Departmento Cartographicae map of the Agripinaa System
The Agripinaa System is an Imperial star system and the home solar system of the crucial Forge World of Agripinaa, located in the Agripinaa Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus, close to the Eye of Terror. It is a neighbour of the Belis Corona and Cadian Systems.
As home to a strategically vital Forge World of the Adeptus Mechanicus that long supplied much of the materiel required by the Imperial defenders of the Cadian Gate, the system was repeatedly assaulted by the forces of Chaos. After the Fall of Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade, the Agripinna System came under assault by multiple Chaos Space Marine fleets and warbands, including that of the Nurglite Chaos Lord Typhus of the Death Guard and a Sons of Malice fleet commanded by Agitor Kanath. The system was eventually cleared of all the Chaos invaders, with the final campaign beginning with the Battle of Faith's Anchorage soon after the end of the 13th Black Crusade.
At present, the Agripinaa System is a vital redoubt of the Imperial defenders and Cadian survivors who are still maintaining the Emperor's tenuous grip on the region of space surrounding the remains of Cadia in the Era Indomitus.
Notable Worlds[]
The following worlds are listed in order of their orbital distance from the Agripinaa System's primary, from closest to farthest.
- Yaymar - A molten world whose volatile surface is shrouded by vast arcs of plasma vapour due to its proximity to the system's sun.
- Barant - The world of Barant's orbit is slowly declining with every revolution around the system's star.
- Orax (Mining World) - Orax possesses many large iron deposits.
- Morten's Quay - Morten's Quay is a reserve depot for the Imperial Navy.
- Faith's Anchorage (Ice World/Mining World) - Faith's Anchorage is a frozen moon of Morten's Quay. It maintains a number of Imperial mining facilities that are intended for the recovery of water ice and promethium. During the Battle of Faith's Anchorage one of these facilities served as a bastion for the Cadian Shock Troops who put up a valiant but unsuccessful last stand against an assault by the Sons of Malice Heretic Astartes and their allied Chaos Cultist and cybernetic troops.
- Agripinaa (Forge World) - Agripinaa is a strategically important Forge World of the Adeptus Mechanicus that supplied the Imperial defenders of the Cadian Gate with much of their materiel for millennia before the Fall of Cadia. Known as the "Orb of a Million Scars," virtually the entire surface of this world is covered with industrialised infrastructure, pipelines, factories, mines, refineries, processing plants, and manufactorum cathedrals. Like most other planets in the Agripinaa Sector, this world primarily provides materials for the Cadian front and its industrial heartland is solely engaged in the production of ammunition. Its hive cities are sealed due to the world's highly toxic atmosphere, a result of the extreme industrial pollution. Located near the Eye of Terror and assaulted by the Chaos forces of Abaddon the Despoiler during the 13th Black Crusade, Agripinaa did not weather the attacks of the forces of Chaos well and much of its industrial heartland was laid to waste. It was long protected by the Fortress World of Cadia and its bastion system of well-garrisoned planets. With the Fall of Cadia, however, those days are gone. Since Chaos forces stormed into the sector following the opening of the Great Rift in the Era Indomitus, Agripinaa has been besieged dozens of times. The Forge World and its technological marvels have long been coveted by Warpsmiths of the Traitor Legions, and its surface bears the wounds of untold clashes with Obliterator Cults, Daemon Engines, even the grotesque Chaos Titans. Although the entropic forces of Chaos have always been the enemy of the Imperium, the defenders of Agripinaa reserve a special hatred for the twisted minions of the Dark Gods. Despite having become experts in defensive warfare, the Forge World has only managed to fend off the relentless invasions thanks to a massive expansion in its ranks of Skitarii and Battle Servitors and the heroic aid of its native Titan Legion, the Legio Praesidium Vortex. Most of these reinforcements are recruited from those fleeing the destruction of the Chaos attacks. Cut off by rampant Warp Storms, entire fleets of escape craft often arrive in Agripinaa's orbit. Of course, many choose starvation over the cruel machine fusions of the Cult Mechanicus, but still millions of new troops are being recruited -- fresh legions to stave off the assaults and to join the battles that continue to rage throughout the system.
- Aurent - Aurent was a naval way station.
- Chaeros (New Cadia) (Industrial World) - Chaeros, unofficially called "New Cadia," was an Industrial World that was the seventh planet of the Agripinaa System in the Agripinaa Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus. it provided auxiliary industrial production for the Forge World of Agripinaa that was also located in the system. Chaeros was invaded by Abaddon the Despoiler's forces during the 13th Black Crusade. The remnants of the Imperial Navy's Battlefleet Cadia and the Cadian Shock Troops regiments of the Astra Militarum that escaped the Fall of Cadia under the command of Admiral d'Armitage and General Maximus Octavian Grüber III, respectively, would later arrive in the Agripinaa System and clear it of the Chaos fleets and planetary assault forces following the Battle of Faith's Anchorage. Among them was General Isaia Bendikt of the Astra Militarum. Once the system was cleansed of the presence of the servants of the Ruinous Powers, he declared Chaeros was to be renamed "New Cadia" and serve as a new homeworld for all Cadian survivors. However, it is not known if the Imperium officially accepted his renaming of the world.
- Urath (Death World) - Urath possesses a highly elliptical orbit and serves as a waste planet for all of the industrial waste produced by the manufactoria of Agripinaa.
- Narsine (Hive World) - Narsine's vast population serves as the source of Agripinaa's menial work force.
Sources[]
- Cadia Stands (Novel) by Justin D. Hill, Part 4, Chs. 2-8
- Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), "Eye of Terror Campaign Agripinaa Sector Map" (See Above)
- Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (8th Edition), pg. 161