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Among the nomads that employ vehicles are all types and sizes of vehicles are used: wheeled, tracked, walkers and even exotic skimmers. With some bands preferring to have a myriad of light buggies or bikes, believing speed and manoeuvrability. While others chose a single armoured, slow moving transport-crawler to protect them from worst of the weather.{{Fn|4b}}
Some nomads have turned to the mutated creatures which roam the wastes for mounts and/or beasts of burden. Those groups migrate with the heards, surviving by living off the creatures, hunting them for food. Such life is perilous, as many of the creatures are predators and a stray nomad makes an easy meal. Those beasts are occasionally traded with other nomad bands or shanty towns. Uses are found for most of the creatures, with many parts of them being eatable if prepared in the right fashion, bones can be used for crude weapons, hides make clothing and dung can be converted into fuel.{{Fn|4b}}
The nomad routes cross the planet and bands migrate from one hive cluster to another, following good weather and trying to stay ahead of the fierce seasonal [[ash storm]]s. For all the mutual dislike between nomads and hivers do many nomads make a living carrying trade goods between the hives, the goods they carry are small, usually exotic and always costly: rare drugs, special ammunition, strange things found in the ash wastes and secret messages from distant hives. Many gang leaders prefer to use nomad couriers, valuing secrecy above the speed and ease of using [[road tunnel]]s.{{Fn|2}} They also trade with the [[scavvies]] living in the shanties clustered around the hives,{{Fn|1b}} sell found items to [[Merchants GuildsGuild|guilders]] as raw material, and act as middlemen between traders. {{Fn|3a}}
===Apperance===
As the ash wastes occurs in many different, often vivid hues – such as sulphur yellow, critic green, cobalt blue, pink mauve, as well as various shades of grey – do the nomad bands who live there occur in equally colourful hues, the better to blend into their surroundings.{{Fn|1a}} Some nomads make extensive use of body-painting as a means of protecting their skin from the sun and dust, as well as decoration.{{Fn|2}}
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==Ash Waste Nomads==
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