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[[File:Terra.JPG|thumb|right|An another view of Terra]]
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'''Terra''', [[homeworld]] of the mankind and of the [[Emperor]], is the most holy and revered place in the Imperium. Pilgrims throughout the Imperium flock to Terra - even the barren soil that pilgrims tread upon is considered holy. It is effectively a temple the size of a planet.
The planet is home to the main headquarters of many important organizations of the Imperium as it is the capital world of the Imperium.
==Geography==
[[File:Terra.JPG|thumb|right|An another view of Terra]]
Terra is a hive world, the earth has long ago been stripped of all forms of resources; its soil is utterly barren and its atmosphere is a fog of pollution. Massive, labyrinthine edifices of state sprawl across the vast majority of the surface. Its oceans have long ago boiled away. Many mountain ranges have been leveled--perhaps all but the Himalayas, which seemingly remain all but untouched due to the laboratories said to be underneath and the chambers of the [[Astronomican]] that course throughout the whole mountain range. Despite being devastated during the Horus Heresy and earlier than that during the long Age of Strife, Terra is probably the most vastly-populated and built-up hive world in the Imperium. Beneath countless layers and millennia of urban accretion, catacombs hold older cultures completely different from the surface ones.