Ulaka

"if you go to Ulaka, be sure not to draw attention to yourself. The prideful always taste the best."

- Inquisitor Sindiswa Dlamini

The Imperial world Ulaka is a hive world located in the Izimu Sector is Ultima Segmentum. Ulaka was a former feral world, rediscovered by the Imperium of Man in M37. Despite it's feral state before contact with the Imperium, it's kept huge stores of weapons and technology left behind from the Dark Age of Technology to wage wars across the planet. Today, the people of Ulaka are violent, ultra-agressive cannibals. They are also known for their prolific production and usage of high-grade bionics, as well as their production of weapons so rare elsewhere in the Imperium, that they are more valuable than the people using them. The harsh laws and culture of Ulaka insure that only those who have legitimate business on the planet are the only visitors to Ulaka.

Geograpy
"Well, if the people don't kill you, the rain will."

- Imperial Guardsman, speaking of his tour on Ulaka

Landscape
Ulaka is a barren, gray rock, covered with massive mountains, and deep, green oceans. Thunderstorms endless wrack the planet, showering the several mega-cities with toxic chemical rain, which would kill outsiders who are exposed to the rain for too long. The grey clouds that surround Ulaka blot out the sun, giving inhabitants nothing but a dark, grey landscape to look at. The cities of Ulaka are connected to one another by pipe-like super-highways capable of housing several millions of people. These highways are flanked by other pilelines which transfer goods, minerals, fresh water, waste, and fuel from one city to the others. From orbit, observers can see great, grey bloches (the cities), connected together by long thin lines (road networks), which criss-cross the world of Ulaka.

Society
The people of Ulaka are a canniblistic race of cybernetic abhumans, who have built their culture around hate and mistrust of outsiders. As for their canniblistic hungry, it come from the days of regression during the Age of Strife, when the only food on the planet were fellow humans. The Ulaka are thus avoided for that very reason, as they are keen to watch out for any person that is too foolish to stay in a group. Once alone with a person, a Ulaka will usually attempt to devour them. If the thought of getting eaten by another person wasn't bad enough, the Ulaka have hunting bands which rotiunely travel to other worlds of the Imperium to "harvest" the poor, the homeless, the prisoners, and unwanted nuisances living there, and bring them back to Ulaka for food. Additionally, the Ulaka have even secured worlds just outside of their own system, and colonized them with humans from other worlds, who's sole purpose is to serve as a steady food source for the Ulaka. A grim fate for any caught by the Ulaka.

On a brighter note, the Ulaka are profilic users of bionics. During the Dark Age of Technology, the world of Ulaka was reknown for they masterly crafted bionics, the creation of which they saw as an art. Every level of Ulaka society, from the rich to the poor, to the young and the old, has use form of bionics. It is not uncommon for middle-class Ulaka to have a low-grade suit of power armor, or a wealthy Ulaka to have a completely cybernetic body. Unlike the messy cords and exposed wires the Adeptus Mechanicus is known for, the Ulaka find such things disguting, and put in years of work into intricately detailed bionics, armor, and weaponry. Of all of their bionics, the Ulaka are best known for their cybernetic eyes. They replaced their old eyes with sapphire gems, with unnoticeable circutry underneath. The Ulaka managed to hold on to their ancient Dark Age culture, in which they see technology as an art within itself.