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Valdez Oil Platforms
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The Valdez Oil Platforms were a set of offshore oil-rigs found in the southern ocean of the planet Armageddon. All three of the platforms were attacked and destroyed by the orks in the Third War for Armageddon, resulting in thousands of Imperial casualties.[1]
Platforms
Trivia
The name Valdez is possibly a reference to the city of Valdez in Alaska, an area famous for oil production. More specifically, it could reference the Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker which set off from Valdez that infamously ran aground and created a massive environmental incident in 1989.
Sources
- 1: Helsreach (Novel) - Armageddon (Anthology), Chapter XIII
- 2: Third War for Armageddon website: Netheria Peninsula (archived page, last accessed via Wayback Machine 30th December 2020)