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'''Devlan''' is a [[Mining World]] on the [[Eastern Fringe]].{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1b}}
When it ===Tyrannic Wars===Later, Devlan was invaded by the [[tyranid]]s of [[Hive Fleet Kraken]], an . An extensive system of [[Novastormspace station]] space stations s around Devlan held back the [[Tyranid]]s tyranids long enough for rescue freighters carrying millions of citizens to escape. A [[Space Marine Company|company ]] of the [[Lamenters]] [[Chapter]] was present to hold back the attack of [[Tyranid Warrior]]s until the last ship was loaded. The Lamenters found themselves surrounded and were finally overrun.{{Fn|1a}}
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'''Devlan''' is a [[Mining World]] on the [[Eastern Fringe]].{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|1b}} ==History==In some year of the second half of [[M41]] the small , an unidentified [[Tauxenos]] ship vessel entered the [[Devlan System]] and was immideately immediately destroyed by System's defence ships of [[Imperial Navy]][[system defence ship]]s. {{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}} This incident was perceived with astonishment and some degree of apprehension within amongst the officers of the Navy hierachyhierarchy. The appearance of an unknown race capable of moving in interstellar space was a danger to be reckoned with. {{Fn|2}} Therefore, studies were conducted by [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] [[Genetor]]s who, after examining the xenos DNA remaining from the explosion, found that intruders were a [[T'au|a xenosspecies]] discovered by the [[Imperium]] in [[M35]] which ; at that time they were identified as harmless, and which but had somehow developed the capability of reaching other stars in only less than six thousand years were able to reach other stars. This was the first documented contact of humanity with the 'new', developed Tau T'au race.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}}
The [[Red Terror]], a [[Ravener]] with a carapace the colour of blood, caused terror amongst the defenders of Devlan for twenty days.{{Fn|1b}} What became of the creature is unknown, though one ship fleeing from Devlan made an automated landing at [[Adri's Hope]] ominously dark and silent. The ship was investigated by the planet's inhabitants and found to be a blood-drenched abattoir. A Tyranid creature was suspected to have gotten aboard, though nothing was found within the ship. Three weeks later, Adri's Hope itself had also become a blood-soaked ruin. However, it remains unclear whether this beast of Adri's Hope is the Red Terror.{{Fn|1a}}
==Trivia==
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Devlan is one of several [[Warhammer 40,000]] characters and places whose name has been used for a [[Games Workshop]] paint shade, ''[[Devlan Mud]]''.
===Notes===
Page 22 of the [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]] says: 'mining world'''s''' of Devlan' - in plural. This error seems to have its origins in [[Codex: Tyranids (2nd Edition)]] (page 14) from which the text in the later Codex edition seems to have been copied verbatim. But in all other sources Devlan is one and only planet - a mining world and not 'a group of mining worlds'. Supposedly, in the single case of the plural, an error was made by the typesetters or authors of the publication. This assumption is also confirmed by the fact that later on in the same publication Devlan was again used in singular, even in the same sentence of the text: 'Another dedicated merchant captain helped evacuate millions from the mining world'''s''' of Devlan before '''it''' (!) was consumed'. If it were a group of worlds, it would obviously be written as "before '''''they were''' ''consumed"). In addition the corresponding map on page 37 of the 2nd edition Codex: Tyranids also clearly labels Devlan as 'Imperial Mining World', again in singular.
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 37
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Three - The Taros Campaign]], pg. 12
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Tau (3rd Edition)]], pg. 8 — ''Overview of the Tau - Imperial Contact''
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