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Morana is an Imperial post-nuclear death world and Astra Militarum Homeworld of the elite Morana 'Black Guard' Regiments of the Astra Militarum, located in the Uhulis Sector in the Segmentum Tempestus. Morana was the site of long and brutal war against a large force of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion in 39th Millennium, which would greatly influence the native Moranians for generations to come and play an instrumental role in the creation of the elite Morana Black Guard.
Background[]
Age of Exploration[]
The Uhulis Sector was first discovered by Terran explorers in M21 with Morana being the first of many human-settled worlds that were colonised. However, the history after Morana's discovery and colonisation at this point is unknown. Warp Storms isolated the planet while still in its sociological infancy, and it was left to develop on its own for the next 9,000 Terran years.
Coming of The Great Crusade[]
It was only during the middle years of the Great Crusade when the Empire of Mankind finally reached Morana. By this time, the planet had become a thriving Hive World with it's vast cities and resources. The Imperial Expeditionary Fleet engaged upon the business of enforcing Imperial Compliance and extending the Imperial aegis to the world of Morana. After brief, but tense negotiations with the Hive World's leaders, Morana was brought bloodlessly into the Imperium of Man.
Chaos Invasion[]
Capital Hive City of Morana before the war with the Word Bearers
In the 39th Millennium, this once-vibrant and industrious Hive World met a grim and terrible fate when it was attacked by a large Chaos Warband of the terrible Word Bearers Traitor Legion. The Imperial planet was subjected to a massive orbital bombardment of nucleonic weapons, reducing the surface of the doomed world to ashen wastes and radioactive ruins. This was followed by four-hundred years of grinding warfare to purge the presence of deeply entrenched heretical Chaos Cults. After centuries of nuclear destruction and bitter trench warfare, Morana was reduced to a scorched, radioactive husk composed of blasted wastelands of choking ash and mud, forcing its surviving people to retreat into underground arcologies in order to survive the toxic planetary environment.
For many generations afterwards, the people of Morana have become a highly independent, self-sustaining and hardy stock. Having developed highly sophisticated hazardous gear and unique patterns of weapons, the elite Black Guard regiments willingly fight in some of the most brutal and deadliest warzones in the galaxy. It is from the first Planetary Defence Force volunteers that Morana raised their first elite 'Black Guard' Shock Troop Regiments.
Over several centuries, these elite forces have evolved into highly effective siege specialist regiments who willing seek out opportunities to display their iron discipline and self-sacrifice in combat. Black Guards Shock Troops excel at wars of attrition and defensive combat in particular.