New Korinthos

"Do or die, when love ran dry, and soldiers clutch their wounds and sigh. We don't quite see eye to eye, but Throne help us, we love her!"

- Chorus of the popular Deck-Song When Love Ran Dry

New Korinthos, the so-called "Crown Jewel" of the Periphery is in reality anything but beauteous to behold; a barren, radiation-scoured desert periodically broken up by inhospitable salt flats and mazes of jagged fossilized coral. The devastation that the Amphra wrought upon this former Agri-World is practically all-consuming, yet its inhabitants cling to its dusty wastes with a desperate fervor. For to abandon this world would be tantamount to conceding defeat to the xenos, and that is something the Imperium will never allow, no matter how much the Korinthosi suffer for it.

Colonization
The planet that would come to be known as New Korinthos was originally colonized by a wave of settlers hailing from the nearby Riga System, specifically the Hive World of Mazul, in response to the planet's growing overpopulation crisis. Due to the environmental similarities between the two planets, Administratum surveyor teams had concluded that the transition would be the least jarring for the seafaring Mazulites and thus in 095.M39 over 5 billion Imperial citizens, roughly one eighth of Mazul's population, were transported to their new homeworld over the course of several years.

Christening the planet Korinthos, after an similarly waterbound Terran city-state of pre-Imperial antiquity, the colonists quickly set to work establishing their new home as a prominent Agri-World. Hydroponic arcologies sprung up across the planet's titanic oceans, exacting a rich bounty of sea life that was then processed, canned, and then shipped back to the Niero Sector by way of the newly-named Riga Borderlands.

This period, lasting from 108.M39 to the early days of the 40th Millennium, is largely considered to be Korinthos' golden age, in which resources were plentiful and business continued to be profitable, with blossoming economic wealth ensuring a decent standard of living amongst the Korinthosi citizenry. The planet even garnered a reputation as a sort of "everyman's paradise", where hard work was rewarded with just compensation and life went on unmolested by the many horrors of the galaxy. Granted, if left to its own devices no doubt Korinthos' population would have continued to swell until it too faced the same overcrowding situation as its parent world, but alas whatever future it might have had was abruptly aborted when the Amphra arrived.