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'''Chogoris''', known in [[Imperial]] records as '''Mundus Planus''', is the birthworld of the [[Primarch]] [[Jaghatai Khan]] and [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]] of the [[White Scars]] [[Space Marine Chapter]].
==History==
===Pre-Imperial History===
[[Jaghatai Khan]] united the tribes of the planet's western desert into a single horde and overthrew the rulers of the civilized empires. When the Khan left, he put [[Ogedei]] in control of the world, but Ogedei was not strong enough to hold the tribes together. The tribes fragmented and returned to their old ways of constant inter-tribal warfare. This may have been the Khan's purpose, because it allowed the Chapter's potential recruits to maintain their warrior culture. There would be many attempts to unite the tribes of the deserts but none would be as successful as the Khan's.{{cite this}}
===Sieges and Attacks===
*In 890.[[M41]], a [[Necron]] [[Tombship]] entered orbit over Chogoris and began a focused bombardment of an unpopulated area on the planet's surface for an unknown reason. The White Scars [[Battle Barge]] ''Jaghatai's Pride'' pierces the ships shields as the Defense Laser of [[Quan Zhou]] destroyed the ship in a single blast.{{Fn|3b}}
*A transmission dated 0435991.[[M41]] lists Chogoris as under full-scale infestation by a subterranean alien species, the [[Drugh]].{{Fn|1}}
*In 990999.[[M41]], Chogoris was among the systems besieged by a [[Red Corsair]] fleet under [[Huron Blackheart]]. The White Scars were forced to withdraw from the [[Third War for Armageddon]] and [[Second Agrellan Campaign]] to deal with the threat.{{Fn|2}}
*???.[[M42]]. The [[War for Chogoris]]. In the aftermath of [[Cadia]]'s [[Great Rift|destruction]], the nearby [[Maelstrom]] has grown in size and power and has begun affecting Chogoris itself. Now the world's grasslands burn from the [[Warp]]'s power and its beasts run wild, or turn to monstrous, deformed things. Worse still, the White Scars have not been able to protect the world's population from the predations of the Red Corsairs, who have begun building ziggurats from bodies of Chogoris' dead. The Chapter does not know why the Red Corsairs are building these mountains of dead flesh, but are sure the ziggurats are part of some ritual dedicated to the [[Chaos Gods]], that is close to completion.{{Fn|4}} Thankfully for the White Scars, [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s [[Indomitus Crusade]] managed to relieve the world and deliver new reinforcements of [[Primaris Space Marine]]s.{{Fn|5}}
==Geography==
*'''Khum Kharta Mountains''': Enormous mountain range{{Fn|6}}
*'''Empty Quarter''': enormous steppe wilderness inhabited by horse-nomads. Most of Chogoris' inhabitants dwells here but it maintains a low population density.{{Fn|6}}
==Culture==
Chogoris is still semi-feudal as of the [[M41|41st Millennium]]. While there are cities and spaceport's scattered across the planet, most of the population lives in the wilderness of the Empty Quarter. The tribes of the empty quarter have little contact with the wider Imperium and still utilize bows, swords, and great hawks dubbed ''Berkuts''. The tribes war against one another and subsist on hardy ''aduu'' and ''yat'' beasts. Despite their simple lifestyle, they are still capable of creating beautiful weapons and artifacts and are masters of calligraphy and poetry. Some of these tribes are large and bear dynastic names going back centuries while others are more recently offshoots. The tribes were briefly united by Jaghatai Khan but since his disappearance war has returned to the world.{{Fn|6}}
==Other Planetary Information==
Chogoris has two moons.{{Fn|7}}
==Related Articles==
*{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (8th Edition)]], pg. 21
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex Supplement: White Scars (8th Edition)]], pgs. 8-9
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Brotherhood of the Storm (Novella)]] - [[Legacies of Betrayal (Anthology)]], ''III. Targutai Yesugei''
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