Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Maskos (section)

===Planet Grendel===

Grendel has a less Chaos-influenced history than its neighbor.  Throughout its time post-terraforming, Grendel has been a great breadbasket for the Imperium.  Protected by its own military forces, Maskos Warriors on rural and agrarian combat training missions, and the occasional Skitarii army picking up supplies or dropping off servitors, Grendel is a safe and secure world.  Its primary products are barley, wheat, various corns and grains, grox, leather, and beef, along with assorted poultries, feathers, and what very little mining there is to do on the silicate rock.  The Grendel Ecclesiarchy was vigorously examined for signs of heresy after the Slaaneshi infiltration of Maskos, and though several priests were found to be deficient in their understanding of the Imperial Cult, no sign of infiltration was found.  The capital city of Grendel is a starport with a shantytown, or so it looks from a distance.  It’s only after drawing closer that the sheer scale of the port becomes clear.  The city, named after the planet (itself named after a Cloudburst war hero), is the size of any other Imperial capital city that isn’t a hive.  The starport is simply so large, and moves so much cargo, that it dwarfs the city itself.  The cloud of Mechanicus and Chartist Captain vessels that rises and falls from the port every day, laden with goods or emptied of fertilizers and organics for composting, looks like nothing more than a swarm of insects flying around a spotlight.

Outside the great starport, life on Grendel is routine and mundane.  Its farms and ranches move megatons of plant and animal products to the kitchens, factories, and larders of the Sector, and also export several hundred cargo containers of high-quality food and leather to the nearby Naxos Sector’s weary defenders.

The agricultural zones cluster around villages with high-steepled churches to the God-Emperor, and usually contain some common fixtures: a large school where all the children are taught, a few warehouses with room-sized dehumidifiers and refrigerators for the vast amounts of food and skins that move through the area, and a small Adeptus Mechanicus datastation, where farmers and ranchers can send quota information and vermin outbreak sightings to the regional command offices.  The Adeptus Arbites maintain a few small Precincts here and there, but most law enforcement comes from the local Constables, who patrol the endless fields on oversized motorcycles akin to the ones used by the Arbites on older Hive Worlds.  Because of the prioritization of food production, careful ecological monitoring is carried out at some population centers by the Adeptus Mechanicus and the tithe-keepers of the Adeptus Administratum, to make sure the atmospheric content of Grendel stays within the optimal range for growing crops and animals.

Grendel benefits from its isolation in another way besides peace and quiet: a small observation post of the Logis Strategos analytical offices of the Adeptus Administratum, who use the relaxed environment to help keep their secret experiments into the psychology and objectives of alien invaders smooth and covert.  It is based in a small PDF base at the equator, outwardly indistinguishable from any other.