Duat

"Duat is not important enough to garrison or guard with any seriousness. It is a processor of meat. The warriors produced here are nothing more than replacement teeth on Angron's axes. They do not even have names, only numbers, tattooed on their mutilated skulls."

- Endryd Haar

Duat was an unimportant fief-world of the World Eaters Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras. This Ocean World was used as a muster world for the campaigns of the 12th legion. Even though it had no landmasses, only areas where local seaweed had grown thick enough to carry men, it was still inhabited by humans. The local tide-clans of Duat were ideal candidates for the adeptus astartes, for if theese nomads were not fighting the monsters of the depths, they fought one another.

The local presence of the 12th legion was centered around three darkwater-nodes, artificial Islands that floated on beds of vat-grown sargasm. The Primus node housed gene-banks and bio processing and was used for the recruitment and implantation of Astartes. Node Secundus was an armoury and weapon production facility, responsible for the manufacture of ammunitions, weapons and power armour. Node Tertius was filled with refuelling stations and spare parts. These installations were protected by a tetra-pattern planetary grid. Overall command of the Legion presence on Duat fell to Praetor-Apothecary Kalibos. It was here on Duat that Kalibos experimented on gene-seed and was able to reduce the training time for astartes from years to months, however the secrets of those techniques presumably died with him.

During the Horus Heresy, Duat was attacked by a force of presumably Iron Hands, Endryd Haar used a call for aid from Kalibos to raid the facilities under the guise of being a 12th Legion force coming to bolster the defenses of the planet. When true World Eaters arrived in system and engaged the loalist fleet, Haar and his forces made good their escape, leaving the world to it's fate.

What happened to this world after the Horus Heres is currently unknown in imperial records. [[Category:D]]