Editing Imperial Worlds (section)

===War Worlds===
'''War Worlds''' are planets locked in eternal war. So what makes these planets different from just any old planet with a war on it? Scale and length; on a War World, generations of soldiers have lived and died. Some planets just have such warlike cultures that even without an external force, they will kill each other (not necessarily for Khorne); usually planets with scarce resources—— such as [[Zayth]], but that's a Hive world—— result in this since the best way to deal with limited supplies is to kill someone else and take their stuff. Some of these worlds just happen to be unluckily situated in a location so strategic that two intergalactic (or merely galactic) factions refuse to acknowledge the sunk-cost fallacy and back down; occasionally even the sunk cost fallacy doesn't apply because of how important the location is.

Many Imperial groups maintain War Worlds as a means of keeping battle-trained troops at the ready. They are useful for Guard and Space Marine recruiting and act as a natural deterrent to planetary conquest or invasion in important areas.

For the most part, these are probably pretty shitty places to grow up in, ''[[Grimdark|even by Imperial standards]]''.

An example of a War World was [[Cadia]].