Tusk
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This article is about the Ork World; for the Tyranid Biomorph, see Tusked. |
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Tusk | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus | ||
| Sector: | Koronus Expanse | ||
| Subsector: | Accursed Demesne[1a] | ||
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| Affiliation: | Ork | ||
| Class: | Ork World[1b] | ||
| Tithe Grade: | N/A | ||
Tusk is a name given by Orks to a world at the heart of Undred-Undred Teef.[1b] There may once have been an indigenous population on what is now Tusk, but it is long dead, any ruins of its existence ground to dust or torn apart to build the heart of an enduring Ork Empire.[2]
Population
Here greenskin ranks are thickest and the battle between them is fiercer than on any other. Powerful Warbosses and Freebooter Kaptins gather here to test their mettle in the greatest fight in the Expanse. With every passing cycle of conflict, the number of bosses grows fewer, and those who remain are more powerful and grow to ever greater size.[1b]
Industry
Tusk is a world of factories and workshops, scaffolds and shipyards unceasing in their labours, producing weapons, vehicles, and starships for the Orks in vast quantities. The industry on Tusk has spread across the planet like a plague of fire and iron, the only remaining open spaces on the world serving only as testing grounds for new inventions and battlefields for restless greenskins (or both).[2]
This industry is not confined to the surface, either. Hundreds of vessels crowd the orbits of Tusk, many of which are being constructed or repaired. Others, such as the massive and derelict space hulk Fist of Gork, sit idle above the world, serving no purpose save being immense steel carcasses for the Orks to plunder, salvaging scrap metal and starship components to use on the ships that will function.[2]
Moon of Slagnaz
Tusk’s only moon, cracked and scarred where the Fist of Gork collided with it shortly after arriving, is no less polluted and metal-strewn as the planet it circles, but for different reasons. Constructed during the time of Warlord Gulgrog, the fortress moon Slagnaz dominates the skies above Tusk. Its spires and towers provide Tusk with an additional collection of planetary defences, mostly weapons salvaged from wrecked starships, and its great hall is resplendent with the trophies of whichever Ork can claim it as his own, plus those of every ruler who has come before. Currently, this is Snaga Morbad, who claims to have been one of Warlord Gulgrog’s Nobz, centuries before. However, Morgaash Kulgraz is rapidly gathering the hordes of Undred-Undred Teef behind him, and Snaga may yet be defeated.[2]
Gathering Waaagh!
Millions of Orks and Gretchin work under the direction of Mekboys, fitting engines and weapons looted from the ships of other races or built in workshops scattered across Undred-Undred Teef. The Orks of Tusk stand on the edge of a great Waaagh! that, if not stopped, will shake the Expanse and the reaches beyond. Greenskins from all over Undred-Undred Teef gather on Tusk in great numbers, feeling the gathering Waaagh!, and all that it waits for is an undisputed boss to emerge from the chaos of Ork fightings.[1b]
See also
Sources
- 1: Rogue Trader Core Rulebook:
- 2: Rogue Trader: Edge of the Abyss, pg. 53
