TEXT: AppendiX
  68
  Appendix III: Player Handouts
  Player Handout I: Mara Planetary datafax
  CLASSIFICATION: DARK OMEGA
  +++Warning! If you are viewing this record without authorisation 
  report immediately to your nearest Holy Ordos Officio for summary 
  judgment+++
  +++Hexegramtical Encryption Engaged+++ 
  ++File Record Begins+++
  DATE/STAMP: 5945815.M41
  SUBJECT: Mara
  Population: None –Mara V (also simply known as Mara) is classified as a Dead 
  World, and the whole system declared off-limits to legitimate Imperial traffic by 
  Inquisitorial Edict. 
  Inquisitorial access available ONLY by special writ of Conclave (see ordnance 
  lamda-extris-9)
  Formerly: Arbites Penal Colony: 743.M41-768.M41: pop approx 32,000, 78% 
  Casualties/planet abandoned
  Formerly: Independent Mining Settlements Circa 980.M40-191.M41: population unknown, lost without trace. 
  Tithe Grade: None 
  Geography/Demography: Mara V is an ice-world not capable of sustaining Terran life forms without artificial 
  assistance due to the extreme cold and this atmosphere. During the planet’s day cycle, high levels of surface radiation 
  owing to solar wind bombardment are likewise inimical to long-term survival on the planetary surface. The majority 
  of the planet’s surface is covered by permanent glaciations up to a depth of several kilometres in some areas. Ambient 
  temperature seldom rises sufficiently to allow water to exist in a gaseous state other than by cryomagna irruption. 
  The only structures evident are those of the former penal colony; the primary installation (Station M-Alpha) was 
  constructed atop an ice plateau in the planet’s geologically stable equatorial zone and remains largely intact. The status 
  of thirty-plus mining rigs and prospector bases located elsewhere on Mara’s surface that were also abandoned during the 
  world’s desertion remains largely unknown.
  Governmental Type: None, but the Mara system is still nominally held as a protectorate of the Calixis Sector Adeptus 
  Arbites. 
  Planetary Governor: Lapsed/None Current. Title formerly held by the office of the First Keeper (the highest ranking 
  penitentiary marshal).
  Adept Presence: None
  Military: Trade/Economy/Addendum: Former penal colony designated 
  as Ice Station Mara has been abandoned for more than fifty years owing 
  to {SEALED/DELETED}. During the period of its operation the station’s 
  inmates conducted mining and prospecting operations for valuable trace 
  metallic elements and high-pressure formed crystal strata in direct tithe 
  to the subsector government. Under direct Arbites oversight, deep core 
  excavations based upon ancient tunnel systems and cave networks extant 
  sub-surface.
  Passage to the Mara system is forbidden. Due to the nature of the moral 
  threat perceived to long-term residents in the system, no close blockade 
  is maintained; a distance patrol piquet is maintained at regular intervals. 
  No legitimate Imperial commerce or shipping takes place on or 
  around Mara. Renegade or outlaw traffic to the system is rare but not 
  unknown.
  The Mara system is qualified as a Class Mu danger to shipping/navigation 
  in the region.
  Thought For The Day: Fates worse than death are the just reward of 
  the curious.
  Final Transmission from Prison Colony
  
  Appendix
  69
  Loyal Acolytes,
  You are requested and required forthwith under the authority of the God-
  Emperor of Mankind to submit to this writ and order and serve the most Holy 
  Ordos of His Inquisition, by my writ and the codicil of the most honoured 
  Caidin, Lord Inquisitor-General of the Conclave Calixis. 
  Firstly I congratulate you. By the dint of your faith, ability and will to 
  survive, you have brought unto our attention a most perfidious threat to the future 
  safely of the Imperium of Man. The events of the Haarlock Legacy, of which 
  you have been a part, I believe poses as grave a risk as the Holy Ordos has 
  seen in the Calixis Sector in many years. It is only by your blood and skill that 
  a greater tragedy has not come to pass. 
  Proceed now to Mara and finish this matter. The world is forbidden and 
  perilous, but somewhere beneath the haunted corridors and chambers of the forsaken 
  penitentiary mine you may find the Blind Tesseract (See Addendum), the ancient 
  door by which it now seems certain Haarlock left and will soon return. Stop him, 
  and prevent others from taking his secrets for their own. 
  You must go swiftly, and act with conviction. My agents inform me that others 
  who seek the Legacy are now also aware of the truth and a strong possibility 
  exists that the Holy Ordos’ own numbers have been compromised over this matter, 
  although from within or without remains yet to be seen.
  Go in the Light of the Golden Throne, serve us honourably and return in 
  victory from the darkness.
  Inquisitor Silas Marr
    Player Handout II: InquIsItor Marr’s letter
  
  AppendiX
  70
  +++ SEALED RECORD ADENDUM—GIMEL OBSIDIAN SUB CLUSTER ANNEX+++
  CLASSIFICATION: EBON OMEGA
  SUBJECT: Compiled report on the activity of Solomon Haarlock on planet designate 
  Mara—Calyx Expanse 
  DATE OF ENTRY: 7646.734.M36
  Initial reports from our agents hidden within the close circle of Rogue Trader 
  Solomon Haarlock report that the fifth planet of the star system within the 
  unexplored Calyx Expanse (see attached co-ordinates) indicates traces of structures 
  constructed sub-surface of planetoid; constructions first believed to be natural by-
  products of (now extinct) volcanism, However, investigation and later discoveries 
  proved this to be false. The origin of these constructions is unknown, but our agents 
  relay the opinion of Haarlock’s Savant Magister that they predate not only the 
  Imperium, but in all likelihood organic life in this part of the galaxy. These structures, 
  combined with the radiation from the system’s violent and anomalous sun and very 
  unusual crystalline mineral deposits, have a profound and unpredictable effect on 
  the fabric of Realspace in the locale of the planet; not only creating fissures though 
  which the energies of the Warp can seep unassisted, but also on localised space-
  time. A recent expedition into the largest discovered cave system deep below 
  the surface of the planet has accessed the largest and most unusual structure to 
  date. Haarlock himself is reported to have completed the last stage of this descent 
  accompanied only by his trusted Navigator Hilas-Set Nostromo. 
  On his return, Haarlock seemed very shaken by his experiences (which, given his 
  character, is an extremely noteworthy event) and the navigator Nostromo was 
  violently distressed as if overcome by fear. Both talked to Haarlock’s secret inner 
  circle of seeing the threshold of a ‘twisted labyrinth of possibility’; a ‘Blind Tesseract’ 
  as it was put by Nostromo, although other details I have been unable to ascertain. 
  Haarlock committed his observations, and those of Nostromo, to his personal 
  ciphered journals in one of his encrypted ‘Grey Psalters’ and banned all talk of the 
  structures beneath the planet before ordering an immediate full withdrawal from 
  the system. As a final note, it is worth mentioning that the name Haarlock has 
  given to the new system in his charts is ‘Mara,’ originating in this case from one of 
  the ancient Terran root-tongues of which he is so fond, meaning I believe, ‘hell’ or 
  ‘daemon’ or ‘an evil dream’….
  ++Note++ Inquisitor Ark Ashtyn’s analysis of incident reports from the Reality 
  Incursion of 743.M41 links the epicentre of the disturbances to an area of new 
  expansion in the station’s genetoria complex sub-levels. The area of the plateau they 
  occupy may well tally with Haarlock’s discoveries millennia before++ 
  +++END OF SEALED RECORD ADDENDUM+++
    Player Handout III: sealed Holy ordos rePort
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Warhammer/40k/UNSORTED (help requested)/Roleplaying Games/Dark Heresy/First Edition/Scenarios/Haarlock's Legacy/dead-stars-player-handouts.pdf