Grünn
Anvil of War
Classification (multiple allowed)
Ogryn World
Sector / Segmentum
Segmentum Pacificus
Description
Grünn is an artificial world, raised from volcanic basalt and densely wooded with imported rainforest varieties. The Ogryn colonists were bred, not born: their bodies are tools, their brains simple and safe. But four millennia of breeding produced something unexpected: a sense of kinship, an instinct for order, a kind of moral sense that no geneticist intended.
Grünn supplies the bodies, not the leadership: the officers and commissars of the Grünn regiments are humans of the Munitorum, the ogryn serve as auxiliary troops (Auxilia), and no ogryn leads more than a squad of ten.
Home world of: 2nd Grünn Jungle Drop Troops (regiment), 4th Grünn Jungle Drop Troops (regiment).
Described in the dossiers.
Grünn supplies the bodies, not the leadership: the officers and commissars of the Grünn regiments are humans of the Munitorum, the ogryn serve as auxiliary troops (Auxilia), and no ogryn leads more than a squad of ten.
Home world of: 2nd Grünn Jungle Drop Troops (regiment), 4th Grünn Jungle Drop Troops (regiment).
Described in the dossiers.
Fauna & Flora
Imported rainforest trees, ferns and creepers on basalt soil, rain every day. In the monsoon rivers live river lizards that guard the fords without knowing it; no ogryn ever attacks one.
Population & Society
Some hundreds of thousands of ogryn in pens and factory villages, raised in litters of forty-one young and counting to ten; anything above that is called many. The wet-nurses raise every child and watch the harvest from the fence. The partner-choosing dance ritual, three nights long, needs forty dancers; every levy takes them away.