Setting:Cloudburst/Ghald

System
Galactic Position	Cloudburst Sector, Nauphry Subsector
System Overlord	None
Worlds in the system	5, 1 hypothetically habitable
World Type, Name	Death World: Ghald IV
Tropospheric Composition	Nitrogen 80%, Oxygen 19%, Argon .2%, Water .6%, Unknown 0.1%
Religion	N/A
Government type	N/A
Planetary Governor	No
Adept Presence	N/A
Climate	Thick, dry winds, heavy with chemicals and sand
Geography	82 million mi² of surface and no (natural) plate tectonics
Gravity	1.01 Terran Gravity
Day Length	26 Terran Hours
Economy	N/A
Principal Exports	N/A
Principal Imports	N/A
Countries and Continents	One supercontinent
Military	N/A
Contact with other Systems	Never
Tithe Grade	Aptus Non
Population	Unsaveable

Description

Surely, if there were any evidence in the universe that all life is hostile to humanity until it is conquered, it is Ghald IV, among the most horrifying places in the Segmentum Ultima. This rocky, mountainous planet has abundant and semi-sentient animal life. Animals here trend towards vicious, clever, and fast. This, however, is no real impediment to a determined Imperial colonization effort. The real problem is that several of the mountains are nothing of the kind. As Imperial second-wave colonists learned to their absolute terror, looking down from orbit at the remains of the first-wave colonists on the surface below, at least some mountains were actually living, monstrous creatures, some up to two miles tall. They move so slowly that they may as well not move at all, but move they do, and every so often, a pocket of stone, indistinguishable from all others, will open on the surface of the beings. From the holes emerge clouds of mind-control spores, which assume total and permanent control of all nearby animals, even those with different nervous systems. The animals are then driven to attack, mindlessly and relentlessly, the animals of nearby mountain beasts. The Inquisition is under orders to commit Exterminatus against the planet at the first sign of Tyranid attack on the world, as the thought of Tyranids having access to mind control is too horrible to contemplate.