Editing Saturn (section)

==History==
During the [[Age of Strife]], the rings and the moons served as the home of an advanced independent polity known as the Saturnyne Ordo, with its military arm being known as the Saturnine Fleet. After this period, the miniature empire based at Saturn encountered the fledgling [[Imperium of Man]], which they saw as a brother empire. A treaty was signed with the [[Emperor]] that merged the two during the years leading to the [[Great Crusade]]. However, portions of the Saturn system were occupied by a rival faction, the so-called Ringers, who fought against and were conquered by the Imperium. Moreover, the Moons of the planet became occupied by cruel Xenos overlords which enslaved their human inhabitants. These moons would not be liberated until the planet fell to the Emperor during the Great Crusade.

During the [[Horus Heresy]] period Saturn and its moons were classified as a quarantine zone under the exclusive control of [[Malcador]] and his agents. Any unregistered ship approaching Saturn was destroyed. These actions were all all part of Malcador's contingency plans for the fight against [[Chaos]], and shortly before the [[Siege of Terra]] Saturn's moon of [[Titan (Moon)|Titan]] was teleported into the [[Webway]] with [[Eldar]] technology in order to safeguard it. During the subsequent [[Solar War]], Saturn was ravaged by the [[Night Lords]] who sent ships from [[Uranus]] full of dead civilians into its moons and habitation stations in order to sow terror and confusion.

By M32, Saturn had become home to the secretive Ordo Malleus and [[Grey Knights]]. The world and its moons were restricted and only a select few were allowed anywhere near its orbit. Unlike the other worlds of the Sol System, it had no orbital colonies and was not heavily developed. Any unidentified vessel nearing Saturn is promptly destroyed by its sophisticated orbital defenses.