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The members of the house are often seen as barbaric by everybody else in the Hive, the members of [[House Escher]] being the most vocal in this belief. Indeed, many of the Goliath's traditions, like the fighting pits and the [[Feast of the Fallen]] do very little to disprove these beliefs, giving the impression of a violent and brutal people inimical to their neighbours and rivals alike.{{Fn|1}}

House Goliath operates and owns many of the Necromunda's great foundries and its workers are the masters of the metal and furnace. House Goliath traded the raw materials from the mines of [[House Orlock]]. The Goliath House mostly revered the physical strength. House Goliath breeds its workers like prize cattle - to create the toughest, strongest, and most unthinkingly loyal workers of the furnace in the [[Imperium]]. They are however, known for being extremely slow, relying on strength alone in battle. Due to the fact that Goliath fighters are not exactly fast on their feet, cunning opponents may attempt to use superior speed to outmaneuver them, robbing them of any combat advantage.{{Fn|3}}

Goliaths are unique among the peoples of Necromunda, being on the whole gene-smithed beings, forged from a stable genus of humanity but enhanced for strength and endurance. Whether or not Goliaths are, in fact, abhumans remains a subject of much debate among the representatives of the [[Adeptus Terra]] on Necromunda, though the Imperium has deemed them ‘sanctioned’ for use on the hive world under the proviso that [[Lord Helmawr]] monitors their development. To date, most Goliaths are still largely created through esoteric biological means – rapidly grown in amneo-vats from flesh-templates and turned out into the refineries and factories for immediate hard labour. These brutish creations are mostly male and mostly sterile, living for less than a decade on a diet of backbreaking work and growth stimms before their bodies fail and they die. Despite this short life-span, Goliaths are born with a baseline knowledge of their world and their position in it delivered via a cranial data-slug. Alphas ensured that the data-slug was altered to include the collected knowledge and experience of the Goliaths who had come before. In this way, the Goliaths share the knowledge of the clan gathered over hundreds of generations, giving them a working understanding of everything from hive industries to clan weaponry.{{Fn|5a}} Vat-birthed, a Goliath can be freakishly huge, larger than even a [[Space Marine]], other than their lack of speed, they are also known suffer from mental imbalances and extremely short lifespans, all this has resulted in many considering them to be a classifiable strain of [[Abhuman]].{{Fn|3}}

==Organization==

==Known Gangs==

*[[Breakers]]{{Fn|10g}}

*[[Broke-knee Boys]]{{Fn|11a}}

*[[Broke-Tooth Boys]]{{Fn|13b}}

*[[The Cybercanids]]{{Fn|18}}

*[[Death's Right Hand]]{{Fn|9l}}

*[[Dog Soldiers]]{{Fn|10a}}{{Fn|15}}

*[[Goliath Hive Fiends]] {{Fn|10d}}

*[[Havoc Engines]]{{Fn|15}}

*[[Ironlords]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|9a}}

*[[Irontree Reavers]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|9b}}

*[[Jaw Breakers]]{{Fn|10b}}

*[[Raygorn's Roughnecks]]{{Fn|8}}

*[[Rowdy Bois]]{{Fn|15}}

*[[Scraphammer Warriors]]{{Fn|11c}}

*[[Shiv's Crushers]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|9h}}

*[[Slaughterfists]]{{Fn|9j}}

*[[Steel Brutes]]{{Fn|10f}}

*[[Steel Krocs]]{{Fn|17}}

*[[Stimm Dogs]]{{Fn|17}}

*[[Twisted Girders]]{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|13c}}

*[[Skullshank]] - Leader of the [[Ironlords]].{{Fn|3}}

*[[Blutvor]] - Leader of the [[Rowdy Bois]].{{Fn|15}}

*[[Gurnark the Bootking]]{{Fn|9q}}

*[[Axon Hammer]] – Outlaw{{cite this}}

==Known ex-Goliaths==

*[[Sawskull]] – [[Contract enforcer]].{{Fn|12i}}

==Known Products==

*[[Heavy Bolter|Blindfire Pattern Heavy Bolter]]{{Fn|12b}}

*[[Flamer|Single-grip Flamer 'Juve Cooker']]{{Fn|12b}}