Purge of Hokji Prime

The Purge of Hokji Prime was a notorious Imperial excoriation campaign carried out by the Storm Angels Space Marine Chapter against the rebellious populace of the world of Hokji Prime, which had long failed to pay the appropriate tithe to the Administratum. Destroying an Administratum retribution fleet that attempted to collect the world's errant tithes, the Storm Angels received word of the slaughter enacted against the servants of the Imperium, they unleashed their inherent wrath against the rebellious populace.

Background
Hokji Prime was a world at the extreme limit of the Astronomican, so far into the Ghoul Stars that the rule of the Imperium was more myth than reality. Still, the inhabitants were supposed to pay tithes to ensure the survival of Mankind. But when legates from the Administratum finally graced the main hub of a very populated system. The rulers of the hive cities had the Imperial officials beheaded, stating that after six hundreds and forty eight years without any contact, they considered their oaths of loyalty to the Imperium null and void. The Administratum fleet was destroyed but a lone cry for help reached Ionnacaira, the Chapter Homeworld of the Storm Angels Chapter.

The Storm Angels mobilized in full and in mere weeks, their entire fleet entered the Hokji System, only to be met with fire by the ramshackle forces of the rebels. Incensed beyond reason, the Astartes tore through the pathetic orbital defenses of Hokji Prime and unleashed their unbridled fury on those traitors. No mercy, no compassion, was allowed, for those peoples had had the luxury of standing aloof from the Imperium's needs for centuries and still refused to grant what was needed for the survival of Mankind.

During two whole years, the Storm Angels slaughtered almost the entire population of Hokji, over fourteen billion people died at their hands, in blood-soaked corridors, underhives or even the radioactive plains. When millions of civilians fled the surface of the planet aboard their ramshackle transports in a futile attempt to flee the wrath of the Angels of Death, they were mercilessly gunned down by the Chapter fleet. The Lost Captain of this campaign earned a dark renown for bringing a tally of fourteen-thousand, three hundreds and twelve confirmed kills alone, before succumbing to exhaustion, after having slaughtered his way into a whole hive city for over two months without respite or rest.

When the Storm Angels finally departed Hokji Prime, the whole world had been turned into a slaughterhouse, filled with corpses, riddled with diseases and the tales of cannibalistic Angels, bringing with them the Emperor's own fury. Not even the Administratum disputed the methods of the Storm Angels, considering that the rest of the Hokji System paid in full their tithes and agreed to compensate those of Hokji Prime for the foreseeable future.