The Eye of Terror had not originally been called the Eye of Terror. It had once been an anomalous astronomical phenomenon named Cygnus X-1 by early Imperial astronomers during the Great Crusade at the end of the 30th millennium.
The name Eye of Terror came from Perturabo.
Within the Eye of Terror, physical laws were practically nonexistent. Any absurd sight that imagination could not conjure could be seen within it.
Although all the information Eisenhorn had investigated might become useless scrap paper the next second—or even the previous second—the information he had bought with half his life still held great reference value.
Lion noticed that the location of a Nurgle demon world called Anthrax was completely different from what he remembered.
The locations of many other important demon worlds—the dens of loathsome traitors such as the Death Guard and Thousand Sons—also differed from his memories.
The victory at the Battle of Cadia and the Blackstone Obelisks activated on Cadia had greatly shrunk the Eye of Terror.
The Cadian Gate, once at the forefront of resistance against Chaos, was now in the rear. Yet Shana II, the demon world that should have faced it, was now deep within the Eye of Terror.
"The positions of those worlds have changed," Lion said.
"Correct. But fortunately, locations in the Real Universe do not change." Guilliman pointed at a sector. "We can use that place as the fleet's staging point for attacking the Eye of Terror."
The Beliscoronna Sector.
Like the Scarulus Sector and the Medusa Sub-sector, this sector lay around the Eye of Terror.
But Beliscoronna could serve as the fleet's staging point because it possessed a miracle.
A super orbital starport.
It was the only starport in the Imperium that could rival Talon Prime Starport.
A great figure named Heffman had once