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The boiling seas, and the pall of vapor and dust blocked off the sunlight. The temperature of the planet fell to freezing levels. Most significantly the comet had knocked the planet from its orbit, and over a period of ten years the planet spun eccentrically, drifting fifteen million miles away from its sun. By this point the planet had entirely changed. The vast majority of life had been destroyed, and the whole planet was covered in glaciers and a frozen ocean.
===War of Survival===The people struggled to survive, producing food in extensive vats of nutrient-rich slime. As the threat of starvation seemed to be passing, a new threat appearedin [[M30]]{{Fn|5}}. A fleet of damaged [[Ork]] space ships had been cast through the [[warp]] to the ice world. The Orks descended on the planet and proceeded to fight the Valhallans for the food they had stored. They held out bravely for a long time in their sub-glacial cities but were pushed back to the food vats. The battle looked hopeless for the humans. The defenders held out long enough for Valhallan engineers to use their ice-boring machines to bore through the ground beneath the Orks. The tide was turned as the fiery ice-melting machines ran amok among the Orks, burning and terrifying the Orks. The Valhallans took the offensive and cut down any Ork which had not been burned or melted.
Ever since then, the Valhallans, particularly their sons and daughters enlisted in the [[Imperial Guard]], have hated the Orks more than any other [[xenos]] race, and become especially adept at fighting them on other worlds throughout the Imperium.
**a: Chapter 19, p. 741, fn. 1*
<sup>4</sup>:[[For the Emperor (Novel)]] by [[Sandy Mitchell]]
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Cityfight]] pg.31
[[Category:Civilized Worlds]]
[[Category:Ice Worlds]]
