Zayth

“Of what wars waged beyond the Emperor’s light we will never truly know and can only look at the wreck of the overgrown battlefield and wonder at what has passed.”
–remark dictated by Rogue Trader Hiram Sult
Zayth is a world scarred deeply by war. Enormous vehicles
the size of cities churn the surface of Zayth’s single macro-continent.
Each is a fortress and weapon platform armed
with fearsome devices of war and destruction. Within
them dwell Zayth’s human population, protected from the
radiation and toxins unleashed by centuries of warfare.
Zayth’s surface has been barren for millennia, ploughed
and poisoned by shellfire, rapacious, urgent strip-mining,
and the passage of hive-vehicles. Despite their weaponry
and extraordinary vehicle cities the humans of Zayth
have fallen far from the knowledge of their ancestors in
all but war, and the knowledge of producing their hive-vehicles
is long vanished. Great generators and engine vaults are permanently sealed by copper doors or guarded
by hereditary Engine Orders who guard the traditions and
culture of each clan fortress. Upon war-torn Zayth, each hive-vehicle circulates its own coinage---often small stamped ingots of precious metals hung upon loops of silver wire.
The ‘Ursid’ pattern of heavy stubber supposedly originating on the war world of Zayth is more compact than the standard models and uses a smaller ammunition drum which most users find easier to port and reload.
==Unique Equipment==
Macro-Hammer
These puissant archeotech weapons are
thought to date back to the Dark Ages of
Technology. However, thus far they have
only been discovered on a long-lost citycache
hidden amongst the ruins of the warworld
of Zayth. The Disciples of Thule seized the majority
of the weapons, though a few have found their hands into
other members of the Machine Cult in the Koronus Expanse.
Glowing with circuit-runes, the ancient tech-relic mounts a
suitably large hammer head covered with nano-sized warp
portals which burst open on contact. The impact of the portals
creates intense, localised warp disruptions, causing microexplosions
which devastate the enemy. Like many human
designs, its visage is intended to intimidate and cower all who
would stand before the righteous might of the Imperium and
the Machine God. This weapon requires two hands to use.
Melee, 1d10+7(+SB), E, PEN 10, Power Field, WT 8kg, Extremely Rare
Category:Planets
Category:Heathen Stars
Category:Koronus Expanse
Category:War Worlds