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====Vikorm IV==== {{Infobox 40k Planet |name= Vikorm |bgcolor=black |fgcolor=white |image= |class= Cathedral World |orbdist= 2.2 AU |gravity= 1 G |temp= -12 C |pop= 120,000,000 |governor= Arch-Deacon Constantos Etrura |system= Vikorm |sector= Tungrus |subsector= Vikorm |segmentum= TO BE DETERMINED BY ALEXANDRI }} Ah, to walk along the streets of Vikorm IV during its fleeting summers, when the endless ice melts and shimmering rivers of purest meltwater cascade into the equatorial oceans. Huzzah for Vikorm's savage winters, which toughen and inspire Kuzgetan families! During the Great Crusade, Vikorm IV attracted settlers from across the Imperium who sought that most precious, and yet most overlooked of resources: clean water. The vast majority of Vikorm's water is locked up in ice sheets ten miles thick or more, only briefly melting for a few months to fill up gigantic meltwater lakes. This water runs over deeper ice, and never touches the bedrock below. Accordingly, it picks up neither salt nor sediment, and its mineral content is exceptionally low. Imperial voidships travel across dozens of sectors to mine this beautiful iceball, and their cargoes of freshwater command unimaginable prices. The citizenry of Vikorm IV lives comfortable lives, merely exacting tariff upon tariff to sustain themselves. Where the ice extractors have passed, vast caverns stand newly open, and it is in these that the Vikormians live. During the Heresy, the Vikormians simply collapsed the entrances to their caves of ice and steel, waiting out the bloodshed safe beneath many kilometers of snow. Unlike so many other planets, Vikorm IV rode out the Heresy completely unscathed, unnoticed by either titanic combatant. Over the years, Vikorm IV became staggeringly wealthy, and the emerging Imperial religion took notice. As fiery in their preaching as Vikorm's winds blew cold, the Ecclesiarchy claimed this world for their own and elevated its inhabitants to the exalted ranks of clergy. In the ice caves they constructed temples of unbelievable size and scale, whose artistry and grandeur know few equals across the Imperium. Tourism began to supplement the water-sales, and life on Vikorm is good indeed. "Cold builds the Soul, Gold builds the World", say the Vikormians. And it is true. Even after 10,000 years of Imperial habitation, barely 10% of the planet's water has been removed, and there is so very much more room to grow.
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