This archive tracks four layers. A record present in 2 of them (M41, IND) is silent in the rest, and says so.
The Horus HeresyM30–M31
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in The Horus Heresy.
Position in this era: [RECORD LOST].
Age of the ImperiumM32–M40
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in Age of the Imperium.
Position in this era: [RECORD LOST].
The 41st Millenniumpre-Rift
none
Space hulk, and what is nesting in it
A hulk the size of a moon, drifting on a course nobody set, with a genestealer brood inside and two Chapters boarding it who disagree about why they are there.
Position: Baal System (Baal, Baal Secundus) Boarded in transit; the Blood Drinkers who lead the assault are a Blood Angels successor, so the hulk is docked against Baal as the only anchor the book supplies Cited in Death of Integrity
Era Indomituspost-Rift
none
[RECORD LOST]
[RECORD LOST]
Nothing survives in the archive for Era Indomitus.
Position in this era: [RECORD LOST].
Position
A mobile record: it carries a position timeline rather than a fixed point. The archive places it in 1 of the four eras (M41); each era section above carries that era's entry.
Books set here
1 title in the reading tracker touches this record, 1 of them as a primary location. Titles link out to the tracker.
Every fact in this record, and where it came from. Editorial derivations say so.
identitymedium
The hulk is the novel's title and its setting. A space hulk is a mobile record by definition — it is a drifting mass of fused wrecks, not a world
positionslow
inferred: no published position exists for the hulk, and a hulk's defining property is that it arrives somewhere unannounced. The dock is editorial and carries no information