Oestalan Sector
Planet Listing: Medigeminus System
Current planet list
Medigeminus(Red Giant Star)
Arminia
Molten World
Alconeus
Aqua World/Forge World
Alconeus is a primarily aquatic planet; a worldwide ocean covered with islands, Alconeus is rich in heavy and rare earth metals. This richness was what originally attracted the Mechanicus. However, they found that rather than being bound in traditional mineral deposits, the Heavy Metals of Alconeus are integral to the local ecosystem. Strontium is the basic building block of the organism's bones, rather than Calcium, and nearly every other metal is bound in one living thing or another. Thus, the easiest way to extract these metals is to kill the native life forms, and using the arcane arts of technology, extract the metals from their bodies before consuming them. This act has acquired a major ritual significance among the Mechanicus, for whom it is an act of reclaiming the Omnissiah's divine metals from the unholy life forms which seek to hoard it in their bodies. Alconeus' islands are almost entirely given over to Manufactoriums. Among those who live on the oceans, spending their whole lives touching nothing more solid than a boat or a coral reef, the leading cause of death is heavy metal poisoning.
ADDENDUM; information is out of date as of 662.M41 and must be updated as soon as contact with the planet can be reestablished.
Tenocit
Homeworld of the Blood Jaguars
Arkturi
Double Planet System, both civilized worlds
Stellar Remnant Belt
A belt of dense, incandescent gas circling the star, roughly twenty million kilometers wide and deep.
Planet 5
Lhimeraia
Land of the Space Maori
Planet 7
Planet 8
Asteroid Belt
The Green Traverse-Orkish/Smuggler territory
Planet 9
Planet 10
Planet 11
Cometary Belt
Dark Eldar territory
Ulcisor
Gas Giant, Dark Eldar territory
Mesolethe
Mesolethe is nearly a typical Death World. A band of jungles ring the equator, and frigid ice caps cover the poles down to nearly the edge of the tropics. The sparse area between the tropics and the ice caps is continually ringed by storms driven by temperature differences, giving the planet two circular white belts.
Its namesake and only unique feature is the Mind Widow, a spider roughly the size of a bear, with long, sharp talons and a naturally strong warp presence. Their psychic powers do not manifest like those of a sentient being; they seem to universally have the ability to communicate telepathically. They hunt humans using this method, first by locating the minds of the humans, and then by sharing its thoughts with the human in question. The human mind cannot comprehend the thoughts of such a thoroughly inhuman creature; in suddenly attempting to control eight legs and see with eight eyes, most humans will have a seizure, making them wonderfully easy prey for the Mind Widows.
A small Dark Eldar Kabal, whose Archon was so taken with these spiders as to name the Kabal after them, has recently been ousted from Comorragh for bringing in too many of these spiders(they violate Vect's ban on psykers in Comorragh) and have since created a base for themselves inside a hollowed out asteroid-moon of the planet.
Silence
Airless Dwarf Planet, Necron Tomb World
Factions
The Kabal of the Widow's Bite
Ruled by Archon [placeholder], the Kabal of the Widow's Bite were a relatively minor