Setting:Cloudburst/Cognomen
| System | ||
|---|---|---|
| Galactic Position | Cloudburst Sector, Cognomen Subsector | |
| System Overlord | Lord Fabricator Lister Beraxos | |
| Worlds in the system | Nine, one inhabited | |
| World Type, Name | Forge World, Cognomen | |
| Tropospheric Composition | Nitrogen 76%, Oxygen 21%, Argon 1%, Water 1%, Carbon Dioxide 1% | |
| Religion | Cult Mechanicus, Imperial Cult | |
| Government type | Adeptus Mechanicus | |
| Planetary Governor | Yes | |
| Adept Presence | Adeptus Mechanicus, Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Astra Telepathica, Adeptus Administratum (in orbit) | |
| Climate | Temperate, formerly savanna, now becoming hot wasteland | |
| Geography | Tectonically stable, wide blocks of land, with steep, cold oceans; small, shrinking polar ice caps, extensive resource deposits, now largely depleted; roughly Earth-sized | |
| Gravity | 0.97 Terran Gravity (with evidence of lower gravity prior to Terraforming) | |
| Day Length | 30 Terran Hours | |
| Economy | Gelt Thrones and Silver Thrones | |
| Principal Exports | All manner of technology and finished goods | |
| Principal Imports | All raw resources possible, Food, Textiles, Convicts | |
| Countries and Continents | No national divisions, extensive canyons around one enormous cleft canyon down center of largest continent, seven continents | |
| Military | Cognomen Shields (small PDF), Cognomen Legions (Skitarii), Legio Congelatio (Titan Legion), Cognomen War Cults | |
| Contact with other Systems | As the largest Forge world between Drumnos and the edge of the Imperium, with over two hundred worlds as trading partners, Cognomen has extensive and daily contact with other worlds | |
| Tithe Grade | Exactis Particular | |
| Population | 39,000,000,000 (human), servitor count constantly changing | |
The vast forges of Cognomen are the pride of the sector Mechanicus, and for good reason. They are among the largest, the most productive, and the most technoarcanely blessed in the far north of the Segmentum, and Cognomen's vast data banks contain most of the blueprints of the far-off Martian forges. Lacking some of the most advanced, they make do with high production of as many templates as they can manage. The vast shipyards in orbit have seven 10-kilometer yards, which can connect beams to expand their cradle length. They are theoretically capable of building any vessel of equal or lesser size, including the mighty Universe-class mass conveyor vehicle or Imperial Navy battleships. As of M41.999, six yards are occupied with building ships of nine kilometer beam or greater: two Universes, three battleships, and a Grand Cruiser. The seventh yard is undergoing retrofits to accommodate even larger hulls, up to the massive Gloriana battleship, without merging beams. Dozens of smaller yards manufacture lesser ships, of all designs, including the all-important Galaxy and Constellation troopships and Marketeer livestock barges. Cognomen had enormous resource deposits, but these have been nearly depleted through colossal strip-mines that have rendered much of the planet a barren wasteland. Although there is still extensive construction on the surface and below, the usable amount of open agriculture land on the planet is all but gone. As a result, other planets export nearly all of Cognomen’s fresh food. Cognomen's heavily saline oceans are rapidly drying out. Total loss of all non-terraform-active outdoor habitability is anticipated within eighty years. Cognomen's senior Magos Biologis have completed gene-sequencing all of Cognomen's native life, and have written it off. Once, Cognomen was a world of grasslands and silty seas.