This archive tracks four layers. A record present in 1 of them (M41) 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
contested
War zone on the galaxy's fringe, fought over by the Deathwatch
A system on the fringes of the galaxy where, in Ian St. Martin's Legends of the Dark Millennium: Deathwatch, a resurgent threat collides with a bitter foe and annihilation comes, poised to spread across the Imperium; Watch Captain Artemis leads the Deathwatch into battle there against untold billions. Canon names no star, no world and no body count here, and says nothing about what the system looks like.
Era Indomituspost-Rift
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in Era Indomitus.
Position
Map frame: 238.2, 136.5 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 448 units ≈ 47.7k light years, north-west of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: 8.8 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Kurbynola 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.
identityhigh
wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legends_of_the_Dark_Millennium:_Deathwatch_(Novel Legends of the Dark Millennium: Deathwatch (Novel), Ian St. Martin, Black Library, August 2016: the Black Library cover description quoted on ) (read directly in a browser on 2026-10-03): 'When a resurging threat collides with a bitter foe on the fringes of the galaxy, annihilation comes to the Kurbynola System, poised to spread into the entirety of the Emperor's domain'. NAME-COLLISION CHECK: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Kurbynola_System has no article text, and Lexicanum's full-text search for Kurbynola returns only the novel page (2026-10-03); no index record uses the id, label or alias.
typehigh
A system with no named world is not a type this index carries (planet, moon, station, ship: warhammer-3d-map/docs/SCHEMA.md), so the record stands for the system as a whole, the charchera / khorsari-reach-worlds compromise. The label says 'System' so it does not claim a planet called Kurbynola exists.
segmentumhigh
null: no permitted source gives a segmentum, sector or neighbour for the Kurbynola System; the cover description says only 'on the fringes of the galaxy'. The novel's prologue concerns Kryptman's plan for the Ork empire of Octarius in Ultima Segmentum (Lexicanum Haryk_Thunderfang, Lavestus), but nothing says Kurbynola lies in or near the Octarius Sector, so no segmentum is inferred from it.
gposlow
inferred: the system is NAMED but canon never locates it, so the record claims no segmentum and sits on the unsurveyed rim at the generator's rim_xy('kurbynola') = [238.2, 136.5] (the function in warhammer-3d-map/app/tools/build_locations.py evaluated on its own, which reproduces pallevon [308.5, 908.7] and charchera [936.8, 514.1]; the script itself was not run). A rim position happens to suit 'the fringes of the galaxy', but it carries no information and must not be read as a bearing. Z 8.8 is the zPolicy value (compute-z.mjs kurbynola 238.2 136.5). UPGRADE CANDIDATE.
classlow
'temperate' as a neutral default: no permitted source describes a world, terrain, city or climate in the system (the cover description names only the system and the war). Neither 'dead' nor 'death' is painted on it: 'annihilation comes' is the threat the book turns on, not a description of what the system looks like. As for charchera and pallevon.
erasmedium
m41 only, the era the shelf files the novel in: Kryptman's Tyranid-Ork plan belongs to the Third Tyrannic War against Hive Fleet Leviathan (989 or 999.M41, Lexicanum Octarius_War), and Haryk Thunderfang later defends Cadia in the Thirteenth Black Crusade (Lexicanum Haryk_Thunderfang, citing chapter 2), so the book is late M41, before the Great Rift. Allegiance 'contested': the cover description makes the system a battlefield between the Deathwatch and 'untold billions'; who holds it is not on file, and the outcome is kept out (the book's SPOILERS entry).
systemIdmedium
editorial: 'kurbynola', the system's own name.
no-system-surveyhigh
NO systems/kurbynola.json is authored although this is the book's PRIMARY setting, by the Step 5b rule for a setting canon enumerates nothing about: no permitted source names its star, a world, a moon or a body count (Lexicanum's novel page and the eleven Lexicanum pages that cite the novel, all read 2026-10-03, name none). The map synthesises the system from this record. Reopen when a permitted source names a body.