Karak-a-Grungon

Known better as *“The Forge”* by the legion and its inhabitants, this space station is a master-crafted example of its kind, as well as pushing the boundaries of the Imperium's technology.

When completed, it would span some 50 miles at its widest point, and rivals for the largest station in the Imperium. Designed, initially, by Skira along with his brother Daer’dd, it took what was already around, took some new designs from the crusade and the innate genius of the two primarchs.

It took several months of design work, done while Skira was still playing catch up in his learning and knowledge. Unsurprisingly this did lead to more than a few arguments between the pair, although they did grow closer as time went on.

Perhaps the cleverest part of the design, is that the station wasn’t built to it’s full design from the start. Due to only some 10,000 of Skira’s people being evacuated from the world, even once the current size of the legion was added, there were barely over 20,000 bodies, not including the ship crews. Knowing that space wasn’t needed from the onset, the pair started off with only what was required for that population size. While it has the power generation for 5 Ramilies Class Star-Forts, it was barely a tenth of the size. Most of the time, this meant that it was able to run with almost no taxing of the power supply. However, if needed, they could divert that generation to it’s already impressive multiple void shields.

In addition to these shields, the hull plating for this first section was made out of a new alloy. Through trial and error, Skira was able to blend Karite with Adamantium. Using only 0.01% of the precious metal in the mix, he was able to allow the entire station to use this alloy as the outer hull plating, although this did severely deplete the reserves that had been rescued from the planet, although Skira believed the use was worth it. This was able to increase the strength over pure Adamantium by some 10%, giving the station protection when used in thin plates over the standard. Further increasing the defences, according to its inhabitants, were runes engraved into the hull, although their purpose is still unknown.

Surprising many, the station wasn’t given engines or a warp engine, nor many serious offensive weaponry, at the start, at least for a station even this size. Countless point defence weapons for defence against torpedoes and boarding actions were fitted instead. These ranged all the way from simple quad-autocannons or lascannon batteries, to missile pods and even more. Anything that would defend the station that would make the shields pointless.

As the great crusade went on, and Skira’s people, who were known as the Skir’ada, although when this name change happened is still not really known, grew, they expanded the station as they went. How they did this is still amazing to this day, the plans the two brothers had created were a feat that could never be copied perfectly, although the basic idea has been used for many new worlds, allowing them to expand their space stations as they need to handle the extra traffic. However, it was soon after Nomus was found that the Forge moved into a new technology level. While both Daer’dd and Skira are builders and extremely skilled at that, neither were known of pushing what was possible with the knowledge of the Imperium and Mechanicum. Skira was known for trying new things, but everything was tested and tested and tested before it was ever allowed outside his workshop, let alone his legion. But for Nomus, he was often thinking of new ways of looking at problems or new technology. So when he heard of this station designed and created by his brothers, he asked Skira if he could both see the blueprints but also if he was allowed to visit.

Upon his arrival and viewing of the station, Nomus respectfully offered his thoughts, and requested Skira’s permission to see if they were possible to put into action. With the blessing, Nomus first looked at the reactors, and was able to get them to put out nearly another 50% power if needed, through better safety protocols, as well as system controls. Next was to look at the defence systems. Improving the speed at which cogitators could both react to information, but also relaying data between them all. This not only increased the effectiveness of the close in defence system several-fold, but also allowed them to keep track of the system better as well. Void shield systems were next to be subjected to Nomus’ touch, before he moved on to the life support systems.

The final offering he made was an entire new weapon system, one that could only be created by the Anvil Bearers, for it couldn’t be made with the use of Karite. What Nomus and Skira created was called a Plasma Lance. It worked by creating a magnetic channel between it and the ship it was aiming and, before shooting a super-heated ball of plasma at a significant portion of the speed of light (hence it being called a lance). However, such was the heat of the plasma, that only Karite was able to handle both it and the pressure. And so, it was that Nomus was the primarch who outfitted the Forge with something that could kill a capital ship in a single shot.

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