Editing Medusa V (section)

==Overview==

Medusa V was first settled in the 37th Millennium as a waystation for ships attempting to run Van Grothe's Rapidity, a Warp Storm on the Eastern Fringes. If entered correctly, the storm could shorten Warp journeys by months or even years, making it invaluable to Rogue Traders, Mechanicus explorators, and others in the region who needed to get places quickly; this earned it the name of "Hell's Slingshot". The man who discovered the storm in question, Carral Van Grothe, was assigned to find a habitable world that could be used as a staging ground for ships attempting to run the storm. Accompanied by an [[Iron Hands]] clan-company and a Mechanicus fleet, Van Grothe found a system with two habitable planets. The Iron Hands took the lead in purging the planets of their xenos inhabitants, and in return the planets were named Medusa IV and V in honor of their homeworld. While Medusa IV was settled by the explorators and quickly grew into a major colony, the Iron Hands were called away before they could finish securing Medusa V, and the Mechanicus and the Imperium decided not to settle anywhere beyond the single continent that was already under their control. Thus, while Medusa IV grew into a populous and productive Hive World, Medusa V remained a small and unremarkable colony, though its shipyards saw a constant stream of traffic from Imperial vessels preparing to run the Rapidity.