Editing The Lathes (section)

===Hadd===

Hadd is the least of the three Forge Worlds, a circumstance which is of its own doing. When it was founded, Hadd was home to the data-vaults that kept all three worlds running, and it was tasked with making ammunition and ordnance for the Angevin Crusade. As the years went by, however, the data-vaults were slowly emptied, decreasing Hadd's importance to the Lathes. Moreover, Hadd's tech-priests somehow came to construe their assigned job as an insult and got increasingly salty and bitter as a result. Many of them petitioned to have these factories moved off-world to make room for more "prestigious" projects. This came to a head with in the sixth century M41, when Archmagos Villem Warik Wahh maneuvered himself into the position of Forge Master by playing on the discontent and anger of the various factions on Hadd. He demanded that the ammunition and ordnance factories be moved off-planet to make room for more important projects, and the rest of Hadd united behind him. The adepts on Het eventually got sick of listening to Wahh's bitching and stripped the planet down to the studs to get him to shut up, leaving the empty data-vaults clustered around the forlorn hull of the fabricator ship. The stage was set for Hadd to find a new path forward, but unfortunately for the planet Wahh had done his work a little too well. None of the competing factions on Hadd could agree on anything, and so anytime anyone suggested a new idea it was immediately shot down, leaving the planet paralyzed and without an identity. Hadd is now known as the Silent Forge; though many smaller forges and workshops still exist, the planet no longer churns and thunders with the industry of a true Forge World. The adepts and magi of Hadd have grown desperate to regain their prominence, and factionalism, petty squabbles, and constant arguments are the order of the day.

Notable locations on Hadd include the Halls of Ignavus, an administrative complex built around the hull of the fabricator ship ''Hadd'', and the Baltean Maze. The latter is the result of necessity. Hadd's surface is in fact an artificial crust of platforms built over the planet's mantle and kept afloat by ancient gravitic generators. The Maze is the network of support structures, power conduits, and energy transfer systems that keeps these platforms from collapsing into the boiling depths of Hadd's mantle. It has been suggested that the Maze conceals ancient infotombs that contain forbidden or faulty data, sealed away to protect the Mechanicus. The truth of this rumor remains unknown, at least until some Dark Heresy GM somewhere decides to build a campaign around it. The planet is also said to be home to "schismaticals", evil data-spirits that can possess any kind of technology and turn it to dark ends. These rumors are viciously stamped out wherever they appear, since the adepts of the Lathes either don't believe in them or don't want to admit they exist.

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