Of course, Macabee was transformed into a hideous Necron Pariah to act as the herald of the awakened Necron Lord of Kronus. Surprisingly, Thomas Macabee has been a possessor of the Pariah gene and he was the only member of his team who survived their unexpected awakening of the Necrons of Kronus. The team's excavations of the Necrons ruins had ultimately opened their tombs and accelerated the awakening of the Necrons. Necron ruins had been visible for many Terran years to the world's human colonists and the planet's T'au rulers supported research to learn more about this mysterious culture. The Necrons had awoken when the Thur'Abis Plateau had been excavated by a human archeological team led by Thomas Macabee seeking to understand more about their world's unusually active past. These Necrons had gone into stasis in their subterranean tombs upon Kronus millions of years earlier, after their war with the Old Ones.
He renamed his regiment the 1st Kronus Regiment, nicknaming them "the Liberators" since his soldiers were fighting to free the humans who were living under the rule of the Tau.įarseer Taldeer, leading the forces of Craftworld Ulthwé from battling the Necrons on Lorn V, in turn, had arrived upon Kronus to continue the fight against another recently awakened Necron population, the most ancient foe of her people. The Segmentum Command then gave General Alexander the title of Governor-Militant of Kronus, and tasked him with reconquering the planet for the Imperium from the T'au. The city was renamed Victory Bay by General Alexander, and his Adeptus Mechanicus Tech-priests began excavating the massive Titan's Hellstorm Cannon. His forces landed in the abandoned human city of Ironworks Bay and found traces of ancient Imperial relics scattered across the planet, including the Hellstorm Cannon, a weapon from a Horus Heresy-era Imperator-class Titan, the Aquila Ignis. Kronus was a largely peaceful colony of the T'au Empire, until an Imperial Guard regiment under the leadership of General Lukas Alexander arrived upon the planet, in pursuit of the Aeldari Farseer Taldeer of Ulthwé Craftworld on the orders of Ultima Segmentum Command, due to her actions during the recent war on Lorn V. Approximately 200 standard years before the events in the game Kronus was captured by the Tau Empire from the Imperium, although some resistance by the world's overwhelmingingly human population to xenos rule remained until the events of the Dark Crusade reclaimed the planet for the Imperium of Man, dealing the Tau a costly defeat. The main tomb of the Necron Lord of Kronus was located under the Thur'Abis Plateau. The colonisers of Kronus were also unaware that they had actually settled upon a Necron Tomb World.
It is explicitly stated that it was a battlefield between the Loyalist and Traitor forces during the Horus Heresy and certainly Titans of both sides has fought on the world. Kronus was first colonised by humanity many millennia ago, during the Dark Age of Technology. The surface territories of the planet Kronus The planet bears signs of being an industrially developed planet, as large refining facilities still remain, such as in the Hyperion Peaks, or the very advanced spaceport that exists at Pavonis.
The southeast is a region that transitions in climate from temperate to tropical jungle. Kronus' climate ranges from cold, icy mountains to hot deserts that lie in the northwestern region of the continent. The only visible part of Kronus is a single large continent with several nearby islands. The planet appears to have a varied but temperate climate conducive to human life which was why it was chosen for colonisation in the first place.
The Blood Ravens Space Marines ultimately proved victorious, even following an unexpected conflict with the forces of the Imperial Guard stationed on the world, and returned the planet to the rule of the Imperium of Man. Each army refused to back down, beginning a terrible conflict that would go down into Imperial records as the Dark Crusade. Seven of the most potent military powers in the galaxy clashed over the world, including the Eldar of Craftworld Ulthwé, the Astra Militarum, the Space Marines of the Blood Ravens Chapter, the Orks, the T'au Empire, the Word Bearers Traitor Legion of Chaos and a recently awakened force of Necrons.
Kronus is the Imperial Civilised World over which war is waged in the PC game Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade.