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Name: Animos

Faction: Human (Imperium)

Description: Animos has been settled by Humans since the last years of the Dark age of Technology. Designated as a colony world for which to send the newly emerging psykers for safe study, the planet was still in the process of being terraformed and the colony ship still in orbit when the Rebellion of the Men of Iron ocurred. Fortunetly for the Human colonists, there was little in the area by way of the AI that rebelled, but a fierce struggle ocurred aboard the Colony ship between the human settlers and the corrupted AI. In the end the Human colonists managed to attain victory by sending most of the colonists down to the planets surface and forcibly crashing the Colony ship into the planet's moon. Victory was achived at the cost of damaging the Colonists STC irrevcobly and stranding them on the Planet. Given how a large percentage of the colonists were psykers (around 10%) Psyker births cotinued to be higher than in the rest of humanity. This however turned out for the worse when the fourth Chaos God Slannesh was born. After the Fall of the Eldar the psychic Humans of the planet came under massively increased threat of Daemonic possession. For much of a millennia terrible wars were fought between the uncorrupted Human and the predators of the Warp. By the end of the wars the Psyker population had been massively reduced (from nearly 19% to less than 1%) and those psykers that had proven strong enough to suvive were closely watched.

In the millennia that followed, the planet would continue to develop and change from period to period. Wars would periodiacally wrack the planet, sometimes between rival nations, or against the forces of Chaos summoned by cults. Around a M40 the entire planet would finally be brought to heel by one of the planets strongest psykers who would finally unify the planet. Before his death he formed what would become the rulers of the planet, a council of 36 trained and strong psykers (18 male and 18 female) who would rule until the arrival of the Imperium. When the Macharian crusade arrived in system, the council realized that they faced treat of extiction and so agreed to join the Imperium peacefully. The terms of their joining the Imperium and avoiding exterminatus were steep however. Macharius demanded the following terms; (1) that all psykers born on the planet be turned over to the Astra Telepathica and their Black Ships, (2) that the Planet adopt the Imperial Creed, (3) that the Planet would fall under the jusrisdiction of a Planetary Governor from off-world, and (4) that all remains of the Colony ship and what remaining STC they had be turned over to the Adeptus Mechanicus. Under threat of extiction, the council agreed and fled underground to avoid total distruction, burning much of the planets history to avoid reavealing their existance.

Today the planet is still under Imperial Control and the psyker birth rate is still significatly higher than Imperial average. The council still survives in hiding, having abandoned all political control of the planet and spending much of their focus on preventing or eliminating Chaos cults. Only by psychically mind wiping those who encounter them and the planets remoteness have they remained secret.