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Herod

Herod is an Achilles Sub-sector mining world whose mesa crystals feed lasgun production, the 13th Black Crusade rock where Iron Hands smashed the Shinarii cult and chased the Bei'bul Stone into a Word Bearers ritual.

Antipas fell and was retaken in a day. The Iscariot finished the cave-rite anyway, walked a Warp door, and left a sinkhole where the stone had been. Herod is not Holy Terra's biblical namesake and not Fornax Orbis Majoris, even if Anatolus Gdolkin's wider Araken trail also used this crust.

Herod still matters as the Achilles crystal-world the Iron Hands could retake without keeping the artefact. Unofficial summaries keep the achilles-subsector parent and refuse to merge the pin with Ghost Stars Crucible or with Fornax Orbis Majoris.

Era: 40k

View Herod on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.

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