Arthurean

Designation: Knight World

Technology: low imperial (Knights and military have advanced technology but most live in feudal conditions)

Population: 2 billion

Moons: 7

Star : blue dwarf.

### Description

Arthurean is a feudal world recently conquer by the imperium, a little after Atlantis. The conquest was lead by knight errants without lands and was completed quickly as the lords of the planet only could oppose them with ancient armies composed of nobles on horse and plebeians on foot.

After being conquered the administrorum decided to give the planet to the leader of the imperial knights, Ser Taramis fondator of the house of the same name.

if the ancient nobility were ruined during the war and the resistance they that tried to organise later failed miserably and cost them their lives the peasants and normal population of the world haven’t really suffered.

Taranis was generous with the levied warriors who were opposed to him by their lord and released them once they were defeated and for the population nothing really changed. they always worked in the fields, lived simply in their villages and city and paid taxes to their new lords.

Because Artuhren is a fertile world mainly constituted of flat arable lands, hills, it was decided to make this world profitable by transforming it in a semi-agri-world.

Even if the world had large and dangerous beasts who hid in the forests and the big mountain chains it was judged a minor threat because imperials knights could easily deal with them.

This brought new technologies in the world and increased the level of educations of the peasants who had to learn to use modern engines and pesticides, but the population rest largely ignorant.

Taranis discovered quickly that it was easier to conquer a world than rule and manage it, because he had a lot of knights who helped him to conquer the world he had to divide the land amongst all of them to reward them and couldn’t give everyone an equal share of the spoils

. Of course, conflicts follow. He established that all the classes of his world from the noble to the peasants could send envoy to him personally in order for him judge a conflict or a problem, he must now focus himself on the grievances of the nobility to avoid a civil war.

In the beginning the military forces of the planet were only composed of imperial knights, but this changed a few decades ago when ork krok crash on the planet. Even if the greenskins were defeated a lot found refuge in the mountains or the forest, or became nomads who harrassed and looted the lands of the knights.

If they can take care of large greekskin forces, they are not quick enough to intercept the small and lighting swift bands. The attacks of this raiders and the lack of modern technology pushed Taranis to reintroduce the concept of heavy cavalry who composed the ancient armies of the planet but also modernise them.

It was enacted that all commoners who could pay the price of a laser carbine, a hunting lance , a sword or bring the head of a greenskin that they defeated or one of the more dangerous beasts of the planet could become retainers of his house. He personally paid for the carapace armor and the horses imported from Krieg.

Even if it allowed only a small number of peoples to present themself, once they were trained and equipped they were sufficient to protect his lands from the greenskins and from this day the majority of dukes in his kingdom followed his example.

The militia of Arthurean was born. To secure the border of the lands of men; the king Taranis also built fortresses to avoid the possibility of a Waagh rising to cause immense devastation.

Today the planet is relatively secure, the imperial knights and the militia becoming very experienced by constant fighting with greenskins and the wild life but internal problems menaces the stability of the planet.

Discord between noble for lands always exist, the imperial tithe in food and warriors has increased and began to create problems when it comes to feeding the population and a lack of nobles to coordinate the defense of their lands.

This last decades also saw the creation of a middle class of traders and militiamen who want take a more active part in the politic of their world.

Today the world of Arthurem is composed of 70% of arable lands, at the exception of one sea, two enormous forests and one important mountain chain. The recent discovery of xenos and underground ruins make the nobility worry than the mechanicus might begin to take too interest much in their world.

The population is mainly rural even if some cities are beginning to develop. They look like 17-18th centuries cities.