I'm sending my players off to Ryboth to chase after some conspirational leads and clues but I'm havign a hard time digging up some good info and artwork on Ryboth, or forgeworlds in General. Now, no disaster as I'm very familiar with the 40K'verse and I've read most Mechanicus-related novels over the past few years, such as Titanicus, Dark Mechanicus, The Horus heresy AdMech novel ect etc, so I've got a good general idea on how to handle it but I was wondering if you guys and gals have come up with - or found good and interesting ideas and artwork to use.

I'm planning to have the planet's main city to be a caldera-type city in the shape of a cog, tapering up like a volcano, a continent large sea of solar panels, a huge horizon-spanning space port, a huge expanse of salvage with debris and wrecks dropped from low orbit or high altitude debris and wrecks, perhaps a 'Titan Field' where the resident Titan Legion hold maneuvering and weapons excercises.

I've got some other not-yet-concrete idea's floating around but I'd like to offer this space for you to drop brainstorms, idea's, links to interesting sites and artwork, anything to put some more meat on the bones of a forgeworld.

So go ahead, spout yer idea's! Hut! Hut! Hut!

How about a rift in the surface where the tectonic plates were forced apart. Through the machinations of the Omnissiah's servants, the rift was engineered to stay open all the way down to the world's liquid core. The foundries built deep into the bedrock surrounding this rift are host to all manners of specialized manufacturing facilities and research facilities, hidden behind the curtain of the secretive Tech Priests of Mars.

Oh, nice one there!

That's a perfect location for those classic 'bottomles chasm' sequences, with a firefight over multiple levels and walkways on different heights. I can so see 'henchmen' being shot and falling to their doom with a panicky scream.

Since my party of five also consists of two tech priests, I've introduced the Noosphere on Ryboth, a sort of overlapping wireless Matrix'esque internet of everything that the true followers of the Mechanicum can tap into. A bit like it's brought in several novels (I think 'Titanicus' and' Mechanicum').

On the lowest secirity levels/accesses, tech adepts can just see an overlay of 'labeling' of the streets, buildings etc etc and as one gets a higher security level, one gains access to more and more detailed information. For isntance, from a certain security level, the tech priests can (for example) see every person having virtual labels with their profession, security level, allegiance, work status etc etc, even higher levels give access to mroe complex databases, perheps even seeing the molecular status of objects and beings if the internal sensors are available.

So basically the higher the clearance level, the more in-depth the access becomes, based on the security ID of the person (or Cognomen).