Editing Komra (section)

===Biotechnology===

The Trantor's complement was nourished by hydroponic farms.  Although state of the art at the time of their construction, these farms relied on artificial lighting to sustain photosynthesising plants.  In the centuries in Karor's underground halls, the Komra explored alternatives that would free up power from lighting.  Their efforts led to the cultivation of microbial vaults that efficiently fixed carbon without light, through chemosynthesis.  These vaults were then tailored to produce important organic compounds for use in food and textile industries.  Komra biologists have developed many other micro-organic cultivars for industrial and medical purposes.  Bacterial infections are typically treated with designer viruses - "phage" - which seek out and destroy the bacteria.  Medical kits are similarly exotic to Imperial eyes, with wound dressings grown, rather than spun.

A crowning achievement of Komra biotechnology was the creation of the Phage Towers of Karazak.  These great structures, first built on that mighty Stem World, were exported to the Komra worlds subject to Ork attack.  The series of towers would cultivate and release vast swarms of carefully engineered viruses that attacked Orkoid spores, interfering with their reproductive cycle.  The virulence and fecundity of the Orks was such that Karazak's bioengineering Gelkzaft were constantly recovering tissue samples from emerging Orkoid organisms and tailoring their phage viruses in response.  Nevertheless, Komra scientific genius and tireless labour were able to check the greenskin advance for thousands of years without maintaining massive armed garrisons.

====Scabs====
See [[Cult of Krenz]].