Jotunheim

Jotunheim is one of the founding members of the Imperial Trust and the homeworld of the Ab-Human Jotun. Jotunheim is a high-gravity world that has traditionally been a mining world, though in recent centuries it has developed an extensive and advanced industry.

## Environment

Jotunheim is a highly mountainous, heavy gravity world with an average temperature a few degrees below the norm. What flat areas is does have are usually in long valleys or on the edges of its lake an oceans.

## People

The humans of Jotunheim are short, stocky and strong, a common adaption to high gravity worlds. Since the formation of the Imperial Trust the percentage of the population that is human has been steadily shrinking, as has their political and economic power. This has happened as a result of the massive losses that the humans of Jotunheim suffered in the cult uprising after the death of the Emperor, and of the vast increase the the capabilities of the Jotun after they started getting educations though Knowledge Implantation Chairs. Some humans are accepting this gracefully and learning to work with their Jotun neighbours, while others are pushing back against the Ab-Human Jotun, who are obviously inferior to proper humans. Unfortunately by the Imperial Creed that was perfectly correct, and by the New Imperial Truth that is merely a stretch. Saint Lin did his best but was only the messenger.

### Jotun

The Jotun are a variant of Ogryns which are slightly larger and significantly smarter then most Ogryns, with being just as smart as humans, though with learning deficiencies.These deficiencies made it seem like they were only as smart as Bone'eads in the time of the Imperium, though now that you can teach them with Knowledge Implantation Chairs their true intelligence has been made clear.

## History and Government

Jotunheim is ruled by a hereditary Governor who has absolute power over the planet. Below the Governor are the leaders of the one hundred and twenty regions of Jotunheim. These leaders are a mix of Jotun Elders, elected and oligarchical councillors and minor nobles, though in recent times large numbers of the nobles and councillors have been killed. The first cause for this is Governor Lufey, whose paranoia led him to believe that many of the more powerful regional leaders were plotting against him leading him to kill them and their families. The second cause for death was the civil war, which killed half of the population of Jotunheim with those in power suffering the most.

The history of Jotunheim stretches back to the Dark Age of Technology when the Jotun were engineered to colonise the planet. Early in the Age of Strife they were one of the dominate powers in the region, and the Jotun fought several wars against the combined forces of Asgard and Vanaheim before eventually being defeated and conquered. It is believed that all of the humans on Jotunheim are descended from the conquering Asgardians and Vanerheimers.

## Military

The human forces of Jotunheim are decently trained soldiers who are effective in trench fighting and as mountaineers due to their homeworld. Just a little below the average skill level for the Imperial Trust.

The Jotun on the other hand are considered to be some of the most effective heavy infantry in the Imperial Trust, combining the massive strength of an Ogryn with the skills of a well trained human soldier. Beyond even that, the Jotun Elite are monsters, consisting entirely of highly trained, highly skilled veterans equipped with Jotun Power armour. In the Imperial Trust only the much feared Avernite Helgaurd can match them in battle, and even then only just.