Tsua'Malor
| Map | Tau Sept Data | Planetary Image | ||
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Name | Velk'Han | 
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| Expansion: | Third | |||
| Location: | Eastern Fringe |
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| Markings: | Unknown | |||
| Armour Colours: | Unknown | |||
Tsua'Malor is a Desert World, the capital world of the Velk'Han Sept, and the headquarters of the Mal'caor Shi in the Jericho Reach.[1]
Once a populous and advanced human world, it was transformed by Earth Caste architects into a shining example of civilisation and enlightenment. Several billion humans live on this world, in the cities cut from the rocky desert by Imperial pilgrim-settlers thousands of years before.[2]
Notable Places
Equatorial City
Few sights in the Jericho Reach are as magnificent as the skyline of Tsua'Malor's vast Equatorial City. Stretching around the Desert world's circumference, it houses millions of Tau settlers and the great edifices of learning and government.[2]
The Mal'caor Shi's ruling council, a small number of Ethereals and ambassadors, gather in the kilometre-high edifice known in the gue'la tongue as the Transcendence. Each caste has its own district in Equatorial City, from the floating tethered platforms of the Air Caste to the bronze-walled fortresses of the Earth Caste.[2]
Beldar
Beldar is home to the Gue'Retha, a research institute and university to which the Tau transport all the brightest and most talented humans to educate them in Tau philosophy and technology. Attached to the Gue'Retha is a place which the Tau decline to name, but which human malcontents call the Lacuna. This underground research facility, it is rumoured, is where the Tau conduct psychological experiments on gue'la prisoners. The results supposedly help the Tau refine their methods of social manipulation, but no one can be sure since any heard to utter such thoughts vanish, quite possibly into the Lacuna itself.[2]
See also
Sources
- 1: Deathwatch: Honour the Chapter, pg. 21
- 2: Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pg. 352
