The planet was slightly cooler than most human-settled worlds but not to the point that it adversely affected growing conditions. The land mass of the world was divided between incredibly thick pine forests of axel-trees and vast glaciers. These were the massive assaults the forces of Chaos launched every few Terran centuries from the Eye of Terror in an attempt to break out of the Cadia Gate and invade the Imperium proper as they did during the Horus Heresy.Ĭadia's natural environment was much like Terra's millennia ago, with a large ocean that covered 70 percent of the planet's surface. The world's dangerous proximity to the Eye of Terror made it necessary for the people of Cadia to heavily fortify the planet.Ĭadia was always the first target of the Warmaster of Chaos Abaddon the Despoiler's Black Crusades. It was the fourth world of the Cadian System, and its surface contained a wide variety of terrain types and ecosystems, including frozen tundras, temperate plains, wind-swept moors and the great native axel-tree forests.Ĭadia guarded the only known navigable route to and from the massive Warp rift known as the Eye of Terror, a passage called the Cadian Gate. Cadia, officially known as Cadia Prime, was a terrestrial, Earth-like planet originally classified as the Imperium of Man's most important Fortress World by the Administratum before its destruction and consumption by the Immaterium in 999.M41.
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