Whats every day life like for your average guy on Holy Terra? Sharing 1 square mile with over 1 billion other people who live above, below and neighbour you? Do they live in squalor? Fight for food? Crime? Pollution? Is joining the IG and dealing with the Hells they witness really a step up from living and the only way to escape Terra?
Bumpu
>>47238981
If you're counting above and below, surely it's a cubic mile.
>>47238981
it'd explain why some Imperial Guard aren't so bothered about the hostile environments they find themselves in.
Terra is what happens if you mix the grandest pleasure world you can find with a hive world, and cover it in gold. most of the richest people in the Imperium can only afford a few days in the underhive of Terra before running out of cash.
Untold millions of pilgrims visit terra everyday. The entire planet is devoid of natural life and there is no water flowing save for the millions of fountains and artificial streams interlaced through te palace of the emperor. The rich thrive and control their massive corporate empires from the safety of the high spires on the safest planet in the imperium.
The guard raised here are elite, they do not ship them offworld and they patrol the entire planet. Space marines which are usually so rare in the imperium are an almost constant sight as custodes constantly patrol and different companies from different chapters arrive for official business.
All food is shipped in and you can find anything you desire should you have enough money.
There are churches on every street to cater for the pilgrims.
It is the centre of the known universe of man. Picture New York on crack
>>47242874
>Picture New York on crack
Plus Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, London, Paris, Rome, Kowloon...all on speed, and then mix in copious amounts of Megacity One on meth.
And don't you dare even think about worshiping Chaos.
>>47242874
Thats an interesting way to look at it. How do people survive if nobody can afford anything?
>>47243028
>Can't afford anything
>Survive
>>47243562
So everyone on Terra starves to death the week they are born?
>>47243028
People can afford it, the pilgrims are poor but they survive off rations delivered from offworld or if they saved enough money before their trip they can use that to taste some of the different foods of the galaxy.
Its just that there is every social class imaginable and a lot higher % of high class and nobles than a normal hive world.
>>47239444
>a cubic mile
AKA a "hab block."
>>47238981
>pic of hive world w/ 2 moons
>dat file name
Pretty sure broke-ass pilgrims can't afford passage on interstellar transports. Equally sure Terran security forces wouldn't allow a constant flow of outsystem Love Boats just dropping by to take in the sights and buy a few souvenirs. That said, it's probably in sone tardfluff somewhere so, whatevs.
>>47243845
If you're born on Terra you are the 0.00001% of the imperium anon
Must be really hot with no forest, lots of industrial areas, and overpopulated. It should have acid rain and things of the style, like Venus.
>>47238981
I just crunched the numbers, 1 billion people in 1 cubic mile means one person per 145 cubic feet. For the record a human is 27 cubic feet in volume. You wouldn't be able to spread your arms without touching someone, and that's without any kind of furniture or machinery in the area.
>>47245504
Don't forget the multiple very visible Mechanicus symbols. Phobos and Deimos aren't round anyway.
>>47242874
>Space marines which are usually so rare in the imperium are an almost constant sight as custodes constantly patrol and different companies from different chapters arrive for official business.
Fun fact: The population of earth is STILL fucking terrified of space marines thanks to the Horus Heresy/Emperor's Children, and for the most part marines just don't go there short of very dire events (resolving the aftermath of the beheading, the siege of Vandire's imperial palace).
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Terra
Pretty sure The Emperor Expects details on Terra
>>47245642
>The population of Earth
>lives in terror
>of fables about
>what might have happened
>in the Himalayas
>10,000yrs ago
This is what fanboys are prepared to believe if it has an aquila stamp on it.
>>47245642
I thought all knowledge of the Heresy was suppressed to keep the herd from knowing?
>>47245561
Idk about you, friend, but there is no fucking way that if my mass were squished into perfect cubes it would take up even remotely that much.
>>47245542
Bullshit climatech
>>47243028
Think of New York City, where property value and general cost of living are several times greater than most other places on earth. The average schmuck in NYC with an average apartment paying for average food is probably considered upper middle class if he moved out to say Missouri. Holy Terra is that but cranked up by 10000%. The poor homeless people in the underhives could be wealthy nobles on lesser planets, the middle class hab bloc worker could be a planetary governor, and the truly upper class don't have an analogue on the poorer worlds, they're just that rich. Probably exaggerated, but it's 40k so maybe not
>>47245504
Pilgrim transports are free in the Imperium. But they do not have Navigators, are not armed and almost never have ordinated Mechanicus among the crew...
>>47249574
It wouldn't. a 3x3x3 box is 27 cubic feet. A human could fit uncomfortably in there.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=volume+human+body+in+cubic+feet
We're probably more like 3 cubic feet.
>>47242874
How the hell do all those pilgrims even afford to go to Terra? Given how most civilians in the Imperium are assigned strict roles and workloads by society, how do they not immediately get executed for abandoning their manufactorum post, let alone scrape together enough money to book passage to the homeworld?
>>47245561
You're forgetting that it's just the square horizontal area, not factoring in buildings.
>>47252774
Pilgrims are subsidized, people will save up for their entire lives to go on pilgrimage there, families and whole towns will pay to send one of them off to Terra, etc.
>>47254392
I wonder how many come back alive.
![Kowloon-Cross-section-low-3[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/1reqhXV.jpg "Kowloon-Cross-section-low-3[1].jpg")
>>47242874
>It is the centre of the known universe of man. Picture New York on crack
More like a disturbing blender mix of Hong Kong, the Vatican and Kowloon on crack.
>>47245629
Deimos was moved to orbit Titan as the grey knight's personal forge worldlet.
>>47254392
>Subsidized
I'm honestly surprised the Imperium would be willing to lose out on the money/resources necessary to shuttle masses of pilgrims to Terra.
>>47247299
>what might have happened
>in the Himalayas
FUN FACT: THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN DID NOT ACTUALLY ASSAULT THE IMPERIAL PALACE WITH THE OTHER TRAITORS
INSTEAD THEY DECIDED TO GO AFTER THE UNDEFENDED POPULATION OF EARTHpls read your fluff and also kys
>>47248650
Some scars run deep, gotta remember these aren't just regular plebs they were enslaved/killed/tortured by, but the Emperor's Children.
Does it make perfect sense? Not really. But that's what the fluff says. "The rest of the entire planet was turned into a charnel house by rapemarines and their rapedaemons" is kind of hard to just outright suppress.
>>47257440
They waste untold amounts sending the black ships out to everywhere there might be a psyker.
From there, they train them and see if they fit in three major categories. If you do not have the graces to be relegated to combat psyker, they ship you back to Terra to either turn you into an astropath or feed big E.
If you can afford a fleet like this, money for space travel is a made up number only crying accountants in reality freak out about.
It is like complaining about travel time in star wars, where travel from one side of the galaxy to the other relies completely on your hyperdrive engine and happens between 2 hours and 2 weeks.
