Spania
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Spania | 
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| Segmentum: | Tempestus | ||
| Sector: | Eternum | ||
| Subsector: | Richmon | ||
| System: | Franco | ||
| Population: | ~12,000,000,000 | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperial | ||
| Class: | Shrine World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Adeptus Non | ||
Overview
The most isolated shrine world in Eternum, Spania nonetheless has an important role in the Ecclesiarchy of Eternum as it is where high ranking Clergy are judged and punished.
Originally an isolated civilized world known by a different and long lost name, Spania was the site of Hierach Joaquin Mellado's Sanguinius Day Judgment - the culmination of his efforts to bring to task disparate Cardinals of Eternum's Ecclesiarchy who had supported the Anthorian during the Anthorian-Confederation Schism and which saw almost all Cardinals of the Anthorian school executed for crimes of blasphemy. Canonized by the Ecclesiarchy after his death, Mellado's memorable and highly public executions led to the practice of Spania's Hierachs serving as judge, jury, and potential executioner for any high ranking Cardinals charged with spiritual crimes in the Sector. Spania is dedicated to this task, with Mellado Square towering over the inhabitants of this world, and citizens constantly policing each other over the current interpretation of the Imperial Cult. Spania does possess farms and factories to support itself, but its most known for the Flagellant Fleets of Pilgrims it constantly sends out to worlds across Eternum. These fleets are comprised of rickety third rate ships barely running, filled to the brim with pilgrims ready to be whipped into a ferver by demagogues and firebrand preachers. Spania is exempt from Imperial tithes as its inhabitants are too useful to the Imperial Cult as disposable fodder for the needs of the Cult throughout the sector, though a Spanian flagellant can occasionally be found in the employ of a particularly dogmatic rogue trader or Inquisitor. Although an easy to discount opponent owing to their cloth robes and simple melee weapons, the flagellants chosen as bodyguards or retinue possess a zealousness approaching death cultists