Cyclothrathe

Cyclothrathe is a world recorded in Adeptus Mechanicus lore and associated with the Dark Mechanicum, the renegade current of the Cult Mechanicus. It is treated here as a planetary location of secondary standing: it is named in the setting’s record of Mechanicum allegiances, but it is not among the worlds whose history is narrated at length. On Orrery it is created without a galactic position, because no coordinates or sector placement are attested and none has been supplied.

Its significance rests on the Dark Mechanicum, the body of Mechanicum forces and adherents that broke from the loyalist Cult Mechanicus and aligned themselves with the Traitor cause. Within that setting, the allegiance of a Mechanicum-linked world bears on who controlled its industry, its war-engines and its stores of technical knowledge, which is why such worlds appear on the timeline even when their local histories are brief. Accounts differ, or are silent, on the precise circumstances by which Cyclothrathe came to be associated with this faction, and no founding date, discovery or named ruling authority is recorded here.

No major campaigns fought on Cyclothrathe, no named characters bound to it, and no present-day status are established in the material used for this entry, and none are inferred. Readers seeking context should follow the graph links to the Dark Mechanicum and to the wider Mechanicum entries on Orrery, which set out the contemporaries and events against which the world is placed. The entry will be extended if further detail is confirmed.