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Description
Modeled in Google Sketchup, painting and effects in Photoshop CS4.
Warhammer 40k Hive City, made for my Dark Heresy RPG campaign:

- Hive City Gorgis:
Virgil Moon, Dante Planet

Government: Corporative (BioInnovations Corp)
Population: 1.2 Billions
Criminality: 19.89%
Unemployment: 32%
GDP (total): 897 Billion Tr$
Average Salary: 40 Tr$

Main exports: Food (Grown in vertical indoor mechanized farms), ammunition and recruits (Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy).
Main Imports: Raw materials, minerals, clean water, technology.

When the Virgil Moon was young, in the 40th millenium, the fertile soil and glaciers attracted many refugees and colonizers from other worlds, and soon the place was converted in a farm world, with countless greenhouses doting the landscape, protecting the crops from the cold temperatures in the moon.

Left undisturbed by the Imperium, some colonists started gathering in guilds and corporations, and with the help of some radical techpriests, the greenhouses soon grown to become vertical mechanized farms, with millions of plants, fungus and edible lifeforms being grown in tanks and vaults. Animals, mostly Grox and other huge herbivores were cloned and genetically engineered to become morbid obese, living lobotomized inside feeding tanks and being harvested much more like crops than animals.

The biggest of this vertical farms named themselves BioInnovations and started gathering radical and almost (or fully) heretical techpriests devoted to genetics to improve their food production, eventually become enormously wealth and buying or devouring the neighbor greenhouses and farms.

The enormous output of food and rations for the Imperium soon bought the Adeptus Administorium blind eye for the strange practices of the BioInnovations Corp, and also "sold" the place as an oasis of food and easy jobs in the subsector. Flocks of starships arrived at the moon, and soon the farmlands became a city, and the city a metropolis, with millions of souls.

In the dawn of the 41th millenium, the former BioInnovation farmlands are now dotted with skyscrapers kilometers tall, a Hive City with more than a billion of workers, providing food and rations for many thousand worlds in the Ultima Segmentum. The huge mass of unemployed teenagers provide good grounds for the Imperial Navy and Imperial Guard conscription programs, and some millions leave the planet every year with the hopes of glory, thrill and a paying work at the battlefield.

As any gigantic city, Gorgis also suffers with criminality, both draw from the huge mass of unemployed workers and religious zealots that makes the Sisters of Battle looks like atheists. Mutants, sick people and heretic (mostly considered heretic just for not being zealot enough) are shunned to the dark and polluted lower levels of the city, were pimps and drug dealers make fortunes selling cheap and fast pleasures to the damned and outcast. Street gangs and criminal factions controls many sectors, and bloody wars are common among them and the security forces.

Gorgis citizens are usually young, as they tend to live short lives and give birth as soon as they bodies can handle. The mass of teenagers and young adults usually found themselves in drugs, violence and prostitution. Most of them enjoy shocking each other with a wicked visual and behavior, making tattoos, piercings, cybernetics and body modifications common among the young population, as well as enormous colorful mohawks. People that live longer are easy prey for the most fanatical preachers of the Imperial Cult.

Naming themselves the "Guardians of Shakty" ("Purity" in Gorgis slang), this zealots hold almost no ties to the real Ecclesiarchy, but preach a violent witch-hunting version of the Imperial Cult that makes even the most fearsome Inquisitor or Sororitas pale in comparison. Packs of "Guardians" are known to roam the low and middle levels of the Hive City, burning innocent people for "crimes" like having different a disease or being born with different skin colors. Sometimes packs of Guardians fight with other packs for small differences in belief or physical appearance.

Street gangs and crime syndicates are common, and most of them born just as a mob to ward of the Guardians or avenge someone's death. This organizations mostly work in the "right side" of the law, avenging murders, hunting bounties and selling protection to stores and factories, but many of them also deal in toxics, slavery, prostitution and black market.

Description
Modeled in Google Sketchup, painting and effects in Photoshop CS4.
Warhammer 40k Hive City, made for my Dark Heresy RPG campaign:

- Hive City Gorgis:
Virgil Moon, Dante Planet

Government: Corporative (BioInnovations Corp)
Population: 1.2 Billions
Criminality: 19.89%
Unemployment: 32%
GDP (total): 897 Billion Tr$
Average Salary: 40 Tr$

Main exports: Food (Grown in vertical indoor mechanized farms), ammunition and recruits (Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy).
Main Imports: Raw materials, minerals, clean water, technology.

When the Virgil Moon was young, in the 40th millenium, the fertile soil and glaciers attracted many refugees and colonizers from other worlds, and soon the place was converted in a farm world, with countless greenhouses doting the landscape, protecting the crops from the cold temperatures in the moon.

Left undisturbed by the Imperium, some colonists started gathering in guilds and corporations, and with the help of some radical techpriests, the greenhouses soon grown to become vertical mechanized farms, with millions of plants, fungus and edible lifeforms being grown in tanks and vaults. Animals, mostly Grox and other huge herbivores were cloned and genetically engineered to become morbid obese, living lobotomized inside feeding tanks and being harvested much more like crops than animals.

The biggest of this vertical farms named themselves BioInnovations and started gathering radical and almost (or fully) heretical techpriests devoted to genetics to improve their food production, eventually become enormously wealth and buying or devouring the neighbor greenhouses and farms.

The enormous output of food and rations for the Imperium soon bought the Adeptus Administorium blind eye for the strange practices of the BioInnovations Corp, and also "sold" the place as an oasis of food and easy jobs in the subsector. Flocks of starships arrived at the moon, and soon the farmlands became a city, and the city a metropolis, with millions of souls.

In the dawn of the 41th millenium, the former BioInnovation farmlands are now dotted with skyscrapers kilometers tall, a Hive City with more than a billion of workers, providing food and rations for many thousand worlds in the Ultima Segmentum. The huge mass of unemployed teenagers provide good grounds for the Imperial Navy and Imperial Guard conscription programs, and some millions leave the planet every year with the hopes of glory, thrill and a paying work at the battlefield.

As any gigantic city, Gorgis also suffers with criminality, both draw from the huge mass of unemployed workers and religious zealots that makes the Sisters of Battle looks like atheists. Mutants, sick people and heretic (mostly considered heretic just for not being zealot enough) are shunned to the dark and polluted lower levels of the city, were pimps and drug dealers make fortunes selling cheap and fast pleasures to the damned and outcast. Street gangs and criminal factions controls many sectors, and bloody wars are common among them and the security forces.

Gorgis citizens are usually young, as they tend to live short lives and give birth as soon as they bodies can handle. The mass of teenagers and young adults usually found themselves in drugs, violence and prostitution. Most of them enjoy shocking each other with a wicked visual and behavior, making tattoos, piercings, cybernetics and body modifications common among the young population, as well as enormous colorful mohawks. People that live longer are easy prey for the most fanatical preachers of the Imperial Cult.

Naming themselves the "Guardians of Shakty" ("Purity" in Gorgis slang), this zealots hold almost no ties to the real Ecclesiarchy, but preach a violent witch-hunting version of the Imperial Cult that makes even the most fearsome Inquisitor or Sororitas pale in comparison. Packs of "Guardians" are known to roam the low and middle levels of the Hive City, burning innocent people for "crimes" like having different a disease or being born with different skin colors. Sometimes packs of Guardians fight with other packs for small differences in belief or physical appearance.

Street gangs and crime syndicates are common, and most of them born just as a mob to ward of the Guardians or avenge someone's death. This organizations mostly work in the "right side" of the law, avenging murders, hunting bounties and selling protection to stores and factories, but many of them also deal in toxics, slavery, prostitution and black market.