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The Ninth Blackstone Fortress is a recently discovered Blackstone Fortress, that lies within the outer regions of Ultima Segmentum.

Blackstone Fortresses are planetoid-sized crafts, which generate immense amounts of power even while dormant. Their technology goes far beyond the current knowledge of any species in the galaxy. Once fully activated, a Blackstone Fortress is capable of breaking the barrier between realspace and warpspace, creating a beam of pure immaterium to destroy everything in its path. This power can be linked with other Fortresses to create an even more powerful beam, as was evident when Abaddon the Despoiler used two Fortresses to destroy the planet Fularis II, and three to cause the Tarantis star to go supernova. Abaddon was able to remotely control the Blackstone Fortresses with the alien artifacts Hand of Darkness and Eye of Night. Huron Blackheart’s Blackstone Fortress has a Webway gate at its heart, that the Masque of the Shattered Mirage were able to use.