Arkhona

Arkhona
Type	Fortress World
Gravity	Unknown
Temperature / Climate	Unknown
Population	Billions (Formerly) / None (Currently)
Planetary Governor	Tarqel Roschin
System	Kharon System
Sub-sector	Atreyan Sub-sector
Sector	Scyllan Sector
Segmentum	Segmentum Obscurus

Arkhona is a Fortress World of the Kharon System, located in the galactic northern marches of the Segmentum Obscurus, in the dead centre of a void of star systems right on the edge of Imperial settled space. Kharon is a trinary star system, consisting of three suns locked in orbit with one another. The fifth planet of the system, Arkhona, is a former Imperial Fortess World first settled tens of thousands of years ago before the birth of the Imperium of Man. Although the settlements of Mankind at one time stretched across all its continents, when representatives from the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos arrived recently they found that the entire human population of Arkhona had been destroyed, later determined to be the result of an unexpected incursion by the Tyranids. Shortly afterwards, the Inquisitors themselves were lost under terrible circumstances, thus setting the terrible events of the conflict on Arkhona to come into motion.

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade

Arkhona is the first world that will serve as the setting for the massively-multiplayer online role-playing game Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, where players playing as the Eldar, Space Marines, Orks or Chaos Space Marines (Tau and Dark Eldar in the future) can battle each other in massive online battles.

Sources

• Warhammer 40,000 Eternal Crusade - Space Marines, Descent on Arkhona (Short Story) by Graham McNeill
• Warhammer 40,000 Eternal Crusade- Blood Price (Short Story) by Graham McNeill