Cemetery World

A Cemetery World

A Cemetery World, also called a Mortuary World, is a formal classification for an Imperial planet where large areas of the planet's surface have been given over to care for the remains of the honoured Imperial dead. They are administered by the Ecclesiarchy just like Shrine Worlds.

Cemetery Worlds may mark the site of a massive battle, or they may be covered in gigantic mausoleums, each dedicated to a particular Imperial noble family. In contrast some rare Cemetery Worlds may be covered in fields of endless, modest burial plots containing the remains of the inhabitants of a nearby Hive World.

Notable Cemetery Worlds

Planet Name	Segmentum	Sector	Sub-Sector	System	Population
Certus-Minor	Segmentum Obscurus	Unknown	Praga Sub-sector	Unknown	Unknown
Cryptus	Segmentum Obscurus	Calixis Sector	Drusus Marches	Unknown	Unknown
Granithor	Segmentum Obscurus	Calixis Sector	Golgenna Reach	Unknown	Unknown
Masuchi Parr	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Pilgrim's Pause	Segmentum Obscurus	Calixis Sector	Hazeroth Abyss	Unknown	Unknown
Prester Myra	Segmentum Obscurus	Calixis Sector	Josian Reach	Unknown	Unknown

Sources

• Legion of the Damned (Novel) by Rob Sanders
• Download from Dark Heresy, "Worlds of the Calixis Sector"
• Codex Adeptus Astartes - Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 25, "Contact Lost"
• Codex: Genestealers (8th Edition), pg. 33
• Codex: Genestealers (7th Edition), pg. 51