What's the solar system around the Old World planet?

jh

For the sake of G.. what did you drink today Emirikol? ;p

I am going to play safe, one star, two moons and a twin tailed comet (although this last one is probably an extrasolar body)

Yepesnopes said:

Ouch that's harsh...

The twin tailed comet is... reasonably frequent, so it makes sense that it's just a long period comet with the system. Also, I think he was asking about other planets within the system. The only real indicator we have for this is the old star signs, which give a few constellations, maybe a planet is one of those.

"Solar system", what's that?? The Old World is the centre of the universe of course. Time to call the Witch Hunters.

More seriously, I think there was something about that in some supplement or Warpstone article (about astrology in the Old World or such).

Crazy Aido said:

I want to make it clear, my intention was not to mock anyone.

I can take the joke, I'm not hypersensitive I thought it was quite funny.

Now back to the discussion. What kind of solar system does the old world have? Is it Old-World-o-Centric or does everything go around the sun? How many planets are there? What do we know about the moons? Why are there so many comets?

Theories are welcome too.

jh

Clearly, the Old World exists within the Eye of Storm: a swirling vortex of chaos energy, completely disparate from the universe at large due to the machinations of the Old Ones. It exists to protect the gene seeds of numerous intergalactic races from genocidal threats such as the Tyranids and C'tan. The technology of the Ancients keeps all heavenly bodies within eye in a form of continuous cyclical orbit that defy "normal" astrological patterns.

::dons tinfoil hat::

Liber Fanatica IV ( http://www.liberfanatica.net/LF4-Part4.pdf ) has a rundown of the Solar System based on the GW book Burning Shore ( http://www.blacklibrary.com/all-products/Burning-Shore-The.html ). They also mention the (at that time) pending release of the Tome of Salvation.

Then Games Workshop cut Andy Law's wordcount on the Warhammer Solar System because they didn't want that information detailed.../sigh. However Andy being the super awesome fantastamagoric dude that he is, posted the snipped bits on his website. You can find the solar system info in one of his forum posts here (Post #9 down the list):

http://hapimeses.com/forum/index.php/topic,220.0.html

Cheers,

edit: fixed the links...stupid forum...

For the battles game the Empire just recieved a new army book, there's a new unit called a Celestial Hurricanum and well, it looks like a solar system.

Some of the better pictures from GW's website:

• www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2350467a_99120202031_CelestialHurricanum05_445x319.jpg
• www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2350452a_99120202031_CelestialHurricanum02_445x319.jpg
• www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2350473a_99120202031_CelestialHurricanum06_873x627.jpg

Some of the info about the Hurricanum on GW's site: "Originally built to help Celestial Wizards in their studies of the heavens to make for more accurate predictions of the future, it has since been turned into a large and devastating weapon of war."

That image mini is so cool, now i have to find a way to work that into campaign. Schullmann survived Gathering Storm in my world, maybe he's onto a new "Grand Scheme"....

So we don't have a name for the old world planet? Any suggestions? I think with Waystone use, that the elves would surely have a "name" of some kind for their home planet.

jh

Just waiting for the world to be re-discovered by the emperium. Shame it hasn't been discovered yet, I was sure Sigmar was a Primarch....

This site gives the Burning Shore view of solar system with the 6th edition wargame warhammer rulebook's input

http://whfb.lexicanum.com/wiki/Warhammer_world