Editing Nostramo (section)

==Destruction of Nostramo==
Briefly (before [[Horus Heresy|the big ol' Heresy]]), after helping [[Fulgrim]] and [[Rogal Dorn]] bring a world into compliance, Dorn came to the realization that Curze was into some fucked up shit. Rogal got really angry and challenged Curze to a brief philosophical debate about the nature of justice, which ended with Curze nearly killing Rogal. (That's not a joke, that actually happened.) Curze was arrested and placed under guard by Imperial Fist and Emperor's Children Terminators. Realizing his trust and secrets were betrayed by Fulgrim, and that he couldn't rely on Rogal to see that "you can only win in the grimdark galaxy by being even more grimdark", Curze escaped (after killing his brothers' Terminators [[Rip and tear|with his bare '''fucking''' hands]]) and set the Night Lords fleet on a course for home, intending to return to Nostramo. On arrival, having seen how the world had reverted in his absence, an already mentally unstable Night Haunter decided that Nostramo was so fucked up that it couldn't possibly be saved. Remember that crater he made when he arrived? He moved his fleet into orbital position over it, and had them exploit the weakness in the planet's crust and [[Exterminatus|reduce Nostramo to a cloud of dust and asteroids]]. And thus was the most fucking [[grimdark]] [[hive world]] in the galaxy turned to so much space junk.

Nostramo, with its people having a psyche bent towards anarchy and cruelty, is regarded as one of the chief reasons the Night Haunter went rogue and later joined [[Chaos]] (that, and his mental instability due to his psychic foresight of the worst possible futures and maybe [[FAIL|some mistakes made by The Emperor in Curze's creation]]). The traumatizing and depressive environment of Nostramo damaged Konrad Curze's sanity heavily, and from this environment Curze took the idea that fear is the only thing that truly keeps people in check. Also seeing Nostramo's descent into a criminal shithole again made him to think that without constant reinforcement, terror tactics eventually fail miserably.

On a side note, Nostramo used to be extremely rich in adamantium ore, and its permadarkness was mostly caused by adamantium mining and processing factories. Asteroids formed from blown-up Nostramo often happen to be adamantium-rich too, and so they tend to attract [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicus]] and [[Rogue Trader]] asteroid mining crews (everyone else would likely think twice before venturing to the system Imperium classified as "forbidden"), only for them to get wiped out in the most horrifying ways possible when the Night Lords occasionally check on the remnants of their homeworld.

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