Lorix 8XH0

Lorix 8XH0 is a death world that serves as the Adeptus Astartes homeworld of the bellicose Blood of Vulkan Space Marine Chapter.

Background
The desolate and unforgiving desert world of Lorix 8XH0 serves as the unforgiving Chapter homeworld of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter. Due to the planet's active volcanoes erupting every year forming lava rivers and lakes of metal rich lava that have forges built around them to produce the chapters armor, weapons and technology for the chapter and the imperium at large. The truly habitable parts of the planet are the desert sized continents and are known as the great dunes and on the sea of glass plateau is the fortress monastery of the Blood of Vulkan Chapter which doubles as a city from which the chapter derives it recruits, a regiment known as the angelic flame regimen act as the local planet defense force along with the fortress monastery defenses includes Icarus pattern lascannons, a planetary defense laser, void shield generators to ensure extremely and near unbreakable durable defense.

Fortress-Monastery
Known to the Imperium as the Forge this city-sized, fortress-monastery houses 200,000 imperial citizens, workers, and regiments that help make up the planet's defence force and where the Chapter derives its recruits. Underneath the city lies a systems of bunkers, munitions storage and vast tunnels that are utilised as emergency evacuation routes, in case of a planetary assault.