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|Affiliation=[[Ork]] / former [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]
|Class=[[Mining World]] / former [[Xenos World]]
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In recent times, Porphyry has been home to an extensive [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] mission, sent from the [[Lathes]] to extract the world’s mineral wealth. Hundreds of mines litter the mountains and valleys of this splendid world. Shafts cut deep beneath the crust, where men and [[servitor]]s toil like ants in their warrens, and massive strip mines hundreds of kilometres across are tended by titanic, slowly moving digging machines that can draw up millions of tonnes of rock and stone as easily as a man would heft a [[lasgun]]. For years, this mining operation provided much needed raw materials to the forges on the far away Lathes, and thousands of miners worked rotating assignments, carefully organised by Explorator administrators and watched over by the keen eyes of the [[Skitarii]].{{Fn|1}}
===Waaagh! Grimtoof===
Elements of [[Waaagh! Grimtoof]] descended unannounced upon the unsuspecting mining outposts, slaughtering all who stood in their way. The battle for Porphyry was fierce and bloody, with no quarter given or received on either side. Miners took up tools, improvised weapons, and stood shoulder to shoulder with the heavily augmented Skitarii.{{Fn|1}}
In orbit, the few Explorator cruisers fought a valiant, but ultimately futile battle with the Ork voidships. Many thousands were wiped out in an instant, and overhead, the small Mechanicus fleet was routed, each ship either completely destroyed or captured and taken by [[Ork]] boarders. Greenskins swarmed through the mines and their accompanying foundries, constructed to process the raw ores. Workers who surrendered or were caught unawares and subdued were gathered up and herded into ersatz holding pens, while those who took up arms and resisted were killed without hesitation. Unlike other raids throughout the sector, the men and women enslaved on Porphyry were not packed up and shipped offworld to the main bulk of the Waaagh!, but were rather put back to work, mining and refining to feed the ravenous Ork war effort.{{Fn|1}}
Since the Ork invasion and subsequent occupation, Porphyry has had little contact with the galaxy at large. Nothing is known about the enslaved humans, and no members of the Adeptus Mechanicus mission are known to have escaped.{{Fn|1}}
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