Earth
Humanity's homeworld. Most likely the planet on which you currently reside. Also the most lazily named planet other than our moon (Called the moon) in the Solar system as well as also being inaccurate since most of the surface is water, might as well call it planet water.
This page is not called "Terra" because Supernatural World War II used to link here. Someone should fix that (Who has the Emperor given power to).
Mostly Harmless (if you're a human).
In Warhammer 40,000
Since, apparently, everybody important speaks pseudo-Latin in the future, Earth is known as Terra or Holy Terra. Nevertheless, it is still the homeworld of humanity and the capital of the Imperium of Man, and location of the Golden Throne and the God-Emperor of Mankind. Pretty much the best place to be. Unless you don't like gold-plated slums that still have scars from the Horus Heresy. But it is really Holy.
Speaking of the heresy, that was the single thrill of excitement the planet got when Horus turned up in orbit but instead of bringing potato salad for the annual family bbq, he bought a lot of PAIN and daddy issues to work out and promptly invaded the world with the selection of scum and villians he had gathered. Of course the game won't be what it is if he had just won there and then, so GW overruled the Chaos Gods and allowed the Emperor to off Horus and allow 10,000 years of fuckery to begin and which world do you think has been at the centre of that fuckery? Yep you guessed right.
There is so much awesome shit on Holy Terra that most of the planet is practically a cross between a museum and an amusement park. Of course, since 40K is so Grimdark the lines are so long they're measured not in hours but in generations and by the time you would have reached the front of the queue the whole purpose of visiting might have completely been forgotten.
Currently the Tyranid hive fleets are en route to Terra, drawn to the Emperor and his psychic lighthouse. Like Horus, they will not be bringing a fruit basket to visit.
The location of:
- The Golden Throne
- Bears
- Astronomicon HQ
- Enough bling to make modern day America look poor
- Ptera Squirrels (which are vicious and evil creatures)
- Stonehenge ('tis a magic place, where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face)
- A palace the size of Eurasia
- Various palaces/domains/realms of dignitaries who pay a fortune per minute just to rent a bit of Terra's holy soil
- Super Secret OMG-Don't-Tell-Anyone Inquisition HQ
- The high temple of assassins (somewhere)
- All the Custodes
