Egaria Epsilon

Egaria Episilon is a system within the Egarian Dominion, located in Winterscale’s Realm of the Koronus Expanse. Egaria Epsilon, along with Egaria Gamma and Egaria Omega, has at least one semi-habitable world. It is a dry and cool desert world comprised mostly of endless dunes and rocky outcroppings, and is dotted by sparse, shallow bodies of brackish water.
==The Ice Caverns of Egaria Epsilon==
Situated upon the second world of the Egaria Epsilon system,
there is a vast chasm that can be seen from orbit. So deep is
this chasm that even the warming rays of the planet’s sun
cannot reach; thus, the bottom is perpetually coated in frozen
ice and permafrost. In 750.M41, a survey team sent by Rogue
Trader Lord-Captain Aoife Armengarde discovered ancient hieroglyphs
carved into the sides of the chasm walls and a set of ancient
stone doors covered in a seal.
The team toiled for days attempting to breach the seal and
gain entry to what lay beyond. Auspex scanners showed that
an immense passageway opened up beyond the doors. After
several days of work with beam-cutters, the team was able to
burn the seal off and gain entry. The passages led the team
further into the living rock, yet the area was so cold that the
team leader ordered her members to don their heat suits lest
they died of exposure. The servitors they brought with them
eventually froze solid---dead in their tracks. The immense
passages were slicked with ice and it was obvious that no one
had set foot within the halls for millennia. The team pressed on
into the unknown darkness ahead.
Seven days after entering the tunnels, a single member
of the team stumbled out of the caverns, frantic, haggard,
and half-dead from dehydration and exposure. The orbiting
starship dispatched a lander, and he was quickly delivered to a
horrified medicae crew. The team member remained catatonic
until the head chirurgeon attempted to revive him, where he
immediately leapt screaming from the gurney, fingers clawing
the chirurgeon’s throat. Medicae vid recorders managed capture
some of the man’s ravings—shouts of “It’s awake! It’s awake
and it sees us! The cold, the cold!” were heard in the shrill
voice of the maddened man. Attendants managed to secure and
sedate him, returning him to an isolated medicae cell.
The medicae staff intended to question the man more
thoroughly, but would not get the chance. During the night,
he somehow slipped his restraints and rammed his head into
the wall of his cell until he cracked his skull open. Armengarde
chose not to send another team into the caverns, and soon
departed the world.
Category:Systems
Category:Koronus Expanse
Category:Winterscale’s Realm