Gododdin

A system between the Centaurus and Sagittarius Arms of the galaxy, famously destroyed by Hadrian Marlowe during the final battle in the Crusade.
- Tor Paulos, Empire of Silence

Province: Unknown

Known Prefectures:

Unknown

Locations of Interest:

Catraeth: Catraeth was one of those cities built after a world’s initial colonization and showed no signs of the ugly, prefabricated structures built by the Consortium for rapid settlement. Its buildings were all of white stone quarried from the mountains in whose last peak the city sheltered above the seemingly infinite expanse of grassland the natives called the Green Sea. In the distance, great shoals of rock upthrust from the flat landscape like islands and broke the perfect horizon beneath an eggshell sky.

Fort Din: built upon a network of bunkers that honeycombed the mountain beneath it for miles. They were built to withstand an orbital bombardment, designed for the days of interhouse warfare and rebellious lords, intended to shelter the fort’s staff for months and even years using starship-grade life support, hydroponics, and doubtless the planet’s plentiful supply of protein-base from the bromos crop; overlooks the city of Catraeth; The southern spur of Fort Din stood farthest from the city, looking out upon the Green Sea and the ruddy buttes rising from it. The wind off the mountains smelled of rain and tugged at the dry branches of those few trees the Legion permitted to grow within the fort. The barracks themselves were an ugly, L-shaped building of steel and cement white-washed and flat-roofed, bristling with antennae and comms equipment. The yard between the two arms of that building had been rolled flat in construction, and was barren but for the stray weeds. Catellan: SIR AMALRIC OSMAN

Grand Bazaar: large marketplace visited by the Imperial Red Company during their first visit to Gododdin in ISD 16523.

The Green Sea: a seemingly infinite expanse of verdant grassland beneath the mountain outside the city of Catraeth on Gododdin. Filled with rising buttes and oat fields where bromos livestock are raised.

The planet Gododdin has been of strategic importance to the Sollan Empire’s Colonial Office since humanity first began expanding into the Centaurus Arm of the galaxy. The Gododdin system lies midway between the Sagittarius and Centaurus Arms, in the midst of the great Sullen Gulf—an island on the otherwise decades-long route through empty space to the nearest settled system, making it an important trade hub and military base. For this reason, it has remained under direct control of the Sollan Emperor, who appoints a governor-general to oversee the territory. It is famous for the role it played in the Cielcin Wars, where it was the site of Emperor William XXIII’s last stand against the combined forces of the alien invaders—and the site of Hadrian Marlowe’s great and terrible victory.