Skapula - Environment: Skapula is located well within the habitable zone of its star. Most locations within the world's temperate zones average a daily temperature of twenty-five degrees centigrade. The planet's weather patterns are seasonal, with a particularly severe rainy season that lasts for three solar months.During this time, the driving acidic rains can inflict substantial damage on anything that is unprotected from their influence. The rest of the year, clouds of toxic pollutants often roll across the world's surface as a thick and deadly fog. Those foolish enough to travel unprotected through the murk seldom survive to recount the dangers.Skapula served the Jericho Sector and the Adeptus Mechanicus as a Forge World for millennia. During this time, agents of the Machine Cult ruthlessly stripped the world of its varied resources and mercilessly unleashed waste products upon the planet.There are no records of the nature of the planet's biosphere prior to the Mechanicus' arrival, but there remains very little native life today. While the world may have been chosen based upon the limited number of organisms that could be affected by the manufactoria, it is much more likely that the indigenous creatures were simply unable to cope with the changed environs and went extinct.Though it has been millennia since the manufactoria were largely shut down, the planet shows little sign of having recovered from that ecological damage. Much of Skapula's surface is covered in toxic bogs. These foreboding locations are filled with oily water that varies in depth from a few centimetres to more than ten metres.A combination of pollutants and swirling murk makes it impossible to judge the depth by eye. Walking, swimming, or boating through these places can be extremely challenging, as the depth fluctuates wildly and inconsistently.A few mutated, amphibious predators haunt these bogs, hunting everything that moves. Their prey is mostly fish, insects, and smaller amphibians.However, they do not hesitate to attack much larger creatures, often co-operating to do so. There are no forests, nor many tree analogues that yet survive upon Skapula. Most of the plants that have been observed are various low-growing scrubs.A variety of algae and more complex aquatic plants also grow among the world's seas and its countless bogs. Some of these plants are better adapted to tolerate the world's toxic conditions than others, but these are also invariably poisonous to Humans.Unfortunately, few of these species are capable of effectively breaking down the broad array of complex toxins that entered the environment as waste from the medicae centres and manufactoria.Consequently, most just absorb the toxins through exposure, and then unleash them upon the ecosystem once more after their decomposition.The largest structures upon the world are the ruins of the ancient Adeptus Mechanicus facilities. Some of these are still partially inhabited by the world's population of Hereteks and mutants. Far more, however, have been ignored for millennia and left to corrode in the absence of any maintenance.Even the ruins that are still in use are dilapidated, crumbling structures. Those who dare to enter the buildings to attempt to recover any ancient secrets incur substantial risk. Floors and roofs collapse without the slightest provocation.Ancient chemical storage facilities have corroded, leaving pools of toxins, acids, and many flammable materials. Countless heavily mutated organisms reside within some of these facilities, descendants of experimental tests which were abandoned in an age long past.