Jonathan Green - The Battle for Dome Seven-Seven-Three (Necromunda Short Story).pdf

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I
N ORDER TO EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE BLASTED WORLD OF
N
ECROMUNDA YOU MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND THE HIVE CITIES.
T
HESE MAN-
MADE MOUNTAINS OF PLASTEEL, CERAMITE AND ROCKCRETE HAVE
ACCRETED OVER CENTURIES TO PROTECT THEIR INHABITANTS FROM A
HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, SO VERY MUCH LIKE THE TERMITE MOUNDS THEY
RESEMBLE.
T
HE
N
ECROMUNDAN HIVE CITIES HAVE POPULATIONS IN THE
BILLIONS AND ARE INTENSELY INDUSTRIALISED, EACH ONE COMMANDING
THE MANUFACTURING POTENTIAL OF AN ENTIRE PLANET OR COLONY SYSTEM
COMPACTED INTO A FEW HUNDRED SQUARE KILOMETRES.
T
HE INTERNAL STRATIFICATION OF THE HIVE CITIES IS ALSO ILLUMINATING
TO OBSERVE.
T
HE ENTIRE HIVE STRUCTURE REPLICATES THE SOCIAL STATUS
OF ITS INHABITANTS IN A VERTICAL PLANE.
A
T THE TOP ARE THE NOBILITY,
BELOW THEM ARE THE WORKERS, AND BELOW THE WORKERS ARE THE DREGS
OF SOCIETY, THE OUTCASTS.
H
IVE
P
RIMUS, SEAT OF THE PLANETARY
GOVERNOR
L
ORD
H
ELMAWR OF
N
ECROMUNDA, ILLUSTRATES THIS IN THE
STARKEST TERMS.
T
HE NOBLES -
H
OUSES
H
ELMAWR,
C
ATTALUS,
T
Y,
U
LANTI,
G
REIM,
R
AN
L
O AND
K
O'
I
RON -LIVE IN THE '
S
PIRE', AND SELDOM SET FOOT
BELOW THE '
W
ALL' THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND THE GREAT
FORGES AND HAB ZONES OF THE HIVE CITY PROPER.
B
ELOW THE HIVE CITY IS THE '
U
NDERHIVE', FOUNDATION LAYERS OF
HABITATION DOMES, INDUSTRIAL ZONES AND TUNNELS WHICH HAVE BEEN
ABANDONED IN PRIOR GENERATIONS, ONLY TO BE RE-OCCUPIED BY THOSE
WITH NOWHERE ELSE TO GO.
B
UT... HUMANS ARE NOT INSECTS.
T
HEY DO NOT HIVE TOGETHER WELL.
N
ECESSITY MAY FORCE IT. BUT THE HIVE CITIES OF
N
ECROMUNDA REMAIN
INTERNALLY DIVIDED TO THE POINT OF BRUTALISATION AND OUTRIGHT
VIOLENCE BEING AN EVERYDAY FACT OF LIFE.
T
HE
U
NDERHIVE,
MEANWHILE, IS A THOROUGHLY LAWLESS PLACE, BESET BY GANGS AND
RENEGADES, WHERE ONLY THE STRONGEST OR THE MOST CUNNING SURVIVE.
T
HE
G
OLIATHS, WHO BELIEVE FIRMLY THAT MIGHT IS RIGHT; THE
MATRIARCHAL, MAN-HATING
E
SCHER; THE INDUSTRIAL
O
RLOCKS; THE
TECHNOLOGICALLY-MINDED
V
AN
S
AAR; THE
D
ELAQUE WHOSE VERY
EXISTENCE DEPENDS ON THEIR ESPIONAGE NETWORK; THE FIREY ZEALOTS OF
THE
C
AWDOR.
A
LL STRIVING FOR THE ADVANTAGE THAT WILL ELEVATE
THEM, NO MATTER HOW BRIEFLY, ABOVE THE OTHER HOUSES AND GANGS OF
THE
U
NDERHIVE.
M
OST FASCINATING OF ALL IS WHEN INDIVIDUALS ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE
MONUMENTAL PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL DIVIDES OF THE HIVE TO START NEW
LIVES.
G
IVEN SOCIAL CONDITIONS, ASCENSION THROUGH THE HIVE IS NIGH
ON IMPOSSIBLE, BUT DESCENT IS AN ALTOGETHER EASIER, ALBEIT
ALTOGETHER LESS APPEALING, POSSIBILITY.
EXCERPTED FROM
X
ONARIARIUS THE
Y
OUNGER'S
N
OBILITE
P
AX
I
MPERATOR
- THE
T
RIUMPH OF
A
RISTOCRACY OVER
D
EMOCRACY.

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