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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 its significant support network of orbital stations and installations.{{fn|1e}} Located within what is now the [[Port Maw Subsector]], 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 [[Manachean Commonwealth]] of 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}}
===The Great Crusade===
*{{Main|Coronid Deeps}}
[[Image:CoronidDeeps.png|thumb|center|200px|Port Maw as a part of the [[Manachean Commonwealth]] in [[Coronid Deeps]]]]
An artificial planetoid, port maw was discovered by the '''60th Expeditionary Fleet''' in a region of space then known as the [[Coronid Deeps]]. Observing the 500 kilometer wide aperture in the planets surface, giving it the appearance of a vast fanged mouth, the members of the fleet would give it its eponymous name: '''Port Maw.'''
