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|Segmentum=[[Ultima Segmentum]]{{Fn|2}}
|Sector=[[Nostramo Sector]]{{Fn|5}}
|Subsector=Unknown{{cite this}}|System=Unknown{{cite this}}|Population=None{{cite this}}|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]{{cite this}}|Class=Destroyed, former [[Hive World]] and [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworlds]]{{Fn|1}}
|Tithe Grade=''Aptus non''
}}
The 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 had pale albino skin and black eyes adapted to live in an environment of near-total darkness{{Fn|1}}.
The [[Nostraman Damnatii]] [[Solar Auxilia]] [[Regiments]] were originally mustered from Nostramo, before the planets destruction at the hands of the [[Night Haunter]], after the destruction the Damnatii mustered from across the [[Nostramo Sector]] and beyond.{{fn|7}}
===The Purging of Nostramo Quintus===
<br>''"That is not my name, father. My people gave me a name and I will bear it until my dying day. And I know full well what you intend for me."''</blockquote>
At first, the people felt they were free to speak their minds again, no longer subject to the gruesome punishments of the Night Haunter, but replacing his autocracy with the Administratum soon became a return to the old ways{{Fn|1}}. Eventually [[Ashkar Skraivok]], a relative of the [[Night Lords]] Captain [[Gendor Skraivok]], launched a coup that massacred the [[Imperial Governor]] and his cabinet. Ashkar did not secede from the Imperium, but declared the old ways of Nostramo were to be restored.{{Fn|66a}} The bureaucratic corruption of the Administratum was bad enough, but the Emperor's arrival robbed the Nostramans of their ignorance. They now knew that there were better places in the galaxy than this one and they would never be able to see them. The only class of people who would ever get off-world were the new breed of violent criminals who were selected to fill the ranks of the [[Night Lords]] [[Space Marine Legion]]{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|4}}. The criminals were dispatched to the Legion as the old nobility of Nostramo, now gaining strength in Curze's absence, intended to keep the best fighters for their own interests.{{Fn|66a}}
The next time the Night Haunter returned to Nostramo would be the last. Word had reached the legion that [[Imperial governor]] Basileus's regime allowed crime to run rampant once again. The Night Haunter's 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 landing or the extensive adamantium mining, and the planet burst apart{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|3}}. There were widespread mutinties among the Nostraman-born Human crew of the Night Lords fleet during the bombardment, which were brutally put down by [[Sevatar]] and his [[Atramentar]]. Even a few Night Lords themselves rebelled, but were purged with all the rest.{{Fn|6a6b}}
==Trivia==
{{Trivia}}
As many names in the background of the [[Night Lords]] links to the writer [[Wikipedia:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad]], Nostramo is probably a reference to [[Wikipedia:Nostromo|Nostromo]], a supposedly incorruptible anti-hero who is killed when he succumbs to his thirst for power.
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Shadows of Treachery (Anthology)#Prince of Crows|Shadows of Treachery: Prince of Crows]] Chapters 5–6
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution]], p130-131
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Konrad Curze: The Night Haunter (Novel)]] - **{{Endn|6a}}: Chapter 9**{{Endn|6a6b}}: Chapter 12*{{Endn|7}}: [https://archive.ph/LAsta Warhammer Community: Solar Auxilia – The Heraldry of Honour Part 3 (posted 13/6/2024)] ''(Saved archive page, dated 30 July 2024, last accessed 30 July 2024, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2024/07/30/solar-auxilia-the-heraldry-of-honour-part-3/)''
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