Khovar
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Khovar | 
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| Segmentum: | Tempestus | ||
| Sector: | Eternum | ||
| Subsector: | Confedus | ||
| System: | Iuss | ||
| Population: | ~10,000,000,000 | ||
| Affiliation: | Imperial | ||
| Class: | Industrial World | ||
| Tithe Grade: | Solutio Extremis | ||
Overview
An incredibly regimented industrial world that, while it has great production capabilities, does not near the heights of a proper forge world. Khovar is a strictly regimented world with poor life quality that nonetheless constantly meets its tithe.
Classes and Life on Khovar
Khovar is an unpleasant place to live, with every citizen assigned their job based on their birthing creche, a result of an impersonal, calculated regime that has reduced even the act of reproduction to a statistical assessment. Relationships are forbidden by the Insoc class that is born to overseer the world, and every group from the Inpar to the Opar to the Proles, even the Insoc themselves, are born to their job and have no other duties but what the Insoc assign. Every class lives in minimalist, uniform tenements, with only slightly larger quarters and luxuries like personal sinks or bathrooms afforded to more specialized classes. The Insoc form the smallest class, though their directives permeate the world and control the macro-quotas for production, adjusting birthing or 'retirement' rates to reflect local needs or the requirements of the tithe, and all Insocs rule from Khovaragrad, the capital district.
Every member of Insoc is equal to other Insoc, the only exception being the Insoc Prime - the governor born into its role from the solitary Prime creche who embodies the centralization and genetic authoritarianism of Khovar. The Inpar class are larger, though the second smallest, and make up the the managerial class - both in charge of factory districts and factories themselves, habitation and distribution districts, and starports, the Inpar are a class of statisticians with every decision being weighed against others with cold, calculated genetic logic - an Inpar will not hesitate at all to starve an entire habitation district of tens of millions to improve food distribution by a fraction of a percentage. Inpars are the second largest class, made up of individuals with the genetic make up of enforcers and overseers. Inpars serve as the police of the world, overseeing proles work as well as policing Opars and themselves for any deviations from the regimented schedule every soul on Khovar is assigned. Any deviations from the schedule assigned to an individual, or behavior outside accepted bounds like mourning, public displays of emotion, relationships, decorating, or countless other infractions of individuality, are met with forced 'retirement', the world's euphemism for execution and reprocessing into corpse starch. Inpars also serve as the Khovar's PDF, with regimented schedules down to the second.
Lastly, the prole class is the largest by far, comprised of the masses of workers in the world who live in the barest templates of communal apartments, even the basest needs like personal hygiene are shared amongst habblocks, and scheduled for allotted times. Life on Khovar is brutally bland, even Imperial temples have the barest of colors with the most stripped down iconography which borders on the heretical for more mainline ecclesiastical visitors. The world serves as both a lesson for the more cold and logical visitors, and a warning for others in the dangers of overconformity. The forces of chaos have taken interest in the world of late however, with Nurgle's followers feeding off the stagnation and despair present, while Tzeetchian forces pray on the proles desire for any change in the status quo. Were either force to gain a foothold, Khovar would assuredly be forced to change by the Ordo Hereticus, though whether this will come to pass remains to be seen. Outside of its production tithe, Khovar provides a small amount of Guard regiments from the Inpars and workers from the prole classes, though these individuals (including the Khovarian Guard) are viewed as hopeless borderline automatons by the rest of the sector.
