Voltoris

Voltoris is an Eastern Fringe knight world of House Terryn, its surface a scatter of continent-islands set within a single green ocean. Imperial tradition holds that the Emperor himself praised the world in those terms, a description that has since passed into House Terryn’s own account of its origins.

The world’s history is bound to the labour of House Terryn’s knights, who during the Age of Strife cleared Voltoris of its native fauna to make the continent-islands fit for settlement. This early campaign of clearance is remembered within the house as the foundation of its claim to the world, long before Voltoris was drawn into the wars of the Eastern Fringe.

In M41, Voltoris stood close to the Damocles Gulf, and House Terryn’s knights were drawn into fighting there against the T’au Empire and, separately, against the forces of Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan. After the fall of the T’au world of Mu’gulath Bay, Imperial forces used Voltoris as a staging point, launching a successful ambush against T’au forces operating from the system.

These campaigns placed House Terryn’s knights within the wider Imperial war effort against the T’au advance through the Damocles Gulf, fighting alongside other Imperial forces defending the region. Voltoris remains a knight world of House Terryn, its reputation resting on this record of defence rather than on any prominence beyond the Eastern Fringe.