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{{Planets
|Map=Galaxy map Calixis Sector.jpg
|Planetary Image=UnknownQuaddis.jpg|Planetary Image Px=png
|Name={{PAGENAME}}
|Segmentum=[[Segmentum Obscurus]]
|Sector=[[Calixis Sector]]
|Subsector=[[Golgenna Reach]]
|System=UnknownQuaddis System|Population=Unknown/Variable (resident population estimated to be fewer than 5 million).
|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]
|Class=[[Paradise World]]
|Tithe Grade=UnknownColonial Exemption (planet not developed to point of tithing)
}}
'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is in the [[Calixis Sector]] and is famous for its wines. The wealthiest have built large [[pleasure palaces]].
Considered by some that have heard of it to be little more than a myth, '''Quaddis''' is a strange world, and one unique in the Calixis Sector both in political structure and history. Quaddis is not a planet eaten up by agriculture or vast and hungry factories, but rather it is bound to the whims and caprices of the elite of many other worlds and is carved up into their private kingdoms. Quaddis is a world isolated and
protected, a false paradise of captured wonders and of long buried secrets.
Having only one city, the remainder of this pleasant and temperate world is given over to vast estates known as fiefs. Each fief is used for whatever diversion the owners wish, from cultivating rare vintages to hunting exotic creatures. A fief is the absolute realm of its owners, and within it, they are subject only to their own laws and the lore of the Throne, though “what the Emperor does not know,” they claim, “will not hurt him.”
Quaddis’ star system is also unusual in two ways. The first way is the strange and erratic orbits of its many small planets, which lead in turn to many strange and unpredictable tidal forces and cosmological phenomena (of which the “Grand Conjunction” is the best known). The second way is that the system is almost alone in its volume of space, far from any other inhabited systems, unattended by trade routes, and not
appearing on many star charts.
The wines produced by Quaddis' viniculture are valued above all others and almost preternaturally potent. Many hive nobles and guilders pay huge sums for them and, in some cases, plot, murder and steal to attain them; seeing them both a mark of ultimate opulence and good taste. Three such wines have been detailed: the first, the Sorrowful Vintage, is widely regarded as a pale imitation of the real thing (but still highly desirable), the second, the Golden Tokay, is perhaps the most accessible “true” Quaddis wine, while the last, the Kataline Malmsey, is the stuff dreams are made off—hugely valuable and, legend holds, capable
of killing an over-indulgent drinker with pure pleasure.
*'''Population:''' Unknown/Variable (resident population estimated to be fewer than 5 million).
*'''Tithe Grade:''' Colonial Exemption (planet not developed to point of tithing)
*'''Climate/Geography/Biosphere:''' Abundant flora, ideal life sustaining conditions, few hazardous life forms other than those introduced from off-world. Extensive tropical equatorial region, with wild, uncultivated temperate zones and saline seas covering the majority of the landmass. Ice-bound Polar Regions. The only major settlement is in the northern polar region (Xicarph—colonial centre of governance).
*'''Governmental Type:''' Colonial administration—Central Authority Indefinitely Suspended
*'''Planetary Governor:''' None (Last Colonial Governor Regent—Thaddeus Haarlock circa 457-690. M41)
*'''Adept Presence:''' Minor [[Adeptus Administratum]] and [[Adeptus Ministorum]] presence. Note that due to its unique history, Quaddis is adjudged not to be fully part of the [[Imperium]] of Man nor subject to the full weight of its law.
*'''Military:''' None except private vassals of the fief owners
*'''Trade/Economy:''' None; Quaddis has no industry, has nothing to trade, and has no basis for any economy other than the intrinsic wealth of its masters.
==Sources==
*[http://app.fantasyflightgames.com/dark-heresy/calixis.shtml Fantasy Flight Games ''The Calixis Sector'']
*Tattered Fates
*The Inquisitor's Handbook
[[Category:Segmentum Obscurus]]
[[Category:Paradise Worlds]]
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