Carthagus Minoris

Cog Mechanicus

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Carthagus Minoris, sole moon of Carthag, ca.999.M41

## Location

### System

Ostian System

**Carthagus Minoris** is a Secundus-Grade Imperial Forge World of the Adeptus Mechanicus located in the Uridian Isola, orbiting the Penal World of Carthag. Once acting as a stalwart stellar bastion for the garden world that Carthag once was, Carthagus Minoris has for the past six thousand years acted as the primary Adeptus Mechanicus enclave within the greater Orelian Salient, and a major hub of Imperial ship-breaking operations.

Orbiting the Penal World of Carthag, Carthagus Minoris has long dedicated itself to the retrieval, study and replication of technological artefacts dating to the halcyon era of the Great Crusade. Drawing convicts and criminals from across the Sub-sector, the Magi of Carthagus Minoris use the 'oath breakers' of the Uridian Isola to further their research, and expediate the harvesting of technology and raw materials from the carcasses strewn across Carthag's long dead hills and sea-beds; the hollow remains of ancient starships, and the rusted hulks of ancient vehicles of war.

Home to a garrison of the *Legio Nurex*, Carthagus Minoris has for millennia acted as another corner stone in the defence of the Uridian Isola's threshold, and as such, the forge-thanes of Carthagus Minoris have long possessed a considerable amount of geopolitical sway. Though one of a number of Forge Worlds within the Uridian Isola that form the *'Iron Chain' -* an alliance of Forge Worlds throughout the isolated Uridian Isola - Carthagus Minoris has long been rival to the forge world of Marat Kan, in the sectors heartland of the Aegymanid Sound, vying for influence over the other links in the Chain.

Sacked during the Noctis Aeterna by the fleeing forces of Azreth Krul, following his defeat in the Inaeon System, Carthagus Minoris slowly heals in the wake of Imperial liberation, steadily beginning to relight its forges, repair its manufactorums and dispel the pall of the Dark Mechanicum that fell over the it during the short rebirth of Old Night.

## **History**

Though Carthagus Minoris stands as an indomitable bastion of the machine god, it had not always been so. In eons past. During those lost golden days of the Emperor's Great Crusade, Carthagus Minoris stood as a fastness against the ever-dark; a stellar fortress to protect the burgeoning heart of greater Uridia. It's surface was home to some of the deadliest weaponry available to the early Imperium, and housed a garrison capable of launching a planetary conquest.

It was during the dread days of the Horus Heresy that Carthagus Minoris, much like its charge of Carthag, was unmade by the baleful powers of the Archtraitors most debased followers, the Astartes of the XVIIth Legion 'Word Bearers'. Seeking to utterly break the resolve of Carthag' embattled defenders in one move, the apostles of Lorgar unleashed a dizzying array of martial and immaterial power upon the terraformed moon. The battle was so fierce, that it stripped it of all life in totality, before the traitors descended upon hapless Carthag.

For millennia Carthagus Minoris remained a silent tomb to the millions that had perished in its defence; it, it's parent world, and whole stellar system forgotten, erased from public navigational archives, and so it would have remained, had it not come to the attention of adepts of the Mechanicus forge-world of Marat Kan.

Caring little for the moral significance and symbology of Carthagus Minoris and its parent world, and caring only for the technological gains they may make from the refuse grounds and forgotten battlefields therein, the dead-moon was steadily transformed into an outpost of the Ommnisiah. Once beautiful Carthagus designated Penal-World, with thousands of indentured criminals shipped from throughout the sector, to help break down and process the wealth of machine-corpses for study.

Carthagus Minoris achieved greater recognition and renown during the chaos of the Moirae Schism. The combination of Marat Kan's war with Hyrex, and the technological wealth of dead Carthag, lent itself to Carthagus Minoris' benefit, enabling the forge-fiefdom to slacken the hold placed upon it by distance Marat Kan. In so doing, the forge-moon gained a double strength garrison of the *Legio Nurex*, as well as sole access to the Eagle's Gate.

As the sole producer of older patterns of Astarte's wargear, Carthagus Minoris managed to place itself in the political advantageous position of being the sole supplier of wargear for the nearby Lightning Sons Chapter, supplying its cadre of Devastator Maniples with older Mars and Ryza pattern Heavy Bolters and Lascannons respectively, as well as once supplying a large quantity of MK IV suits of Astartes power armour and Tigarus-pattern Bolters, among other things.

With the dawning of the 42nd Millennium, Carthagus Minoris' political influence has only swelled, despite the devastation wrought upon it and the Uridian Isola during the Noctis Aeterna. The first forge world liberated by the warfleets of Battlefleet Tertius during the prolonged Uridian Crusade, Carthagus Minoris became a vital lynch pin in the constant supply of war materials for the Imperial war front to liberate the entire sector.

## **Manufactoria Capabilities**

Whilst capable of fabricating and manufacturing the various necessary pieces of equipment for both the Astra Militarum and the Adeptus Astartes, Carthagus Minoris' position so close to ancient Carthag with its wreck-fields and abandoned battlegrounds, has seen the Forge World slowly build, or better yet rebuild, a catalog of Great Crusade era weapon patterns; reverse engineered from the corpses of those left behind on barren Carthag after its decimation.

### **Wargear**

* **Mars-pattern Heavy Bolters**
* **Ryza-pattern Lascannon**
* **Tigrus-pattern Bolter**
* **MK IV "Maximus" Power Armour**

### **Vehicles**

* **Storm Eagle Gunship** (*Alleged; Unconfirmed*)