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=Day to Day Life=

Because of the varied structure and relative independence of the various fiefdoms, civilian life can vary widely depending on which house you live under. 

Those that live under House CarVoss for instance live relatively peaceful and simple lives, often with enough personal wealth to buy mechanized farm equipment, and little fear of oppression or violence from the upper nobility. Those that are found guilty of a crime are more often than not sentenced to simple fines or servitude to the house, however those found guilty of a serious offense are sent to serve in a penal regiment in the White Mantle. 

However, those serving under House Steiburg are often forced to struggle every day for survival, living in a harsh and unrelenting wasteland in the planet's northern pole. The vast majority of the population is incarcerated in one of the many prison mines, due to the House's strict laws and tyrannical rule. Personal freedom is a luxury, and individual enterprise is seen as theft from the House. 

Those under the rule of House Tekknekov live similarly to the denizens of Hive Worlds, living day in and day out in servitude in a smelter or factory, performing one endless menial task, their minds and emotions dulled to the point of their entire existence being little more than that of a simple drone.

The people living under the rule of House Ronov lead extremely religious lives, spending each day performing singular, ritualistic tasks that serve the greater purpose of ensuring that the Knight suits of the various Houses continue to function over the centuries. The Highborn members of the House are generally Techtriarchs, or high ranking Techpriests, while the lower nobility are enginseers, techpriests and ecclesiarchs. The serf and peasant classes are mostly laborors and scribes, ensuring that the House is able to function day to day.


==Important Events==

'''ce.740.M41 - Damocles Gulf Crusade'''

Hope's Fall is located on the outer fringe of the Tau's sphere of influence in the Gulf, and as such had some involvement during the Crusade. While the vast majority of the planet's population is completely ignorant of the greater galaxy, and the myriad wars constantly being fought, a small number of Carthaggan Army Groups were mobilized and deployed into the Gulf to fight alongside the Imperium's other armies. 

'''ce.745.M41 - Tyranid Invasion'''

At the end of the Gulf Crusade, when Tyranid Hive fleets were descending on the sector, a splinter fragment of one of the fleets happened to break off of it's parent, and crash on Hope's Fall. While the actual size of the Tyranid force was small, relatively speaking, it proved more than disastrous for the planet's people. Most of the humans on Hope's Fall had no knowledge of the existence of xenos, let alone ever seen one, and now millions of them were tearing through their land, eating everything and everyone they came across. The fighting lasted roughly more than a decade, and the losses were impossible to count, but the Humans ultimately stood victorious, able to push the xenos back, and cull their numbers so that the people were able to retake their land. Despite this, after the conflict officially ended, small numbers of Tyranid swarms managed to evade death, and still occasionally emerge from the planets forests and caves to harass peasant villages, only to be pushed back by Low Guard Militias. 


'''c.e.760.M41 - Trouble over Peril'''

Around 760.M41 the Carthaggan Guard's 5th Army Group received a distress message from a small shrine moon named Peril's Watch, overtop of a planet named Peril. Renegade coursiers had attacked Peril, a promethium rich mining world. Despite the planets massive industry, it had a small population and an inexperienced and under numbered PDF, who were quickly overwhelmed. When they had finished pillaging the planet they turned to the wealthier Hives on the planets moon, a shrine world built to fulfill Peril's religious needs. 

Out of desperation the Ecclesiarchs on Peril's Watch raised a militia from the local population to aid the PDF until reinforcements could arrive. When the 5th Army Group arrived, alongside a Space Marine battlebarge they were able to quickly purge the piratical invaders off world. However, at the time the 5th Army Group was under the command of a particularly puritan member of the Ordo-Hereticus, who had decided the actions taken by the Ecclesiarchs on the moon were in violation of the Decree Passive, and declared war on the local government and it's militia. The ensuing conflict was violent and brutal, the the Space Marine chapter that had arrived alongside the Carthaggan's disagreed with the Inquisitors views, and helped defend the local populace. There were those among the Carthaggan forces that also disagreed, including a young Alexi CarVoss, a colonel at the time, as well as the sororitas Order of the White Mantle's leadership. 

They cautiosly organised a resistance against the bloodthirsty inquisitor, and managed to kill him, and have the the leadership of the 5th Army temporarily placed in the hands of Cannoness Rosia, ending the conflict. 

After returning home, out of guilt Rosia confessed to the murder of the Inquisitor, and was punished with internment in a Penitent Engine. 

The 5th Army was then placed under the supreme command of Alexi CarVoss, now a General. 


'''763.M41 - Colonization of Atruanda'''

At the outer most edge of the Tau's third sphere of influence lay a world named Atruanda, a feral world, made up of dark jungles and marshy grasslands. 

The planet, though outside of Tau space, was being occupied by an expeditionary force, around the time that the 5th Army group under the newly appointed leadership of Alexi CarVoss, landed on the planet to take it under the Imperium's wing. 

They briefly fought against the Tau forces, as well as human Gue've'sa, and after a year of seemingly ineffectual combat, both sides agreed to a ceasefire order, with the Tau leaving the planet with any humans that wished to go with them, and in exchange the Imperial forces would not continue to attack the Tau, nor would they enter the local Tau Occupied zones. 

The 5th Army left a number of guard regiments and inquisitorial militias, as well as a small number of sisters from the Order of the White Mantle, to combat any further insurrection, as well as chaotic cults that were believed to have sprung up throughout the planet.


'''c.e.813.M41 - Siege of Vraks'''

The Carthaggan's 5th Army was deployed to Vraks, in the last years of the conflict. Their forces were few in number, and their deeds went unremembered by all who would speak of Vraks, but the small few who returned home held a special sense of pride, knowing that they had quietly been there, during one of the Imperiums darkest chapters. 

The engagements they were involved in were largely insignificant, and almost wholly unnoticed by the forces of the Astartes or the Death Korps, but this mattered not to the Carthaggans; they were content to quietly busy themselves with venturing out into the lesser traveled places in between the trenches, and kill any heretic they could find, or lend what little assistance they could to any beleaguered forces that needed it.

In the end, they arrived with a little more than 100,000 combat ready soldiers, and a few thousand tanks. In less than 2 years, as the war drew to a bloody close, the Carthaggan's wearily returned to their ship, and headed back for their home, with just under a thousand tired and broken men still clinging on to what some would call life.