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===Homeworld: Solnhofen===
{{Infobox 40k Planet
|name= Solnhofen
|bgcolor=black
|fgcolor=white
|image=[[File:Solnhofen.png|200px]]
|class= Feral World/Space Marine Chapter Homeworld
|orbdist= 1.25AU ± 0.23AU
|gravity= 0.94G
|temp= Tropical
|pop= 8,738,903
|governor= 
|system= Mesazon System
|sector= Uhulis Sector
|subsector=
|segmentum= Segmentum Tempestus
}}

Located somewhere in Segmentum Tempestus is the Mesazon system, containing the feral plains world of Solnhofen. A primitive planet, it is home to a small population of humans who, by the 41st Millennium, adhere to the Imperial Cult in their own unsophisticated way. This second planet of the Mesozon system boasts vast plains and plateaus dotted by large but simple villages. On the planet's (still warm) northern pole rests the Cliffs of Tiran, the Fortress-Monastery of the Scale Bearers. One kilometer to the southeast sits the northernmost of the villages, Gand Wanunlen, which served as home to the young Tiran Osoros in the time he spent on the planet before the Great Crusade. Now the largest of the villages, Gand Wanunlen is the 'capital' of this Imperial World.


'''History'''

Evidence found on the planet's southern regions indicate that humanity first settled here sometime in M19, atop the ruins of a primitive xenos civilization. The nonsapient Sors had already been there by the time of the first Dark Age records that have been recovered so far - records that were perhaps made in M26. During this time the planet underwent massive terraforming in order to develop a large [[Imperial Worlds#Agri-World|Agri-World]] By the time Tiran's genetor-pod arrived in M30, the planet had taken the full brunt of the Age of Strife. It is unknown if the technological fall or xenos invasion was the cause of the planet's downfall. But humnity had been reduced to mere tribes with stone weapons and bone tools. The people of Solnhofen could not have expected ever to see visitors from another planet again. Not until, that is, the arrival of the Primarch of Legio XVII...

During the Great Crusade, the planet provided a number of recruits for the Scale Bearers Legion, and the technology of the people improved slightly. By the time of the Heresy, the people had at last discerned proper irrigation systems and begun developing a larger agricultural system. These advancements served to raise the planetary population, and thus increase the pool of available recruits for the Legion.

In the aftermath of the Heresy, Solnhofen underwent a myriad of changes in order to facilitate a much faster recruitment drive and rapidly increase the Legion numbers. Among these changes were the building of a Fortress Monastary proper and a severe decrease to the population as almost all who were capable of accepting a gene-seed were recruited into the Legion. Eventually, the planet normalized and became what it had always been, a nondescript [[Imperial Worlds#Feral World|Feral World]]

Little has changed on Solnhofen in the last ten thousand years, save for the adoption of primitive metallurgy and notable improvements in pottery. In M36, the planet very nearly came under threat in the war against WAAAGH! Da Beast, which to this day remains the largest Ork WAAAGH! ever recorded. Da Beast's forces sought to descend upon the planet, though fortunately they never made planetfall on Solnhofen-- a combined fleet of the Imperial Navy and the Scale Bearers' own Chapter Fleet laid waste to the voidfaring Orks before they could reach the planet's orbit.


'''Culture'''

The people of Solnhofen are a primitive folk,  tending towards simplicity of thought and life. Their general character is that of tribes competing for vital resources - conflicts are short, but vary between highly ritualized (in matters of honor) or bloody and frantic (in matters of sustenance or potable water). With the work subdivided relatively evenly among the members of the community, women and children have a greater degree of political power among the tribes of Solnhofen than on many other worlds of such a developmental level. What does hold interest is the superstition the locals hold about the pre-Imperial ruins that dot the planet, often containing statues of the sail-backed lizard xenos thought to have gone extinct millennia prior to human arrival. The planet's natives think the ruins to be haunted by the spirits of the ancient xenos that once called Solnhofen home, and are often blamed for everything from a death in childbirth to milk spoilage.