Overview
Badab was a thriving hive world of many billions until the Badab War; its strategic memory is dominated by secession, punishment, and the politics of local power. Its location near the Maelstrom makes loyalty and control more than abstract concerns.
The world remains a cautionary mark on Imperial maps. Badab's lesson is that rebellion can begin in administrative friction, mature through pride, and end with fleets burning what clerks failed to solve.
The final siege of 913.M41 left Badab Primaris a war-scoured ruin — its hive population all but annihilated, the remnant run by an Imperial Mission under the watch of the Star Phantoms; sources disagree only on how dead the cinder truly is.
M41 and M42 status
Hive world remembered through rebellion and reprisal.
War-scoured since the Badab War; a remnant under wary Imperial oversight.
Timeline
Local tithe disputes become sharper in nearby sector records.
Regional command concerns are filed against Badab-linked authorities.
Badab-related conflict reshapes Imperial oversight in the region.
Postwar audits treat the system as a lesson in command failure.
Rift-era authorities keep Badab under cautious observation.
Cartographic positions and several administrative details are intentionally approximate where published Warhammer sources conflict or provide no canonical coordinate system.