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'''Port Maw''' refers both to the [[Imperium|Imperial]] [[hive world]]{{fn|1e}}, its three large Naval Stations (one of which is the '''Nexus System''' - Fleet Command for [[Battlefleet Gothic]] and the [[Gothic Sector]]'s largest shipyard and repair station), and significant network of orbital stations and installations.{{fn|1e}} Located within what is now the [[Port Maw sub-sectorSubsector]], it is currently the sector capital of the [[Gothic Sector]] of [[Segmentum Obscurus]].{{Fn|2}} During the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]], it served as a major naval installation for what was then the [[Coronid Deeps]].{{Fn|3b}}
An artificial planetoid<sup>[[Port Maw (planet)#Conflicting Sources|[See Conflicting Sources]]]</sup>, Port Maw distantly orbits around a larger and (at least during the [[Great Crusade]]) more habitable planet called '''Æstellica.'''{{Fn|3a}}
