Kuma

**Kuma** is a tundra world covered with marshes, tundra badlands and fir tree forests. It is home to long and cold winters, dangerous creatures and inhabitants infamouse for their grenade use. Massive natural gasoline and oil deposits form the backbone of the economy and the Tithe. An arms industry producing grenades and air transports supplies the people of Kuma with the ability to travel between the scattered Hives and hive-like towns and to kill the armoured creatures roaming the planetsurface.

## History

Settled during the Horus Heresy by refugees from worlds fallen into civil war or defected to Horus. With such a dramatic backstory grew a paranoia and hatred towards a handfull of planets, which was not even ended with the purgation of those worlds.

Cults worshipping the Emperor found early their way to Kuma, with entire villages forming monasteries who hid their worship as a cult of personality of the Emperor until the Ecclesiarchy on Holy Terra was formed. During the reformation of the worship on Kuma won the population outside of the monastery-villages more political influence ensuring a age of low-level civil strife and cultural isolation of the monasteries. Reformations after the fall of Gaugh Vandire conceded the nobility and regular Hivers regulated influence on the politic while securing the power of the monasteries and the few tribes outside of the Hives.

## Politics

Kuma is ruled by the Council of 13. The 13 are representatives from the monasteries, from the Hives and one of the tribes. 7 of the seats are permanently given to the Ecclesiarchy who provide the Planetary Governeur, while most advisors and several highranking officials are provided by the Hivers.

Each settlement, Hive and monastery has thanks to their isolated locations a high rate of autonomy. Specific laws can exist in one place while the other locations have different unique laws. Regulation of local autonomy comes from vox communication and government officials visits via air transport.

## Culture

9 billions of the population of Kuma life in the scattered Hives living lifes near their neighbourhood, resulting in homogen sections of the Hives. 1.7 billions life in the monasteries also scattered around the planet. Strict religiousness markes the life of the monasteries who life together with their and random families. The last group are the tribe members migrating around the survace or life in small villages. The sedentary populations is mistrustfull about the tribes who roam freely the landscape ignoring the danger of the beasts. Stories are told about how they evade those creatures and unproven rumours tell of psykers driving of the beasts. However the tribes are responsible for the security of drawing plants and serve as scouts or as guids for the PDF and transport convoys.

### Notable People

* **Timos Medoschenko:** First Patriach of Kuma.
* **Linus Karzinsky:** Infamous oligarch during M41.
* **Colonel Asako Nasow:** Colonel of the 71st Kuma Airborne Grenadier Regiment which was later fused with the 270th Valhallan Regiment,

## Geography

Only a few regions on Kuma are pleasant like the belt at the equator where the temperatures are mostly pleasant. Saddly are those areas poor in ressources and have little natural defences. Ressource rich areas are located in the massiv tundra and marsh regions who additionally give further defencive positions and farmland for specialised crops. Fir trees forests supply the timber industry and grow everywhere on the planet. Travell is made more easier through the lack of mountains between the scattered Hives and settlements.

### Notable Locations

* **Monastery of the Shining Candle:** The Monastery of the Shining Candle is one of the oldest monasteries on Kuma. Monks and nuns from the Shining Candle have a monopoly on the timber industry of the Oblast (province) of Sarostok. A traditional product produced by them are the candles who inspired the name of the monastery.
* **Hive Irtusk:** Hive Irtusk is the Hive City with the main spaceport and has regular contact with off-world groups. Reserve units of the PDF have in the past crushed several cases of unrest among the tribes resulting in a negativer view of the city by tribesmen living in a radius of 5.000 km aroudn Irtusk.
* **Lake Vladiwosk:** Lake Vladiwosk, the name giver of the Hive City located at its shores, is the greatest waterbody of Kuma with 10 milllion square kilometres of space. Fisher from Hive Vladiwosk supply the planet with 31% of the consumed fish,

## Nature

Life on Kuma us sturdy, needing to survive long and cold winters. Life prospers on the small equatorial belt, many different kinds of fish swim in the lakes and rivers and insects life in and under the marshes Many of the most dangerous creatures have developed over time strong armour and tough skelletons and need if engaged dealt with either Lasguns or the more common explosives on Kuma.

### Notable Flora and Fauna

* **Kuma Reindeer:** a medium sized herbivor used by the tribes as working animmal and as a food source. In some monasteries are herds hold as pets.
* **Growler Fish:** The Growler Fish is a 2,5 metre long fish species home in Lake Vladiwosk with beig-grey scalles. Growler Fish got their name from the growls they make in order to communicate with other Growler Fish.
* **Slaughter Bear:** Slaughter Bears are one of the most dangerous creatures on Kuma. Exemplars have a armoured skin with a depth of 1-2 centimetre of hardend skin. Muscles integrated into the skinn give further defensivness and adds more flexibility. Bites and scratches lead often to deathly infections in short timespans.

## Economy

Kumas main export are natural gasoline and oil, energy sources used on low to medium developed worlds and for auxiliary generators but can be used as base materials for products. Also, the timber industry and the fishing industry have importance for the planetary economy. Air transports and grenades are the primary export and Tithe industrial products. Monasteries produce a width range of agricultural or low-tech products while the heavy industry is settled into the Hives,

## Defences

Like the Imperial Guard Regiments recruited from Kuma, the Airborne Grenadiers of Kuma, are the PDF Regiments Airborne Infantry and Grenadier Regiments with some Cavalry Regiments formed by the tribes. Most soldiers use Autoguns as primary weapons while the few Regiments not transfered to the Astra Militarum use Lasguns. To time persists the PDF of 250.000 soldiers organised into:

* 3 Airborne Grenadier Regiments of Kuma (not transfered to the IG)
* 7 Airborne Infantry Regiments
* 5 Grenadier Regiments
* 4 Cavalry Regiments
* 1 mixed Artillery and Air Defence Regiment
* 2 Light Infantry Regiments (tribes)
* 25 Infantry Companies (Monastery defensive forces)