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Right I'm new and I don't know much of the fluff but is Holy Terra Earth

uhhhh.... Yeah......

and the Imperial palace is in the Himalayas.

Terra is earth but it has no oceans. All wild life are gone. The entire planet is basically dead. Due to thousands of wars the entire planet shows no similarities to our earth.

Seriously!


If so thanks and that's pretty cool

I's a Hive World (an ecumenoplolis, in fact). The entire globe is pretty much smoothed flat and covered in one contiguous, self-enclosed arcology. The population is many tens of billions.

The Imperial Palace isn't so much 'in the Himalayas'. It'd be more accurate to say that the Palace is where Asia used to be. It occupies most of the continent.

One Square Meter of land on Terra costs more than an entire palace on any other world in the Imperium.

The Golden throne, wherin the Emperor is interred is tens of miles bellow what were once the Himalayas. Although in older versions of the game, it was said to be in Nottingham (where Games Workshop is based).

The atmosphere is utterly polluted, there is no life outside the hives, and no water.

Terra is surrounded by orbital fortresses and the Moon (Luna) is the main port for Battlefleet Solar - the greatest naval fleet of the Imperium.

Mars is a Forge-World. The spiritual home of the Adeptus Mechanicus and center of the Machine cult.

Saturn's moon Titan is the home of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus.

actually the continents are still visable as a noticable change in the height of the buildings from space.


new jersey and the entire eastern sea board of Ancient (A)Merica is a waste refinement plant.

the Administratum is located where England used to be.


all of the Biomass that used to be natural life is locked away as humans or vermin that scuttle throughout the dingy undercity.

But don't worry, much of terran life forms were transplanted to other worlds prior to it becoming this way so you can still find most of the common types of Terran animal and plant life on other planets.

IIRC: there was still visable mountains and some areas of life when the Emperor began the Unification wars.

Where do the billions get their drinking water anyway?

By recycling.

Think about it.

Thats disgusting.

Asherian Command wrote:Thats disgusting.

Not terribly, all (nearly) water is recycled naturally if you think about it.

I've read before that water in the Missippi River has been drank and voided 4-5 times by some living creature by the time it reaches New Orleans.

In the grim-darkness of the future, people eat people.

In Inquisition War, by Ian Watson, Imperial citizens who get killed by a genestealer uprising get mulched down and processed into food.

Jupiter is also an important forge-world, and houses the Jovian Shipyards, which build Emperor, Tyrant, and Dominator class ships

when people, or anyother living thing, die in a Hive city. their bodies and all the organic waste products get sent to processing plants where they are refined into drinking water and food, presumably through Nanotech reassembling.


it is an idea that isn't that far off. think how useful that would be on Space ships and on distant planets that don't have a sustanable ecosystem established yet.

Grey Templar wrote:when people, or anyother living thing, die in a Hive city. their bodies and all the organic waste products get sent to processing plants where they are refined into drinking water and food, presumably through Nanotech reassembling.


it is an idea that isn't that far off. think how useful that would be on Space ships and on distant planets that don't have a sustanable ecosystem established yet.

So there man eaters .

Asherian Command wrote:Thats disgusting.

Drink beer, fish pee in water.

xxmatt85 wrote:

Grey Templar wrote:when people, or anyother living thing, die in a Hive city. their bodies and all the organic waste products get sent to processing plants where they are refined into drinking water and food, presumably through Nanotech reassembling.


it is an idea that isn't that far off. think how useful that would be on Space ships and on distant planets that don't have a sustanable ecosystem established yet.

So there man eaters .

well, they eat the same organic matierial that may have used to be a man.

it happens all the time now. organic matierial and water get reused and recycled.


Man dies.

Bactieria decompose the body and leave minerals and nutrients as waste.

Plants bring up the minerals and some nutrients to build their own plant structures.

Cow eats plant.

man eats cow.

cycle continues.

This site is pretty good for 40k fluff and background ;D

No not that. I Know that part. I'm saying that they eat crap as a recycleable material.

yes as mentioned before in this tread it is. And Lexicanum is a very good site indeed

I also hear the population of terra is meant to be around 200 TRILLION.

Think of Terra as china only bigger and more crowded .

WARBOSS TZOO wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:Thats disgusting.

Drink beer, fish pee in water.

Must...resist..can't...:


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WARBOSS TZOO wrote:

Asherian Command wrote:Thats disgusting.

Drink beer, fish pee in water.

That may be true, but there's nothing to stop me from peeing in your pint

S_P

Azezel wrote:I's a Hive World (an ecumenoplolis, in fact). The entire globe is pretty much smoothed flat and covered in one contiguous, self-enclosed arcology. The population is many tens of billions.

The Imperial Palace isn't so much 'in the Himalayas'. It'd be more accurate to say that the Palace is where Asia used to be. It occupies most of the continent.

One Square Meter of land on Terra costs more than an entire palace on any other world in the Imperium.

The Golden throne, wherin the Emperor is interred is tens of miles bellow what were once the Himalayas. Although in older versions of the game, it was said to be in Nottingham (where Games Workshop is based).
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That must have been where I got the Emperor's palace is England from. My god, the Emperor's palace used to be the size of England; now you're telling me its the size of Asia!!!


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vodo40k wrote:I also hear the population of terra is meant to be around 200 TRILLION.

uh I don't know about that. That might be the population of the Imperium.

Asherian Command wrote:No not that. I Know that part. I'm saying that they eat crap as a recycleable material.

We do that now. But we call it 'fertiliser' ...

steempunk wrote:In the grim-darkness of the future, people eat people.

In Inquisition War, by Ian Watson, Imperial citizens who get killed by a genestealer uprising get mulched down and processed into food.

Jupiter is also an important forge-world, and houses the Jovian Shipyards, which build Emperor, Tyrant, and Dominator class ships

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!

Well, its not like all the food they get is recycled human (actually on this site is the first I've ever seen that claim) - its a certainty that Terra actually imports the vast majority of its food - and certainly, there exists all manner of animals utilized for food production all across the Imperium for it.

Per the thread'd actual question, 'Terra' is indeed Earth - it is actually the Latin (ancient Roman) name for the Earth.

Nawww, it is official that Terra has a Pop of 100 trillion, not 200.

Ciaphas Cain at one point enjoys "delicious Soylens Verdens"

sniperjolly wrote:Nawww, it is official that Terra has a Pop of 100 trillion, not 200.

Ciaphas Cain at one point enjoys "delicious Soylens Verdens"

Where does it say that? I thought the most populous planet was 500 Billion? 100 trillion seems like an unimaginable amount of people living on the same planet.

KamikazeCanuck wrote:

sniperjolly wrote:Nawww, it is official that Terra has a Pop of 100 trillion, not 200.

Ciaphas Cain at one point enjoys "delicious Soylens Verdens"

Where does it say that? I thought the most populous planet was 500 Billion? 100 trillion seems like an unimaginable amount of people living on the same planet.

I agree it makes no sense, the answer would be (as is with everything in 40k) because its grim-dark.

Yes it is but it is more like the rest of the hive worlds Than it is now, although I belive it has more shrines to the allfather.