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Nostramo, on the inside edge of the [[Ghoul Stars]]{{Fn|2}}, was a planet of perpetual darkness, covered in clouds of pollutionand a perpetual solar eclipse. Only the planetary elite could afford artificial illumination. Murder, extortion, and theft were rampant, while the elite oppressed the vast underclass of foundry workers with hired thugs, the closest approximation the planet had to law enforcement. Violence, both interpersonal and suicide, kept the population in check{{Fn|1}}.

Nostramo's geology contained priceless wealth, particularly huge quantities of naturally occurring [[adamantium]]. The mineral trade made Nostramo great amounts of wealth, but at the cost of vast chemical and metalworking facilities scarring the landscape, throwing up the toxic clouds that perpetually darkened the skies. The extensive mining may have weakened the planet's crust, making its destruction much more violent than it would have been otherwise{{Fn|1}}.

The people planet's synchronicity with its moon, Tenebor, kept the planet under the darkness of a solar eclipse even in the height of summer. As a result, the human population of Nostramo were human but with had pale albino skin and black eyes, adapted to live in an environment of near-total darkness{{Fn|1}}.

The next time the Night Haunter returned to Nostramo would be the last. His entire fleet arrived in orbit and aimed their weapons at their home world. Countless lance barrages and orbital torpedoes pummeled the surface. The bombardment reached the planet's core, possibly through a weakness left in the crust by Curze's landingor the extensive adamantium mining, and the planet burst apart{{Fn|1}}.