Verghast
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Name: | Verghast | ||
Segmentum: | Segmentum Pacificus[1a] | ||
Sector: | Sabbat Worlds[1a] | ||
Subsector: | Newfound Trailing Group[Needs Citation] | ||
System: | Verghast System[3] | ||
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Affiliation: | Imperium | ||
Class: | Hive World, Industrial World[1a] | ||
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Verghast is a Hive World located in the Sabbat Worlds.[1a]
Contents
History
Roughly ninety years before the Siege of Vervunhive, two of the major hive cities of Verghast, Vervunhive and Ferrozoica, fought against each other in a conflict known as the Trade War. Vervunhive emerged victorious in the war, earning much glory.[1b]
Sabbat Worlds Crusade
After the Imperial victory at Balhaut, the Chaos warlord Asphodel escaped the Imperial forces and eventually arrived on Verghast, where he corrupted the hive city of Ferrozoica and attacked the neighbouring hives of Vannick and Vervunhive.[1d] Vannick was destroyed by atomic weapons, while Vervunhive was subjected to a protracted siege.[1c] A relief force from the Imperial Guard joined Vervunhive's defenders and managed to barely repel the Chaos attack, though the city itself was destroyed.[1g] Asphodel was killed in a commando raid led by Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt.[1f]
After the war, Vervunhive was denied Imperial relief, and its population dispersed into other hive cities, some of which were newly founded.[1g] In the later years of the Crusade, however, a modest Imperial contribution was allowing Vervunhive to gradually reconstruct.[2]
Geography
Notable Locations
- Ferrozoica — Hive ruled by House Clatch. Fell to Chaos during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.[1b]
- Vannick Hive — Hive. Destroyed by a nuclear device by Ferrozoica.[1c]
- Vervunhive — Major hive.[1b] Destroyed over the course of an invasion by the corrupted Ferrozoica.[1g]
Flora and Fauna
Other Planetary Information
Verghast has at least three moons, two of which are cream-coloured while another is red and smaller than the other two.[1d]
See also
Sources
- 1: Necropolis (Novel) — The Founding (Omnibus)
- 2: A Good Man (Short Story)
- 3: Armaduke (Short Story)