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Revision as of 06:39, 14 August 2018

Vigilus is an Imperial world.

Map Basic Data Planetary Image
px Name: Vigilus Vigilus.jpg
Segmentum: Ultima Segmentum
Sector: Unknown
Subsector: Unknown
System: Unknown
Population: Unknown
Affiliation: Imperium
Class: Hive World
Tithe Grade: Unknown

Overview

Vigilus is located within the Imperium Nihilus and is one of the only stable routes from one side of the Great 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. These force fields proved so effective that even when an Ork Waaagh! smashed into Vigilus, the greenskins were unable to assail the hivesprawls beyond, so took to seeking entertainment elsewhere by engaging in violent races across the sweeping open plains that separate the vast hivesprawls. However, since the Great Rift tore across the galaxy, these Bastion-class force fields began to experience glitches, and eventually collapsed entirely to leave the hivesprawls open to attack. To make matters worse, the tide of Orks that poured past the inactive force field networks also had other, unforeseen consequences.[2]

A Genestealer Cult known as the Claw of the Thirsting Wyrm has been thriving on Vigilus, having taken root in the depths below the reservoirs known as the Greigan Hollow. The Ork attack directly forced the Cult's hand, creating a bloody uprising. Though Skitarii forces were able to contain the uprising, they were unable to find and eliminate the Cult's source. This eventually led to a Space Wolves strike team under Haldor Icepelt to arrive at Vigilus after being thrown off course while chasing Chaos forces rampaging across the Stygius Sector. Upon arrival, the Space Wolves vessel Fins of Fimnir forced a passage through the flotilla of Ork spacecraft orbiting Vigilus and Strike Force Icepelt made planetfall. Using their gene-boosted tracking abilities, the Space Wolves were able to track down the source of the Cult. When Icepelt led his warriors into the ruined cityscape of Greigan Hollow that the full extent of the Genestealer Cults menace was revealed and the true battle for the survival of Vigilus began.[2]

In addition to the Genestealer and Ork threats, Vigulus has become a target for the Kabal of the Black Heart, who have annihilated whole flotillas of escape craft, before spiriting their captured Human cargo back to Commorragh.[1]

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