The Nachmund Sector is a war-torn sector of Imperial space located within the Segmentum Obscurus. It is home to one terminus of the Nachmund Gauntlet, one of the only known corridors through the Great Rift between the Imperium Sanctus and the Imperium Nihilus.
Notable Systems[]
- Nachmund System - The Nachmund System is an Imperial star system located near the Eye of Terror in the Nachmund Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus. It contains the Nachmund Gauntlet, one of the only known safe passages through the Great Rift to the Imperium Nihilus.
- Vigilus System - The Vigilus System is a star system centred on the star Astravigilia that lies in the Nachmund Sub-sector of the Nachmund Sector in the Segmentum Obscurus. It lies on the Imperium Nihilus side of the Nachmund Gauntlet, the only confirmed navigable passage through the Great Rift. Because of its strategic position, the system has come under assault from multiple factions, and its major inhabited planet, the Imperial Sentinel World of Vigilus, became the primary war zone of the great conflict waged during the early Era Indomitus remembered as the War of Beasts. The Great Rift lies directly on the edge of the Vigilus System to coreward, and the highly eccentric orbit of its outer asteroid girdle actually passed through the great Warp rift for some time after its formation.
Notable Worlds[]
- Daethe - Daethe is an Exodite Maiden World located in the Nachmund Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus, near to the Nachmund Gauntlet. Not long after Abaddon the Despoiler retreated from Vigilus following the War of Beasts in the Era Indomitus, a Black Legion warband called the Forgeborn under the command of the Warpsmith D'vok launched an assault against Daethe that was contested by the Asuryani Autarch Ghaelyn of Craftworld Saim-Hann.
- Vigilus - Vigilus is an Imperial Hive World in the Vigilus System of the Segmentum Obscurus that represents the terminus of a key route -- the Nachmund Gauntlet -- through the Great Rift from the Imperium Sanctus into the Imperium Nihilus. As a result, Vigilus has become a heavily contested strategic location and the source of conflict between several of the different starfaring species and factions of the Milky Way Galaxy in the early 42nd Millennium. The campaign to claim Vigilus became known as the War of Beasts. After its start, Vigilus was designated a War World and a Sentinel World by the Imperium.
Sources[]
- Imperium Nihilus - Vigilus Defiant (8th Edition), pg. 1
- Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (8th Edition), pg. 53
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