Avant-Poste Aleph de Pelagius
Demographics
The oldest and largest of the Imperial settlements on Pelegius,
Outpost Aleph is a colossal latticework of shielded, self-contained
hab-domes connected by environment-sealed tunnels that span an
area more than eight kilometres across. Equipped with powerful vox
and augury systems to pierce the interference caused by Pelegius’
background radiation, Aleph serves as the central command centre
for all Imperial scientific and military operations across the planet,
and its outermost domes are heavily fortified to serve as bunkers
and barracks for the Imperial Guard and Skitarii garrisons.
What few know about, however, is the true extent of
Outpost Aleph. At the heart of the complex, unseen by all but
the tech-priests who work there, is the Aleph dig site, the true
reason for the complex’s location. Extending more than sixteen
kilometres below the surface, the dig site took the efforts of
thousands of servitors, menials and lay-technicians to excavate,
and dozens of Archaeosavants and other tech-priests to study
and catalogue the artefacts and ruins found within.
Their findings have been woefully inconclusive as of yet.
While the inhabitants are likely to have been humanoid,
almost nothing remains that suggests whether the ruins are
of human origin or xenos construction. Worse, a string of
serious industrial accidents have claimed the lives of hundreds
of menials and destroyed thousands of servitors over the past
year, while several tech-priests have simply gone missing
during forays into the deeper zones. Thanks to the presence of
infiltrators in service to the Inquisition, investigation of these
incidents is underway, with many suspecting that whoever
created the ruins may not be entirely gone.
Type
Military, Base
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