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====Vesperides III====
{{Infobox 40k Planet
|name= Vesperides III
|bgcolor=black
|fgcolor=white
|image=
|class= Forge/Mining World
|orbdist= 1 AU
|gravity= 1.22 G
|temp= 30C
|pop= 500,000,000
|governor= Council of Artisans
|system= Vesperides
|sector= Wallesem
|subsector= Vesperid
|segmentum= TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI
}}

Vesperides III, outermost sibling to two small rocky bodies tumbling about their parent star. Modestly larger than Terra and significantly younger as well, the planet is hot and tectonically active. There is little flat land and less agriculture, but mineral wealth is there for easy taking, constantly brought to the surface by volcanism and unearthed by landslides. Earthquakes are frequent and tsunamis an annual occurrence, yet humanity has made a niche here nonetheless. 

It took time for Vesperides III to come into its own as an Imperial world, but over time the mines grew and prospered and with them came maintenance workers and technicians. When it became clear that the planet was too active to support large numbers of inhabitants, the Magi began encouraging a different production plan than most Forge Worlds. Rather than produce massive quantity, they brought artisans and brilliant minds from dozens of sectors to Vesperides, promising them raw goods fresh from the mines to work their trades with. Though war and disaster have visited Vesperides III as they have most Imperial planets, it is nevertheless relatively out of the way and maintains a high standard of talent. 

Items bearing the maker's marks of Vesperides III origin command staggeringly high prices on the open market, and custom commissioned pieces sold directly to high ranking Imperials can sell for orders of magnitude beyond that. Planets have changed hands for a rifle built here, and the theft of a single Vesperides targeting scope is known to Imperial archivists as having spawned a feud that lasted for seven thousand years, destroying not one but three Rogue Trader dynasties. It is not uncommon for a Magos to spend a hundred year career on Vesperides yet assemble only a few dozen firearms, or for the construction of a single battleship's logis-engine to occupy the entire lives of a dozen learned minds. But the wonders that trickle from Vesperides III are almost without compare in the Imperium and beyond. Lord-Commanders, Inquisitors, Sector Governors and even the occasional High Lord of Terra vie for decades just to be placed on the waiting list for a single item. 

Though humanity has fallen far since its glory days, it is nevertheless true that with sufficient time, effort, resources and no small amount of brilliant madness, new wonders can be assembled. And it is this philosophy upon which Vesperides III has built a reputation that spans the Imperium itself.