Forge World Agripinaa

Few forge worlds labour in so unforgiving a shadow as Agripinaa. Set within the Segmentum Obscurus and hard against the baleful light of the Eye of Terror, it is known across the sector as the Orb of a Million Scars, a name earned through age upon age of siege, bombardment and desperate defence. Where sacred worlds like Mars pursue the higher mysteries of the Quest, Agripinaa exists first to feed a war that never ends, and its priesthood measures worth in shells forged and guns shipped to the front.

The world's industry is bent almost wholly toward supplying the Cadian front and the fortress-worlds that guard against the horrors spilling from the Eye. Its manufactories disgorge munitions in staggering quantity, alongside its own jealously kept patterns of autogun and battle tank, and Agripinaan war-engines are prized for the reliability and punishing accuracy of their guns. Little of the ethereal reverence of other forges survives here; the creed of Agripinaa is grim, practical and forged in the certainty that the enemy is always at the gate.

That certainty has been proven in fire more than once. When Abaddon the Despoiler hurled his Black Crusades against the Cadian Gate, Agripinaa stood in the path of the storm and did not escape unscathed, great swathes of its industrial heartland laid to ruin as its cohorts were spent to hold the line. Yet the forge fires were rekindled amid the wreckage, as they always are, for the Imperium cannot spare a single world that arms the defenders of its most imperilled frontier.