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==Chapter Homeworld==

Dov-Kelor is a world with tempestuous history, scarred and blasted by every manner of weapon, its biosphere clinging to tenuous existence. Mired in swamps and fens, the planet's rivers run sluggishly, tangled and distorted when the Savage Hearts unleashed cataclysm upon it. Seas left their beds, mountains toppled over, and every city felt the touch of fire and steel. All this, so that a fortress belonging to the Life Bringers might be laid low. Originally, the Savage Hearts were a fleet-based Chapter, restlessly hunting far and wide for enemies to slay, but the behemoth entrenchments of Dov-Kelor brought them to a screeching halt, unable to force their way through the interconnected mountain redoubts, yet unable to tolerate leaving this nest of corruption behind Imperial lines as the quest to purge Ultima Segmentum rolled onward. Finally, a momentous decision was made. 

As one, the eight Savage Heart vessels abandoned all attempts to fight Dov-Kelor's heavy gravity, the Battle Barges ''Peerless Sword'', ''Dawn of Honor'', and ''Hound's Eye'' glowing red-hot as they fell. Alongside them dove the Strike Cruisers ''Red Atonement'' and ''Queen of Amentrum'', followed by the Chapter's Escort Frigates ''Doom Caller'', ''Fire Unending'', ''Silent Reaver'' and ''Sparkthrower''. Though fuelled by Nurgle's arcane sorcery, the fortresses and their cannons could not throw back the descending tide of adamantium and rage. Crashing to the ground in nearly uncontrolled landings, the Imperial vessels themselves scoured Nurgle's corruption whereever they made landfall, flash-boiling lakes of fetid swamp into sterilizing steam clouds kilometers tall. Mere moments after landing, the Savage Hearts were already charging through the conflagration on foot, overwhelming the shell-shocked Life Bringers in a frenzy of butchery and retribution. 

Two months would pass before the final Nurglite breathed their last, and many years more would elapse before Dov-Kelor was declared truly cleansed, but the deed was ultimately accomplished. It was an ugly, distasteful world with bitter soil and murky air, but it was wholly the Savage Hearts' own, and forevermore they would call it their Fortress-Monastery in the Emperor's name. The ''Hound's Eye'' would eventually be raised to fly again many centuries later, serving the Chapter well until the Second Vetrovnak Incursion.

Dov-Kelor's population is suprisingly high for a Space Marine Homeworld, blessed with a number of massive Hive-Cities which do tremendous commerce converting Dov-Kelor's generous reserves of raw organic and mineral compounds into refined goods. While only the desperate and the accursed would attempt agriculture in the boglands, the Hive Cities contain massive hydroponic facilities with which they sustain their vast populations, large even by Hive standards. Thus fed and watered, the teeming masses of humanity churn out vast quantities of industrial products, everything from a Guardsman's las-rifle to an Imperial Preacher's robes to the nuts, bolts and screws so lovingly installed by a child of the Omnissiah. Dov-Kelor cannot produce advanced technology, but for everything else, they have crates upon crates readily at hand.