The Temple
“Aah... the Temple... very auspicious, yes? Signifies that the God-Emperor Himself watches over you... that your mission is blessed by the Master of Mankind...”
–Astropath Kinneth Reed, casting the Emperor’s Tarot
Overview
At the very outskirts of the Great Warp Storms, closest to Port Wander (a short warp jump away), the station called the ‘Temple’ resides. The most unusual feature of the Temple are the multitudes of perfectly spherical rocks---several hundred meters in diameter---spin in many complex orbits around the star. The star itself is simply a dead cinder, a feebly glowing husk of dense matter. Nothing else exists in this oddly serene system: no gasses, no dust, and no planets. Nothing exists aside from the dead star and its family of perfectly round and seemingly artificial spheres---no dust, gas-streams, or worlds.Spherical Nodes
No one is certain who or what created the nearly perfect rock spheres that orbit the dead cinder of the Temple Station. Some speculate that the warp storms somehow shaped the rocks out of the remains of long lost planets that once inhabited the world. Others claim some elder god placed them here for some unknown reason, though few reasonable individuals put stock in such tales.Over the millennia, many expeditions have tried to explore these void rocks. Auspex scans reveal these spheroids to be nothing special; just ordinary rock, completely inert and unresponsive to all scans. However, no expedition has ever been able to drill more than a few centimeters into the stones before the mining equipment mysteriously failed. It is said that one Rogue Trader even tried to fracture a rock with lance-fire to no avail. Perhaps as a result, most voidmen claim that to interfere with the spheres brings ill-fortune and an untimely end.
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