Pelegius - Pelegius: Pelegius is an officially unclassified planet located in the Jericho Reach that shares some of the characteristics of Death, Desert, and Mining Worlds.Located only a short distance behind the Greyhell Front of the Achilus Crusade, Pelegius has been contested by T'au expeditions and Imperial crusaders alike for solar decades.The planet's wealth of natural resources means that both sides regard it as extremely valuable, yet that same worth has resulted in a world which is inimical to Human or T'au life.However, it is not merely mineral resources that draw the gaze of Human and T'au alike to Pelegius, and it is not merely the toxin-saturated, irradiated environment that poses a threat to those who seek to claim this bounteous world.Whatever occurred in Pelegius' past, it has left remnants behind to be discovered by the curious and the avaricious.Lurking beneath the desert sands are monstrous invertebrates, mutated by countless generations of rad-exposure and grown to colossal proportions with no greater predators to challenge them.Clutches of dormant macroscorpion eggs and nests of hibernating tyrannopedes are amongst the perils awaiting those who find themselves on Pelegius, awakening at the slightest disturbance of their otherwise-barren habitat.Deep beneath the surface, remnants of a different sort can be found by those willing to search for them. Ancient ruins of a long-dead civilisation exist kilometres beneath the shifting sands, and both Human and T'au excavations into these ruins have only provoked greater curiosity.The T'au wonder at the technological marvels that could have built these glittering cities and at the cataclysm that saw them abandoned and buried, while the Adeptus Mechanicus vocalise binaric litanies of warding and sanctity as they delve into ruins that are as likely to be a fragment of Mankind's Dark Age of Technology as a broken shard of an alien civilisation, in search of the long-lost secrets that they know must reside deeper within.Upon the surface, a bitter conflict rages between armies of fast-moving skirmishers and heavy vehicles, with both sides relying on the protection of advanced rad-warded armour, rebreather systems and the sturdy hulls of battle tanks to stave off the hostile environment as they engage in a long and vicious series of raids and feints.Tens of thousands of Skitarii troopers, their augmetic forms largely immune to the poisons and radiation that would slay normal troops, supported by elite Astra Militarum forces clad in hostile environment suits, clash against environment-hardened T'au Battlesuit teams of ever more sophisticated design.Pelegius is an exceptionally valuable resource world, and consequently subject to considerable attention from the Adeptus Terra. Further, military action by the T'au has required a large garrison force to be deployed.The world has considerable worth as a mining colony, with new sources of rare or valuable materials discovered regularly by the extensive survey expedition. The hostile conditions are regarded as an obstacle worth overcoming to benefit from a world so rich in minerals vital to the ongoing Imperial war effort in the Jericho Reach.The presence of the T'au demonstrates that they crave such valuable resources as well. Continual supplies of food, potable water, and medicae consumables (primarily counterseptics, antitoxin and anti-radiation drugs) are an absolute necessity.