Dathnor

Dathnor is a Industrialized Hive World in the Imperium of Man's Segmentum Solar, and a major producer of munitions for the Astra Militarum. The great forges of Dathnor produce Lasguns, Autoguns, Shotguns and Bolters, among other weapons. Along with producing many vehicles of different patterns from the simple Tauros to the mighty Leman Russ. The planet also levies huge numbers of troops for the Astra Militarum. Dathnor is typical of most large Imperial Hive Worlds, in that the lower portions of its hive cities are rife with powerful gangs.
Dathnor is a world of mines, factories, refineries and processing plants. The planet is a vast powerhouse of industry, making thousands and thousands of different items for use throughout the nearby Imperial planetary systems of the Segmentum Solar.
These huge towering urban arcology complexes are known as hive cities, or simply "hives," and their individual peaks or towers are called city spires or "spires." A close group of urban hives is known as a "hive cluster." Between the hives, deserts of industrial ash cover the surface of the planet with a mobile, corrosive skin. Over this desert lies a cloud layer of airborne pollution, so that the great spires of the city hives rise from a drifting mist of tainted vapour like islands appearing out of an ashen sea.
The hives and hive clusters are connected through the ash wastes by so-called ash trains, long trains of transport cars outfitted with reinforced balloon wheels that can travel between the wastes on a system of tracks, delivering passengers and goods. These trains are often attacked by the nomadic tribes of mutants called Ash Raiders who have somehow adapted to life in the poisonous ash wastes.

Geography

Nothing which can contribute to the planet's output has been left untouched. From the tops of the highest mountains to the depths of the oceans, the wealth of Dathnor has been extracted. Mountains have been reduced to rubble for the ore they contain; oceans have been turned into little more than chemical sludge ponds by the constant industrial pollution. The once-fertile plains of the world have disappeared under huge urban developments of imposing housing and factory arcologies, forming new ranges of man-made urban mountains every bit as tall as the long-since flattened natural topographical features.

Type

Planet

Included Locations

• Cracked Wastes
• Kohdence

Owner/Ruler

Lord Commander Valeria Hax

Owning Organization

Astra Militarum