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Vorgossos

Vorgossos is a mysterious planet orbiting a brown dwarf star. According to legend, it is a lost world settled in ancient times by the ancestors of the Extrasolarians. It is said to be the domain of demons and pirates, and a hub for the black market genetics and cybernetics trade.

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Vorgossos
First Settled
Prefectures
Unknown
System
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Province
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Arm
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Vorgossos
First Settled
Aliases
  • Fort Grissom[2]
  • Vorugosa (In Cielcin)[3]
  • Ruled By
    Kharn Sagara
    Prefectures
    Unknown
    System
    Gliese 693 system
    Province
    Unknown
    Arm
    Spur of Orion

    Vorgossos itself was meant to be a palace of ice and diamond, a faerie city peopled by demons such as the legendary Kharn Sagara had tamed when he cast out the Exalted.

    — Hadrian Marlowe[1]

    Vorgossos is a mysterious Extrasolarian planet orbiting a brown dwarf star. According to legend, it is a lost world settled in ancient times by the ancestors of the Extrasolarians. It is said to be the domain of demons and pirates, and a hub for the black market genetics and cybernetics trade.[4][5]

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    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.

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    Index

    This section contains a list of chapters wherein the planet was mentioned or present, divided by novel.

    Empire of Silence

    Mentioned: 31, 52, 76, 77

    Present: N/A

    The Lesser Devil (Novella)

    Mentioned: N/A

    Present: N/A

    Howling Dark

    Mentioned: Broken Binding Edition, Introduction, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 73, 74, 76, 79, 80

    Present: 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48

    Queen Amid Ashes (Novella)

    Mentioned: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

    Present: N/A

    Demon in White

    Mentioned: Broken Binding Edition, Introduction, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55, 57, 58, 61, 62, 65, 66, 67, 70, 72, 74, 77

    Present: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16

    Kingdoms of Death

    Mentioned: 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15, 25, 26, 27, 29, 32, 34, 47

    Present: N/A

    Ashes of Man

    Mentioned: 5, 7, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 35, 36, 45

    Present: N/A

    The Dregs of Empire (Novella)

    Mentioned: 1, 18

    Present: N/A

    Disquiet Gods

    Mentioned: 1, 2, 16, 30, 31, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 44, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 59, 62, 66

    Present: 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68

    Shadows Upon Time

    Mentioned:

    Present:

    Tales of the Sun Eater & Other Stories

    Mentioned: The Demons of Arae, The Guns of Pharos, Gutter Ballet, The Fangs of Oannos

    Present: [Re]Incarnation

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