Post by IncubiLord on Feb 3, 2007 17:45:25 GMT -5
The Tiorl system is a binary star system located near Alsanta on the Eastern Fringe. The system consists of four planets between the two stars, followed by the smaller, secondary star - all rotating counter-clockwise around the central star, and outer four planets in clockwise orbits (though technically the last planet is small enough that the classification is questionable).
Of these planets, the second, third, and seventh were all determined to be hospitable and classed as potential agri-worlds. The moon of the seventh planet was fortified slightly and turned into an orbital space station for inter-system travel, with a set of transports to ferry supplies between it and the agri-worlds.
All settlers for the system were initially brought to Tiorl 7, with the plan that they would establish this agri-world and then roughly half would be moved by the inner-system transports to Tiorl 3. When that was producing nicely, the population of both colonized planets would be thinned to settle Tiorl 2.
Unfortunately, the plan never progressed beyond settling Tiorl 7.
In 458.M41, a lost portion of the Waaagh initiated by the Warchief of Alsanta found the Tiorl system and engaged its defenders. Messages were dispatched, calling for help, but events were transpiring against this fledgling colony.
A large Warp storm formed around the Tiorl system, cutting it off from any Imperial assistance for centuries. What has transpired during that time is undetermined at this point, but it is clear that the colonists and local garrison have become a military state, with every able-bodied man and woman fighting to hold off the Orks. The system transports have been armed and up-armored to support military vessels, and most the free human population has withdrawn to isolated areas - specifically, the majority of human civilization on Tiorl 7 appears to now be on the heavily-fortified, mountainous sub-continent known as the Celestine Peaks, where Space Marines had established a fortress-base prior to the invasion.
Human slaves can be found in many Ork settlements, and there is one particularly large Ork mega-city not far from the shore facing the fortified sub-continent. Using rokkit-skiffs, the Orks launch frequent attacks across the ocean at their enemies, the current and tides bringing back many of the damaged boats.
Now, as the Warp storm dissipates, the Tiorl system has come to the attention of those around it, but it is not unchanged.
Tiorl 4 is gone; a debris field the only indication that there was once a Mars-like planet in its place, and a strange mass has been sighted between the seventh and eighth planets, drifting slowly towards the central star.
Preliminary scans indicate several hollows that are consistent with crashed or buried vessels, and it can only be assumed that this is a massive Hulk left in the storm’s wake. Both Chaotic growths and living metal have been detected, as well as a strange, glass-like substance which appears to be the hull of a massive, unidentified ship.
Contact with the remaining defenses at the Celestine Peaks indicates that there are other human fortifications in isolated areas such as the marshlands known as the Drowning Hills, but no contact has yet been made – and psykers brought into the area are unable to determine if the palpable aura of Chaos is an imprint of the passing storm, solely from the Warp-saturated Hulk drifting towards the planet, or partly from settlements upon the planet which have turned to the Dark Gods during their isolation…
Of these planets, the second, third, and seventh were all determined to be hospitable and classed as potential agri-worlds. The moon of the seventh planet was fortified slightly and turned into an orbital space station for inter-system travel, with a set of transports to ferry supplies between it and the agri-worlds.
All settlers for the system were initially brought to Tiorl 7, with the plan that they would establish this agri-world and then roughly half would be moved by the inner-system transports to Tiorl 3. When that was producing nicely, the population of both colonized planets would be thinned to settle Tiorl 2.
Unfortunately, the plan never progressed beyond settling Tiorl 7.
In 458.M41, a lost portion of the Waaagh initiated by the Warchief of Alsanta found the Tiorl system and engaged its defenders. Messages were dispatched, calling for help, but events were transpiring against this fledgling colony.
A large Warp storm formed around the Tiorl system, cutting it off from any Imperial assistance for centuries. What has transpired during that time is undetermined at this point, but it is clear that the colonists and local garrison have become a military state, with every able-bodied man and woman fighting to hold off the Orks. The system transports have been armed and up-armored to support military vessels, and most the free human population has withdrawn to isolated areas - specifically, the majority of human civilization on Tiorl 7 appears to now be on the heavily-fortified, mountainous sub-continent known as the Celestine Peaks, where Space Marines had established a fortress-base prior to the invasion.
Human slaves can be found in many Ork settlements, and there is one particularly large Ork mega-city not far from the shore facing the fortified sub-continent. Using rokkit-skiffs, the Orks launch frequent attacks across the ocean at their enemies, the current and tides bringing back many of the damaged boats.
Now, as the Warp storm dissipates, the Tiorl system has come to the attention of those around it, but it is not unchanged.
Tiorl 4 is gone; a debris field the only indication that there was once a Mars-like planet in its place, and a strange mass has been sighted between the seventh and eighth planets, drifting slowly towards the central star.
Preliminary scans indicate several hollows that are consistent with crashed or buried vessels, and it can only be assumed that this is a massive Hulk left in the storm’s wake. Both Chaotic growths and living metal have been detected, as well as a strange, glass-like substance which appears to be the hull of a massive, unidentified ship.
Contact with the remaining defenses at the Celestine Peaks indicates that there are other human fortifications in isolated areas such as the marshlands known as the Drowning Hills, but no contact has yet been made – and psykers brought into the area are unable to determine if the palpable aura of Chaos is an imprint of the passing storm, solely from the Warp-saturated Hulk drifting towards the planet, or partly from settlements upon the planet which have turned to the Dark Gods during their isolation…