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.
Age of the ImperiumM32–M40
[RECORD LOST]
No record for this location in Age of the Imperium.
The 41st Millenniumpre-Rift
imperium
Hive world taken back the Iron Hands' way
A Chaos-held hive world and a reconquest fought with no interest whatsoever in what it cost the people living in it. That indifference is the novel's actual subject.
Era Indomituspost-Rift
imperium
[RECORD LOST]
[RECORD LOST]
Nothing survives in the archive for Era Indomitus.
Position
Map frame: 66.9, 602.4 in the archive's 0–1000 disk space (core at 500, 500).
Distance from the core: 445 units ≈ 47.4k light years, west of the galactic core.
Height above the disk plane: 0.1 units — invented thin-disk jitter, deterministic per record. No published source gives any location a z coordinate.
System: Shardenus 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.
classhigh
wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Shardenus infobox Class = Hive World; Subsector = Contqual Subsector; the Segmentum, Sector and System fields are empty
gposlow
inferred: a subsector is named and {LEX}Contqual_Subsector places it against nothing — no segmentum, no sector, no neighbour. A subsector name with no parent is an address, not a position. No segmentum is claimed; unsurveyed rim. UPGRADE CANDIDATE: one sourced statement about where Contqual sits would place this world properly