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Watch Fortress
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Watch Fortresses are fortresses, command stations, and training facilities utilized by the Deathwatch. These are spread throughout the realm of the Imperium.[1]
A Watch Fortress is a self-sustained facility capable of accommodating many Kill-teams. Equipped with Astropaths, Navigators, fleet docks, training facilities, and even forges, many are also home to captured xenos relics used for study.[3] Many Watch Fortresses also maintain a cache of Xenos and forbidden weaponry known as a Black Vault.[8b]
A Watch Fortress differs from a Watch Station in that while Watch Fortresses are large complexes and relatively rare, Watch Stations are far more numerous and smaller facilities.[3]
Known Watch Fortresses
- Balefortress — Perhaps the last bulwark left that can stop Waaagh! Nakkaslash from capsizing the Thresnia Sector.[6d]
- Castilos Nullifact — Located in Ultima Segmentum.[6b]
- Corvas Vault
- Damaroth — A vast artificial ring around a glowing moon.[4]
- Doombreak — Located on the border between Segmentum Solar and Segmentum Tempestus.[6b]
- Ebon Vale[9]
- Eye of Damocles — Located in Ultima Segmentum. Watches over the Imperium's borders with the T'au Empire.[6a]
- Eye of Octos[6c]
- Fort Ajax[6c]
- Fort Excalibris — Located in Segmentum Obscurus.[6b]
- Fort Nexus — Located in the Ultima Segmentum.[6b]
- Fort Nullifact[6c]
- Fort Obsidus — Located in Segmentum Solar.[6b]
- Fort Omega[6c]
- Fort Prescience
- Fort Pykman — Located in the Ghoul Stars of Ultima Segmentum.[6b]
- Fort Starshield
- Fort Volossia — Deathwatch forces stationed there were overrun by legions of Necron led by Overlord Zhanatar.[6c]
- Furor Shield — Located in Ultima Segmentum and oversees the Ork and Tyranid infested Octarius Sector.[6a]
- Haltmoat — Located in Segmentum Obscurus.[6b]
- Indomitus Point — Located in Ultima Segmentum.[6b]
- Keep Extremis — Located in Segmentum Obscurus.[6b]
- Mortguard — Located in the Ultima Segmentum.[6b][8\]
- Null Breach — Located in Segmentum Solar.[6b]
- Omega
- Onyx Patrol — Mobile fleet that hunts Craftworlds in Segmentum Solar.[6a]
- Praefex Venatoris — Primary Watch Fortress that watches over the Dark Eldar Webway Portals in Segmentum Obscurus.[6a]
- Prescience — Primary Watch Fortress located in Segmentum Tempestus.[6b]
- Ramugan — Close to the Inquisition substation also called Ramugan. Both are located near the Eye of Terror.[5]
- Sentinel IX[7]
- Talasa Prime — Primary Watch Fortress and the Capital of the Deathwatch.[6a]
- Watch Fortress Erioch — Ramilles Class Star-fort that is located in Ultima Segmentum's Jericho Reach.[1]
- Watcher Keep — Primary Watch Fortress located on the border between Segmentum Pacificus and Segmentum Tempestus.[6b]
- Zarabek — Watch Fortress that formerly belonged to the Muhlari Xenos species, before they were destroyed by the Deathwatch.[2]
See also
Sources
- 1: Deathwatch: Rites of Battle, Chapter VI: Watch Fortress Erioch, pgs. 228-249
- 2: The Alien Hunters (Short Story)
- 3: Deathwatch Core Rulebook, pgs. 307-308
- 4: Deathwatch (Novel), Chapter 12, pg. 50
- 5: Warrior Coven (Novel) — Kill Squad: A Deathwatch Omnibus, Chapter 2, pg. 194
- 6: Codex: Deathwatch (7th Edition):
- 7: Deathwatch: Deadhenge (Short Story)
- 8: Codex: Deathwatch (9th Edition):
- 9: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 44