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Despite the planet's extremely hostile natural conditions, permanent settlements have been established on its surface in order to harvest its native plant life, as several local species were discovered by a team of [[Magos Biologis]] to possess powerful healing properties. The [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] maintains several outposts to harvest these plants, which is done through automated [[servitor]]s that experience a high attrition rate to the planet's flora and fauna. In addition to the tech-priests, at least seven organizations of [[Rogue Trader]]s and two distinct smuggling rings have established themselves on Yanth to gain access to its resources. These groups have mostly avoided one another, but escalations in competition are expected as the price of the medicinal plants rises. Retrieval of these plants if often complicated by the fact that they tend to grow in remote locations and close to dense populations of dangerous insects.{{Fn|1}}
In addition to the Imperials, Yanth is home to a population of Kroot led by a [[Shaper]] named [[Ennuk]]. The Kroot's means of arrival to the planet is not known, although they may have arrived from a crashed [[Warsphere]] since claimed by the jungle. The Kroot make their homes in the canopies of Deondel trees, some of the planet's only non-carnivorous flora, in villages decorated with the remains of Yanth's deadly predators. Ennuk has come to view Yanth and is its dangerous, constantly adapting fauna as an endless source of adaptations for his tribe, and does not plan to leave the world anytime soon. The Kroot have come in contact with both Imperial and alien agents since their establishment on Yanth, to whom they have sold their services both as guides in the world's jungles and as mercenaries elsewhere in the sector, although their always return to their tribe and Ennuk eventually to share their acquired genetic traits.{{Fn|1}}
== Environment and fauna ==
