Vespid (Planet)
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This article is about the planet. For other uses of Vespid, see Vespid (disambiguation). |
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Name: | Vespid | 
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| Segmentum: | Ultima Segmentum | ||
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| Affiliation: | T'au Empire | ||
| Class: | Gas giant | ||
Vespid is the homeworld of the vespid species. It is part of the T'au Empire. Vespid is located three light years from the Sept world of D'yanoi.[1]
Vespid is a gas giant with dark violet-hued skies, filled with continuous and violent storms.[1]
Overview
Most of Vespid is uninhabitable. However, the stormy stratosphere provides a thin layer that can sustain life. In the upper layers float islands of rock. These islands float due to the lighter gases trapped within them. These islands tend to be cone-shaped with flat tops, the lighter gases collecting at the top and valuable crystal formations (the basis of vespid technology) toward the bottom (which only the larger female vespid have the constitution to reach and harvest). The vespid tunnel out these islands to form their living spaces. Some vespid, however, live lower or higher in the atmosphere.[1]
At the time of contact with the T'au Empire, Vespid was home to over 300 individual city-nations formed around satellite rocks.[2]
See also
Sources
- 1: Deathwatch: Mark of the Xenos, pg. 26
- 2: Codex: Tau Empire (4th Edition), pg. 16
