Belecane
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Name: | Belecane[1a][2]/Belacane[3][4] | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus | ||
| Sector: | Calixis Sector[1a] | ||
| Subsector: | Markayn Marches[4] | ||
| System: | Belecane System[4] | ||
| Population: | 2,700,000,000[4] | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium[4] | ||
| Class: | Forge World,[1a] Hive World[4] | ||
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Belecane[1a][2] also known as Belacane[3][4] is considered to be one of the more conventional Forge Worlds of the Calixis Sector. It is also an ancient and formerly highly influential Hive World, however the Techmage Lords of Belecane have, in recent centuries, lost much of their influence within the Adeptus Mechanicus.[4]
Unique ancient and barely understood technology of stasis weapons is considered commonplace amongst its population, to the point when young adepts know more about it than the most senior Tech-Priest can elsewhere[1a], although their prime in this specialisation is now considered to have waned and now the planet's magi are seemingly dedicated to only hoarding its technologies and jealously guarding its sacred wisdom.[4] The planet is also long well associated with the construction of protective barriers, void shields and Gellar fields.[2] The planet holds also a service of storing items in its stasis vaults for anyone willing to save them from the trepidations of time.[3]
Planetary Data
- Years and Days: Belecane takes 408 Terran days to orbit its star and spins on its axis once every 30 Terran hours[4]
- Gravity: 1.2G[4]
- Mean Surface Temperature: -40°C[4]
- Satellites: No natural moons, but the planet maintains a vast starship repair complex in low orbit, together with a series of defensive weapons platforms.[4]
- Equatorial Circumference: 18,000 Miles[4]
- Principal Exports: Belecane once was a fabulously wealthy forge world which produced virtually the entire Imperial stock of stasis fields, stasis projectors and stasis grenades.[4] Amongs its signatures exports were Belecane-pattern Stasis Grenades, and Belecane-pattern Stasis Mines.[1b] However, the supply of these items has dried up over the past 500 years, and many whispers that Belecane now lacks the means to produce them.[4] The planet is now long well associated with the construction of protective barriers, void shields and Gellar fields. An infamous product of the Belecane Forge World is Belecane-pattern 90.r Gellar Field, that although offering enhanced warp-handling capabilities, is prone to short bursts of flickering failures.[2] It also produces large numbers of weapons, with a particular emphasis on large scale defence lasers for the Imperial Navy.[4]
- Principal Imports: Foodstuffs and some rare minerals.[4]
- Contact with other worlds: Belecane is in the Markayn Marches and is relatively close to such planets as Karrik and Prol IX.[4]
- Planetary Governer: Archmagos Daedus has ruled Belacane from his vitae-tank for over three centuries. A genius of the first order, he is said to have the most encyclopaedic knowledge of stasis systems in the Imperium, and is rumoured to have been consulted in centuries past by the tech-adepts who maintain the Golden Throne and the Shrine of the Primarch on Macragge. He has not been seen in public for over thirty years, but continues to issue decrees and manufacture quota demands via the planet's machine-spirit network, and is said to be in daily communication with the highest figures in the order.[4]
See also
Sources
- 1: Dark Heresy: The Lathe Worlds, The Lost Dataslate:
- 2: Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus, pg. 32
- 3: Rogue Trader: Core Rulebook, pg. 324
- 4: Black Industries' Calixis Sector: Belacane (saved archive page, dated 6 June 2008, last accessed 9 July 2024)
