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|Segmentum=[[Ultima Segmentum]]{{Fn|8b}}|Sector=Unknown|System=Unknown|Population=Unknown|Affiliation=[[Imperium]]{{Fn|8a}}|Class=[[Civilised World]]{{CME}}, [[Ice World]]{{Fn|8a}}

'''Valhalla''' is an [[Imperial]] [[ice world]] classified as a [[Civilised World]]{{Fn|2}}, famous as the home world of the [[Valhallan Ice Warriors]] [[regiment]]s of the [[Imperial Guard]].{{Fn|8a}}

When it was first settled, Valhalla was a verdant world of forests and broad fertile plans, a paradise compared to the frozen ice world it would become. {{Fn|8a}} In legends - the only history of the early days of its colonization that survives - Valhalla was a world perfect for human settlement.{{cite this}}

Ten thousand years ago {{CME}}, however, the planet was struck by an immense rogue comet which forever destroyed the paradise of the world. {{Fn|8a}} The defense lasers [[defence laser]]s surrounding the planet had blasted the comet with shot after shot, but only succeeded in breaking off fragments of the comet, which was found to consist of almost pure iron. A mile-wide fragment of the comet struck the northern continent, causing great earthquakes and destruction. The main comet hit the vast ocean which spanned most of the planet.{{cite this}}

The boiling seas, and the pall of vapor and dust blocked off the sunlight. The temperature of the planet fell to freezing levels. {{Fn|8a}} Most significantly the comet had knocked the planet from its orbit, and over a period of ten years the planet spun eccentrically, drifting fifteen million miles away from its sun. {{CME}} By this point the planet had entirely changed. The vast majority of life had been destroyed, and the whole planet was covered in glaciers and a frozen ocean.{{cite thisFn|8a}}

*{{Mainmain|War of Survival}}The [[War of Survival]] was a major event in Valhallan history, fought against the [[Ork]]s at a time of severe food shortages.{{Fn|5}} Ever since then, the Valhallans, particularly their sons and daughters enlisted in the [[Imperial Guard]], have hated the Orks more than any other [[xenos]] race, and become especially adept at fighting them on other worlds throughout the Imperium. The planet's population continues to live in vast subterranean cities, since the sub-freezing temperatures on the surface make it uninhabitable. Valhallans are renowned for their stoic and determined natures.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|8a}}

===Later History===During the [[War of the Beast]] in 544.[[M32]], Valhalla was invaded by [[Orks]]. A [[Deathwatch]] [[Kill-Team ]] was dispatched to the world in search of a Greenskin [[Psyker]] to capture as part of [[Lord Commander]] [[Koorland]]'s plan to slay [[The Beast]].{{Fn|6}}

==Valhallan Dialect of [[Low Gothic]]Geography==*[[Klom]]After the impact of the comet, the planet's surviving population built vast subterranean cities that the Valhallans continue living in to this day, since the sub- Common Valhallan colloquialism for kilometresfreezing temperatures on the surface of the planet make it uninhabitable.{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|48a}}

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