocks, but the third closest planet from the star a giant dry barren rock, the ideal planet for Eden to terraform.

With no atmosphere, Eden easily landed on the planets surface and began process of changing the world to be an planet breathable by humans. Eden deployed its massive vents that pumped gasses and liquids to try to form the atmosphere, everyone on board knew this was not going to be a fast process. Even on a world with a atmosphere, to make it habitable for humans could take 500 years... first estimates for the planet now known as Eden were in the millenia, perhaps many.


The imperial rebellion.

Every human on board the ship were forced to go into stasis by the novamarines, they knew the impact the thousand year wait would have on the minds of the inhabitants of Eden. It is well known for many crew to lose thier minds on the long journeys between systems, never being aware of day and night and the impact that has on the physical body. Depression and suicide is commonplace for many and is a better way out that partaking in the wars of the imperium where they would likely be killed in action regardless.
The Novamarines knew this and they too went into stasis for the long wait. Only a brave few, with families decided to man the ships services and make sure that everything ran smothly. One of those men was seargent Jim Straxious.

42 years had past and Jim had turned 68, now an old man he thought he discovered the true meaning of life while looking in the records of mankind. Jim became facinated with the stories and files of the 21st century, when mankinds technology grew greater as every year past, only the millenium before , man was a barbaric race of savages, no better than the orks man fears now. Jim learned the importance of culture, and of love.. a scarce emotion to be found by a guardsman on an imperial mission. for many months he read and absorbed all the knowledge of early man, from the vast storage of data in the vaults of mankind.
Jim knew what he must do, he decided to create his own tempory civilisation aboard Eden, while countless humans slept unaware of his utopia. Jim released a hundred humans and a few guardsmen and he told them his plan. The majority thought it could work and was better than sleeping with no actual proof that the terraforming could even work... Jim became master of his world and as the new civilisation abord the ship flourished they released many ohters to help live their lives.

There was one problem Jim didnt take into account, the fact that humans were all different. The humans were all from different planets and all shared different beliefs. Some belived that Jim was going against the emperor and factions were formed. The ships inhabitants became at war with different idealoigies. The factions fought and released new fighters from the stasis fields.
Jim Straxious knew that his project had failed and knew that history would always repeat itself if humans were involved. The last Act of Jim Straxious was to irriversably damage the powersource to the stasis field, releasing everyone aboard the ship.
In the main control room Jim Straxious died from a massive powersurge that disintergrated his body... the only evidence of his memory was a wall, painted with text describing how the imperium had forgot about Eden and how it was mans right to start from a fresh, a new civilisation, lead by democracy for the good of all.
The Novamarines had been relased from the stasis and took control of the ship, the commander of the Novamarines was an open minded man called Gartamis who allowed the inhapitants of the ship to split the ship into 2 halfs, one side beliving it was their right to start again, and the other who belived in the rule of the imperium.
The next 250 years was lived in relative peace, the Nova marines and the imperial zealots and the free thinking league of mankind waiting for the terraforming process to finish. Although not comfortable with the anti imperial faction on the other side of the ship, Gartamis did understand and knew that Eden, the greatest achivement of man had been forgotten and lost forever. Gartamis knew the importance of survival and saw generations of space marines and guardsmen die and knew that he must try to do what Jim had tried to do 250 years in the past. Create a new utopia.
Gartamis was a space marine, he had seen some action in the 37 millenium fighting orks, all Gartamis knew was violence so he created rules based on Jims idealology. Broken rles were punishable by death.
When Gartamis finally died of old age he had suceeded in making the rules for his perfect society, and his rules were adhered and enforced for the further 820 years before the massive fans of edens terraformers finally grinded to a halt and the automatic locks were relased on the vast cargo bay doors of the giant ship.


Eden, geology

the planet Eden is approximatly 300,000 miles around.
the planet does not spin and as it orbits the sun ( called Straxious) half the planet is bathed in scorcing hot rays, Eden has 17 moons that orbit the planey made from white hot rock that reflect rays down onto the planet, because of this the whole of eden has the abiltiy to be lit for 10 hours per 'eden' day the other 14 hours it is dark, the darkness is sporadic and depending on the positioning of the many moons and areas that would be dark one day might stay lit for the next few weeks depending on the location. It is generally assumed that the planet has a dark and a light side although it is not strictly correct.
Eden is a very sandy dusty world that in the heat of the sun can reach temperatures of 150 degrees, any human caught without protection in the light side of eden would die without a doubt, the planet is vast enough though that there is no reason for anyone to venture to the light side anyway.
In the dark side of the planet there is no vegitation native to the world, the eden ship held massive stores of plantlife that seems to be able to survive o the planets surface, and now whole forests and grasslands are able to thrive in soem places.
The dark side of eden has a large mountanous area that contains vast lakes as a natual occurance of the terraforming process, the largest mountinous outcrop seems to be the magnetic north pole and has the best breathable air and coldest climate.
At the foot of the Largest mountain in a permanant shadow cast by the moons the city of Eden, a vast white flat series of domes connectted by giant tunnels. Most of the city was created using the Eden ship, and now there is little of the ship to be found.
The city is shielded by giant mirrors that hide the city under the veil of darkness. The technology is thought to be of TAU origin.

[AshotNINJA]

The Tau

For 1000 years the inhabitants of Eden thought they were alone, after constructing the vast city of eden they continued to grow and create better living quality for every human. Scientists re-invented long forgotten technology and studied the planets core as well as the surrounding planets to find minerals and materials to continue to grow.
On one expedition a group of scientists found a unusual object in the sands. After closer inspection the object seems to be a locater and the scientist activated it without thinking of the consequenses. The beacon pulsed with strange power and blue light lit the room up as magnetic energy surged from the small device. The scientists tried to deactivate the beacon but the damage had already been done and the signal was already sent.
6 years later, and forgotten about the first Tau scout was seen breaching the atmosphere of the darkside, expecting an attack, the leaders of eden formed a defensive force to counteract the possible invading forces.
The EDF was born.
The Tau Scout met with the EDF leaders and the Tau offered the people of the EDF to join the Tau or be destroyed, the Tau explained there ideas and the humans listened before they made their final descision. The leaders of the EDF refused to join the Tau and told then to prepare for war.
Now they had a great civiliation they were not ready to give it all up.

The Tau withdrew and the EDF started to prepare for war. Knowing it took the Tau 6 years to reach Eden, they figured they had at maximum 12 years to prepare thier forces for combat.
Sadly the Tau had forseen the delay, and brought a whole invasion fleet with them.
The attack commenced 5 days later.
The Tau attacked with precision , the kind you would expect from a strong and well equipped military force. The EDF were forced to rethink their stratagy... using tactics developed from 21st century warfare they held on to the city and ran many sucsessful skirmashes against the Tau, gaining momentum and moral with each victory.
The Tau however had much more collateral to throw at the humans and they fought a long and bitter war for the planet.
after 5 years of constant fighting the Tau, realising that the war could take many decades to win, decided to hold peace talks with the humans. They knew the importance of strong veiws and respected the humans will to keep the planets they had spent so many years waiting for. The Tau decided to make a deal with the EDF. They were willing to allow the humans to live here unapposed if they could have a single support base on the planets surface , the site woulod act as a retirement facility for wounded Tau and a place far from their origin to conduct research.
The EDF accepted the terms,the EDF demanded to know where and how they had found them and how the beacon they had found on the planets surface had ended up there.
The Tau wernt suprised they hadent figured it out... the tiny vessel that had warned the impreial ship of the wormhole had been one of their ships that had passed out of it from the future. Knowing the imperial ship was going to head into it and be lost, the tau ship had placed a beacon onto the Eden so it could be followed.
Then Tau didnt take into account of the place the Eden would end up as wormhole travel was entirly random.

The tau also helped the humans understand that it was no longer the 41st millenium. The wormhole had forced them 20 millenia into the future and far from any of the home planets of the humans in the known systems. Also the Tau had said other things when asked how humanity was doing that far into the future . The tau responded reluctantly with a single sentance ' you are the only humans we have encountered in 4 millenia'

The EDF knew they were the last reminants of humanity in the year 62000.. the Tau had learned how to master wormhole technology and offered to teach the EDF as long as the reasons were not to be used against them.
The humans were shown how to open and close wormholes using special ship modules and to travel and drop beacons to travel too... the humans were able to manipulate time and space to travel back points in time.

The EDF knew they had the greatest power in the universe at their hands. And a great desision was made to use this technoglogy to find and recruit individuals from 60000 years of human civilisation and resuce them from mankinds eventual dimise.
Wether it be an unusually powerful psyker or an overly clever ork, they were recruited by the EDF.




The planet of Eden is home to 800 million humans, orks, eldarians, Tau and other unknown alien races all co habiting the same planet under the same ideals.


The EDF is currently making desisions to travel back and help tip the balance for the good of humanity.





The EDF as a fighting force

Taking the ideals of 21st century warfare and the problems they had constructing new weapons for the Tau war, the EDF reworked the basic concept of infantry fighting.
The infantry are split into 3 segments, the Army, the special operations 'darksiders' and the ex- Novamarines now known as the Corps.

the basic weaponary for the standard guardsmen is still the lasgun but a highly modified form, with the ability to mount many forms of tactiacl equipment to suit the guardsmans mission... the darkiders for instance mount holo sights and infrared pointers to use in conjunction with thier special nightvision goggles evry darksider wears.

Other basic waeponary is the same as normal guardsmen, such as laspistols but many EDF prefer the rawness of the autopistol, shotgun and boltgun.

Melee weaponary consist of some old chainsords and pwered melee weapons handed down by officers, usually refabricated and re painted for the new user.

The standard EDF trooper wears a rock coloured digital patterned called the EDFU uniform and armour consists of desert painted flack and bullet resistant body armour covering 80% of the wearers torso. there are several modified versions of the basic armour. Many troops wear the body armour in conjuncion with hydration packs, back packs, chest rigs mounted on the front of the armour system and directly attached pouches to the front of the body armour as well as belt systems for extra pouches such as grenade and medical.

The darksiders wear a dark desert sand uniform with a dark infrared absorbsion modified armour system that is lighter than the normal armour but is slightly weaker in resistance.
they also wear modified helmets to accept a special fitting night vision goggles that each trooper wears whilst working in the night or underground. The darksiders are assumed to be elite but in no way veterans, just skilled troops to fill a vital role the standard troops cant, therefore special operations.

The Nova marines now known as the Corps have modified all their old gear to become a quiet and stealthy force. Gone is the old blue and white armour patterns and now the corps wear a complex camoflauge pattern that covers the whole of the powered armour. The corps have also lightened as much of the armour as they can, removing all insignia of the imperium for which they once served.
It is commonplace to see the corps wearing pouches for spare botgun magasines on their chest plate. Coprs members rarely remove thier helmets and are the only troops able to operate in the lightside of eden.

Vehicles are common place for infantry and it is assumed that every squad will have thier own edicated transport manned and repaired by that squad... modified chimeras are standard troop carring vehicles while the darksiders use wheeled chimera apcs for stealthier insertions.
Fast assult vehiles like the sentinal and warthog buggies are commonplace, as well as hydrogen powercell motorcycles and other small assualt quads.
The corps prefer the standard space marine vehicles as they are strong enought to support the powered armours weight. Modified rhinos are commonplace... sadly all landraideres were lost in the Tau war and no longer appear in the corps vehicle bays.

The EDF have also several Different variations of flying transposrts such as valkryies and vendettas, also heavy bombers and interceptor assault aircraft.

Drones are also a new addition currently being worked on by EDF scientists as well as artificial troopers capable of fighting like humans. Currently flying drone craft are in prototype phase and are being relased into the EDF asap.

[orksorspacemarines]

cool, i like the worm hole part the most, but i wonder if worm holes go threw the warp, or is it more alike to a eldar web way?

[Deleted]

Real nice fluff ashot. I was scouring the blog for this page. I think a book is in order, you've got sooo many named characters and such distinctive style. They remind me of US Rangers...

[macknight]

nice read, you do realize that your EDF is slowly being assimulating into the Tau Empire? Which I'm all for it!

I'm very suprised that there is no chaos insurgents among the 1 mil population over the extended time.. and the shear food, equipment, air, recreation, etc for the 1 mil starting population is astonishing on the Eden ship.

[Deleted]

Sounds to me like a small empire that openly contradicts the Imperium's values. If let's say the Ordo Xenos were to discover Eden I don't think the end result would be other than war.

[egon]

Looks okay. I would say that wormholes are a primitive way of traveling through the Warp and why that alien vessel wasn't shot down the moment it was spotted is beyond me. Except for that, just some minor things that I could nitpick over:

For example, no-one wants to leave Earth. In fact, people travel for decades just because they hope to die on Holy Terra (might be seen as blasphemous to even suggest the opposite;). Also, even if they wanted to leave Holy Terra I doubt the Imperium has the technology to build such a highly advanced vessel. Remember, these are the same people that think it's a good idea to use chainsaws in close combat with battlefungi.

Democracy, as a side note, is also something that I frown upon in the 40K universe. It's just so opposite from anything in the spirit of the game. Of course, if they're being corrupted by the Evil Xenos (the Tau) then that might be a different matter all together.
Records from the 21st century would basically consist of a stained glass window depicting the Emperor from the year 2361 (yes) and a scratched copy of the 'Mmmmbop'-single. Basically, there aren't any.*
There are still many reasons why the Guard would use similar weapons and tactics (they work, they don't have access to las-tech etc). Also remember that the structure of the guard portrayed in the Codex is just a simplification and approximation of the fighting style and organizational structure of the guard. There are hundreds if not thousands of ways the guard fights.

So except for those few things (and Marines in camouflage? HERESY! ) it's pretty cool. I love the f-ed up system with the insane amounts of moons (which would wreak havoc on both the ecology and geology, not to mention tides) but it seems a rather fitting planet for them to end up on.
I also agree with the last two speakers, they are definitely being assimilated int the Tau Empire and if the Ordo Xenos would somehow find them they would be in BIG trouble.


*Just look at what records we have from the last millennia or three. Then add in the factor that most of the information we store today aren't carved into durable stone tablets but rather brittle CDs or hard drives that need a very particular set of machines to even access the info. For example, in the '90s they found a huge pile of floppy discs in a former East German secret police office. A lot of useful information on them, probably. The problem was that when Germany was re-united they had thrown away all the East Bloc computers which meant that they had no way of reading the floppies. Might just be a funny anecdote but it teaches a valuable lesson. Imagine that problem multiplied by 30.000 years. Where are you even going to find a USB port? ;P Just an interesting side note.

[Paimon]

You don't understand the U in USB stands for universal. That means that it will work in every machine. Right?

[krasimirova]

Paimon..

In 40.000 you'd need a ISB port instead..

[AshotNINJA]

im aware of the major holes in my fluff... the major problem is , is that i have imagination, but not the prowess to put it into a story...
i want the EDF to be imagined as a lost portion of humanity, given all the tools to create another earth (insert reason here) and hopelessly lost through space and forgoton and abandonned by the imperium... onece the crew of the eden lands on the only planet they can find in far deep space they terraform it to inhabite it. the original rogue trader book talks about colony ships able to terraform planets... so thats where i got my insiration from...

i like the idea that some kind of ancient human history was found or stored...and that the council od eden are the only people to have it, like the stc aswell... it gives a reason to keep eden hidden and away from the inquisition.

i like the idea that coinsidering the time the humans of eden have been away from the imperium, they have no idea how twisted and devoted the imperial armies have become...the planet of Eden is really far away... far far further than any imperial army or roughr trader ship has ever ventured before... because of this, Eden is relitivly safe from attack and its location and presence is compleatly unknown.

i want a force that looks like humanity kept its christian ideals etc... i want a proffesional well maintained force that has its own intrests in mind, that ia alligned but not ruled by the Tau... that has never had any kind of chaotic infiltration, considering how far from the warp gate it is.

basically i want an alternative race made from all races, that lives in a safe civillised haven far from anyone, where people can live their lives in safety...

[egon]

Jun 8, 2012 17:01:01 GMT -5 AshotNINJA said:

im aware of the major holes in my fluff... the major problem is , is that i have imagination, but not the prowess to put it into a story...

Few of us are professional writers, so no need to feel that you have to write a masterpiece for fluff. Devil knows I haven't.

i want the EDF to be imagined as a lost portion of humanity, given all the tools to create another earth (insert reason here) and hopelessly lost through space and forgoton and abandonned by the imperium... onece the crew of the eden lands on the only planet they can find in far deep space they terraform it to inhabite it. the original rogue trader book talks about colony ships able to terraform planets... so thats where i got my insiration from...

I was commenting more on the size of the thing and the fact that Earth is the shiny beacon of hope for all people in the galaxy. But since size and scale is an abstract in the 40K 'verse many things are possible.

i like the idea that some kind of ancient human history was found or stored...and that the council od eden are the only people to have it, like the stc aswell... it gives a reason to keep eden hidden and away from the inquisition.

It's a cool idea, personally I just don't think it's a plausible one and that it doesn't fit with the whole "grim dark future" of 40K. Again, just my opinion but the 40K world is not supposed to be a nice place.

i like the idea that coinsidering the time the humans of eden have been away from the imperium, they have no idea how twisted and devoted the imperial armies have become...the planet of Eden is really far away... far far further than any imperial army or roughr trader ship has ever ventured before... because of this, Eden is relitivly safe from attack and its location and presence is compleatly unknown.

Well, if they left in M37 they would still be very much indoctrinated in the whole Imperium bit. If you want to "unknown and isolated"-twist, then you could just say that the planet was colonized during the Dark Age of Technology and that they were abandoned and never re-discovered during the Age of Strife.

i want a force that looks like humanity kept its christian ideals etc... i want a proffesional well maintained force that has its own intrests in mind, that ia alligned but not ruled by the Tau... that has never had any kind of chaotic infiltration, considering how far from the warp gate it is.

Chaos can come and get you no matter where you are, since all humans are connected to the Warp. Especially if they have the habit to travel through wormholes. As for the Christianity bit, there would be none left if they started as late as M37. Again, if they left during the DAoT, much more room for individuality (and also an explanation why they have the relatively primitive 21st century weaponry).

basically i want an alternative race made from all races, that lives in a safe civillised haven far from anyone, where people can live their lives in safety...

Which, unfortunately, is not something you would find in the 40K universe ("grim, dark", "only war" etc).
That said, I also find it a bit boring that it's always so polarized. Not every Eldar thinks the same way as all the rest and Guard Commanders aren't so stupid that they can't recognize the value that local alliances can't be useful. As an example, even though Imperial doctrine states that all xenos must be purged, the Imperium seems to have no problem with accepting alien flora and fauna or sub-humans. Thus you could always say that the kroot mercenaries you employ are just really clever animals or that the rhino-headed soldiers are just really ugly sub-humans.
They are of course worthless and not really honorable enough to wear the Emeperor's uniforms but they can at least try to make themselves worthy by dying for the just cause.
Again, someone will probably get in trouble if the Inquisition finds out, that's why you don't tell the Inquisition...

[egon]

Not sure what you mean but a Pyrrhic victory is a victory that isn't really worth the cost, so it's actually not a case of the ends justifying the means...

Radical Inquisitors are always cool, at least until they get burnt, then their smoking hot... B)

[krasimirova]

Jun 8, 2012 17:01:01 GMT -5 AshotNINJA said:

basically i want an alternative race made from all races, that lives in a safe civillised haven far from anyone, where people can live their lives in safety...

Hmm..

Why are you using the STC to make weapons then..? And why are you using other races in the army..? Why do you have a army at all..?

IMO the way you've drawn up the EDF is as a very well equipped and highly trained force.. Living in a "safe civillised haven far from anyone, where people can live their lives in safety" wouldn't make you collect weapons or build a army.. Sure you'd have some kinda PDF, but that would mainly be a "on planet" army, a bit like earth is now with no interstellar presence..

If you wanted to make it more believable then maybe add in a enemy that they have been fighting.. Dark Eldar Raiders come to mind, because they are (dohh) raiders and therefore a planet with a well kept and trained army would be able to defend it self..

If you wanted the army much bigger than "personal/planet defense" you need to write up a bit about why..? Something you actually need to attack..

That is just my thoughts on it..

[Deleted]

I RESURRECT THIS THREAD!!!

Regiment: Eden Defence Force
Type: Planetary Defence Force
Homeworld: Eden
Segmentum: Eastern Fringe - Ultimatum
Class: Civilized World
Status: Excommunicate Traitoris

Eden was an industrial world ruled by a central government (21st century western , democratic values). In 995 M.41 it became apparent that Governor (Insert Name) had established favorable economic relations with the Tau Empire. Under the scrutiny of the Ordo Xenos, an Imperial investigation was authorized and revealed that Eden's government was corrupt with crimes ranging from exchanging military technology with the Tau Empire and harboring none Imperial races (Eldar, Kroot, Tau and other ab-humans).

By early 996 M.41 an Imperial Task Force backed by the Ordo Xenos deployed on Eden to reprimand and remove the planetary government whilst eradicating the clandestine, ab-human populace. The offensive codenamed Operation **** resulted in a major Imperial defeat when the EDF used unconventional technology it had developed from Tau weapon systems to turn the tide of battle.

Eden's current fate is unknown.

[Deleted]

Perhaps the system itself is volatile and wracked with warp storms making additional Imperial incursions difficult and resource consuming or perhaps Abaddon's 13th Black Crusade erupts and forces the Imperium to postpone further offensives against Eden.

I like to keep fluff simple. Keep it simple, keep it safe ;-)