Mercury
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Name: | Mercury | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Solar[1] | ||
| Sector: | Sector Solar[1] | ||
| Subsector: | Subsector Sol[1] | ||
| System: | Sol System[1] | ||
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| Affiliation: | Imperium[1] | ||
| Class: | Mining World[1] | ||
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Mercury is an Imperial Mining World that lies near Terra in the Sol System.[1]
History
During the Dark Age of Technology Mercury's city of Cytheron used force field generators to hold back the rays of Sol itself. This technology was later utilized by the Dark Angels in the form of the Cytheron Pattern Aegis.[4]
During the Horus Heresy, shoal facilities operated in Mercury's orbit despite its conditions. Alpha Legion infiltrators also worked with anti-Imperial scavenger clans in the area during the Solar War.[2] Shortly before the Siege of Terra the Sisters of Silence purged Psykers from Mercury in a bloody pogrom.[3]
Some time after the Great Rift appeared, preparations for an uprising by a Genestealer Cult were discovered on the planet's Decima-Caldus orbital platform. A combined Talon of Custodians and Silent Sisters struck fast and drove the punishing blade through the cult - right to the Patriarch, killing it outright.[5]
See also
Sources
- 1: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), pg. 29 — Sol System
- 2: Praetorian of Dorn (Novel), Part 3, Chapter 1
- 3: The Buried Dagger (Novel), Chapter 2
- 4: The Horus Heresy Book Nine - Crusade, pg. 165
- 5: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (10th Edition), pg. 46 — Showcase, 1
