Quaddis
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Quaddis | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus[1][2] | ||
| Sector: | Calixis Sector[1][2] | ||
| Subsector: | Golgenna Reach[1][2] | ||
| System: | Quaddis System | ||
| Population: | Unknown/Variable (residents estimated to less than 5 million)[4] | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium[1][2] | ||
| Class: | Paradise World[1][2] | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Colonial Exemption[4] | ||
Quaddis is a planet in the Calixis Sector famous for its wines where the Imperium's wealthiest have built large pleasure palaces.[1]
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Climate, Geography and Biosphere
Has abundant flora, ideal life sustaining conditions, few hazardous life forms other than those introduced from off-world. Has an extensive tropical equatorial region, with wild, uncultivated temperate zones and saline seas covering the majority of the landmass. Polar regions are ice-bound.[4] The rare plant Lavandulum Quaddis is native to Quaddis and blooms in purple.[3]
History
As the Angevin Crusade swept through the Calixis Sector, Quaddis was discovered by a small expeditionary fleet under the command of Faustino Haarlock, second son of the Haarlock line. He designated the world as a newly founded open colony, dividing it into independent development fiefdoms and giving it the name Quaddis in reference to an ancient Terran force of judgement. Quaddis was graded as possessing great potential but Haarlock planned for the system of fief ownership to never lapse and create exceptions to the usual run of Imperial law.[4]
With Faustino's young nephew Gabriel appointed as first planetary regent, the very wealthy and noble houses divvied-up Quaddis. Dubious but legal, the Imperium could break the mock pre-colony status of Quaddis if it chose, but the great and powerful already had their own fiefs on Quaddis before it was ever considered.[4]
The Great City of Xicarph
Xicarph is the planet’s legal capitol, sole major settlement and home to its lone spaceport. Contains few trappings of government, industry or production. Instead, it is a guarded playground and meeting place for the obscenely wealthy and those whose dealings and power stretch across the worlds of the Calixis Sector. Xicarph is a marked contrast to many other Imperial cities with predominantly white stone, marble, gold and adamantine architecture.[4]
Running for kilometres beneath the city’s surface, sunk like roots into the rock below, is a maze of passageways, storage chambers, service ducts, geo-thermal reactors called the “Red Cages”. Contains a network of slaughterhouses, cage-complexes, and containment pens in which savage creatures are kept to fuel the blood sport arenas (and worse) in the city above.[4]
See Also
Sources
- 1: Black Industries' Calixis Sector (saved archive page, dated 17 February 2008, last accessed 9 July 2024)
- 2: Archive - Fantasy Flight Games The Calixis Sector (saved archive page, dated 28 October 2012, last accessed 9 July 2024)
- 3: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)
- 4: Dark Heresy: Tattered Fates, pgs. 6-9
