Nero



Nero is a mysterious "hidden" planet in the solar system originally discovered by Imperial Corporation. There is still little known about this planet other than it is a source for the Dark Legion invasion of the solar system. The Legion of the Damned is based here, Algeroth’s most feared Special Forces Unit. They strike from space, slaughtering and plundering human settlements, and taking corpses and captives back to the necrochambers. Their leader is the Nepharite Magus Maledrach.



When Mutant Chronicles 1st Edition RPG was first published, it was widely accepted in astronomy that the real-world solar system contained 9 planets (with Pluto being the 9th). At the time, Mutant Chronicles proposed that Nero was the 10th planet previously undiscovered. Since its publication, astronomers actually located a 10 planetoid, but this merely brought about the debate that Pluto is not actually a planet. At this point, one could argue that the solar system contains only 8 planets and 2 planetoids. For purposes of gaming, Nero can be this "10th planetoid".