Oestalan Sector

Oestalan Sector is the combination of efforts of fa/tg/uys to create another homebrew sector of the Warhammer 40k universe to go alongside the [[[Tiji Sector]]. At the moment there is only one system.

Planet Listing: Medigeminus System

Current planet list

Medigeminus(Red Giant Star)

Arminia

Molten World

Arminia was, millions of years ago, a Venus-like pressure-cooker world. However, when Medigeminus expanded into a Red Giant, its atmosphere was blasted away and its surface heated to the melting point. Arminia is generally useless for practical purposes. It is named after saint Arminia Calderon, one of the original founders of the Order of The Holy Rose.

Alconeus

Aqua World/Forge World

Alconeus is a primarily aquatic planet; a worldwide ocean covered with islands, Alconeus is rich in heavy and rare earth metals. This richness was what originally attracted the Mechanicus. However, they found that rather than being bound in traditional mineral deposits, the Heavy Metals of Alconeus are integral to the local ecosystem. Strontium is the basic building block of the organism's bones, rather than Calcium, and nearly every other metal is bound in one living thing or another. Thus, the easiest way to extract these metals is to kill the native life forms, and using the arcane arts of technology, extract the metals from their bodies before consuming them. This act has acquired a major ritual significance among the Mechanicus, for whom it is an act of reclaiming the Omnissiah's divine metals from the unholy life forms which seek to hoard it in their bodies. Alconeus' islands are almost entirely given over to Manufactoriums. Among those who live on the oceans, spending their whole lives touching nothing more solid than a boat or a coral reef, the leading cause of death is heavy metal poisoning.

ADDENDUM; information is out of date as of 662.M41 and must be updated as soon as contact with the planet can be reestablished.

Tenocit

Homeworld of the Blood Jaguars

Arkturi

Double Planet System, both civilized worlds

Stellar Remnant Belt

A belt of dense, incandescent gas circling the star, roughly twenty million kilometers wide and deep.

Lhimeraia

Land of the Space Maori

Asteroid Belt

The Green Traverse-Orkish/Smuggler territory

Cometary Belt

Dark Eldar territory

Ulcisor

Ulcisor is a gas giant. It is very cold and dark as far as giants go, though massive enough it has not been classed as an Ice Ball. Ulcisor is also technically a proto-star, similar to Jupiter, as it emits more energy than it absorbs from its parent star, though nearly any Gas Giant would receive this designation were it moved to Ulcisor's far out orbit. Ulcisor has an orbital period of 219 years.

Ulcisor is, unusually, host to an ecosystem of Ammonia based life forms which ride on the winds of its upper atmosphere. These range from tiny photosynthetic plants and follow an ocean model all the way up to gigantic predatory gas fish the size of small cities, preying on other organisms for food and the buoyant gases needed to ascend in the atmosphere.

This ecosystem makes the planet particularly difficult for use in scoop-mining. Thus, Ulcisor's riches come primarily from its massive system of moons. Ulcisor's proximity to the cometary belt has allowed it to capture a massive number of rocks, comets, and asteroids. Ulcisor has 519 identified moons of at least 30m in diameter, many of which are rich with water ice or nickel-iron. The largest is Hostiae, large enough to class as a dwarf planet and thought to be rich in fissionable ores.

Originally, an Imperial mining facility was established on Hositiae. However, its crew were slaughtered by the Kabal of the Widow's Bite, and telescopic observation has confirmed that the Dark Eldar are now mining the moons extensively. Ulcisor's entire orbital system must thus be considered extremely dangerous.

Mesolethe

Mesolethe is nearly a typical Death World. A band of jungles ring the equator, and frigid ice caps cover the poles down to nearly the edge of the tropics. The sparse area between the tropics and the ice caps is continually ringed by storms driven by temperature differences, giving the planet two circular white belts.

Its namesake and only unique feature is the Mind Widow, a spider roughly the size of a bear, with long, sharp talons and a naturally strong warp presence. Their psychic powers do not manifest like those of a sentient being; they seem to universally have the ability to communicate telepathically. They hunt humans using this method, first by locating the minds of the humans, and then by sharing its thoughts with the human in question. The human mind cannot comprehend the thoughts of such a thoroughly inhuman creature; in suddenly attempting to control eight legs and see with eight eyes, most humans will have a seizure, making them wonderfully easy prey for the Mind Widows.

A small Dark Eldar Kabal, whose Archon was so taken with these spiders as to name the Kabal after them, has recently been ousted from Comorragh for bringing in too many of these spiders(they violate Vect's ban on psykers in Comorragh) and have since created a base for themselves inside a hollowed out asteroid-moon of the planet.

Silence

Airless Dwarf Planet, Necron Tomb World

Factions

The Kabal of the Widow's Bite

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