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'''Simia Orichalcae''' is an [[Ice World]] of the [[Imperium]], uninhabited except for [[Promethium]] processing plants scattered across the planet to refine deep underground veins of rare ice into usable promethium.{{Fn|1}}
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'''Simia Orichalcae''' is an [[Ice World]] of the [[Imperium]], uninhabited except for [[Promethium]] processing plants scattered across the planet to refine deep underground veins of rare ice into usable promethium.{{Fn|1}}
==Etymology==
The origins of the planet's name remains unknown. After some research, the most plausible theory that [[Inquisitor]] [[Amberley Vail]] could produce was that, it refers to a statue or effigy in a past epoch, but the importance of commemorating the genus ''Simia'' remains unknown.{{Fn|1a}}
Inquisitor Vail later launched an investigation and, much to everybody's relief, found no evidence of any further Necron activity; although she privately admitted that she was none too keen to be the first to start digging holes to find out for sure.{{Fn|1i}}
== Trivia ==''Simia Orichalcae'' is Latin for "Brass Monkey". The expression [[Wikipedia:Brass monkey (colloquialism)|"cold enough to freeze the [blank] off a brass monkey"]] is a common colloquialism in [[M2]]. ==Related Articles==*[[Planets (List)]]
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Caves of Ice (Novel)]] — [[Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium]] (Omnibus) by [[Sandy Mitchell]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: Chapter 1, pg. 295, fn. 1
**{{Endn|1b}}: Chapter 1, pgs. 295–298
**{{Endn|1h}}: Chapter 16, pgs. 474–478
**{{Endn|1h}}: Chapter 16, pg. 478, fn. 1
[[Category:Ciaphas Cain (Novel Series)]]
[[Category:Ice Worlds]]
[[Category:Necron Tomb Worlds]]
[[Category:Segmentum Unknown]]
