Editing Herman von Strab (section)

==Rise to power==

Herman von Strab was born in the von Strab noble family of Armageddon, with his father occupying the position of Overlord himself. Being one of many brothers in a noble family in the Imperium, he was surrounded by conspiracies, intrafamily killings, and other noble hobbies from a very early age. Perversely, the fact that he was never the sharpest tool in the shed actually worked out well for him, as unlikely as it sounds.

Since Herman was a brutish idiot, his brothers never considered him to be an actual threat, so they ignored little Herman and concentrated on scheming against one another, leaving Herman to act with impunity. [[FAIL|This ended horribly for Herman's brothers]], as he managed to kill his three elder brothers: the eldest by bomb, which killed 322 other nobles and functionaries; the next by a hit and run driver; and the last elder brother with bolter fire and having the balls to claim that it was a suicide, despite the fact that he was on the crime scene with a smoking bolter. (The authorities decided to sit on their hands, since they were going to be Herman's underlings pretty soon anyways, and familicide in a noble family was as common as wars in the Imperium, so they decided it was best to let it go.) As the single survivor of his brothers, Herman then murdered his father and became the ruler of Armageddon, using the riches of the prosperous planet to live a life of decadence, and basically doing as little work as possible (which was probably a good thing, since everything he touched turned to shit).