Agusia
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Name: | Agusia | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus[1] | ||
| Sector: | Koronus Expanse[2] | ||
| Subsector: | Heathen Stars[2] | ||
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| Class: | Cemetery World[1] | ||
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Agusia is a Cemetery World located in the Heathen Stars area of the Koronus Expanse[2], which became the site of the largest naval battle fought in the Expanse's recent history.[1]
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Overview
Agusia is a Cemetery World that circles a dim red star. A lost human civilization transported their dead to Agusia for millennia, and in doing so turned it into a necropolis world. The vast ruin-deserts and spire-mountains of Agusia remain desolate, eroded, or half-buried by wind-driven dust, empty of all but the remains of a long-distant past. Every part of Agusia's surface is buried beneath strata of crumbling edifices and seas of dust eroded from the ancient stonework. Every chamber is a sepulchre of great antiquity, every space a mausoleum. The decaying upper tomb-spires and kilometres of compacted ruins beneath contain the material echoes of a trillion souls.[2]
Agusia remains almost untouched by explorers with the sole exception being a small expedition of Disciples of Thule sect of the Adeptus Mechanicus, who has penetrated into the catacombs beneath the icy deserts of the northern polar zone. So far the Thuleans have investigated only a small fraction of the world, and vast amounts remain hidden and undisturbed. Yet what the Tech-Priests have discovered is both wondrous and puzzling: ornate sloping tomb-fanes, huge dormant prayer-mechanisms of a dozen varieties, mausoleums efficiently filled by stacked biers, impassable walls of black-green metal set with intricate silvered magnetic runes, and hololithic displays of abstract art somehow still active after millennia. What wonders or terrors lurk in the unexplored portions of the world remain to be revealed.[2]
History
The Battle of Agusia began in 742.M41, when the Amerat Union Heretek Jagerdamen, led its Pirates and their allies, the Corsairs of the Cabal of the Bloody Libation, to Agusia. He did so in hopes of discovering an artefact of unholy power on the world, but the Pirates were betrayed by one of their own. The traitor revealed this information to Rogue Traders and a united fleet of more than a dozen Houses ambushed the Union and the Cabal. Both sides took heavy losses, but the Rogue Traders were eventually victorious. By the battle's end, the Union was destroyed and the Cabal's Corsairs scattered to the void.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: Rogue Trader: Epoch Koronus, pg. 9 - The Battle of Agusia
- 2: Rogue Trader Rulebook, pgs. 338-339
