Nostramo
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Nostramo, also known as Space Gotham, was a Hive World known for being dark as fuck even at midday because of its pollution and the dying star it had for a sun, adapting the settled humans into a pale, dark eyed people who could see in the dark. Also, it was infested with criminal gangs and ruled by corrupt nobles. The planet was so depressive that the population of Nostramo was under control not by starvation or war, but by the suicide rate.
Things started to get better when Space Marine Batman arrived. Konrad Curze fell to his new home in his gestation capsule and leaving a big ass crater, just like his brother primarchs did; unlike his brothers, he wasn't adopted by anyone. He survived in the capital of Nostramo Quintus on his own, eating the vermin of hive city, killing anyone he come across (most of them were murderous gangsters anyway). After realizing that he was much stronger than the people of Nostramo, he tried to cleanse the hive city from the murderous gangs and criminals. He left the corpses of criminals beaten to a literal pulp with bare fists, enough bodies to clog sewer systems, mutilated and flayed bodies nailed to the outside walls of their homes. He always left the corpses of his victims in sight to seed fear in the hearts of the people. In the end, his anti-crime campagin worked out pretty well.
A terrifying stability settled upon Nostramo. After every criminal was killed and every noble (who didn't get killed) was oppressed by fear, the people of Nostramo made him their first monarch in the planet's history. Because that is what you should do when Batman pops up on your planet. Despite the fact that they were ruled by some sort of boogeyman, Nostramo entered a golden age for the planet: exports tripled, the crime rate was near zero, somebody even turned on some goddamn lights. But a short time later, E-Money arrived on Nostramo, his golden armor so shiny, hundreds of Nostramons were blinded by it. (As a sidenote, his coming to Nostramo was prophesied. As the beginning of their apocalypse.) Oh, and Pretty Boy, Metal Hands, Bob the Base Builder, and...Lorgar was there too, but they didn't really do anything.
Curze submitted to Big E's rule, Nostramo now compliant and Curze leaving the planet behind to command the Night Lords. Control of the planet was delegated to Imperial governors and it became the recruitment world for Night Lords. Well, this worked out poorly. As the Night Haunter left the planet, Nostramo returned to its good, old, criminal ways. Murder and rape became endemic, and criminal gangs made of the worst and most murderous scum became the basic unit of society. As the Night Lords grew in numbers and replenished lost ones, the brutal criminals began to trickle in, then flood in over the course of years, turning the Night Lords into a military force of crazed sadists and vicious criminals. Some speculate that the Emperor planned this out, in order to get better terror units out of the Night Lords, or he that just didn't care about Nostramo or Night Lords because they will never be Ultramarines. Also, practicing 40k's tradition of having a phenomenal lack of common sense, the Night Haunter apparently didn't build any law enforcement agencies, police forces, or anything like that. He really only relied on himself and the aura of terror he created to prevent the people of Nostramo from committing any crimes. He also didn't give them any reasons to live for or to improve themselves, besides the fear of being killed by him.
Briefly before the Heresy, after helping Fulgrim and Rogal Dorn bring a world into compliance, Rogal realized that Curze was doing some fucked up shit. Rogal got really angry challenged Curze to a brief philosophical debate about the nature of justice, which ended with Curze nearly killing Rogal. (That's not a joke, that actually happened.) Curze was arrested and placed under guard by Imperial Fist and Emperor's Children Terminators. Realizing his trust and secrets were betrayed by Fulgrim, and that he couldn't rely on Rogal to see that the you can only win in the grimdark galaxy by being even more grimdark, Curze escaped (after killing his brothers' Terminators with his bare fucking hands) and set the fleet on a course for home, intending to make an example out of Nostramo. An already mentally unstable Night Haunter decided that Nostramo was so fucked up that it cannot be saved. Remember that crater he made when he arrived? He moved his fleet into orbital positions, and had them exploit the weakness in the planets crust and blew Nostramo into a cloud of asteroids. And such was the fall of the most fucking grimdark hive world in the galaxy.
Nostramo, with its people having a psychotic bent towards anarchy and cruelty, is accepted to be one of the chief reasons Night Haunter went rogue and later joined Chaos, along with his psychic foresight of worst possible futures and maybe some mistakes made by The Emperor in Curze's creation. The traumatizing and depressive environment of Nostramo damaged Konrad Curze's sanity heavily and caused him to think only the fear keeps people loyal. Also seeing Nostramo's descend into a criminal shithole again made him to think that without constant reinforcement, terror tactics eventually fails miserably.
On a side note, Nostramo used to be extremely rich in adamantium ore, and it's premadarkness was mostly caused by adamantium mining and processing factories. Asteroids formed from blown-up Nostramo often happen to be adamantium-rich too, and so they tend to attract mechanicus and rogue trader asteroid mining crews (everyone else would likely think twice before venturing to the system Imperium classified as "forbidden"), only for them to get wiped out in the most horrifying ways possible when the Night Lords occasionally check on the remnants of their homeworld.