Editing Hive World Creation Tables (section)

==Important Figures==
These figures may be current, or be a notable figure from the past born or stationed on the planet. If alive, they are likely a bastion of purity, a fist of oppression, a mix, or something else entirely.<br>

Want your Cardinal to have died a glorious death in purifying flame? Your Inquisitor to have fallen to heresy? Your military member to be an Ogryn or Culexus assassin? Make the fluff and story your own, these are here as suggestions and alternatives.

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! colspan="2" |Notable Figures (d20)
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| '''Lord Governor:''' The head of the planet’s government. May be hailed as a great reformer, overhauling corrupt laws and benefitting their subjects, leading the planet into a golden age. Or may be despised for imposing harsh taxes, selling their subjects off to the highest bidder, or causing the deaths of billions through negligence or spite.
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| '''Cardinal:''' The planet’s highest-ranking member of the ecclesiarchy. May be worshipped for their generosity and charity, saving souls, founding hospitals and orphanages across the planet. Or denounced—or followed—as an apostate cardinal who led many astray, causing their deaths.
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! 03
| '''Adeptus Mechanicus Member:''' A member of the Adeptus Mechanicus. May be a servitor, tech-priest, sicarian ruststalker, or even a Magos. May be known for creation of a new technology, unearthing an old technology which may be good or bad. Or may have created or unleashed forbidden machines, or become disillusioned with the limitations of the Mechanicus and turned to the dark mechanicum as a Heretek.
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! 04
| '''Adeptus Arbites Member:''' A stern and authoritative figure that oversees the planet’s activities, or their sector. May be hailed as a saviour of those who can't save themselves, eradicated criminal gangs, or ensured peace in a hive. Or may be reviled as a power-hungry and murderous tyrant, or a corrupt enforcer who uses their station to build their own empire.
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! 05
| '''Gang Leader:''' A powerful gang leader or underworld figure who controls large portions of the Hive(s). May be worshipped as a local hero for using their power to bring justice to the oppressed, redistributing wealth and protecting the weak from tyrannical authorities. Or may be feared as a ruthless warlord, enslaving, plunging entire districts into poverty and death, and betraying for personal gain.
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! 06
| '''Inquisitor:''' A member of one of the Ordos. May be admired for their unyielding pursuit of the Emperor's justice, purging traitors and heretics. Or may be despised as a tyrant, using their power as an excuse to do as they wish with no oversight and little care for the truth.
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! 07
| '''Military Member:''' A member of an Imperial Guard regiment or Navy ship stationed at the planet. May be a Guardsman up to a Lord General, or a Navy Voidsman up to a Lord Captain. Whatever they are, they did some act worthy of being remembered. Sacrificed themselves to save the innocent in a heroic charge, sent a warning of an impending attack—whether real or fake—or even crashed a ship into a hive, for good or bad.
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! 08
| '''Member of a Noble House:''' A prominent figure among the noble families. May be revered for their charitable acts, bringing prosperity to the world, even helping to overthrow a corrupted government or noble family. Or may be despised for their lifestyle and preferring the company of xenos, or using their position to host gladiatorial games of unwilling participants of the underhives.
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! 09
| '''Rogue Trader:''' A charismatic and resourceful Rogue Trader. May be loved for bringing wealth and resources to the planet. Or hated for bringing “exotic” technologies and artefacts that lead to destruction of entire cities, or may have caused a war with another rogue trader, or requisitioning large amounts of the population for unknown reasons.
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! 10
| '''Rebel Leader:''' The head of a resistance faction, opposing the ruling powers or the Imperium’s influence. May be hailed as a saviour for overthrowing a local tyrant or even an entire government for the betterment of the people. Or may be despised as a villain who turned against the people they swore to protect, and seized power for themselves, being worse than the last leader, or even may be under the influence of some Chaos or xenos force.
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! 11
| '''Master Architect:''' An architect who pioneered the development of the world’s vital infrastructure. May be celebrated for their ingenuity, creating grand structures and beautiful cities, and ensuring even commoners have decent living areas. Or may be despised for unstable designs of a hive that collapsed killing many, or the misuse of life to make their creations.
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! 12
| '''Acclaimed Artist:''' An artist of the Imperium. May be celebrated for their cultural impact, their creation of large sculptures, beautiful paintings, a favourite holodrama, a piece of music, even an electoo artist. Or may be detested for their controversial subject matter or elitist nature, creation of art that caused mass hysteria, corruption, or is blasphemous in nature.
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! 13
| '''The Industrialist:''' A person who ran or took over an industrial empire. May be respected for stabilising the economy, safer equipment designs, or creating a new industry which ensured work for all. Or may be despised for treating workers as expendable, using subpar materials that led to catastrophes, causing environmental collapse, or even collaboration with xenos.
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! 14
| '''The Smuggler:''' Someone who illegally traded resources. May be credited for their resourcefulness, giving out smuggled rations during a famine, or finding and returning a relic, piece of technology, or body back to the Imperium. Or may be condemned for smuggling a dangerous criminal or traitor off-world, plague-ridden victims and goods, or heretical artefacts and texts onto the world.
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! 15
| '''The Harbinger:''' A preacher who predicted a significant event. May be revered as a visionary or prophet for warning the population about an invasion, natural disaster or some other event. Or may be demonised for spreading planetwide panic—whether they were correct or not—and shunned as a mutant.
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! 16
| '''Hive Botanist:''' A specialist in growing plants in the hive’s harsh conditions, improving food supplies and air quality. May be respected for their contributions, creating green spaces and providing food. Or may be blamed for accidental—or purposeful—growth of an invasive species, dangerous drug, or poisonous variety of food.
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! 17
| '''Battle Medic:''' A combat-trained medic. May be a combat medic, field chirurgeon, even a Sister of Battle. May be respected for saving many and perhaps assisting in designing a new stimm, or saving a hero, saint, or someone well-loved. Or shunned for using untested, outdated, even borderline heretical treatments that lead to the suffering or death of many, or giving preferential treatment to wealthier patients, extorting people even as they die, causing the death of a hero, saint, or someone well-loved.
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! 18
| '''Warden of the Hive Gates:''' The chief overseer of the primary entry points to a hive city. May be praised for their defence of the population, closing the gates and helping organise a defence against an enemy invasion or insurrection. Or vilified for enforcing harsh restrictions, tolls, or shutting the gates early out of cowardice, leading to the needless deaths of many.
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! 19
| '''Imperial Archivist:''' A scribe known for their chronicling of the planet's history. May be respected for preserving the planet's history, documenting glorious battles, rulers good and bad, or even uncovering missing archives that solved mysteries. Or may be scorned for altering records to glorify unworthy leaders, rewriting history to suit their own—or the highest bidder's—narrative, or deleting entire archives, leading to huge gaps in history.
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| '''Space Marine:''' A legendary Astartes from a chapter—local or otherwise—that was born on the planet. May be celebrated as a local legend for their heroics in battle, defeating a great foe, or defending civilians from certain death—regardless if that was their goal or not. Or may be a pariah and have fallen to Chaos, deserted their post, called in an attack that killed many civilians, or caused some great shame to their chapter and home world.
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