The Liber Cluster

[Teetengee]

So wouldn't the as yet unnamed sector right next to Arrenthal be the furthest "below" the galactic plane?(as we have 9 subsectors, 8 of which are the splits of the sphere) If so, St. Crispin's World should be at the very far end of that sector rather than Arrenthal.

[Lucernius]

Ok will then move it. Also i created the Far Liber Cluster Map earlier today, calling the old on the Near Liber Cluster.

[TDF]

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The Deep (OUTSIDE ALL SUBSECTORS)

Pallias

Grissum Primus

Jussian Omega

Thravis Prime - EWC

Durtuvar - EWC

Sranav - EWC

Lelith Secundus - EWC

Baluarte - EWC

Heroda IV - EWC

Cenicika - EWC

Tonagish - EWC

Evin Prime - EWC

Zavatista - EWC

Venet - EWC

Barek Zayim - EWC

Nimobia - EWC

Andalus - EWC

Shenac - EWC

Barek Zayim isn't one of the Eighteen Worlds, it's a world close to the Eighteen Worlds.

 

On a side note several Adeptus Astartes chapters and Imperium agencies have a limited licence to harvest the fish bounty of Canis, as long as they provide a patrol of the surrounding region or a service to the Deathwatch. This aspect of the Canis economy was installed in the ancient past in order to support the massive astartes presence in the region as well as to secure a pure and untainted source of food for the sector, jealously guarding it from xenos and pirate fleets. 

 

It is rumored that Canis could easily support the population of several hive worlds with its fish bounty and food goods ranging from kelp to edible and very nutrient coral but it is perhaps due to this that the Inquisition secured the world in the best interest for the Imperium of Man and forged a string of contracts with the more militant Imperial agencies such as the Astartes and the numerous local Rogue Traders, all to keep Canis secured and its nutritive wealth protected. 

 

Currently a small observation station is being carved upon the surface of Pastcanis, the second moon of Canis, and a series of explorative mining ventures were financed by several Adeptus Astartes chapters to tap the Prometheum lines on Postcanis, the first and the biggest moon of Canis. 

I'm not sure about tying the Adeptus Astartes so tightly into a planet's economy. It doesn't seem like a role they'd accept. Do Space Marines even have any money?

[Tenebris]

Actual it is simply a feudal contract, it is not economy, or at least not in the way that we understand it. A chapter needs resources so from time to time their can and will go to Canis and gather a few supplies. In return the chapter offers the only service it usually does, protection, a patrol or maybe some sort of military support.

 

In the case of the Promethium, most astartes ships have variants to refuel and restock on Promethium via temporary draining systems so it is only understandable that here and there a chapter would land on the moon, send its serfs to connect the piping and tap in the resource. Again in return for their usual services.

 

It is a very simple feudal obbligation which comes to play from time to time. 

 

The main interest of both the inquisition and the Administratum is to keep Canis secure, its vast stockpile of edible goods safe from the more predatory xenos or greedy guilds in the imperial sector. The system is meant to act as a hidden stockpile of food for the eventual emergencies. 

[Conn Eremon]

 

Currently Unsorted

 

The Deep (OUTSIDE ALL SUBSECTORS)

Pallias

Grissum Primus

Jussian Omega

Thravis Prime - EWC

Durtuvar - EWC

Sranav - EWC

Lelith Secundus - EWC

Baluarte - EWC

Heroda IV - EWC

Cenicika - EWC

Tonagish - EWC

Evin Prime - EWC

Zavatista - EWC

Venet - EWC

Barek Zayim - EWC

Nimobia - EWC

Andalus - EWC

Shenac - EWC

Barek Zayim isn't one of the Eighteen Worlds, it's a world close to the Eighteen Worlds.

EWC includes any and all worlds involved in the Eighteen Worlds Crusade.

[Olis]

...the ceremonial home of the Administrarch, highest lord of the Liber Cluster and Imperial Regent, whose sprawling expanse is just over 83,000 km². 

 

*Double checks countries by area*

 

Emperor's armpits, brother, the Administrarch lives in a mansion the size of Austria. That's a lot of bathrooms. 

[Conn Eremon]

There was a conversation involving Dosjetka and Kage last week where the scale of US States vs European countries was discussed, which gave me the idea. I had actually originally based it off of Switzerland, then went "Ehhhh . . . Double it." :D

[Tenebris]

Which is the eastern quadrant of the sector? I have to include it in the Canis entry. 

[Olis]

Which is the eastern quadrant of the sector? I have to include it in the Canis entry. 

 

Going by the arbitrary orientation of Lucernius' map, I'd say the most eastern subsector is jointly taken by the Colvin and Arrenthal subs and two unnamed ones residing beneath them.

[Tenebris]

Good to know. Anything else needs to be edited in the article about Canis?

 

My idea was to have a small, unremarkable planet which could act as many things. As a staging point for an astartes fleet, a bastion of the Inquisition, a remote shelter for a beleaguered imperial force or even as a hub where people tend to go to hide, working as lowly fishermen for a season or two.  

[Olis]

My only gripe is the implication that Astartes need to harvest the fish there themselves (or that they go fishing  ). Considering Astartes biology can process all sorts of food normally considered inedible, they have no urgent need for the fish on Canis. The fish would be useful for feeding the garrison, though.

[Tenebris]

Well a bit of clarification is due than. Canis is a remote planet, probably far away from the main ship lines or Warp exit points so it essentially is a meeting point for all those venturing into the dangerous eastern reaches of the sector. The astartes themselves might not be interested in fish but there are many resources there. It could be Promethium, it could be oil, it could be nutrient gruel, it could be a restock for their chapter monastery or even their home world. 

 

As I see it for example a Strike Cruiser appears in orbit. While it gets refueled on moon, landing craft full of chapter serfs go to restock the fleet on Canis. When you are for months, or years or even continuously on long range patrols, with supply nodes far and between, Canis would look to even the most jaded space marine fleet captain a heaven for his hungry crew. Astartes might not be interested in food, or gruel, or oil, but I bet that there is a whole fleet and maybe even a world or to relying on some supplies or goods from Canis. 

 

The thing is that the planet is effectively a station when a modest fleet can resupply and for the likes of the astartes fleets, especially those continuously on patrol, basic goods such as fresh water, Promethium and food from Canis can easily mean that they would be able to operate for months or years more than they usually would be.  

[Conn Eremon]

So I'm imagining that this world is something like an agri-world, though with adequate resources beyond just foodstuffs, where its purpose is less for general consumption but is specific to the resupply of long-range fleets.

[Ace Debonair]

And another planet for good luck!

 

-=-= Molmaga =-=-

 

A jungle world that was converted heavily by Imperial settlers, Molmaga is now best known for housing one of the Liber Cluster's largest prisons.

 

 In the native tongue the prison complex is called 'Matali Mact-Solk'kas' ; literally translated to "The land owned by Death". It's High Gothic it's name is equally foreboding; "The Blood Pit". The Blood Pit extends over 1,400 miles, from the Savayr Valley all the way down to the cliffs of the Gaggan Delta, and extends almost two miles into the ground all the way across it's length. The walls are solid, blood-red stone mined from the lands around the prison. The Blood Pit is home to over sixteen million of the Liber Cluster's most dangerous prisoners, and was notably used after the Eighteen Worlds Crusade to hold more than three hundred thousand prisoners taken from the ranks of the Sereiki Lions' mortal auxiliaries.

 

-=-= =-=-

Any good?

[Conn Eremon]

Sounds awesome. I'll attach it as an EWC world, just to make sure it's part of the same Subsector that ends up getting them. Talking with Tenebris right now, he might be making that Subsector.

[Olis]

It's occurred to me that we may be needing more agri-worlds... 

[Conn Eremon]

Well, remember that there will always be more worlds than we name, just like in the greater Imperium.

 

But yeah, it would be once to make sure there is fair representation of most types, especially common or necessary ones.

 

Edit: Already have an idea on a world that harvests wyrm-meat. :D

[Olis]

Edit: Already have an idea on a world that harvests wyrm-meat.

 

Giant kilometre-long wyrms? (As in worms rather than dragons?*)

 

* I may be inferring the wrong reference here.

[Conn Eremon]

Aside from both having big worms, I don't think I'll be going for a Dune-analog.

[Lucernius]

So a little info about one of my planets:

 

Ashen Abyss -

The planet is truly a death trap, the planet is covered in vast areas of desert sand but still its harboring a multitude of dangerous flora and faunas. In the sand seas great beasts hunt for prey, most of them classifed as mega-fauna and are even dangerous to the Adeptus Astartes. At places the sand is pierces by mountain chains spearing up to the skies, the rock is littered with natural tunnels and caves that pierce down trough the planets crust, deep down into the innards of the planet and through these veins molten sludge flows up and magma pours out into the mountain bases in great lakes hissing and throwing ash in large covering areas. At times the tunnels erupt with ash and lava that is blown high into the skies and at more rarer events erupt  in more catalytic blowouts and whole areas are blown a sunder and forever changing the surface of the planet. Even as the planet tries its best to not let anything living survive some beasts has created a symbiosis with the planet and thrive in this hazardous enviroment.

[Stercus]

Not sure how open to new contributors the cluster is, but here's a thought: there was a mention previously that the area might need more agri-worlds. Now, I'm no planetary formation specialist, but as far as I can deduce, it should be possible for a gas giant planet at the correct distance from the correct type of star, and being the correct size, to possess a region in its atmosphere that is not hostile to conventional life.

 

On that note, I humbly offer Charatys.

 

Charatys, eighth world of the Beta Alumdris system, is a world that was regarded as a marvel by its first human discoverers. Initially, the explorators had investigated the dozens of moons around the great gas-giant as preferred colony sites, until a cursory investigation of the planet itself soon proved invaluable.

Most gas-giant worlds are toxic globes of poisonous vapour, usually at crushing pressure: Charatys through some fluke of stellar formation had coalesced at the precise mass and distance to its star that there existed within its capacious atmosphere a layer that harboured life.

While this layer was less than a kilometre thick, it wrapped the entire world with just that mixture of inert gases, carbon dioxide and water vapour that microbial organisms had evolved.

Adepts of the Biologis estimated that the total biosphere exceeded by thousands of times that of Holy Terra in its most fertile age, and immediate efforts were made to utilise this resource.

 

In the present day, there exist great floating horticutorums that float through the thousand-metre thick plankton clouds, condensing and rendering the greenish-grey sludge that frantically photosynthesises the weak red light of the local star. While not appetising in any way, the nutritional value of this biota is immense. Properly processed it is as nourishing as any product of Imperial industry; although the Liberite regiments of the Militarum would rarely choose "Charat-cake", they are grateful of it during a tough campaign.

Charatys itself raises a number of regiments. It is not an easy life aboard the great harvesting rigs, and certainly offers little in the way of excitement. Even the few creatures that graze on the planktonic blooms are so sedentary and vast that they are are easily avoided, the very concept of carnivorous life seemingly never having evolved in such vegetative plenty. It is said that the regiments of this system will seek out even the toughest and most terrifying engagements with glee, fearing nothing so much as boredom.

 

I'd be honoured to have this small world included in this collective endeavour.

[Olis]

Not sure how open to new contributors the cluster is, 

 

Totally open, brother. Come and play in our sandpit.

 

Just bear in mind that there are no new slots for chapters (unless Conn wants it).

[Teetengee]

Chaos needs agri worlds too:

Centralis (Tempest)
Kakasis: The planet of Kakasis was once a plentiful world found to have a peculiar quick growing herbivorous fauna called kasibes similar to Terran bovines. When they were taken to be grown on other planets they did not grow nearly so quickly. Biologis researchers eventually found out a mineral combination peculiar to the Kakasisian soil was being taken up by the grasses eaten by the Kasibes and causing this rapid growth. More interestingly, the rate of growth seemed to be growing every year. Unfortunately it appeared that the Tempest which always loomed bright in the Kakassisian sky grew larger every year. Try as they might, the researchers could not successfully transplant the kasibes to new locations and the expanding Tempest increasingly threatened the existence of Kakasis with each passing decade. Eventually, Kakasis was abandoned and engulfed by the Tempest.
What happened next was even worse. The kasibes mutated out of control, turning from harmless beasts into ravening and ever expanding piles of flesh. The few colonists that remained preyed for salvation but were consumed almost to the last. Those few who remained were amongst the ranks of heretics who had secretly worshipped the great tear in space that stretched across their skies. They managed to catch a few of the once-kasibes and chain them inside the mountainous caves where they had sought shelter. Unable to find any other source of food, they consumed the flesh of these chained creatures, Whatever interaction had existed before that caused such rapid growth rates was increased a hundred fold. These cultists found that their new food source healed as fast as they could eat it. When the forces of Lord Sero arrived in the cluster, they put such a resource to good use. It is rare indeed for their cultists to go hungry, though mutation is far above average in such ranks.

[Stercus]

That's pretty disturbing. I like it!

 

Not sure how open to new contributors the cluster is,

 

 

Totally open, brother. Come and play in our sandpit. :D

 

Just bear in mind that there are no new slots for chapters (unless Conn wants it).

No new chapters for me... I've enough brain-drain dealing with the DIYs I already have.

[Ace Debonair]

More Agri-Worlds, eh?
 
-= Golcadi =-
 
A small, but highly fertile agri-world, Golcadi is famous for producing sweet vegetables with a thick, resilient, leathery skin. Golcadi's moon, Deltra, has two major factories on it's surface - one dedicated to carefully skinning Golcadian vegetables, and one dedicated to making products from those skins. The higher-quality ones are used to make leather buckets, gloves, or even footwear, whereas the lower-quality ones are mashed and turned into prized fertilizer for export to other Agri-worlds.
 
-= Tristan Humphrey Albrecht Rockderry-Montel VII's World =-
 
More commonly (and simply) referred to as 'Tristan's World', this large agri-world was 'discovered' by the wealthy and hugely egocentric aristocrat Tristan Humphrey Albrecht Rockderry-Montel VII, who hired a crew of intrepid explorers to go and find a planet to be named after him. Though much of the world's surface is given over to farmland, either growing vegetables or keeping livestock, the planet's primary city, Rockderry-Montel-upon-Florent, is home to a large, impressive shrine-mausoleum, dedicated to scrupulous praise of the Emperor and the occasional genteel nod towards the Rockderry-Montel family who still technically own the deeds to the planet.

 

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Feel free to place them wherever they're needed!