Medusa

planet · death 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
Homeworld of Ferrus Manus and the X Legion

A tectonic wreck of a world where continents move fast enough to kill, organised into clans that judge a person by what they have replaced. Ferrus Manus was found on it and the Legion never stopped being Medusan.

Age of the ImperiumM32–M40
imperium
Iron Hands homeworld

Clan-companies more than a Chapter, each keeping its own fleet and its own grudge.

The 41st Millenniumpre-Rift
imperium
Iron Hands homeworld

Still shifting, still lethal, still producing recruits who regard their own flesh as the weakest part of the equipment.

Era Indomituspost-Rift
imperium
Iron Hands homeworld

Close enough to the Eye that the Rift's opening was felt as weather.

Position

Map frame: 146, 262 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 427 units ≈ 45.4k light years, north-west of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: -10.7 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Sthenelus System

Books set here

2 titles in the reading tracker touch this record, 1 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.