Colchis
Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Colchis | ||
Segmentum: | Unknown | ||
Sector: | Unknown | ||
Subsector: | Unknown | ||
System: | Unknown | ||
Population: | Unknown | ||
Affiliation: | Imperium | ||
Class: | Destroyed | ||
Tithe Grade: | Unknown |
Colchis was the original homeworld of the Word Bearers. After the Horus Heresy, it was bombed into submission from orbit and because of its unique geological makeup, the entire planet fractured and exploded. The location is a secret guarded by the Inquisition.1
It was originally a technologically advanced world but it regressed to a feudal state, prior to the arrival of Lorgar. Lorgar brought the planet into the Imperium, granting it access to advanced technology and society. Under Lorgar’s brief rule the planet prospered but when the Emperor took Lorgar away, the planet plummeted back to a feudal state. When the Ultramarines returned to Colchis to purge it after the Horus Heresy they found a collapsed world. All of the industries were destroyed and people barely clung on to life. The Inquisition ordered the cleansing by the use of cyclonic torpedoes, disrupting Colchis' delicate geological structure, and thereby triggering a catestrophic explosion that annihilated the planet.1
Sources
- 1:Index Astartes IV - Word Bearers