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|quote = '''Gods of the warp strike me down if I ever return to that place. Oh we landed hard and well armed; a score of us—killjacks and pirates every one. We took the cutter down to where the tip-off said the deal was happening… empty, nothing but rotten shacks… nothing! Then that devil fog rolled in and all hell broke loose. I made it out running blind—the screams and the laugher and the awful mocking things all around me! Could have been days, could have been hours, I don’t know… it was the old hag that dragged me out of the fog, and my left eye she took in payment, but at least I was gone from that haunted place!'' — The Heretic “Captain” [[Gadred Bayle]], Interrogation Testimony Vol. 17'''{{Fn|3a2a}}
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|Name=Dusk{{Fn|1b}}|Segmentum=[[Segmentum Obscurus]]{{Fn|1}}|Sector=[[Calixis Sector]]{{Fn|11b}}|Subsector=[[Malfian Sub-Sector]]{{Fn|11b}}|System=[[Dusk System]]|Population=Unknown{{Fn|12a}}|Population=Unknown|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]{{Fn|11b}}|Class=[[Feral World]]{{Fn|11b}}|Tithe Grade=Unknown
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'''Dusk''' is an [[Imperial]] [[Feral World]],{{Fn|1b}} on the very edge of the [[Halo Stars]].{{Fn|2a}} It is seen as accursed{{Fn|1a}} and is known for the extreme hostility of its native creatures. Amongst certain [[Rogue Traders]] and Chartist captains have “A walk on Dusk” become a byword for horrible and painful death.{{Fn|11c}}
==Overview==
Dusk is a place of trackless fens, mist-drenched forests, and moss-shrouded wooded swamps. Theoretically a prime candidate for conversion to mass agriculture, but each attempt (going as far back as the days of [[Angevin’s crusade]]) has met with disaster, suffering and death, making the world’s very name synonymous with ill-omen, sinister mystery and folly.{{Fn|2a}}
Dusk was visited by [[Elana the Unshaken]], an Imperial [[Missionary]] who made it her lifelong goal to bring the word of [[Emperor of Mankind|the Emperor]] to the dark places of the Imperium. It is said that she bore a scar for each world she visited, and that upon Dusk she was savaged by predators whilst travelling in the wilderness.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|2h}}
Dusk send hard-bitten feral warriors to the [[Imperial Guard]] as part of its tithe.{{Fn|2b}}
Confirmed incidents of the [[Psychneuein#Maran_psychneuein|Mara Strain]] [[Psychneuein]] have occurred on Dusk.{{Fn|1f}}
===Native Flora and FaunaKnown Exports===*[[Dusk StalkerRation Grubs]]{{Fn|2}}*[[Glo-Slug of Dusk]] - The glo-slugs can be found in the swamps that cover the world of Dusk. In the water they are quite unremarkable, looking like a giant brown or black slug. Like much of Dusk's native fauna, the slugs are carnivorous and spend their lives searching for dead creatures to slime over and digest. When removed from the water the slug's skin immediately gives off a phosphorous white glow.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|3b}}*[[Nightwing (animal)|Nightwing]] - a predator that produce a potent narcotic dust that they use to subdue their prey, lulling them into a nightmarish stupor, while the haemovoric animal quickly sucks them dry. This substance is harvested from c Captured or slain nightwings are harvested of this substance and then concentrated into a powerful and prohibited drug known as [[night dust]].{{Fn|3c2f}}
==Additional Info{{Fn|1}}=The Dusk Hag===*'''Galactic Position''' — 144269/CS/SW.*'''Contact with other Worlds''' — There are no stable warp routes between Dusk and other planets of the [[Calixis SectorThe Dusk Hag]], though is a local Warp-entity that people can make [[MalfiDark Pact]] s with. The legend say that if you should risk the journey into the deepest, most trackless swamps with hatred and desire burning in your heart, you might come to the black hollow where she dwells. It is said that her price is paid in flesh, sinew and bone, but her curses can strike death and terror worlds away, and all the secrets that men whisper in the nearest major planetnight are hers. Just a legend perhaps, on a world shrouded in countless dark fables, but still petitioners seek her out and some return, maimed and mutilated, but filled with dark purpose.{{Fn|1a}}
==See also==
==Sources==
*1: [[Dark Heresy Core Rulebook]]**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 244**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 288**{{Endn|11c}}: Black Industries' 'Guide to the Calixis Sector' PDF, pg. 22324**{{Endn|21d}}: [[Dark Heresy Core Rulebook]], pg. 347**{{Endn|31e}}: pg. 348**{{Endn|1f}}: pg. 353*2: [[Dark Heresy: The Inquisitor's Handbook]]**{{Endn|3a2a}}: pg. 22 - ''Chapter I - Advanced Character Creation - Unique Worlds of the Calixis Sector''**{{Endn|3b2b}}: pg. 62**{{Endn|2c}}: pg. 103 - ''Chapter III – Feral & Feudal Worlds : Gear''**{{Endn|3c2d}}: pg. 129 - ''Chapter IV – Hive & Forge Worlds : Drugs''**{{Endn|3d2e}}: pg. 210 150**{{Endn|2f}}: pg. 155**{{Endn|2g}}: pg. 190**{{Endn|2h}}: pg. 208 - ''Chapter VIII - Religion & Superstition : The Holy''**{{Endn|2i}}: pg. 226
[[Category:Calixis Sector]]
[[Category:Feral Worlds]]