Brakatoa System
The Brakatoa System is a star system of the Imperium.[1]
History
The Brakatoa system was first colonised in the early stages of Mankind’s Dark Age of Technology. Though distant from Terra, a ‘drift channel’ in the Warp allowed for easy travel to the region. The star system was ideal, for it grouped a dozen inhabitable planets within a compact orbit. During the ever-growing Warp storms that ushered in the Age of Strife, all contact was lost with the Brakatoa System. It was not until thousands of years later, late in the Age of Forging, that the storms cleared sufficiently so that Explorator Fleets could once more push into that region, now defined as the galactic south of Segmentum Tempestus. What the Imperium found was that a few of the planets still had Human populations: the outermost planet Rhoghon with its twin moons, as well as Raamdhon, Drogsh and Rynn's End.[1]
Yet as close as these planets were to each other they had lost touch with all outside worlds. During the long millennia Terra, the birthplace of Humanity, had become but rumour and legend. All three planets had regressed and were ruled by feudal warlords – brutal, but fair men, who fought bravely to fight off Orks and other xenos raiders. Anxious to reclaim the mineral-rich Brakatoa system, the Imperium sent out vast colonisation expeditions. The outermost planet, Rhoghon, was a shield world – so called because its orbit protected the rest of the inhabitable worlds. It was on Rhoghon that the newly founded Crimson Sabres built their stronghold – the iron fortress known as Decavitum, or ‘ten victories’ in the native language. Built into the side of a mountain, its ten towers soared even higher than the snow-capped peak. Upon Rhoghon’s moons the Crimson Sabres established a pair of naval bases, including the orbital docks required for their sizeable fleet.[1]
However, disaster soon struck the System. It is believed by the Ordo Malleus that the Brakatoa eruption began with the emergence of the supercluster space hulk codenamed The Misery. Its long-awaited appearance in realspace was the sign for cultists to rise up across the system. In the ensuing Daemonic incursions ushered in by the Cultists, the System was devastated and Rhoghon destroyed. Three more worlds were seething with corruption – there was little choice to the Imperium but to condemn them to Exterminatus. In the wake of this purge, a plague scoured Rynn's End; of the once thriving system, only Raamdhon and Drogsh remained.[1]
Worlds
- Rynn's End - Hive World
- Raamdhon
- Drogsh
- Rhoghon - Former homeworld of the Crimson Sabres
Sources
- 1: Crimson Slaughter - A Codex: Chaos Space Marines Supplement (6th Edition) - Fall of the Crimson Sabres
