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Quan Zhou

Quan Zhou is a fortress world of Segmentum Pacificus, counted among the tributary worlds bound to Chogoris, home world of the White Scars Space Marine Chapter. It sits within the loose confederation of dependent worlds historically described as the Five Hundred Worlds, through which Chogoris projects its authority and draws warriors, mounts, and matériel across the surrounding reaches of the segmentum.

Accounts of Quan Zhou describe its role chiefly in terms of that wider tributary structure: a garrison and muster point supporting the White Scars’ operations rather than a domain with an extensively chronicled history of its own. The world’s name, echoing a city of Terran China, reflects the Central Asian and steppe-nomadic character that Chogoris shares with its dependent worlds, itself an inheritance of the White Scars’ Legion under the primarch Jaghatai Khan.

Detailed record of Quan Zhou’s population, governance, and individual campaigns is sparse, and no major engagement fought there is well attested in circulating accounts. Its significance for the wider setting rests on its place within the White Scars’ sphere of influence in Segmentum Pacificus, alongside Chogoris and the Chapter’s broader network of fortress and garrison worlds.

Era: 40k

View Quan Zhou on the galactic map in the 41st Millennium.

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