Editing Nostramo (section)

==History==
Things [[Pretend|started to get better]] when [[Konrad Curze|Space Marine Batman]] arrived. As an infant (or as close to an infant as HIS KIND ever were) Konrad Curze fell to his new home in a gestation capsule and left a crater roughly the size of your mom, just like his brother [[Primarchs]] did; however, unlike his brothers, he wasn't adopted by anyone (or in the case of [[Angron]], captured, lobotomized, and made to fight for his masters entertainment). Curze survived in the capital of Nostramo Quintus on his own, eating the vermin of the hive city, killing anyone he came across (although most of these folks were murderous gangster-rapists -that is, gangsters who raped and murdered and not... well, you get the idea). After realizing that he was much stronger than anyone else on Nostramo, he tried to [[Rip and Tear|cleanse]] the hive city of its murderous gangs and criminals (so pretty much everybody). He left the corpses of criminals beaten to a literal pulp in plain sight, enough bodies to clog the sewer system IN THE SEWER SYSTEM, and mutilated and flayed his victim's bodies only to nail them to the outside of unsuspecting peoples homes (like some weird, flesh obsessed Santa). Regardless of what methods he employed, Curze would always leave the corpses of his victims in sight to seed fear in the hearts of the people. To this end, the people of Nostramo began to call Curze "[[Night Haunter|The Night Haunter]]", and the name stuck. In the end, his anti-crime campaign [[Grimdark|worked out pretty well]], and he picked up an edgy nickname. So everybody wins.

After a time, a haunting (get it? see what we did there? haha, yeah) stability settled upon Nostramo. After almost every criminal was killed and every noble (who didn't get killed) was made compliant by fear, the people of Nostramo made Curze the first monarch in their planet's history. Despite the fact that they were ruled by some sort of boogeyman, the whole of Nostramo entered a golden age: exports tripled, the crime rate was near zero, somebody even managed to turn on some goddamn lights. Curze turned out to be an a-okay ruler if you disregarded his whole [[Rip and Tear|gory dismemberment]] of anyone found wanting. A short time later, [[The Emperor|E-Money]] arrived on Nostramo, his golden armor so shiny, hundreds of Nostramans were blinded by it (No seriously, somebody find a quote for this!). As a sidenote, his coming to Nostramo had been prophesied by Curze's visions... as the beginning of the end for Nostramo. Oh, and [[Fulgrim|Pretty Boy]], [[Ferrus Manus|Metal Claws]], [[Rogal Dorn|Bob the Base Builder]], and...[[Lorgar]] showed up too, but they didn't really do anything. Curze submitted to Big E's rule (despite having an inherent dislike for him), and Nostramo underwent the process of becoming a compliant Imperial world.
[[File:Black.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Had you been a native of Nostramo, you would likely see the plot of "the Hobo with a Shotgun" playing out here.]]
About this time, Curze left the planet to take command of his legion. Control of the planet was then delegated to Imperial governors (rodeo clowns) and it became the recruitment world for what was to become the [[Night Lords]] legion. Well, this worked out poorly... for everyone involved. In a beautiful example of 40k's tradition of having a phenomenal lack of common sense, the Night Haunter apparently didn't build any law enforcement agencies, police forces, or anything like that. He really only relied on himself and the aura of terror he crafted in order to prevent the people of Nostramo from committing any crimes. He also really didn't give them any real reasons to live, or any way to improve their miserable existence, aside from the fear that anything was better than being slowly tortured and killed by him. So (quite predictably) a short time after the Night Haunter left the planet, Nostramo returned to its good-natured, scumbaggery, criminal ways. Murder and rape became endemic (again), and criminal gangs became the basic unit of society (again). As the Night Lords grew in numbers, replacing those originally taken from Terra and replenishing those lost, the brutal criminals began to trickle into their ranks, and over the course of the Great Crusade the Night Lords became primarily composed of crazed sadists and vicious criminals. Some speculate that the Emperor [[Just as Planned|planned this, in order to better the whole "terror legion" aspect of the Night Lords]], or he that just didn't care about Nostramo and Night Lords [[Spiritual Liege|because they will never be Ultramarines.]]