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Map Basic Data Planetary Image
Galaxy map ultimasegmentum.jpg
Small cross.pngLocrus
Name: Locrus Unknown.jpg
Segmentum: Ultima Segmentum
Sector: Unknown
System: Unknown
Population: None
Affiliation: Imperium
Class: Forbidden World
Tithe Grade: None

Locrus is a Forbidden World of the Imperium.[1a]

Locrus lies near the edge of the Warp Storm known as the Perfidian Gap, where the Warp is able to bleed into reality. It was chosen to be colonized by the Imperium long ago, but some substance in Locrus' rocks has driven every colonist insane and each each attempt has ended in madness and death. The Inquisition have since declared it Quarantinus Extremis, and have tasked the Dark Angels Chapter with guarding its borders.[1a]

Such was the seriousness of their charge, that when Grand Master Azrael received a distress call from an Explorator team, excavating ancient colony ruins on the surface, he responded with deadly force. When Azrael's taskforce arrived however, they found no trace of the Explorator team, only finding their abandoned encampment. As the taskforce secured the area, they were suddenly attacked by Daemons who, due to Locrus' location near the Perfidian Gap, were able to breach the Warp in large numbers.[1a] A bloody massacre befell the Dark Angels, with only the Daemons being unable to maintain their grip on reality, and being sent back into the Warp, saving Azrael and the remnants of the taskforce from being wiped out.[1b]

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