Port Maw



Port Maw is an ancient artificial world that has been turned in one of the great harbours of the Imperial Navy by human ingenuity. Located in ancient times at the very border of the Segmentum Obscurus and the Ultima Segmentum in what was then known as the Manachean Commonwealth, today Port Maw lies within the famed Gothic Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus and even has given its name to an entire subsector. Since its inception during the Great Crusade, Port Maw has always belonged to the Imperial Navy which readily turned it into one of the biggest star-ports of the Imperium, being perhaps only surpassed by the great Segmentum Naval Bases of Bakka, Hydrapur, Kar Duniash and Mars itself. Through its proximity with the Eye of Terror Port Maw has become a vital keystone in the Imperium's defences around the Cadian Gate. As main port of Battlefleet Gothic - itself one of the Bastion Fleets -, Port Maw is nearly perpetually on a war-footing as the need to support its neigbouring sectors and of Agrippina and Belis Corona has become critical. Through its long and glorious history, Port Maw has come under attack several times, most notoriously during the Horus Heresy-era during the infamous Treachery at Port Maw-incident and far more recently during Abaddon the Despoiler 12th Black Crusade, more commonly known as the Gothic War.