Editing Hopes Fall (section)

==History==

When the Hope first crashed onto the planet, the survivors found themselves on a promising looking world, with vast green fields ripe for turning into farm land and pastures, and many valuable minerals and ores running deep into the ground. However they were not alone on their new home. 

Long before Imperium of man was made whole, the planet that was to become Hope's Fall was occupied by human colonists, who, over many thousands of years, had devolved into degenerate, feral savages, living in the planets dark forests and worshiping chaotic gods. 

The Hope was under the ownership of a Rogue Trader dynasty by the name of Carthagga, who were devout believers of the Imperial Creed, and had close ties to both the ''[[Ecclesiarchy]]'', and the ''[[Ordo Hereticus]]''. Needless to say, when they set foot on a planet that would provide bountiful tithe to the Imperium and found it to be harboring savage heretics, the Carthaggan's were none to happy, and decided to [[rip and tear|remove them in the manner they felt most appropriate]].

After dealing with these undesirables, under the leadership of House Carthagga, the survivors set out exploring their new home. Their ship had crashed in what they discovered to be the northern hemisphere of the planet, as was right on the edge of what came to be known as the White Mantle, and massive granite plateau that occupied almost the entirety of the nothern hemisphere. Around their crashed ship they built their first city, simply named Carthagga, and from here they set out, settling the surrounding lands. 

Soon, a feudal society began to establish itself, with serfs working the vast fields in the south, giving all their earnings to the nobility, who in turn gave it over to the Carthaggans and the Ecclesiarchy, and when the Imperium was able to once again make contact, over to the greater imperium. In exchange, they were given homes in which to live, land to call their own, and protection from the beasts and feral people that lived in shadowy outer lands. Alternatively, some of the settlers resided in the northern hemisphere, working the planet's mines, pulling up marble and other valuable minerals for the Imperial nobility to decorate their homes with. 

While the planet was more or less left alone by the greater galaxy, there were a few incidents that had affected the planet. The most notable of these was toward the end of the [[Tau|Damocles Gulf Crusade]]. Due to the planets location in the Eastern Fringe, and it's proximity to the Gulf, when [[Tyranid|Hive Fleet Behemoth]] passed through the system and splinter hive that fell off of the greater fleet happened by [[just as planned|random chance]] to land on the planet. The ensuing conflict was one that caused many casualties and untold destruction for the humans, but after several long years of brutal and horrific warfare, against all odds, they managed to completely purge the xeno invaders.