Caliban

planet · feral world · Segmentum Obscurus
rank II
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Record by era

This archive tracks four layers. A record present in 4 of them (HH, AoI, M41, IND) is silent in the rest, and says so.

The Horus HeresyM30–M31
imperium
Knightly world; homeworld of the Lion and the I Legion

Old forest from pole to pole, deep enough that the roads between the strongholds were the only thing anyone was sure of. What lived under those trees was bad enough that the whole planet organised itself into knightly orders to hunt it, and the greatest of them, the Order, kept its fortress-monastery on the mountain Aldurukh. The Lion was found in these woods and the I Legion recruited out of them. This is the era in which Caliban is a world — green, forested and whole.

Age of the ImperiumM32–M40
none
Destroyed

Not merely broken. The warp tore open around the planet as it came apart and most of it went through; what is left in real space is wreckage and the orbit it used to keep. One fragment survived with Aldurukh's fortress-monastery still standing on it, and that fragment is now under power and under way as the Rock. The Dark Angels recruit elsewhere and do not discuss any of it.

The 41st Millenniumpre-Rift
none
Destroyed

Still nothing. The Chapter's entire secret history begins at this coordinate.

Era Indomituspost-Rift
none
Destroyed

Still nothing, ten thousand years on. Every piece of Caliban that still exists is moving: the Rock, and — later — the planetoid the ruins were rebuilt into, neither of which is here. The coordinate is kept because the Chapter's whole reason for existing as it does starts at it.

Position

Map frame: 200, 255 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 387 units ≈ 41.2k light years, north-west of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: -5.6 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Caliban System

Books set here

8 titles in the reading tracker touch this record, 3 of them as a primary location. Titles link out to the tracker.

Provenance

Every fact in this record, and where it came from. Editorial derivations say so.