Penal World
Penal Worlds is a classification given by the Imperium, to worlds that are used to house Human convicts who have broken its laws.[1] The chief authority of a Penal World is its Governor-Warden.[8]
Penal Colony populations can have a wide range of incarcerated individuals. Some might house a million rapists, murderers, heretics, secessionists, thieves, mutants and criminals of a thousand other types. All discarded by the Imperium who loathed them.[10a]
Penal Worlds might house minor criminals such as recidivists, or the worst kind of criminals such as murderers, rapists, and heretics. Depending on their crimes and sentences, each group might be housed in specific Interment Spires. The worst criminals might be condemned to execution, but continue to be used as slave labour for a span of years (or even decades) in mining operations or other heavy labour.[10b]
Children condemned of crimes are also sent to these prisons. These juves who witnessed a crime might receive a reduced sentence due to their young age, and only be condemned to a couple years of hard labour in a penal camp.[9] Other times an innocent Guardsman is sentenced to life for a crime they didn't commit.[10]
Notable Penal Worlds
Images
An Imperial Penal Colony.[7]
Sources
- 1: Flesh and Steel (Novel), Chapter 5
- 2: Lost Hope (Short Story)
- 3: Chapter Approved 2003, pg. 26
- 4: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising: Mission: Raid on Calderis
- 5: Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema, pg. 42
- 6: Cold Blood (Short Story)
- 7: Dark Heresy Second Edition: Enemies Beyond, pg. 29 & 30
- 8: Assassinorum: Kingmaker (Novel), Chapter 6
- 9: Warhammer 40,000: Darktide: Character Creation (Veteran), Growing Up - Witness to a Crime
- 10: Soul Hunter (Novel)
