Valdec

Valdec

The second largest Forgeworld in the region is Valdec, an enormous temperate world choked by the fumes of industry.

The Planet

3 large continents and a string of smaller island chains on the equatorial belt make for the major landmasses. The major landmasses, named simply Valdec Primus, Secundus and Tertius are dominated by towering mountain ranges that divide the Hive cities that house the work forces. Valdecs mountains have been turned into fortress forges during the Age of Strife, and the inbhabitants of the world have adepted thus to living most of their lives underground.

A short history

During the many wars between the flourishing stellar empires of the Gurash Nebula, Valdec has always managed remained neutral, selling it's Gene-craft to anyone that could pay. Over the span of 200 solar years, Valdec survived assault from warring empires, alien raiders and civil unrest. But it still stood as a powerfull testament to the might of the Omnissiah. It was not untill the Graevan Caliphate rose to prominence, that Valdec fell. After a decade long siege, the ruling council of Magi was forced to bend the knee to their rival Forgeworld. Once the Great Crusade arrived in the Nebula, the Valdec Council was quick to throw in their lot with these "liberators" not because of their conviction in the Imperial Truth, but to get out from under the heel of Caliphate. Little did they know that they would exchange one tyrant for another, and Arch Magos Ikephiax took over leadership of the Graevan Caliphate in the name of the Omnissiah put the sector in an even crueler choke hold then the orignal Caliphate. In recent years Valdec has been growing increasingly isolated to the rest of the sector, and rumours amongst the sectors notary's would have that the council of Valdec has been in secret communication with traitorous Astartes factions that where sent to undermine the Warmasters noble work.

The majority of Valdecs "human" workforce is short and hunched of stature and small eyes give them an almost mole like appereance.

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