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Crucible (Eastern Fringe)

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Map Basic Data Planetary Image
px Name: Crucible CruciblePlanet.jpg
Segmentum: Ultima Segmentum (Eastern Fringe)
Sector: Thramas Sector[1b]
Subsector: Unknown
System: Gharn System
Population: Unknown
Affiliation: Imperium (Adeptus Mechanicus)
Class: Research Station
Tithe Grade: Unknown

Crucible is a world of the Eastern Fringe.[1a]

History

The eighth planet of the Gharn System, Crucible is along the border between the Thramas and Triplex Sectors. The region is known as a place ships can't enter, it is often referred to as the Thramas Exclusion Zone, Crucible Field, or Graveyard of Stars. This is thanks to more than a dozen black holes all clustered within only a few dozen light years whose gravitational effect disrupts even Warp travel. It is the Exclusion Zone that forces all merchant and military traffic to travel via the slower stable warp channels that lead to the Hive World of Sheol III, creating a strategic bottleneck in warp travel to and from the lower regions of the Eastern Fringe and bringing great wealth to Sheol III. Despite the Exclusion Zone the Mechanicum from Triplex was able to establish a Research Station on Crucible under the control of the Ketriox Taghmata.[1b]

During the Horus Heresy it changed hands several times as the Night Lords and Dark Angels battled in the Thramas Crusade. During the campaign the Ketriox Taghmata turned against the Imperium.[1a]

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