Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Maskos (section)

===Culture and History===

The people of Maskos have the same diversity of most Imperial worlds.  One thing that binds Maskos together is its love of the arts, which may well have been why the world was so receptive to Slaanesh.  State-sanctioned artworks, however, are often on display around most of the cities.  Theater is especially popular, and free performances of various stage plays are common in larger communities.  The world is also the sector’s leading manufacturer of tunneling and mining technology, thanks to its last operational Standard Template Constructor, which creates sub-surface terraforming engines.  Once Mars had copied the blueprints and determined that the machine was in too poor a shape to move, the local Mechanicus shrine was allowed to take it over.  Every day, a hundred Techpriests swarm over the machine as it operates, keeping the machine spirits placated with ritual and maintenance, which are indistinguishable at a distance.  The machines the STC produces are mass converter burrowers, which collect all metallic and oxidative-gas atoms encountered in the substance through which it is burrowing, and deposits them inside internal containers, which they periodically extrude for easy collection.  The miner’s best friend and a Mechanicus dream come true; these marvelous machines have made their way as far as Bekke and Hydraphur.  Mars itself may build them someday, which would delight the Maskos Mechanicus to no end.  Were the machines only cheaper, or the blueprints simple enough to allow non-STC manufacture, surely, they would have already.


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|satellite=     One, uninhabitable
|troposphericcomposition=      Nitrogen 75%, Oxygen 23%, Water 1%, Carbon Dioxide .1%, Argon .9%
|religion=      Imperial Cult
|governmenttype=     Adeptus Terra
|planetarygovernor=   Yes
|adeptpresence=   Adeptus Administratum, Adeptus Ministorum, Adeptus Mechanicus, Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Astra Telepathica
|climate=   Grendel is a temperate world at the equator with ice storms at both poles
|geography=             Grendel is .67 times the size of Terra, with massive polar ice caps and four relative flat zones for agriculture
|gravity= Grendel has .7 Terran Gravity
|daylength=    46 Terran Hours
|economy=      Gelt Thrones and Silver Thrones
|principalexports=     Ores, Oil, Promethium, Ammunition, Air filters, Water, Naval officers
|principalimports= Fertilizers, Farm laborers, Aircars
|countriesandcontinents=   Grendel has three continents, with no national divisions
|military=       Grendel Cleavers (medium quality Guard)
|contactwithothersystems=          Monthly
|tithegrade=   Exactis Prima
|population=    900,000,000 humans, unknown dedicated number of Servitors
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