Lathe Worlds - Lathe-Hadd: In the earliest days of the Lathes, Lathe-Hadd was home to several enormous info-temples that had been set down around the Hadd Fabricator ship. The data stored within these temples was essential to the operation of all three Lathe Worlds at the height of the Angevin Crusade.For production, Lathe-Hadd was responsible primarily for the ammunition and ordnance that the crusade desperately needed. Although such production was honourable and instrumental, for reasons lost to time, these duties came to be construed as belittling to the magi of Lathe-Hadd.Unrest and centuries of discord followed as the tech-adepts petulantly went about their appointed tasks, many petitioning to leave the world at their earliest opportunity. A growing movement on the planet agitated for the production of such expendables to be taken off planet to make way for more prestigious works.The dissemination of much of the data held within the info-temples further lessened the prestige of Lathe-Hadd.In the 6th century of the 41st Millennium, Archmagos Villem Warik Wahh was named forge master of Lathe-Hadd. Rumours claiming he had manoeuvred himself into that position through manipulating the simmering feelings of resentment and bitterness among the tech-adepts were never proven.These feelings had developed over centuries as Lathe-Het rose to a position of prominence, and the factories of Lathe-Hesh provided waves of vehicles and enormous weapon systems famed throughout the sector. Wahh declared that he would see Lathe-Hadd rise to a position of equal importance within the sector.This position, and the dissatisfaction from which it stemmed, was inconceivable to most of the Calixis Mechanicus. One of the greatest satisfactions within the Adeptus Mechanicus is to see an important job well-done, and without the ammunition and armaments Lathe-Hadd provided, the crusade would never have succeeded.The vast majority of the magi on the Forge World, however, followed their new forge master in his demands that the production of these mundane products be moved to offworld facilities, so that room could be made for greater projects more befitting one of the three original Lathe Worlds.Over the next two hundred years, almost all major manufacturing and assembly plants were moved off-planet, causing gaping holes in the planet's surface, and leaving the vast ancient info-temples, now sadly bereft of any but purely symbolic power and importance, crouching alone around Fabricator ship Hadd.The stage was set for Lathe-Hadd to rise to equal prominence with its sister worlds, and to prove its artisans and manufactoria the superior of any in the sector. Unfortunately, this did not come to pass.Forge Master Wahh had pursued his agenda of division and discontent too well, and the adepts of Lathe-Hadd had fractured into countless minor factions, none of which could agree upon the most basic of tenets with any of the others.Proposal after proposal went before the Adunatio of Lathe-Hadd, and the other factions vociferously struck each down. The high fabricator of the Lathes finally granted the request for the relocation of the many manufactoria, to see it removed from his docket; the facilities were soon moved off-planet, into orbit, or to several of the stations along the Praeclusio Anchor Points.Soon Lathe-Hadd was stripped of the vast majority of its manufacturing capability and paralysed in its search for a new identity. Somehow (many speculate through manipulating the various factions against each other) Wahh was able to avoid blame for the dissolution of his planet's capabilities, and maintain his position as forge master.The fabricator of Lathe Hadd rules from the Halls of Ignavus, built around the now-defunct Fabricator ship on Hadd Nord. Within the hall, all adepts of the Forge World come together in a constant dance of subterfuge and manipulation, hoping to bring their own projects to the fore.Despite the silencing of the major manufactoria, the planet is still home to countless smaller workshops and laboratories housing the experiments and projects of thousands of tech-adepts, all eager to see their work rise to the prominence of global production.Debates and discussions within the Halls can become quite heated, another uncommon trait surfacing among the tech-adepts of Lathe-Hadd. It is not uncommon for visiting adepts to surround themselves with bodyguard servitors or other security measures.Since the stripping of Lathe-Hadd's manufacturing capability, the world has been in a state of flux, constantly searching for the one project or product that can raise the planet back to a position of prominence.Desperation is endemic, and those magi who have stubbornly stayed are frantic to find a new path to distinction. Any path, in fact, is seen as better than the current state of unproductive stagnation.In this reckless search for a new identity, any number of strange beliefs, theories, and cults have taken root among a feckless ruling class despairing of ever recapturing their old status. For decades now, the vast majority of the factories and manufacturing works have lain still, internal squabbling and political machinations paralysing the planet even at the cost of productivity.Recently, many tech-adepts have taken to referring to Lathe-Hadd as the "Silent Forge." Though it might be silent, it still holds its secrets, such as the ancient and mysterious construct known as the Baltean Maze.What appears to be the surface of the planet, still covered in layers of construction and infrastructure despite centuries of neglect, is in fact a man-made construct, an artificial crust formed of many steel platforms, each attached to the others through a labyrinth of girders, sliding connectors, and gasket-like adamantium mesh.Each platform is suspended above the mantle of Lathe-Hadd upon enormous gravitic generators, the likes of which Humans have not constructed for thousands upon thousands of Terran years. Between the false surface and the hidden mantle lies the Baltean Maze, a network of supports, power conduits, and energy transfer channels that tie the gravitic platforms and the planet's actual surface together.Many believe that beneath the maze are the legendary deep infotombs, enormous receptacles of faulty or heretical data, relegated to the permanent dark to protect the very Mechanicum itself.Whispers cant of malign data-spirits rising from the deeps, capable of possessing all forms of technology. The Lathesmasters deny that these "schimsaticals," as the legends call them, actually exist, and act quickly to suppress any evidence that might suggest their presence.