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We know that particularly valorous guard regiments can be given a world to homestead when they survive a heroic event. Mostly its reclaimed Chaos or Xenos worlds. They then have to attempt to colonize that world.

If some clueless general witnessed the Death Korps of Krieg in a superhumanly heroic action and, not realizing who or what they are, gave them an empty world to homestead, how would it turn out?

Assume that they cannot convince him to let them continue fighting instead. The world is pleasant and temperate with nothing to fight. There are exploitable resources and fertile lands.

The first few colony ships arrive carrying 2000 colonists simultaneously with the DKoK survivors - a mixture of hive world workers, excess population from a pleasure world seeking to control its growth, and volunteers from a civilized world. None of them are particularly tough or grimdark. They are used to relatively decent standards of living by the metric of 40K standards.

There does exist a DKoK "homestead" world, Baran, though it hasn't been brought up in GW fluff in many years due to it being from Epic and IIRC the offshoot Fanatic magazine GW ran for a bit.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Baran

 Vaktathi wrote:
There does exist a DKoK "homestead" world, Baran, though it hasn't been brought up in GW fluff in many years due to it being from Epic and IIRC the offshoot Fanatic magazine GW ran for a bit.

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Baran

That's an interesting piece of fluff right there, though it seems the Eldar came back centuries later and wiped out the colony, along with the Orks. How fleeting human lives can be...

They would settle it like any other guard regiment. The Death Korps follow duty to the end. If they were awarded a world, they would see it as their duty to settle it.

I would imagine it to be in the process of becoming heavily industrialized with the end result of churning out ponderous yet awe-inspiring weapons of war. It might not reach Forge World status, but I think given a planet with suitable resources the DKoK would do their best to weaponize it.

As the DKoK I can't really see them settling a new world they colonize so much as garrison it. They would live on it and protect it but they would be unlikely to mingle with the population or rule over it or try to procreate so they would likely just stay their until they all die off as the settlers settle.

 KingGarland wrote:
As the DKoK I can't really see them settling a new world they colonize so much as garrison it. They would live on it and protect it but they would be unlikely to mingle with the population or rule over it or try to procreate so they would likely just stay their until they all die off as the settlers settle.

You miss that when a IG regiment settles a world they become the population. They don't ship in other colonists, although they may come in time. The guardsmen are the colony. The men and women of the regiment become the first, and for a long time the only, inhabitants of that world. Usually any new specific colonists that do come get brought from the regiment's home planet.

A regiment of 5000 people gets awarded a planet, that is now a planet with a population of 5000 people. All of them ex-guardsmen.

Considering how the DKOK fought to get their own world back. It would be hard for them to go and colonise another.

Some of them might do it, but can they even exist outside of the military? They don't even have names do they?

 Grey Templar wrote:

 KingGarland wrote:
As the DKoK I can't really see them settling a new world they colonize so much as garrison it. They would live on it and protect it but they would be unlikely to mingle with the population or rule over it or try to procreate so they would likely just stay their until they all die off as the settlers settle.

You miss that when a IG regiment settles a world they become the population. They don't ship in other colonists, although they may come in time. The guardsmen are the colony. The men and women of the regiment become the first, and for a long time the only, inhabitants of that world. Usually any new specific colonists that do come get brought from the regiment's home planet.

A regiment of 5000 people gets awarded a planet, that is now a planet with a population of 5000 people. All of them ex-guardsmen.

That would make it tough for the DKoK. Aren't they all men, using their women for some grimdark techy Daemonculaba equivalent?

 Ashiraya wrote:

 Grey Templar wrote:

 KingGarland wrote:
As the DKoK I can't really see them settling a new world they colonize so much as garrison it. They would live on it and protect it but they would be unlikely to mingle with the population or rule over it or try to procreate so they would likely just stay their until they all die off as the settlers settle.

You miss that when a IG regiment settles a world they become the population. They don't ship in other colonists, although they may come in time. The guardsmen are the colony. The men and women of the regiment become the first, and for a long time the only, inhabitants of that world. Usually any new specific colonists that do come get brought from the regiment's home planet.

A regiment of 5000 people gets awarded a planet, that is now a planet with a population of 5000 people. All of them ex-guardsmen.

That would make it tough for the DKoK. Aren't they all men, using their women for some grimdark techy Daemonculaba equivalent?

There's a single reference to something called a "vitae womb", but no more detail than just the name or anything else. They leave it *really* vague.

While Kreig does use the Vitae-womb to reproduce the vast majority(not all) of its population they aren't an all male society.

The Vitae-womb is really just an artificial womb by all accounts. You still need actual parents to make the baby. Its just instead of having normal pregnancies they have the machines do that, so everyone can fight basically. IE: Male and Female Kriegsman donate their sperm/eggs instead of the normal way.

If DKoK are like Nazi then the planet they conquer and colonize would be a French Planet.