Asperity

Mining World

Since the Corribra Sector was first retaken by the crusades of Mankind, Asperity has remained shrouded in a violent, but localised warp storm. Indeed, there is little evidence to suggest that Mankind ever colonised this world in the distant past.

Within the past millennium, the warp storm abated, allowing Imperial Scouts a chance to gaze upon this world for the first time. A barren planet greeted them, seemingly devoid of all indigenous life. Storms racing at up to three hundred miles an hour constantly scoured the surface of Asperity, with the permanent cloud cover creating an artificial twilight throughout the world's short day time cycle. And yet, even on a world as desolate as this, the Scouts found something of use to the Imperium. Several pure mineral strains were located just beneath the surface of the blackened landscape, of ores that are essential to the production of plasma reactor core linings. With this information in their hands, Corribra Sector Command duly ordered the colonisation of Asperity to begin.

Several small mining operations dot the planet at the points where the mineral strains offer the greatest yield, though each operation is little more than an outpost and none approach the size of a town, though a few show signs of doing so. Each mining outpost is home for 100 to 1000 miners and attendant technicians, together with a small militia that stand ready to repulse any alien attempt to shatter Mankind's tenuous hold on Asperity.

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