Calth
From Lexicanum
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name: | Calth | 
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| Segmentum: | Ultima Segmentum | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| Subsector: | Ultramar | ||
| System: | Unknown | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium | ||
| Class: | Civilized World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Unknown | ||
Calth is part of Ultramar, the Ultramarines Empire, and one of its most productive worlds. It is an airless world, and its surface is uninhabitable due to the deadly light of its blue sun. Calth's population lives in massive underground cavern-cities. The planet is known for its orbital shipyards, which provides many of the crafts used by the Ultramarines, as well as civil and military craft for wider use in the Imperium. The planet is also the birth place of the exiled Ultramarine Uriel Ventris
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History
During the Horus Heresy, Calth was used by Roboute Guilliman as a staging point for his supposed assault on the Veridan System. Horus had ordered the Ultramarines there to divert them from the Siege of Terra. It was there that they were attacked by a force of the Word Bearers legion.
Calth has escaped attacks by both Hive Fleet Behemoth and Kraken.
Hive Fleet Behemoth
Behemoth's invasion of Calth was spearheaded by Old One Eye, an unique Carnifex with the ability to heal from mortal wounds. Its rampage was finally stopped when a forgotten hero of the Imperium fired a Plasma Pistol through its eye and into its brain. Decades after Behemoth had been driven from Calth, a band of smugglers stumbled across Old One Eye's body frozen intact in the ice-packs of Calth. They thawed it out hoping to get a bounty for the corpse, but Old One Eye's grievous wounds instantly began to heal. It soon awoke and slaughtered the smugglers. A series of Tyranid raids followed. Land conveys were destroyed, hab-domes smashed and entire populations massacred. Lesser Tyranid creatures such as Termagants and Genestealers, also left behind from Behemoth's invasion, were drawn to Old One Eye's presence as a dominant leader. The people of Calth cried out for aid, and they were answered by Scout Sergeant Telion of the Ultramarines. Telion tracked down Old One Eye, but found it difficult to pierce its armoured flanks. As Telion's warriors were cut to pieces by the beast, Telion made a one-in-a-million shot that hit its ruined eye-socket. Old One Eye was overcome with pain and stumbled into a cavernous ravine. Telion led a search for the body, but Old One Eye was never found. There have since been several reports of Carnifexes matching its description causing havok across Ultramar and beyond.1
Locations
- Persephone Gate2
