Lamur III

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Lamur III.

Once a world for captured enemies during the Great Crusaide, now a standart Penal World, **Lamur III** fell from its "high point" down to the level normal for a Penal World. Lamur III is a world with snow storms even in summer, thanks to weather patterns, is only remakable because of its policy to keep its population artificially low through the ignoring of an enclave with pirates.

## History

Lamur III is one of the first settled planets in the Leman Sector, and housed prisoners taken during the Great Crusade. Dark Eldar raiding parties used the freshly settled system as hunting grounds until only this planet remained settled. The raids stopped with the beginning of the Horus Heresy and a massive number of 300 Penal Legions were recruited and thrown at the enemy.

But even with the end of the Heresy came no peace to the world, as prisoner revolts endangered the planet and in 231.M33 came a pirate fleet, which name was lost to time. As they breached the planet, chose their leader to land in the defencible location of Pit`s Remains. Why he choosed this step was never learned but the administration of Lamur III came up with a perfidious plan: instead of destroying the nest, would they use it to limit the prisoner population through sending them into suicidal charges against the nest. To limit the prisoners success chances but to keep them in line, use the administration drugs. However, sometimes are there survivors of such charges who are then integraded into the pirate population, enlargening them this way. Every 50 years are fresh Regiments sent to Lamur III, by the Sector Command, to curb the population and to train the involved Regiments even more.

## Society and Culture

The so-called "society" is formed by 2 millon free inhabitants and 60 million prisoners. Prisoners live in so called Penal Stations around the planet, with often more than 300.000 thousands in one standart Penal Stations. High security Penal Stations house only 300 prisoners as maximum. The local Arbites use several methods to keep the prisoner population under control, like a total monopol on food, artificial conflicts between gangs or sending them under drugs to Pit`s Remains to get slaughtered. Or to be recruited into them.

## Government and Military

Since 110.M42 is Mattew Whaks the Planetary Governeur of Lamur III and uses the free-born as members of the administration. Willing prisoners with a good reputation can get jobs in the local Prison Stations in non-critical functions like cooking. Critical functions are done by the free-born or by Servitors.

The PDF of Lamur III is the Arbites Control Regiment, which is made up by Arbites and Imperial Guardsmen numbering in the hundred of thousands. Tear gas and poison grenades serve as the ultimative weapon against hords of rebelling inmates. Prisoners can be sent into the Lamur Penal Legions, Penal units for suicidal operations and building of defences.

## Notable Locations

* **Pit`s Remains:** Pit`s Remains are the remains of a once massive mountain consisting of the most hardend rocks on the planet. The mountain was destroy before the arrival of the Imperium by an Asteroid. Nowadays have Pirates settled there and serve as a way of dissposing massive ammounts of prisoners.