Hepai Prime

**Hepai Prime** is a very rich mining world in the Segmentum Tempestus. And a most likely artificial one. The planet is to 63% made up of metals and the mountains are rivalled by metallic formations. Such anomaly makes Hepai Prime to a perfect mining world especially for its giant deposits of noble metals gifting its wealth and regular attacks by pirates and Xenos. Illegal mining operations are a serious concern who are often done by heavily armed groups. The anomalous crust and the fact that the planet was surrounded by a Warp storm who may last for several millennia bestowed a significant Adeptus Mechanicum and Inquisition presence. Hepai Prime has a relative "high" number of Squats.

## History

### Origin

Only some voices say that Hepai Prime did naturally developed pointing on the over average high number of metals in the asteroids of the Hepai System. This may have allowed the planet to absorb in its very early phase many asteroids with metals.

Most think that the planet was artificially made or at least manipulated heavily. Both options would have most likely happened in an early phase of the system. But the way in which this was done or why it was done is not known.

### Time of the Imperium

Hepai Prime was hidden by a Warp Storm which edges ended in the system. This meant that the was not fully covered by it and limited travel in the system was allowed, even some pieces for evidence were there suggesting the existence of hidden planets. Only in 590.M36 dissolved the planet allowing a colonisation although the Inquisition was suspicious of it and founded a small on the surface. First attacks by pirates happened in 640.M36 and in 700.M37 the defenders were forced to retreat into the mountains while Orks and Dark Eldar fought on the surface and plundered it.

## Landscape

Hepai Prime has several mountains and smaller metallic formations. The planet is split into areas coloured in metallic shades representing metalic deserts, brown coloured areas with dirt deserts and few areas with light green shades representing wet savannahs. Most mining operations are at mountains, metallic formations or metallic deserts. Only a few mining sites are at other areas often mining raw metal or ingrediances for refined steel.

## Society

### Abhumans

Hepai Prime is quite known for its population of Squats who are accepted members of the planetary community. As normal for a near-extinct species, this population is small counting only 200.000 Squats from a docent Clans. A definitive bigger population and not so accepted Abhuman species are the Ogrins.

### Social Norms and Religion

For most people not from Hepai Prime is it strange that the Hepaianer does only little care for gold but sees platinum as gold. The reason is simple: gold is one of the more common metals while platinum is very rare and comes in a much higher quality than normal. Silver has a quite high social prestige and every inhabitant wears at least one or two small objects made of silver next to his clothes. It is a symbol for being industrious and persistent, two traits common for the people of Hepai Prime.

In questions of religion are the Hepaianer because of the strong Inquisition presents conservative.

## Important Locations

* **Hive Murans Landing:** The capital Hive of the planet. In it live 8 million people and is the central government and administration hub. Murans Landing was constructed like a mushroom but with a small trunk (2.3 km high). This trunk is supported by several columns for reasons of stability. The soc called cap has a diameter of 20 kilometres and a height of 60 kilometres. Technically is the Underhive only the second-lowest level, the lowest level is the trunk what is mostly armoured and not built for industry (although a serves as basement for it) or civil infrastructure-
* **Young Post:** A former military post serving as fortified secondary planetary administration. Built-in M37 for an infantry company with supplies and vehicles. The bunker deep beneath it can resist a direct hit by a mediocre ship weapon and is still effective against most virus weapons. For emergencies the Young Post can house 3.000 souls next to 1.200 soldiers extra.
* **Southern Iron Sands:** A desert in the south of Hive Murans Landing with iron grains of sand. Sand storms are very raw but when one gets strong enough the damage to buildings and biological mater is dramatic. Occasionally site of smaller mineral collection operations.
* **U`lar Formation:** A 20 kilometres long formation made of Adimantium with a high percentage of copper rendering it weaker when molten. Because of this the formation is ignored by the mining industry and is a kind of tourist attraction. On a planet with defacto no tourist industry on it
* **Techstation 231:** A Adeptus Mechanicum research post tasked to study the strange composition of Hepai Prime.
* **Inquisition Base Omega-1:** A base of the Inquisition searching of signs of Heresy.
* **Hepai Port:** The starport of Hepai Prime.
* **Hive Vangar:** Hive Vangar is the main processing centre making the mined minerals higher quality and refine them in different kinds of steels. The population is counting 10 million people.

## Notable Persona

* **Jack Polowsky:** A miner who lived in M40 and was and is still known locally especial in his home area for his books about mining techniques, local folklore and manuals for the use and repair of old patterns of equipment.

## Flora and Fauna

* **Jarich`s Moss:** This kind of moss is brown-green in colour growing on rocks, ruins and in shadows and is the main O² producer on Hepai Prime. Research showed that most covered objects by this moss are technically covered by several individuals. Normally individual Jarich`s Moss have only a surface of 15-20cm² but when merged in collectives they have together a surface of up to 15m².
* **Tunnler Mole:** A Tunnler Mole is a mammalian living underground and stir up the earth. Its skin protects them against iron sand grains and their body is very agile and so they can squeeze themself through small holes and tunnels between metallic deposits. Tunnler Moles are omnivore and can absorb ions from metals to support their body and make their claws more tougher.
* **Nasta Blue Gazelle:** A agile mammal with two shanks, located behind each other, who split into four legs. They live in the few wet savannahs and some subspecies live at the edges of the dirt deserts. Other subspecies were tamed and serve as pets or farm animals.

## Military

### PDF

* **1st PDF Regiment** - 30.000 soldiers stationed in the capital Hive
* **2nd PDF Regiment** - 20.000 veteran soldiers from recruited Regiments as part of the thite.
* **3rd PDF Regiment -** 20.000 soldiers. This PDF Regiment is specialised in training soldiers for the thite Regiments.
* **4th PDF Regiment** - 30.000 soldiers guarding the Spaceport.
* **5th PDF Regiment** - 20.000 soldiers
* **6th PDF Regiment** - 20.000 soldiers
* **PDF Air Force Regiment** - 30.000 soldiers and 11.500 air crafts.
* **Reserve PDF Regiment** - 50.000 soldiers serving as reservists
* **PDF Support Corp** - 50.000 reservists and soldiers operating the defensive infrastructure

### Garrison

With garrison are the Regiments meant who are Imperial Guard from off-world and even Regiments recruited for the Thite

* **12th Hepai Mine Guard Regiment** - 20.000
* **7th Hepai Mine Guard Regiment** - 20.000
* **12th** **Aeirein Grenadiers** **Regiment** - 20.000
* **56th Hydronian Heavy Regiment** - 25.000
* **Local Mechanicus Manipel** - 7.000 Skitarii
* **Local Inquisition Stormtrooper Company** - 7.000
* **177th Arothi Storm Guard Regiment** - 16.000

### Defensive Infrastructure

* 12x Orbital Guns
* 3x Defence Stations in the orbit
* 5x airbases
* 35x big bunker facilities
* 2x Anti-Vessel Missile Platforms

## Politic

The Lord Manager is the highest authority of Hepai Prime and is elected by a board of Mine Guild Leaders, Hive City leaders and Union leaders. His mandate has a duration of 20 years. A lack of nobles lead to a society with fast social mobility. In contrast to other planets, Worker Unions aren`t eliminated by the government but tolerated. Reasons are that they prevent worker strikes, improve the situation of the workers which prevent heretical cults and proved in rising the efficiency of the mines.

## Hepai System

* **Sol Hepais** - Sun of the Hepai System
* **Asteroid Belt K1780B**
* **Hepai Prime**
* **Littl` Pie** - small planetoid showing signs of extensive mining operations and bombardments
* **Hepai Secundos** - Gas giant with a small listening post
* **Asteroid Belt K1879G**

## Economy

Hepai Primes economy is focused aroud mining of metals in the first place with the production and maintenance of mining equippment coming on the second place. Refining of the minerals and metalls is mainly done for noble and rare metalls to increase their value, while iron and Adamantium don`t need to be process thanks to their naturally high quality. Guild and factories not involved in the mining industry fill out most of the economical gaps on Hepai Prime and can supply the planet with 35% of the needed food and consume goods.