Kuzgeta Defense Sphere
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The Kuzgeta Defense Sphere spans the entire width of the Kuzgeta Sector, covering all systems conquered or colonized by Alexandri Ibirien. Established before the arrival of the Imperium, the Defense Sphere would remain as a distinct entity long after the Great Crusade. A heartland of Rosskan culture, its industry has allowed it to spread influence far beyond its borders.
History
Formation
After Rosskar was unified by Alexandri Ibirien, the Primarch's gaze turned towards the stars. Crafting an excellent colonization program, nearby moons of the Rosskar system were transformed into outposts and manufacture hubs. Soon old relics of ships allowed the rediscovery of Warp Travel, allowing the Rosskan colonists to fling themselves out further. Several planets within the nearby worlds had existed in solitude, unknowing of any survivors from the long night existed elsewhere. Seizing opportunity Alexandri created a charter for rulers of other worlds to sign. This would be a mutual agreement of defense, the exchange of ideas allowing the various pockets of humanity to unite in a federation of states. The Kuzgetan Defense Sphere was born. Rosskar was given executive control over all resources and supreme authority on military decisions.
This was because out of all the worlds, only Alexandri's territories had the ability to make warships. The Forgeworld of Kyuw assisted in the production of Rosskan Frigates, in return for protection from various raiders. The Kuzgetan Defense Sphere was greatly successful, as Alexandri's leadership gave them an edge over the various Xenos threatening humanity. Over time, the populations of the other worlds decided to take on aspects of the Rosskan culture. Children were raised learning their native tongue, and Rosskan. Alexandri peacefully took over other sixteen worlds, not even needing to seed them with life or fight tooth and nail for them. Because of this the region flourished and would later provide great bounty to the Silver Cataphracts and Rosskan Strelky.
Great Crusade
When the Imperium discovered the Kuzgetan Sphere, and subsequently its Commander in Arms Alexandri, it was immediately dissolved upon his order. All of the planets were drafted into the expanding empire right away. Not a single planet raised umbrage with this turn of events. Each one remained loyal to Rosskar first above Terra, however. Even if they made oaths of fealty to the Emperor, it was Alexandri whom they obeyed. To this end the various worlds served as a tributary of the Silver Cataphracts. Providing over manpower and arms to the growing 15th Legion.
Kuzgeta would play a pivotal role in the beginning conquests of their patron Primarch. Munitions flowed from the worlds into the artillery of the Silver Cataphracts, giving them access to the ammunition they demanded in their unrestricted barrages. Manpower was given up freely to swell the ranks of the Rosskan Strelky, a continuation of the Kuzgetan Troops from yore. This would lead to the War Council, and later Council of Terra, giving special credence to the needs of the Kuzgetan worlds in light of their Crusade contributions.
Hektor Heresy
Hektor Cincinnatus knew the importance of Kuzgeta to the war effort in the Segmentum Pacificus. It was a crossroads where the Imperial forces could recoup losses and launch attacks. Not only this, it was widely known as Alexandri's fiefdom. His responsibility and property, thus any strike against it would be a mark upon his abilities as a leader. A pincer attack was designed by the Traitors to launch out in the direction of the Defense Sphere, for Hektor knew in Alexandri's desire to defend Terra, the entire Kuzgetan region would be bereft of Legionnaires.
The gambit paid off masterfully. Kuzgeta burned, entire worlds razed up before the jewel, Rosskar herself, was attacked in a brutal campaign of destruction. It would not be until relief arrived from another Legion that the destruction stopped. In respect for the late Alexandri, the Imperium after the Scouring reinstated the Kuzgetan Defense Sphere as an autonomous zone within its own borders. This was intended to assist in rebuilding, as the worlds would be free from paying tithe until it healed back from its suffered damage.
Kuzgetan Secession War
Imperial Records Corrupted, by order of His Most Holy Inquisition wait until knowledge of this subject can be resurrected.
The God-Emperor Protects.
Worlds
Nueia Rosskiya
| Nueia Rosskiya) | |
|---|---|
| Segmentum |
TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI |
| Sector |
Alpha Nueia |
| Sub Sector |
Rosska Minoris |
| System |
Zemsvia |
| Population |
50,000,000,000 |
| Planetary Governor |
High General Kordman Treyevin |
| Orbital radius |
1.16 AU |
| Gravity |
.96 G |
| Temperature |
15C Average (Temperate/Cold) |
The first world to be colonized by Alexandri, Nueia Rosskiya would later eclipse its own homeworld. The planet is cool but not uninhabitable, and vast reserves of underground hydrocarbons and other organic matter provide immense amounts of synthetic food to a sprawling population. Adding to the planet's habitability are two large moons used for bio-domes and hydroponic gardens, remnants of a planet-sized body that broke apart in ages long past. Though still reliant on external agricultural imports, this extra food supply allowed explosive population growth, and before the Heresy, Nueia Rosskiya boasted fifty billion inhabitants.
With such an enormous weight of manpower Nueia Rosskiya naturally became the central hub of Kuzgetan culture even beyond Rosskar itself. It would provide the majority of the numbers to the Rosskan Strelky, and produce much of the armor for the Silver Cataphracts. The Industrial World would be spared the horrors of the Hektor Heresy out of pure chance as the Traitors prioritized other easier targets over it, and focused their efforts on Rosskar itself.
Long after the events of the Heresy and the Scouring however, Nueia Rosskiya's elite grew confident that their world could perhaps stand alone, and indeed should lead all others. Trusting in their vast weight of armsmen to carry them through all opposition, they led a secessionist movement against Terra to name Nueia Rosskiya as a new Imperium. To justify this traitorous Crusade, the nobles cited Alexandri's leadership as a greater template to follow than other Primarchs who helped establish the modern Imperial systems.
During their rebellion, Nueia's two large moons were brutally attacked and the hydroponic gardens shattered. The ensuing food riots could only be described as nightmarish.
Don-Boz Primaris
| Don-Boz | |
|---|---|
| Segmentum |
TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI |
| Sector |
Boroshan |
| Sub Sector |
Don-Boz |
| System |
Don-Boz |
| Population |
6,000,000,000 (Pre-Heresy)45,000,000 (Post-Heresy) |
| Planetary Governor |
Lord Bessemac Danmers |
| Orbital radius |
.75 AU |
| Gravity |
1.10 G |
| Temperature |
28C |
Don-Boz Primaris, an unlucky world if there ever was one. Settled late in the Great Crusade by emigrants from overcrowded Nueia Rosskiya, Don-Boz promised a warmer climate more conducive to human habitation. Though considerably hotter on average than human norms would prefer, its oceans are broad and shallow and there are few landmasses large enough to permit truly significant desertification. Its star is somewhat cooler than Sol, shining a very pleasant warm orange color, and its years are short and seasons brief. Desalination plants drank of the oceans and gave life to fertile soil, and deep beneath the crust the settlers found rich veins of promethium ore. Times were good for Don-Boz, and life was simple before the Heresy.
Owing to its geographical location, Don-Boz was considered a vital linchpin for controlling multiple Warp lanes through the sector and beyond. Accordingly, it was invaded no fewer than six times by the Arch-Traitor's forces, and liberated seven. Fertile fields burned to drifting ash, and both factions drank Don-Boz' promethium nearly dry with greedy mouths in order to fuel their machines. Tanks roamed freely across the land, and the civilian population was decimated by famine, disease and conscription into both Traitor and Imperial armies depending on who held the planet at the time. Indeed, not one Bozite out of a hundred survived.
After the Heresy, the Bozites shifted their focus away from the ruined surface of Don-Boz and enlisted aid from their wealthy neighbors on Nueia Rosskiya. They built a series of impressive space stations and orbital facilities, making their livelihoods from Imperial Chartist vessel tariffs and assisting the Imperial Navy with drydock duties. For many centuries, Don-Boz prospered once more, though never matching its early wealth. Still, its citizens felt contented enough. And then Nueia Rosskiya launched their rebellion.
Citing eminent domain from their ancient investments into the dockyards, the Nueians conscripted every ship in orbit of Don-Boz in order to transport their legions. Unable to defend themselves, the Bozites simply barricaded themselves inside the hab-domes and attempted to ride out the storm. To their dismay, when the inevitable Imperial counterattack arrived they were charged as equally guilty for not destroying ships, shipyards, and hab-stations alike to deny the traitors critical war materiel. Inquisitor Kennelax Poltaris led an Imperial attack squadron to savage Don-Boz, killing the spacers as they cowered in their homes.
Don-Boz today stands in abject ruin. On the ground, a handful of millions eke out a living harvesting what little promethium remains to be had for export. In orbit, small spacer families earn their daily bread breaking up the remnants of the vast shipyards for scrap, still orbiting in a ring around Don-Boz. It is a world like many others in the Imperium. Here can be seen the full price of war.
Vikorm IV
| Vikorm | |
|---|---|
| Segmentum |
TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI |
| Sector |
Tungrus |
| Sub Sector |
Vikorm |
| System |
Vikorm |
| Population |
120,000,000 |
| Planetary Governor |
Arch-Deacon Constantos Etrura |
| Orbital radius |
2.2 AU |
| Gravity |
1 G |
| Temperature |
-12 C |
Ah, to walk along the streets of Vikorm IV during its fleeting summers, when the endless ice melts and shimmering rivers of purest meltwater cascade into the equatorial oceans. Huzzah for Vikorm's savage winters, which toughen and inspire Kuzgetan families!
During the Great Crusade, Vikorm IV attracted settlers from across the Imperium who sought that most precious, and yet most overlooked of resources: clean water. The vast majority of Vikorm's water is locked up in ice sheets ten miles thick or more, only briefly melting for a few months to fill up gigantic meltwater lakes. This water runs over deeper ice, and never touches the bedrock below. Accordingly, it picks up neither salt nor sediment, and its mineral content is exceptionally low.
Imperial voidships travel across dozens of sectors to mine this beautiful iceball, and their cargoes of freshwater command unimaginable prices. The citizenry of Vikorm IV lives comfortable lives, merely exacting tariff upon tariff to sustain themselves. Where the ice extractors have passed, vast caverns stand newly open, and it is in these that the Vikormians live. During the Heresy, the Vikormians simply collapsed the entrances to their caves of ice and steel, waiting out the bloodshed safe beneath many kilometers of snow. Unlike so many other planets, Vikorm IV rode out the Heresy completely unscathed, unnoticed by either titanic combatant.
Over the years, Vikorm IV became staggeringly wealthy, and the emerging Imperial religion took notice. As fiery in their preaching as Vikorm's winds blew cold, the Ecclesiarchy claimed this world for their own and elevated its inhabitants to the exalted ranks of clergy. In the ice caves they constructed temples of unbelievable size and scale, whose artistry and grandeur know few equals across the Imperium. Tourism began to supplement the water-sales, and life on Vikorm is good indeed. "Cold builds the Soul, Gold builds the World", say the Vikormians. And it is true. Even after 10,000 years of Imperial habitation, barely 10% of the planet's water has been removed, and there is so very much more room to grow.
Kamnets Primaris
| Kamnets | |
|---|---|
| Segmentum |
TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI |
| Sector |
Frombov |
| Sub Sector |
Kamnets |
| System |
Kamnets |
| Population |
50,000,000 |
| Planetary Governor |
General Ibramev Tokrez |
| Orbital radius |
.14 AU |
| Gravity |
.7G |
| Temperature |
120C (Sunside), -60C (Darkside) |
Kamnets Primaris orbits a small red dwarf star, all but scraping its photosphere as it does. It has an atmosphere, though a tenuous one, and receives an intolerable amount of ultraviolet and thermal radiation at all times. The planet is tidally locked around its star, and liquid water is present only in a thin ring of twilight between fire and frost. Were it not for the colossal White Rift stretching across half the sky, it is unlikely the Imperium would take any notice of the battered little rock ball. The Rift covers much of the Subsector and flares up in rhythm with Kamnets' parent star. Red dwarves are well known for producing titanic solar flares out of all proportion to their size, and Kamnets Alpha is no exception.
When the red dwarf erupts, the White Rift casts hideously pale light into the void, and from these hateful rays are born creatures that defy Imperial categorization even to this day. Though similar in appearance to any other Warp Storm found in Imperial records, the White Rift does not lead to that plane of chaos and hatred. Like living lightning bolts, angular serpents of unidentifiable energy slither from a space between worlds to feast on anything in their way, and it falls to the Imperial Navy to fend them off with lance and plasma macrobattery at the ready.
Any soldier unlucky enough to be consumed by the "serpents" simply vanishes. Entire voidships have been swallowed up and disintegrated, or perhaps spirited away to realms unimaginable and deadly. Some believe the White Rift to be a manifestation of Order itself, passing judgement on the Materium's imperfect creations. Others believe it to be the fell imprint of an unknown fifth Chaos entity beyond the four Ruinous Powers. A few Imperial scholars maintain the White Rift to be lingering energies from a conflict between Dark Age Mankind and Pre-Fall Eldar, whose powers are now beyond human comprehension. The most frightening whispers, only uttered within a small circle of Inquisitors, declare the White Rift to be a godling yet to be born. In their eyes, the lethal forces traversing the Rift can only be the embryonic hungers of Ynnead, the Eldar god of Death, practicing its killing arts.
Whatever the Rift's true nature, the Imperium stands ever vigilant to meet it, until judgement day arrives.
Culture
Most Kuzgetans did not suffer the somber attitude of their Rosskan cousins. A sense of achievement and pride pervaded most levels of Kuzgetan society. Many could look back at the first colonists sent out to explore the vast darkness with glee in their hearts. That was their heritage, and they were deeply proud of it. In other respects, the Kuzgetans resembled more closely to their fore bearers. Little desire remained in their hearts for inquiry, generally accepting inhuman reality if it provided benefit to the great part of society. This cold logic would lead to certain accepted atrocities, such as harsh judicial sentencing for citizens committing relatively harmless crimes.
The people of Kuzgeta were tirelessly industrious, which explained their meteoric rise in most periods of their history. It was believed that all effort should be put towards the betterment of society as a whole. That this was the highest honor one could achieve. A person had a responsibility to fulfill to their planet first, then community, then family. Divorce rates and broken households were common in Kuzgetan culture. Immediate relations were simply not seen as a pressing priority compared to ensuring productivity continued to run high in your world's foundries.
This attitude fed into the arts, as gifted writers, artists, and musicians would dedicated every waking hour of their life to the craft. To bring the best improvement upon the greater culture as they could. The sciences received a almost religious pursuit of study too. The Adeptus Mechanicus gained many gifted individuals from the Kuzgetan populations who would go on to bring much glory to the Omnissiah.
Military
The Kuzgeta Defense Sphere, even after its dissolution, was focused on three stages of defense. The first and most important segment was Response Fleet. This was a collection of warp capable vessels who would respond right away to the threat of an enemy presence. The next line of defense would be inner-system Defense Ships. These would be Ironclads and Gunboats incapable of warp travel, carrying a great arsenal of long range weaponry designed to attack an enemy at a distance. These forces would never directly engage, but be a general nuisance by consistently falling back. They were designed only to buy time for the Response Fleet. The last line, and the most vulnerable, were the Kuzgetan Defense Troops.
The Troops were the Rosskan Strelky, before and after they came to be. The Kuzgetan Troops had less discipline than the Strelky. Acting more as a reservist militia, they would use the same equipment but be far less versed with it. The Troops fought with a tenacity however on their homeworlds. Under proper leadership or the watchful gaze of the Silver Cataphracts, they were capable of achieving greatness on par with their Imperial Army comrades.