This archive tracks four layers. A record present in 1 of them (IND) is silent in the rest, and says so.
The Horus HeresyM30–M31
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in The Horus Heresy.
Age of the ImperiumM32–M40
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in Age of the Imperium.
The 41st Millenniumpre-Rift
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in The 41st Millennium.
Era Indomituspost-Rift
contested
Blood Axe world chosen by Ghazghkull for his showdown with the Black Templars
A Blood Axe world, in the Warhammer Community posts' words, that Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka chooses as the site of a titanic showdown with the Black Templars, to the displeasure of some of his own boyz. Humans still live there, in cities of their own (Lexicanum, quoting the novel). No permitted source describes its surface or says where it lies.
Position
Map frame: 931.3, 358.2 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 454 units ≈ 48.3k light years, east of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: -6.1 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Gabal System
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.
settinghigh
www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/ngdxmygg/sunday-preview-black-library-celebration-and-blood-bowl-releases/ Warhammer Community Sunday Preview (8 Mar 2026, ): 'Ghazghkull has set his sights on the Blood Axe world of Gabal for a titanic showdown with the Black Templars'; Saturday pre-orders (14 Mar 2026, https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/mqsbmkuf/saturday-pre-orders-books-and-blood-bowl-are-up-for-grabs/): 'Ghazghkull has chosen the Blood Axe world of Gabal for a titanic showdown with the Black Templars'; reveal (20 Feb 2026, https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/f6qxkgi6/coming-soon-to-black-library-ghazghkull-chem-dogs-and-illustrated-necrons/): 'he chooses a Blood Axe world as the site of a climactic showdown with the Black Templars'. Lexicanum Ork_Quotes and Slavery (read in a browser, 2026-10-05) quote Ghazghkull 'prior to his descent upon the world of Gabal', citing Ghazghkull Thraka: Warlord of Warlords (Novel), Chapter 12. NAME-COLLISION CHECK: no index record uses the id or label; Lexicanum has no Gabal article ('There is currently no text in this page'), and its full-text search finds the name only in those two quotations.
typehigh
'planet': 'the Blood Axe world of Gabal' (Warhammer Community, 8 and 14 Mar 2026) and 'the world of Gabal' (Lexicanum Ork_Quotes, Chapter 12).
classlow
editorial, NOT a citation: 'temperate', this dataset's neutral default for an inhabited world (as for Aurelius, Brimlock and Elisenda), because no permitted source gives a terrain, climate or colour word for Gabal. The one description is that it has human cities for the Orks to burn (Lexicanum Ork_Quotes and Slavery, Chapter 12); 'hive' was refused because no hive is named, 'fortress' because no fortification is described, and 'dead' because the world is inhabited. The cover's fire and rubble are a battle, not a world. Repaint if a permitted source describes it.
segmentumhigh
null, stated rather than guessed: no Lexicanum article, Warhammer Community post or Audible description gives a segmentum, sector, subsector, system or bearing for Gabal.
gposlow
inferred: named in the book's own descriptions and in Lexicanum's Chapter 12 quotation and unplaced anywhere else, with no segmentum, sector, subsector, bearing or theatre published. Unsurveyed rim (rim_xy('gabal'), r = 454.0 of the 470-unit disk, outside every stylised segmentum polygon), no positional information. Z -6.1 is the zPolicy value (compute-z.mjs gabal 931.3 358.2).
systemIdlow
'gabal', named for the world because no system is published. no-system-survey: canon enumerates nothing about the system (no star, no other body, not even a body count) on Lexicanum or Warhammer Community, so no systems/gabal.json is authored; an invented one-star-one-planet file would claim more than the sources do.
eraslow
indomitus only, and the date is the shelf's, not the book's: no permitted source dates the novel. It is filed M42 — Post-Great Rift with the run's other modern Ork novels, after Prophet of the Waaagh! and Grotsnik: Da Mad Dok, because it shows Ghazghkull at the height of 'the greatest Waaagh! to ever assail Humanity' (Warhammer Community, 8 Mar 2026), the Great Waaagh! that Lexicanum Ghazghkull_Mag_Uruk_Thraka carries into the Psychic Awakening. Allegiance 'contested': a Blood Axe world with human cities still standing (Chapter 12) and the Black Templars coming; who holds what is not stated. NEEDS CHECKING against the novel.