Hive World

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The Imperium's pet name for its Arcologies, cities on the scale of mountains. Once a world gets one, it ends up building more until it is more-or-less covered in hives, and we call the resultant mass of metal and humanity a Hive World. Generally very shitty places to live, what with the gangs, starvation due to lack of resources, and forcible recruitment for the Imperial Guard, and such.

You know that intro blurb? "To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable." Yeah, that's life on a Hive World. Grimdark to the max.

See Also

• Necromunda, a Hive World and the setting of the tactical skirmish game of the same name.

• Terra, the Hive World to end all Hive Worlds, as humanity was born there.

• Forge World, another sort of world, dominated by manufacturing and research rather than residential construction.