Naduesh
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Name: | Naduesh | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus[1] | ||
| Sector: | Koronus Expanse[1] | ||
| Subsector: | Heathen Stars[1] | ||
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| Class: | Frontier World[1] | ||
Naduesh is a Frontier World, that is located in the area of the Koronus Expanse known as the Heathen Stars.[1]
Overview
Naduesh is a human-inhabited world of hot, dry plains and enormous, sprawling mega-cities that are now little more than ruins but which speak of an awesome and now lost technological achievement. The mega-cities of Naduesh are maze-like warrens beneath an arching dome supported by huge pillars and walls set with massive bastions. Every part of the whole is set with structures that cling like gargoyles and riddled by vaults and tunnels.[1]
The bulk of the planet's population follows a tribal existence away from the collapsed mega-cities, following herds of herbivores that sustain and clothe them while viciously warring with each other for honour and bloody sport. The people of Naduesh have little understanding of the relics of technology left behind in these ruins, and seem unable to fully rebuild their society. The sounds and structure of the Nadueshi culture indicate a distant root in High Gothic and tie the population and its ruined mega-cities to a now lost age of Mankind.[1]
The most influential of the human population on Naduesh dwells in Maarjir, an immense enclosure of ruins thirty kilometres broad and three kilometres from ground level to the crumbling vaults high above. The interior space of Maarjir gapes empty between its support pillars, and the curved ceiling vaults are set with enormous mosaics. The entire structure is large enough for its own weather systems; the haze of distant wall-bastions broken by white clouds and sudden warm showers. As awe-inspiring as it is, Maarjir is a shadow of its former self: its base structures are ruined, its upper vaults cracking. With each passing year another of the upper vault structures tumbles down.[1]
Naduesh has fallen into status, Naduesh is used as a supply point by many human renegades and outlaws in search of provender beyond the reach of would-be hunters, trading weapons and slaves in return for livestock and fresh recruits from the planet's feral warriors.[1]
The Tech-Priest Explorator teams searching for archeotech in the ruins of Naduesh have unearthed numerous caches of esoteric and unknown devices. Many of the swords, axes, and other melee weapons discovered seemed ordinary until they were brought to the adept-psykers of the Ordo Xenos; studies have realised these were Force Weapons possibly stemming from the Dark Age of Technology, although the possibility of xenos influence isn't entirely ruled out. Although they attempted to keep this valuable find secret, word eventually got out and these highly-valuable commodities are known of throughout the Koronus Expanse. Some raiders will go as far as attacking vessels carrying these weapons simply to steal them. Psyker warriors who possess a Naduesh blade bear the mark of true power in both body and mind, regardless of whether they wield a Naduesh force staff, sword, or axe.[3]
See also
Sources
- 1: Rogue Trader Rulebook, pgs. 338-339
- 2: Rogue Trader: Edge of the Abyss, pg. 30
- 3: Rogue Trader: Into the Storm, pg. 126