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'''Vigilus''' is an [[Imperial]] world that is a key route through the [[Great Rift]] and, as a result, has become heavily contested by various factions. Currently, [[xenos]] such as [[Orks]], [[Genestealer]]s, and [[Eldar]] as well as the forces of [[Chaos]] have embedded themselves on the planet and it stands on the verge of collapse.{{Fn|4}}
 
'''Vigilus''' is an [[Imperial]] world that is a key route through the [[Great Rift]] and, as a result, has become heavily contested by various factions. Currently, [[xenos]] such as [[Orks]], [[Genestealer]]s, and [[Eldar]] as well as the forces of [[Chaos]] have embedded themselves on the planet and it stands on the verge of collapse.{{Fn|4}}
 
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Revision as of 02:10, 16 December 2018

Vigilus is an Imperial world that is a key route through the Great Rift and, as a result, has become heavily contested by various factions. Currently, xenos such as Orks, Genestealers, and Eldar as well as the forces of Chaos have embedded themselves on the planet and it stands on the verge of collapse.[4]

Map Basic Data Planetary Image
px Name: Vigilus Vigilus.jpg
Segmentum: Segmentum Obscurus
Sector: Unknown
Subsector: Nachmund[8a]
System: Vigilus System[8a]
Population: ~167,000,000,000[8a]
Affiliation: Imperium[8a]
Class: Hive World/War World, Sentinel World[5]
Tithe Grade: Solutio Extremis[8a]

Overview

In the years before the opening of the Cicatrix Maledictum, Vigilus was a vital source of manpower and material for the Imperium’s endless wars. The planet is made up of vast hive cities and colossal forges, broken up by dust-bowl wastelands and fortified reservoirs holding the planet’s scarce supply of potable water.[7]

After the opening of the Great Rift, Vigilus was within the Imperium Nihilus and has become one of the only stable routes from one side of the rift to the other, making it strategically vital.[2] As a result, Vigilus has become a sanctuary for refugees crammed within its Hive-sprawls who wish to traverse the Nachmund Gauntlet. Each such sprawl is protected by psychically charged Bastion-class force fields that render comatose any who would seek to breach their boundaries, enabling the defenders to slaughter them at leisure.

Invasions

Because of its strategic location, Vigilus has fallen victim to a large number of invasions which includes Orks, Genestealer Cults, Dark Eldar, Saim-Hann Eldar, and Chaos.[7]

Canon Conflict

Though on Warhammer-Community site it is said that Genestealer Cult known as the Claw of the Thirsting Wyrm have major uprising on Vigilus and Skitarii fought with them,[2] in the Devoted Sons (Sourcebook), description on the back of cover said that Cult of the Pauper Princes is the main source of Genestealer Cult rising (and Skitarii was their greatest enemy).[3] This can be either a mistake or a fact that there are not one Cult of Genestealers on the Vigilus but many.

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