The planet Khymara is near the Malestrom and this is where my gaming group has been planning campaigns, tournies, and games around for about 2 years. It is a desert mining world with criminals mining the resources from the planet.
Khymara
Type Mining World
Orbital radius Khymara is the largest planet in its System
and third planet of 8 in its system
Gravity .96
G
Temperature 35-50 degrees Celsius (95 - 122
degrees Fahrenheit), Hyper Arid Desert
Population 100,000 (human)
System Khymara System
Sector Khymara Sub- Sector
Segmentum Ultima Segmentum
The present Mining
World of Khymara is
an Imperial Mining
World. It is in the control by Imperium of Mankind's in the Segmentum Ultima. The capital of the arid planet
is the city is the Khymara’s Spire. Today Khymara is mainly inhabited by humans
who were formerly citizens of the Imperium but became Penial workers for
various crimes against the Imperium.
History
Imperial records do not detail the early colonization of
Khymara. It is most likely that the planet was discovered by humans during the
early years of the Dark Age of Technology. No records specifically refer to the
system, but it is known that many star systems on the Western Fringe of the
galaxy were first being explored at this time. On first discovery Khymara may
have been dead world, bereft of any life, a hot desert planet of sand and rock
with a semi breathable atmosphere. If life ever tried to evolve on Khymara, the
constant heat never allowed life progress beyond the level of microorganisms.
The planet had few areas of liquid ground water and very little atmospheric
moisture. The atmosphere was breathable for humans and the environment was too
harsh to foster life. But early human explorers must have noted that although
lifeless now, the planet's ecosystem was not far from being life-sustaining.
Temperatures were high (in the deep deserts very high) but not to the point of
making the world uninhabitable. There was some atmospheric moisture and better
still, the planet was extremely rich in strategic metals. Huge quantities of
useful ores were present and much of it was close to the surface and easily
accessible to strip-mining techniques. There was a stable atmosphere which
could be manipulated. Khymara was not beyond hope for human colonization. The
lure of the ore deposits made the planet a viable prospect for terraforming.
During the Dark Age of Technology, Mankind had
both the advanced technology and knowledge required to alter planetary
atmospheres and ecosystems to create a habitat conducive to human life. The
transformation did not have to be extensive, only creating a climate where a
colonist could survive without an environmental suit and dig a mine. Aided by
long-forgotten advanced technology, these human explorers set about
terraforming the lifeless desert world into something humanity could survive
upon. It did not happen overnight. It may well have taken as long as 5,000
Terran years of hard work, but more liquid water was eventually introduced to
the planet's surface in the form of artificial seas. Genetically engineered
plants and algae were also introduced to the Khymaraian ecosystem, creating a completely
breathable oxygen atmosphere in time. Careful management and nurturing slowly
changed the atmosphere. How this was done is a mystery in the less technically
sophisticated Age of the Imperium, but some now life now
exists on Khymara. The first mention of Khymara in Imperial records is in the
30th Millennium, just after the end of the Age
of Strife. The planet was rediscovered by the armies of the newborn
Imperium's Great Crusade as they spread out from Earth,
reconquering the Milky Way Galaxy for Mankind and reuniting the scattered human
colony worlds that had long been sundered from one another by Warp
Storms and wars. Humanity had barely survived on Khymara, degenerating
into a savage, Stone Age tribal existence. The population, probably never
large, had dwindled to less than 10 thousand people. In another thousand years,
human life on the planet would have been extinct.
Rediscovery of the planet's mineral wealth resulted in the
Imperium deciding to recolonize Khymara. The regressed and now hostile
colonists were exterminated by one of the Great Crusade's Expeditionary Fleets
and new Imperial colonists moved in, establishing mining stations and a
spaceport. Over the next 10,000 years of the Imperium's rule, Khymara's
population steadily grew to its current level of approximately 5 million
people. One major city, Khymara’s Spire, developed around the spaceport. Metal
ore mining remained the planet's main value to the Imperium.
Departmento Munitorum records indicate that in the entire
history of the Imperium, Khymara raised only 3 Imperial Guard regiments. The Khymaraian
1st Regiment was annihilated during the 5th Black Crusade. The Khymara 2nd and
3rd served as part of the Rogue Trader Saen expedition and were eventually
disbanded, with their survivors being folded into another Imperial Guard unit.
Climate
and Environment
Khymara's climate could be described in a single word: hot.
The coolest climates were in the highly mountainous regions, although they were
never cold enough for water ice to form and it was hottest in the deep deserts.
The nights on Khymara are extremely cold, with little cloud cover. The major
proportion of the evaporated water condenses and returns to the surface during
the night. There is minimal recorded precipitation, less than 1 millimeter per
annum. Khymara was divided into four principle climatic regions; Mountains,
Arid Deserts, Semi-Arid Deserts and Seas. Shifting sands and bare rock covered
95% of the planet's surface. The largest region is the Arid Deserts. The Great
Sand Seas are habitable by humans and whilst there may be vast mineral
resources buried beneath the sands the logistics of working in such a hostile
environment with very high temperatures, low water supply, high winds and the
threat of large sandstorms make it hard but not impractical. Most of the
deserts also remain unexplored wildernesses Semi-arid regions, concentrated
around the coasts are mostly barren, rocky badlands. At ground level, strong,
sand-filled winds are commonplace. The second largest region of the planet are
the mountains. Low mountainous highlands
cover 20% of the planet's surface. Ancient and heavily eroded by the desert
sands, they are not tall, but are extremely rugged. There are no major routes
through the mountain regions and no known settlements. They remain an
unexplored desert wilderness. The few seas help to mediate Khymara’s extreme
temperatures. Surrounding the small seas are the inhabited areas of semi-arid
desert. These regions are home to the planet's hydro-farmers. There are two
main seas on Khymara called the Mara-sai and the Khy-sai these small, landbound
seas are Taros' only source of surface water and were probably artificially
created as part of the planet's terraforming by humanity during the Dark Age of
Technology. Today the seas are highly alkaline, but provide two-thirds of the
population's water supply from hydro-processing.
Hot air rising from the deep Khymaraian deserts collides
with the cooler air from over the polar highlands' mountainous regions. The
pressure difference causes a high-speed river of air in the planet's upper
atmosphere. This air stream can reach incredible speeds, up to 400 mph. This
pressure system dominates the climate of Khymara. As the small amount of water
in the air condenses to form the wispy clouds common to the skies of Khymara,
in the hottest areas these begin to form localized storm clouds, heavily laden
with water vapour. The storm clouds rise on hot thermals. If they meet one of
the fast-moving air streams, the top of the cloud begins to rotate in the
fast-moving wind. This spinning force radiates down through the cloud, spinning
faster and faster to form a hurricane. These hurricanes can be huge and blow
for days on the surface of Kyhmara. Sucking up huge amounts of sand, these
become the sandstorms called Sand Devils by the local population. Most blow
themselves out in the deep deserts, but occasionally Sand Devils destroy water
farms or mining facilities.
Terraforming
Once, in the distant past before the Age of the Imperium, Khymara was a dead world.
Barely inhabitable by humans, it was a bare, scorched desert wilderness. In
the Dark Age of Technology, after the discovery
of its rich mineral wealth, it was terraformed by the introduction of liquid
water and genetically-engineered flora to produce an oxygenated atmosphere.
This has managed to create an environment that a small population of humans can
survive in.
Flora and
Fauna
There is no flora native to Khymara. Genetically-engineered
flora was imported to the world millennia ago and survives in the semi-arid
zones as scrub and cactus-like plants. The seas contain toxic algae, which
generates most of the planet's breathable oxygen. There is no recorded native
fauna.
Economy and Society
Almost 100, 000 people inhabit Khymara, mostly in and around
the various mining camps and the semi-arid regions surrounding the small seas. Khymara
Spire is situated in the Mara-Sai region, where several small landbound seas
are Kymara’s only surface water. The water is highly alkaline, but
hydro-processing plants situated on the shores turn it into potable, fresh
water. This process is aided by the scattered water-farms, which gather ambient
moisture from the air. Water farmers sell their produce to the Sector Governor
through exclusive contracts. The Governor and his officials control all water
distribution on Khymara and therefore all life. Khymara Spire is the single
largest urban area with the planet's only spaceport facility. Most Khymaraian
inhabits are Penial workers in the mines, working long hours at the strip mines
and quarries out in the desert. Other major industries include water-processing
and hydro-farming. Hydroponics workers grow food in atmospheric-controlled
hydroponic plants. Ore transportation is another large Khyamaraian industry,
moving raw ore from the desert mines to collection points in Khymara Spire
before transportation off-world. Short distance transportation uses physical
manpower (literally labourers carrying a sack of ore each) or tractors towing
trains of ore carts. Long-distance transportation uses large cargo aircraft.
In the 38th Millennium, as part of the then-Planetary
Governor's drive to improve Khymarian productivity, he requested an order from
the Adeptus Administratum to import off-world assitance in the form of Enforcers.
A thousand Enforcers were depolyed en masse to Khymara to “increase”
productivity in the mines. Equipped to
“increase” the penial workers productivity, the enforcers were effective for a
while. Uprisings, riots, protests occurred in many of the mining villages.
Adeptus Aribites in the Sub Sector were dispatched to end the uprisings riots
and protests with force. Enforcers are still used by many Khymaraian mines to
increase productivity. The last census carried out by the Adeptus
Administratum, in the mid-41st Millennium, estimated a population of less than 500
Enforcers scattered across the planet.
The rest of the Khymara population is made up mostly of poor
Water and Hydroponic farmers operating in across the Planet. A medium level of
technology is maintained, with many tasks automated because of the difficult
environment and the importance of Khymara minerals to the Imperium's war
machine. The Ecclesiarchy's Missionaria Galaxia missionaries report that there
is little evidence of genetic mutation or psychic abilities among the Khymaraians.
Due to the extreme aridity of the planet water is the
primary resource on Khymara. Hydro-farming is an important industry, as is
hydro-processing from the alkaline seas. Sea water is processed to make it fit
for human consumption. All water trade is centrally-controlled by the Sector
Governor through his official "water-agents." Processing plants are
situated on the coast and purify the water via a three-stage process.
Hydro-farms are widely scattered across the Khy-Sai region.
The world's primary exports, first to the Imperium are
mineral ores for ferro-alloys, including lead, vanadium, rhenium, cobalt and
manganese. Vanadium is a toxic, silvery-white metallic element, occurring in
vanadinite which is a red/yellow/brownish mineral formed by the weathering of
lead ores in desert climates. It is used in steel alloys to provide extra
hardness and as a catalyst in other military-grade alloys. Rhenium is a dense,
silvery-white metallic element with a high melting point that occurs in
gadolinite and molybdenite. It is used in alloy with tungsten in
high-temperature thermocouples. Manganese is a brittle, greyish-white metallic
element that occurs in manganite,a black mineral consisting of a form of
manganese oxide. It is used in some steel and other ferromagnetic alloys.
Manganese steel is a very hard form of steel containing 11-14% manganese by
volume to produce hard-wearing tools such as rock crushers, heavy pistons and
gun barrels with high-tensile properties. Lead is a heavy toxic blue-white
metallic element that occurs in galaena (a blue-black mineral that consists of
lead sulphides). It is highly malleable, and it is used in alloys for
accumulators, cable sheathing and radiation shielding. Cobalt is a brittle,
hard, metallic element that is a ferromagnetic metal and occurs in cobaltite,
and it is used in steel alloys to help resist corrosion. Taros' principle
imports are food and fresh water.
Khymara’s native food supply is largely grown under cover in
large, atmospheric-controlled hydroponic plants. Many Khymaraian buildings have
their own hydroponic plants, but the largest are situated around Khy-Sai and in
the coastal regions. This provides the population with 90% of their food
supply, the other 10% being imported from surrounding worlds. Khymara’s principle
crops are variants of the millet and sorghum plants, both members of the grass
family, providing highly nutritious grain. Groundnuts, related to the soya
bean, are a growing source of protein and provide many varied foodstuffs. Some
exotic off-world fruits are grown. All Khymaraian crops have evolved to survive
on a minimal water supply, which is heavily recycled by the hydroponic plants
to prevent any wastage. Other sources of vitamins and protein come from algae
and marine microorganisms harvested from the seas and chemically processed to
make an edible gruel called "grud" by the natives. This is the staple
diet of the Khymaraian miners and workers. Other foodstuffs, meats, dairy
products and luxury items must be imported and are only available for
celebrations.
Only one city exists on Khymara, Khymara’s Spire which has a
population of approximately 25,000 people. It acts as an ore collection point,
the centre of the planet's political administration, Space Port, the only area
constantly patrolled under the watchful eye of 100 Adeptus Arbites, the
distribution center for water and food supplies and other smaller industries.
The largest town is Ira Khy-Sai which has the highest density of hydro-farms
and water processing plants. There are very few other large settlements. Those
that do exist are towns built up around the largest strip-mining and quarrying
operations.
Geographical features
Khymara’s Spire -
The only City on Khymara and the most populated area around the Mara-sai is
called "Khymara’s Spire" and is home to approximately 25,000 of Khymara's
population. This area has the most temperate climate on the planet, due to the
proximity of the seas and the prevailing wind conditions and as a result, the
majority of the world's population lives here.
Ira Khy-Sai- The
strip of land near the Khy-Sai, seas on which the town of Ira Khy-Sai is
situated. It is the largest hydroponics facilities on the planet. Population is
estimated to be near 5,000 Khymaraians.
Alpha Class mines- Living
in mining settlements around the mining facilities are the other 70,000
residents of Khymara are Penial Workers. Alpha class mines are worked by penial
troops. Each mine is classified as a vertical grid coordinate 0-9, Horizontal
grid coordinate 0-9 and Material ie Lead,
Vanadium, Rhenium, Cobalt and Manganese. All One of the most
productive and largest mines on Khymara is Alpha-67c.
The Great Sand Sea
- The vast empty deserts of Khymara, The Great Sand Sea is uninhabited and
there are no roads. It is empty except for rolling sand dunes. Huge mineral
deposits may still remain undiscovered here, yet to be exploited.
The Pyre - An
area of desert surrounded on all sides by mountains. It is accessible only by aircraft.
The highest temperatures on Khymara occur within this heat trap. Rumored to be a mass graveyard for the
inhabitants of Khymara
The Naolg Heights
- An area of rocky badlands and low hills with a reputation for banditry but
also very lucrative mineral deposits.
Raptors Khymara Strike Force will consist of:
Lias Issoden
Reclusiam
Primaris Chaplain attached to 5th Co
Chaplain attached to 10th Co
Librarius
Primaris Librarian attached to 5th Company
Librarian attached to 10th Company
Apothecarian
Primaris Apothecary attached to 5th Company
Apothecary attached to 10th Company
Apothecary
Apothecary
Armory
4 Techmarines (3 are Thunder fire gunners)
4 Servitors
2 Predator Destructors
1 Predator Annihilator
3 Thunderfire Cannons
Damocles Rhino
Land Raider
3 Land Speeder Typhoons
3 Land Speeder Tempests
2 Storm Hawks
Storm Eagle
3 Tarantula Heavy Bolter emplacements
3 Tarantula Lascannon Emplacments
3 Tarantula Air Defense Emplacemnts
Mortis Dreadnought
1st Company
5 man Tartaros Terminator Squad
2 5 man Sternguard Squads
1 5 man Vanguard Squad
5th Company (Primaris Co)
Primaris Captain
2 Primaris Lieutenants
Primaris Ancient
6 5 man Intercessor Squads
3 3 man Inceptor Squads
3 5 man Hellblaster Squads
2 5 man Reiver Squads
2 5 man Aggressor Squads
2 Redemptor Dreadnoughts
2 Repulsors
7th Company (Reserve Co)
2 5 man Tactical Squads
10 man Tactical Squad
10 man Tactical squad (vehicle Crew)
8th Company (Reserve Co)
5 man Assault Squad
9 man Assault Squad (Land Speeder Crews)
9th Company (Reserve Co)
2 5 man Devastator Squads
1 10 man Devastator Squad
10th Company (Scout Co)
Captain
Lieutenant
6 5 man Scout Squads
6 man Scout Bike Squad
3 Land Speeder Storms
I plan on putting all the non primaris/ Scout models in MK IV cause it looks cooler. Plus it makes them look cohesive as a force.
