Opal

planet · shrine world · Segmentum Solar
rank III
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Record by era

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
imperium
Imperial shrine world, a Genestealer Cult beneath its festival

A gleaming Shrine World of saints and soldiers, beloved of the Emperor, on the closest outskirts of Segmentum Solar: a ringed world of shrines and light whose capital keeps the skull of Saint Veres, the martyr who cast down a traitor ecclesiarch in the Age of Apostasy, and brings it out for a festival held every 800 years. When Sister Superior Augusta Santorus of the Order of the Bloody Rose comes to take the skull into safekeeping, political danger bubbles under the surface, rebels harry the impoverished outskirts of its hives, and a Genestealer Cult has its claws under the planet's skin, the herald of a Hive Fleet.

Position

Map frame: 330, 605 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 200 units ≈ 21.3k light years, south-west of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: -4.8 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Opal System

Books set here

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Provenance

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