Skrynne
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Skrynne | 
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| Segmentum: | Segmentum Obscurus[1a] | ||
| Sector: | Calixis Sector[1a] | ||
| Subsector: | The Periphery[1a] | ||
| System: | Skrynne System | ||
| Population: | 10,000,000 | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperium / Orks | ||
| Class: | Jungle World / Death World | ||
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Skrynne is a Jungle Death World in the The Periphery subsector of the Calixis Sector.[1a]
Overview
The colonial death world of Skrynne in the Spinward Front has long struggled with Ork infestation. When humanity first discovered the world, there was a substantial Ork presence. After repeated requests for aid, Space Marines of the Storm Wardens Chapter landed upon the planet and performed a thorough cleansing of the xenos population. During the intervening centuries, the Orks have reappeared several times. Each time, the planet’s meagre garrison has overcome the Greenskins and attempted, once more, to completely eliminate the alien threat.[1b]
The last of these incursions and cleansings occurred 145 years ago. After the climactic battle and triumph for humanity, huge portions of the northern continent were cleansed with fire and radiation. The poor colony spent virtually all of their reserves with the goal of eliminating the threat once and for all. In the decades since that time, the colony has grown to a world with a population of nearly ten million human souls. Never a rich planet, they successfully tamed portions of the death world’s jungles and managed to stabilise enough agrarian resources that they finally attained self-sufficiency.[1b]
History
Colonisation
Humanity discovered Skrynne several thousand years ago, during routine expeditions through the portion of the Calixis Sector that would eventually become known as the Spinward Front. Several early attempts at colonisation were universal failures. Though all of these initial forays were well equipped for either a death world or to overcome an Ork infestation, none were adequately supplied for both. This lethal combination consistently prevented humanity from gaining a foothold.[1b]
Eventually, sector government requested that the Departmento Munitorum take a direct hand in the matter. The fourth company of the Storm Wardens Space Marine Chapter accepted the assignment to cleanse the world so that it might be put to Imperial use. Even those stalwarts required more than ten years to complete their task. Most reports of the war have been lost to the ages, but when the colonists arrived they were fervent in their gratitude to the Space Marine Chapter. To this day, Storm Warden iconography remains ensconced within every Ecclesiarchy chapel upon the planet as a reminder of the debt their world owes to the Adeptus Astartes.[1b]
Over the centuries since their arrival, humanity gradually took control of the planet. The population grew from tens of thousands of colonists to a population of several million souls. The expanding human population cut down huge swaths of the world’s native jungles and eliminated countless members of the death world’s savage predators. As their agrarian interests expanded, the population continued to grow and expand their holding upon Skrynne’s southern continent. As the human society grew and increased in its sophistication, the largest recurring challenge became the regular outbreaks of Orks upon the world’s northern continent.[1b]
Planetary Resources
Prior to the discovery of promethium, Skrynne paid its Imperial tithes through excess food production and with a variety of rare products isolated from the flora and fauna of the world’s jungles. While the world’s refineries and manufactories are limited, the process of isolating rare compounds and toxins from these organisms was sufficiently simple that substantial quantities could be created and prepared for shipment on a biannual basis. Some of these compounds provide medical benefits, while others are useful as toxins that are sufficiently rare as to escape most screenings.[1b]
Because of the limited population, Skrynne has been historically incapable of tithing soldiers for the war effort. As their numbers have risen and fallen, subsector command has consistently spared it of fulfilling this responsibility. Given the state of their current losses, raising a regiment on Skrynne in the near future is unlikely. Only once the population returns to a level of self-sufficiency would the Departmento Munitorum reconsider this issue.[1b]
Historically, the planet’s manufacturing base has been very small. With the exception of the recently discovered promethium, the world’s mineral resources are limited. The few metals that Skrynne’s inhabitants could extract from its crust invariably went towards the manufacture of weapons to combat the planet’s more aggressive species. Most synthetic materials are either imported at tremendous cost or replaced with alternative materials created from plant extracts. Consequently, the few surviving buildings are almost all of stone and brick construction.[1b]
The citizens of Skrynne had developed a polite and artistically creative society that seemed sharply at odds with the savage nature of their world. Countless works of art have been destroyed during the Ork invasion. Even among the ruins of Skrynne’s buildings, beautiful murals, many showing expressions of devotion to the God-Emperor, lay shattered like jigsaw puzzles. A few of the world’s artists have had work exported to the more populous worlds of the Calixis Sector, but it is unlikely for any further pieces to leave the world for many years to come.[1b]
