Overview
Balhaut’s memorials record a victory that killed the man who won it. Warmaster Slaydo defeated Nadzybar here and died of his wounds, leaving the crusade to Macaroth. For the soldiers who survived, the change in command came before the war was finished.
The damaged world became a place for administration and recovery behind the front. Convalescent troops arrived among buildings still being rebuilt, while the Commissariat continued its work. Distance from the main fighting made Balhaut useful. It did not make it safe from enemies capable of entering without an army, or from a crusade that still needed the wounded fit enough to return.
History
Slaydo defeated Nadzybar on Balhaut in 765.M41 and died from his wounds. Macaroth inherited the crusade. Gaunt’s service there became part of a personal history attached to a battle whose consequences reached far beyond the world.
Military significance
A Commissariat headquarters and recovering regiments made Balhaut useful behind the front. In the Blood Pact campaign, enemy infiltrators targeted Mabbon Etogaur, a prisoner whose knowledge could alter the wider war. The world’s support role gave an enemy reasons to enter it covertly.
M41 and M42 status
Liberated crusade world; rebuilding and military support site
Accounts around 780.M41 describe rebuilding alongside military support work. Wounded troops and memorials occupy a world still exposed to covert attack.
Later planetary condition unverified
The cited sources do not establish Balhaut’s later condition or the continued authority of its named commanders. Progress in rebuilding during the old crusade is not a report from the Indomitus era.
Timeline
Imperial victory; Slaydo and Nadzybar die, and Macaroth assumes command.
The Ghosts recuperate on Balhaut during reconstruction.
An infiltration targets Mabbon Etogaur.
Related charted locations
Administrative record
Tithe grade: Unrecorded
Population: Unrecorded
Chart placement and sources
Provisional placement
The viewed second-edition limited-edition Sabbat Worlds map places Balhaut in the crusade region.
The local map uses rimward orientation. The retained point expresses membership without claiming a precise internal offset or formal planetary class.
Source-reviewed regional estimate in the existing 0–1000 chart. The retained galaxy anchors, exact point and any ring size are not surveyed coordinates or territorial boundaries.
- Lexicanum: Balhaut — Secondary reference
Book references indexed by this source: The Sabbat Worlds Crusade, Part 3: Balhaut and Part 6: Erinyes and Carcaradon (indexed); Blood Pact, Chapters 1–29 (indexed)
- Black Library: Gaunt's Ghosts — The Victory, Part One — Official source
- The Sabbat Worlds Crusade, 2nd Edition — Limited Edition Map; reproduction on Lexicanum — Official source
The dossier is available offline. Reference links open external websites.
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