Editing Terra (section)

==Overview==
In the grim darkness of the far future, Earth is known only as Terra or Holy Terra. It is still the homeworld of [[humanity]] and the capital of the [[Imperium of Man]], and location of the [[Golden Throne]] and the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Pretty much the best place to be, unless you're some sort of heretic that doesn't like gold-plated slums that still have scars from the [[Horus Heresy]]. But it is ''really'' Holy (no word on the real-life Holy Land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea though). The only references to real-life geography are the Marianas Trench is no longer underwater and the Imperial Palace is located where the Himalayas were/are with Emp's throne room built over/on Mount Everest. Fluff is a bit inconsistent about exactly how big the Palace is / was ; it's referred to as continent sized or straddling betweeen multiple time zones, but then the immediate area and city around it is referred to as part of the palace too. To put it in perspective, the fortifications of the inner palace were so big that [[Warlord_Battle_Titan|Warlord titans]] could stand on the walls like regular infantry with room to spare. One of the many sections of the wall defending it was over 900km long. In the 8th edition Custodes codex we get opaque mentions of pilgrim-tribes and queue-wars, implying the place is so damn big and the line to see the emperor so damn long that it's given birth to entire cultures.

The single thrill of excitement the planet got was when [[Horus]] turned up in orbit. But instead of bringing potato salad for the annual family bbq, he brought a lot of PAIN and daddy issues to work out and promptly [[Siege of Terra|invaded the world]] in an attempt to end the Heresy one way or the other. Of course the game wouldn’t be what it is if he had just won there and then, so the Big E offed him and evaporated his soul right after sustaining near-mortal wounds.

There is a massive Mechanicus enclave called Skhallax City, left over from the massive rebuilding efforts after the Siege. It remains as a weird grey area for Arbiters and Inqusitors, not entirely under the jurisdiction of the Terran government itself. Also manages to be more polluted than anywhere else on Terra, which is a real achievement.

There is so much awesome shit on Holy Terra that most of the planet is practically a cross between a museum and an amusement park. Of course, [[grimdark]] means the lines are so long they're measured not in hours but in generations and by the time you would have reached the front of the queue the whole purpose of visiting might have completely been forgotten.

However, one downside of Terra (That Games Workshop likes to conveniently forget) is its depletion of its oceans. You see, Terra kind of needs its oceans in order to make its oxygen and to trap any greenhouse gases emitted from the magma being erupted from the mantle. So Terra's fucked unless we assume the Imperium installed some of their atmosphere controllers to keep the planet breathable. Then again, Mars only has no atmosphere any more and has two vast machines on it's poles keeping the planet from being blasted by cosmic radiation, so Terra may well have something similar.

Currently the [[Tyranid]] [[Hive Fleet|hive fleets]] are en route to Terra, drawn to the Emperor and his [[Astronomican|psychic lighthouse]]. Like Horus, they will not be bringing a fruit basket to visit, but if they fail at taking on [[Macragge]], then they will crumble at the Solar Fleet, the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Ark Mechanicus]] of [[Mars]], the [[TTS|fabulous]] [[Adeptus Custodes|Custodes]] and orbital defenses of Luna, and that's assuming the Dark Gods don't suddenly decide to lend the Emperor a hand by banishing the Tyranids to The Warp the moment they enter Terra with warp storms, just to keep their nightly paradox-poker buddy alive (if [[Ka'bandha]] isn't above doing it, we can assume everyone else isn't). Or bring in the [[Leagues of Votann]].

Some time after [[Roboute Guilliman]] arrived at Terra, [[Khorne]] sent 88 cohorts of his [[Daemons]] to attack Terra from the [[Warp Storm]] which appeared right above the planet as a welcome back gift. However, the daemons were promptly defeated and Khorne was so mad at their lackluster performance that his eight [[Bloodthirster]]s having led the attack were obliterated by the flame of his [[RAGE]]. Still, the invasion scared the shit out of many weak minded Terran nobles as well as Imperial citizens who were made ignorant to the daemons by the [[Administratum]]'s propaganda.


It's also worth noting that Terra is THE most important planet in Warhammer 40,000. The Inquisition would sacrifice Big E himself if it meant saving Holy Terra. And Emperor has set to blow up Terra than let Chaos claim it. If it was ever destroyed, then it would be retconned.