Guria

The second Forge World in the Leman Sector is the Forge World of Guria, which is specialized in the production of void-ships thanks to Guria`s orbital shipyard. People and Servitors work around the clock on new vessels for the Imperial Navy, the Mechanicus or for private persons and organisations. Guria`s shipyards have themselves specialized in the production of more niche vessels like hospital ships, however produce large amounts of escorts and light cruisers and rarely even battlecruisers.

## History

Documents about Guria who proposed it as a Forge World for void-ship production date back to M29, however those proposals were not fullfilled until M34 when the Leman Sector found itself in a time of massive economical growth, allowing even more funds for this colonisation project.

Guria successfully grew to a splendid tundra world with a grand production capability for void-vessels. Which was put under test in the Orillian Crusade, when Imperial and Chaos forces fought massive battles in the voids, often with just escort vessels.

A dark time arrived in 893.M39 when Heretek saboteurs infiltrated local Servitor production facilities and even some barracks of the local Skitarii garrison and used techheresy to grant untold numbers of Servitors artificial intelligence, which was countered in a swift martial action by the local garrison but last resistance nests held out until 002.M40.

## Politics and Culture

People from Guria took over several smaller cultural aspects from other worlds with massive connections to their homeworld. Such things can be fashion or the use of specific patterns who have a cultural background on other worlds, like the Thesis Civilian Archaeopter as public transportation method. Home developed cultural aspects are specific prayers, food or technics.

The Fabricator-General has widespread competences, even in the local politics of small villages, with little check-and balance methods of his peers. Only his death allows the election of a new one or when the Machine Ghost of the Fabricator-General Throne rebels against him.

### Notable Persons

* **Fabricator-General Orpan Berleck:** The actual ruler of Guria and former Explorer. He is one of the more unorthodox Techpriests and is (in)famous for his patterns of well-known STCs.
* **Skitarii Ranger G-12M32:** A Ranger from the 7th Maniple and veteran of many campaigns off Guria. Survived several dangerous surgeries to copy his combat datas, rising the combat effectivity of his Maniple by 9,3465% through using them in the programming of new Skitariis.

## Military Forces

Guria`s military is made up by 2 forces: the Skitarii Legion Calzura and the Titan Legion Tacticus.

### Skitarii Legion Calzura

Legion Calzura is the main defencive force of this Forge World. Maniples from this Legion is focused on defensive warfare and warfare in space stations. Only 3 from 15 Maniples are sent out regularly who serve in Explorator fleets or on Mechanicus facilities near warzones. Cypernetic implants from the fallen of those Maniples are sent after their death back to Guria and used in the programmation of new Skitariis. Such measure provides new recruited Skitariis with the experience of veterans.

### Titan Legion Tacticus

Legion Tacticus is a small Titan Legion with 17 Titans, made up by Warhounds and Reavers and the "flagship" *Sanctus Deictus* a Punisher Titan. Punisher Titans are tri-legged Titans from a rare pattern, and with this specimen responsible for the glorious Necron massacre on Tartitus Maximus. All Titans are connected by a special vox-system allowing electronical warfare and the better accurraty of the Reavers missles, who are a local pattern controlable by the Reaver pilot.

## Geography

Gurias surface is made of glaciers and tundra, partly polluted by industrial waste. The equator is seed with small craters, results from small objects fallen down from the orbital shipyard. Unlike on other planets is the equator area of Guria suprisingly cold and dark, thanks to the shadow of the orbital shipyard. Manifactoriums on the planet are working day and night to produce the needed goods and metalls for the shipyard and spacelifts transport them up to the yards.

### Notable Locations

* **Orbital Shipyard of Guria:** The shipyard of Guria is a planetary ring. 252 space stations were permanent connected to the shipyard, fullfilling several tasks, like housing the workers, store materials and equipment, produce materials or as a defencive position for the shipyard.
* **Forge Temple Shade:** Forge Temple Shade is responsible for the recruitment and production of new Skitariis. Wings of the Forge Temple were constructed to honour the fallen warriors from Guria. It can also house the military high commando from the Forge World but has housed it only sometimes.
* **Equator of Guria:**

## Production

Guria`s orbital shipyard allow a massive production capability of void vessels. The following list is a rough number of vessels produced in a year on Guria, meaning 451 Terran days.

* 7 Punisher Class Strike Cruisers (for Adeptus Arbites)
* 3 Missionary Ships
* 21 Carrack Hauler
* 21 Fast Clipper
* 25 Goliath Class Forge Tender
* 2 Knight Transports
* 1 Inquisitorial Cruiser
* 30 Invictor Class Heavy Frigates
* 35 Falchion Class Escorts
* 50 Claymore Class Corvette
* 5 Cetaceus-Class Transporter

### Pattern and unique void-vessels

* **Mercy Class Hospital Ship:** Wars and disasters have already demanded deaths and injured and for those cases were Hospital ships built. A Nercy Class Hospital ship can house ub to 75.000 injured and even serve as quarantine station in emergencies. Hangers house furthermore recovery shuttles for searching survivors in shipwrecks after battles.
* **Mining Ship Guria Pattern:** Mining ships are operated by mining stations to collect and extract rocks from planets and asteroids. Besides rocks can the Guria Pattern Mining Ships also collect gases from gas giants and collect debris from void-ships, making it an allround mining ship.
* **Guria Pattern Ravager Titan missile:** A controllable missile used by Ravager Titans.