Oort Cloud
The Oort Cloud, also known as the Opik-Oort Cloud,[3] is a resource rich region of the Sol System[5], which contains dwarf planets, orphaned moons[2] and long-period comets.[3]
History
The Oort Cloud only receives weak light from Sol's sun and was once home to Xenos creatures[2], until the region was cleansed by the First Legion, during the early days of the Great Crusade[1]. This occurred while the First's brother Space Marine Legions were still being formed and the creatures they slew were never named or categorized by the Imperium.[2]
During the Horus Heresy, Rogal Dorn heavily fortified the Oort Cloud by deploying a massive forge-station dubbed the Arca Silentus which endlessly produced automated attack satellites. However this was corrupted by a Scrap Code emitter by Lukas Chrom on Mars, forcing a Custodes boarding party to destroy the station.[4] During Siege of Terra, parts of the Oort Cloud were enveloped by the massive Warp energy that began to spread across the Sol System, as the conflict neared its end.[3]
Ten millennia later, the Imperium harvested the Oort Cloud for its raw ores, gases and water in order to support the initial launch of the Indomitus Crusade's fleets.[5]
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Nine, pgs. 81-100
- 2: The Lion: Son of the Forest (Novel), Chapter 4
- 3: The End and the Death: Volume III (Novel), Chapter 1
- 4: Campaigns of the Age of Darkness: The Martian Civil War, pg. 64
- 5: Avenging Son (Novel), Chapter 18
External links
- Oort Cloud on Wikipedia
