Deimos Clock
The Deimos Clock is a large orrery, that belongs to the Grey Knights Chapter and it dates back to the inception of the Imperium.[1]
Description
The orrery makes up the cathedral-like ceiling of the Saturnalium, which is a structure that is a part of the Grey Knights' Fortress Monastery. It flawlessly displays a moving diorama of Saturn and its moons, with a Rhino sized rotating silver orb, representing the Gas Giant at its center. The orb is held in a web of arcane suspension fields, while Saturn's rings are represented by concentric crystal bands less than a nanometre thick. The Gas Giant's moons are the size of bolt shells and they move in orbit around the silver orb, along tracks of frictionless glass wire a hundred yards and more in radius. The moon representing the Grey Knight's Homeworld Titan itself, completes an orbit every three hundred and eighty-two hours. According to the Chapter's legends, the Deimos Clock had been assembled and first set to motion in its current location by the Fabricator General of the Forge Moon Deimos. This was commemorate its removal from Mars' orbit, during the Horus Heresy and for eight and a half thousand years, the orrery has been keeping perfect time. The Justicar Aelos even claims a Grey Knight of sufficient acuity, patience and learning could deduce the exact time and Imperial Calendar year, from the Deimos Clock's relative positions of Saturn and its eighty-two natural satellites alone.[1]
Sources
- 1: Angron: The Red Angel (Novel), Chapter 1
