Lucca

**Lucca**, a Hive World of 25 billion people, is the capital world of the Akir Subsector and a major producer of a handful of items like stones for building and electronic for void vessels. Vasts lichen fields with many rivers allow the planet to support alone 7 billions with the remaining food imported from Luccas moon Glyps Post - an Agri-World. In matters of minerals is Lucca also relativly independent and many veins are or were also close to the Hives, who in turn are often located in craters or surrounded by mountains.

## History

Lucca was settled by Humanity in late M22 shortly before the Age of Strife when the first human civilisation when Warp travel broke down and untrained psykers opened accidently holes into the Inmaterium. Isolated from the remaining human worlds forced the colonists to use their imported ressources with the utmost effectivity. The colonists successfully survived the troubling times of the Age of Strife and built an stabile society in their strategically located cities.

Contact with the growing Imperium was made in late phase of the great Crusade by a Rogue Trader vessel jumped out of the Warp and suffering critical engine damage. Contact with Terra was established with Terra through Astrophats relativly fast. Regadless of this, arrived the first imperials in a regular manner only in the mid of the Horus Heresy and returned with three armies worth of volunteers and private militaries to engage the enemy. Such a mass recruitment campaign was the work of the Rogue Trader Elija Wuudh who traded imperial technology for soldiers. Luccan became after the end of the Horus Heresy and the great Scouring a crucial location for the efforts to rebuilt the Imperium, with much energy put into the production of building materials to help rebuilting efforts in the Imperium.

## Politics

Luccan politics is dominated by non-noble Dynasties like the ancient Wuudhs, descendants of the Rogue Trader Elija Wuudh, or the ruling di Sore. Officially is Lucca not a monarchy, however the post of the planetary governeur is handed down in the di Sore family, who lead the regime which is made up by members of the Nobility and the Patricians. This system is called signoria and has outlasted a handful attempts in removing it and replacing it with a more republican system,

## Culture

Religious life in Luccas Hives is concentrated around a few massivly celibrated religious holidays and daily or weekly rituals. Particullarly, the celebration of the Emperors sons, the Primarchs. brings massive jollifications into the Habblocks.

Aside of Luccans religious celibrations have the people also a refined literature and poetry. Stories from the ancient history of the planet over novel telling the stories of the Luccan Linemen to poems retelling the history of the Leman Sector. Literacy is accordingly more prevalent than on other Hive Worlds. The society of each Hive is influenced by the dominating gilda (guild) who produce the goods mainly exported from Lucca. People from Hives with a dominating paper industry are more cleanly than the ones from other Hives, and the ones from the cooking oil dominated are decried as bruthis. Electronic producing Hives believe more in machine spirits, while the quarry workers have the reputation of being formidable fighters.

### Notable People

* **Elija Wuudh:** Elijia Wuudh was a Rogue Trader during the Horus Heresy and is an adopted son of Lucca. He made contact with Lucca during his accident caused stay in the system. When hearing of the begin of the Horus Heresy, begun Wuudh to trade imperial technology in exchange for soldiers with the local elite. With the help of willing nobles was he able to raise 175.000 soldiers who became the first Luccan Linemen. His descendants form since then a major noble family on Lucca.
* **Dante Aligihri:** Dante Aligihri was a writer and author during M34, the golden age of the Leman Sector and remains even long since his deaht an influential author. Aligihri works contained religious and political topics, entangled with stories from historical heros and had taken inspirations from tale from the worlds of the Leman Sector and a few neighbouring worlds. He wrote in his 110 years around 60 novels and 10 treaties about the art of writing and creativity. Censors bewailed often his sharp yet hidden tounge making it difficult to justify censorship of his books. The Lorekeeper Chapter is known to have two originales from Dante Aligihri in their archieves.

## Nature

Most of Luccas landscape is inhabited sparsley by natures with liches being the dominating plant species. Alongside the land are the small oceans sparsley populated by higher lifeforms, who have problems to survive in the oxygen poor waters of Mare Tanan and Mare Igla. But while land and oceans are poor in life, are the rivers and lakes deaming with lifeforms like crabbs, insects and small fish thanks to a stabile ecosystem of bakterias living on the ground producing oxygen and nutrients.

### Notable Flora and Fauna

* **Red Fire Eagles:** The skies of Lucca are ruled by Red Fire Eagles, the top avian predators on Lucca. Under its red feahters are hidden glands for acidic body fluids used in melee combat and self-defence. People who came in contact with those fluids reported a burning sensation.
* **Crust Crabbs:** A local delicates is made out of the cooked shell of the Crust Crabbs, common river lifeforms.
* **Giant Fungi Golm:** One the plains of Lucca grow so called Giant Fungi Golms who are 12 times larger than the regular fungi found on Luccas surface. The fungi is per se not poisonous however massive bacteria colonies have themself settled on each speciemen and can cause many different kinds of illness. But when grown in farms can the growth of the bacterias be controlled and the fungi used for cooking oil production,

## Geography

### Notable Locations

* **Alion Spaceport:** Alion Spaceport is the main centre for off-world and on-world transportation and trade. Goods are transported to Alion Spaceport via a giant network of railways covering the entire planet. Protection is added by five planetary lasers, air wings and a PDF Regiment equipped with anti-air tanks, supported by squads of Cybermastifs.
* **Hive Claudio:** Hive Claudio is the centre of Luccas paper and pergament industry. Entire sections were converted into greebhouses and the width skyscrapers marking the Hives skyline serve as factories for the paper manifactories and chemicals needed. Claudio has a large out-turn of chemicals has damaged the local environment irreversible. although strict pollution laws keep the Hive surprisingly clean.
* **Quarries of Melfi:** The Quarries of Melfi is a location in the mostly demounted Tawini Mountains near the city of Melfi. Originally located way more in the east, moved the quarries toward Melfi. Most of the stones won are made into bricks for construction work. Veins of different stones are sometimes found and turned, in a raw form, into the pool for Luccas Tithe.

## Defences

The Luccan Defence Force, the PDF of Luccan has a strenght of 5 million soldiers. Standart PDF Regiments have a strenght of 10.000 men while the Hive Garrison Regiments have ten times the strenght of a typical Regiment. Since most Hives were built in areas like craters or surrounded by mountains, follows the LDF a defensive doctrine, to hid behind fortresses and natural barricades while only a few Regiments harrass the enemy in hit-and-run tactics or via mobile artillery Regiments.

## Economy

Luccan main exports and ingretient of its Tithe are cooking oils, stone for construction, electronic for void vessels and paper. Each Hive City is dominated economically by a guilda - guild - specialised in the production of one of them. Hive Claudio for example is a hub for the paper industry, while Hive Amelo is focused on the production of electronic and the sole producer of the Hotshot Volley Gun used by the Luccan Linemen and some PDF units. Major imports, next to food stuff, are additional chemicals for the paper industry and ingrediants for cooking oils. Minerals needed for the electronic are either mined from the planet or coming from neighbouring worlds.