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Rivers cut across the coral, turgid and milky and swarming with vermin save when something worse than them slips into the water.{{Fn|4}} Snaking its way across Dolorosa is the great '''Qalaqexi River''', fed by a tangle of inland tributaries at the heart of the continent.{{Fn|1g}} This, the darkest, dense-ist, and most dangerous land on the planet, is called '''Sector 0-31''' by the T’au and the '''Dolorosa Coil''' by the Imperium.{{Fn|2}} Entering the tainted Coil may trap or corrupt the trespasser or even shunt them to another realm, a process known colloquially as “slipping.”{{Fn|4}}
Phaedra is home to a variety of fauna, like the aquatic [[Mirewyrm|mirewyrm]] and the poisonous [[Skrab|skrab]].{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1f}} The planet is also a breeding ground for invasive diseases and fungal pathogens, including [[Foot rot|foot rot]], [[Gutrot|gutrot]], [[Mire fever|mire fever]], [[Swamp burn|swamp burn]], [[Greyscale rash|greyscale rash]], and [[Splinterskin|splinterskin]].{{Fn|1j}} Humans, T’au, [[Kroot]] of various breeds, and [[Tyranid|Tyranids]] have all been infected by various local diseases.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1j}}{{Fn|1k}}{{Fn|2}} One of the rarest- and most extreme- of these found on Phaedra is [[Fungal leprosy|fungal leprosy]]. Only one in a thousand humans have the correct blood type to foster its growth, but once such a person is infested there is no cure.{{Fn|1d}} Natural disasters , like spore tsunamis, silt quakes, and hurricanes , are not unheard of.{{Fn|3}}
During the final years of the planet’s failed second pacification a [[Warp Rift|Warp anomaly]] nicknamed '''the Ghostblight''' appeared above Phaedra’s troposphere.{{Fn|3}} At first invisible except to [[Psyker|psy-sensitives]] and advanced instrumentation, projections estimated it was feeding off of the planet’s corruption (or vice versa) and would rapidly growing into a Category Gamma [[Warp Storm]].{{Fn|3}}
===Planetary Sentience===
Some deployed to Phaedra, humans and t’au alike, insist that the planet itself is [[List of sentient species|sentient]]. Enough merit was found in the claim for the [[Ecclesiarchy]] to investigate, quickly focusing on the mega-coral islands. Though they confirmed that the corals do pulse and breathe the official finding was that they are only minor xenos, akin to mindless animals, and no sapience was present. Despite this, many firmly reject those findings and it remains common to refer to “Lady Phaedra”, “She”, and “Her”.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|1j}}{{Fn|2}}
==History==
