Editing Nobledark Imperium Notable Planets (section)

== Rynn's World ==

A pleasant agri-world located in the Loki Sector of Segmentum Ultima that was once known for it's fine cheese and meat exports in addition to being terminally boring to live on. Now it is known for orks and also known to the orks.

The Arch-Arsonist of Charadon, Snagrod the Big, devastated Rynn's World after a botched assassination attempt in the ruins of the planet Badlanding. The devestation of the planet would probably not have been so grate had it not been for the detonation of a faulty nuclear warhead in the ammunition stores of the Arx Tyrranis Space Marine Fortress that not only destroyed the fortress but the mountain it was built on. That the few Space Marine at all survived could be considered a minor miracle.

With out the distraction of the primary target Space Marines who were responsible for the failed assassination attempt Snagrod was free to set fire to all the cities at his leisure. He and the orks under his command showed a level of sadism uncommon in uncorrupted members of their kind and took great pleasure in burning captured civilians and soldiers alive.

Thankfully a ship had made it out of the system despite the ork fleet's best efforts and it was a matter of just holding out until help from the wider imperium arrived.

As of 999M41 Rynn's World is still rebuilding. Most of the planetary population was exterminated in the war, the majority of survivors located inside the capital city. There were in some place other survivers in small numbers but they were the groups small enough to hide on distant small islands, deep in the high mountains, half starved slaves who miraculously survived the year of hell or hidden at the back of extremely deep caves. Enough in some cases to pass on and have survive the local traditions of the provinces but more often than not society had to be built anew in the dead ruins of the old.

The northern half of the Magalan continent for example was exterminated down to the last child and given the emptiness and completeness of the destruction was last in the line for the rebuilding. As it happens the authorities of the planet were spared the chore of rebuilding. Within five years evidence of activity from that fallen land was detected by the one miraculously weather monitoring satellite. It could have been one of two things, Chapter Master Pedro Kantor decided, ork resurgency or illegal settlers. If orks they needed to be jumped on and exterminated as hastily as possible before they spread, if settlers or hope against hope unknown survivors then they could be co-opted into being core of the resettlement.

Turns out it was neither. Exodites had seen the fields going to waste and set up a community. The land was officially unoccupied so actually legally requesting they leave was shaky and by the time they were noticed they had set up a Wraith-Tree and a world-spirit and so would be difficult to move on. In the end it was decided that they could stay on the condition that they contributed to the tithe the same amount that the previous inhabitants had, conditions that they accepted without argument.

Of note also of Rynn's World is the tradition known as the everlasting marriage to symbolize the eternal bond between Rynn's World and the Imperium. The marriage is everlasting because when one dies the surviving member has to marry the replacement. Needless to say this has resulted in the royal title being strictly matrilineal despite the rest of the aristocracy being cognatic. Should either party to assume the position be already married then the other half in this arrangement becomes a secondary wife/husband, in such cases the marriage does not need to be consummated as that would/might infringe on per-existing vows.

The tradition dates back to the days of the The Rebuilding in the wake of The Beast When Rynn the Exiled King married his daughter and heir to the head of the military in the convoy, a Space Marine of great wisdom called Alexis Polux.

It also results in stability as there is no question of succession as upon the death of one the other takes their title, lands and possessions until the replacement marriage ceremony which does mean that in the days between partners the title of Chapter Master is held by a woman which is possibly unique.

This breakdown of a clear dividing line between the baseline humans and Space Marines, and indeed between military rank and the aristocratic hierarchy, has in the years since Rynn and Polux permeated totally in society. Although the commoners can not become nobility save through special and rare appointment by the Queen or by marriage into the nobility the rank of (usually) unlanded-nobility is traditionally handed out with promotion to officer.

With the marriage of Chapter to the Aristocracy and every Space Marine having been trained to be officers of one sort or another this has resulted in the Chapter becoming a not insubstantial part of the landed gentry. Every marine has an estate, a patch of their homeworld that they call their own. Due to them having no real interest in such things this is typically the less sought after land in inhospitable places. The craggy mountains around their fortress, deserts and the wind swept and salt spray blasted islands in the far north and south. The few hardy inhabitants of these remote lands appreciate that there are masters who will lend a hand if needed but tend to live in those lands because they don't care for authority above them and so value the Space Marines lack of any real interest.

Rynn's World was not the original home of the chapter, at first they were nomadic and had been since they were the 405th Company of Dorn's Legion. It was by attaching their forces to Rynn's colony fleet as it set out to resettle an exterminated world in the time of The Rebuilding that they came to enjoy their more permanent habitation.

Pedro Kantor is the current commander of the remnants of his chapter, King of a world brought to ruin and husband of Queen Maia Cagliestra who actually rules the planet when it's not being raped to death by orks.

The Crimson Fists did boast ~2,100 members all accounted, now down to 128. The Fortress has been relocated to New Rynn City. As the world is rebuilt and the other lesser cities re-established the intention is to appoint each company to a city and diffuse the chapter. Next time it's going to take more than 1 malfunctioning nuclear missile to devastate them. The Immortal Captain Alessio Cortezwill to be put in command of the fortress to be rebuilt Caltara and will have the dubious honour of owning the crater of Arx Tyrranis when the time comes.

As of 999M41 the Crimson Fists are building up their numbers again, the Rynn's World Regiments are refounding under new banners, the cities are alive again and a lot more fortified and the fields are being tilled once more. Rynn's World is is bloodied but unbroken and Pedro Kantor and every other warrior of a similar age is itching to get even. Soon, the Imperium promises them, soon. The Imperium has the aim of systematically and methodically cleansing the worlds of The Charadon Empire of all orkoid life and when the day comes that it does the soldiery of Rynn will be the ones at the tip of the spear, so says the Emperor.