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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is a small [[ImperiumImperial]] [[Forge World]] that is rich in valuable metals and is located close to the [[Gilead System]]'s sun.{{Fn|1}} ==Description==It is tidally locked in it's orbit around [[Convenire]]. It is also the closest planet to that star, making the sun side of the world uninhabitable without heavy shielding from solar radiation.The dark side of the planet is a wasteland scarred with strip-mines, but containing great numbers of xenofauna.Though there is a relatively temperate equatorial zone, most human activity takes place underground in massive, heavily polluted caverns filled with cities, factories, and rivers of magma. These rivers fuel the world's forges, which belt out smog and acid rain as well as industry. Combined, the rivers and manufactorums make it uncomfortably hot for habitation, but still not to the level of the sun side of the surface. This is largely because of [[Dark Age of Technology]] relics known as the [[Eternal Engines]]. These impressive machines, located on the planet surface, provide ventilation, as well as power, to every underground forge city, but such is the pollution that these settlements produce, that it is almost considered taboo to be seen in public without a rebreather, such has it become the norm among permanent residents.{{Fn|2a}} As the main manufactorum for the entire Gilead System, Avachrus is a vital resource for it's survival. The forges create practically all technology in the system that is more complex than a [[lasgun]].{{Fn|2b}} Avachrus has two moons - roughly equal-sized rocks named [[Odo]] and [[Uru]].{{Fn|2c}} ==History==The Archdominus of [[Explorator Fleet Tsuruoka]] quickly made the decision to colonize Avachrus once the Gilead System was rediscovered in 92.[[M32]], despite the harsh climate and dangerous xenofauna to be found there. The Explorator fleet's records of this initial colonization effort have been heavily redacted, which means most of the motivations for doing so and results of trying are lost to history. So too have the records regarding it's moons, which additionally have had their surfaces ruined by thousands of years of uninterrupted resource extraction and industry (particularly Uru), thereby ruining any chance at successful archeological studies.A century or so after the [[Mechanicus]] rediscovered the system, their forces in Gilead (then known as Halcyon) signalled the Imperium that it had been infested by the forces of [[Chaos|The Enemy]] and a [[Gilead Crusade|crusade]] was raised to cleanse the system's worlds of taint.Some time after the Gilead System had been freed from Chaos, one of the Eternal Engines failed, effectively killing the city of Illiarch. A new sect of [[Tech-Priest]]s arose, calling themselves the [[Suspire]], whose lives are entirely dedicated to the maintenance of the remaining Eternal Engines. Despite their efforts, the Engines have become less and less efficient over the millennia.{{Fn|2c}} ==Culture==Toil is life on Avachrus - it is considered a religious act as much as tithing to the Emperor is. Logical, unemotional thinking is encouraged in all from birth, as is religious zeal. Everyone on Avachrus is part of the machine, and to make sure the machine is working is not only good and necessary, it is an act of devotion. Fabricator General [[Belaxia]] rules Avachrus, but her reign is far from absolute. The Suspire, by ancient tradition, are not beholden to the orders of the Fabricator General, and can demand resources for the maintenance of the Eternal Engines from the local Administratum independently of the entirety of the rest of the planet. While most citizens of Avachrus are ignorant of the fact, the Tech-priesthood of Avachrus is incredibly divided. Mostly, the source of that division are the lines that determine what is a cogitatior, and what is abominable intelligence (this particular argument has cost around a million lives in internal conflict alone); what is the pursuit of knowledge, and what is tech-heresy. The Fabricator General herself is perpetuating one of these conflicts, having allied herself with the [[Varonius Flotilla]] in an attempt to find the freedom to research [[Eldar|Aeldari]] weaponry without provoking a rebellion from the puritanical sects within the priesthood.