Background info: Guchov

The campaign is set on the Imperial controlled world of Guchov. This is not required reading or knowledge for your characters, but I will refer to things here if appropriate. I'll add more as it becomes relevant.

Guchov, Planetary Details:
Guchov is an Imperial world, designated as a Mining World by the Adeptus Administratum, located in Segmentum Obscurus, near the Spinward Front. Despite the official designation, Guchov can be described more accurately as a mix of a Mining and an Industrial planet, without specialising in either. The abundance of rare metals and minerals mined on Guchov fuel the modest local industry, and is exported as most of the required Imperial Tithe. Small scale manufactoriums are dotted around the planet, turning minerals and metals into building materials, equipment and weapons. Guchov’s primary import is food, the local environment unable to entirely support the population.

The climate of Guchov can be described as near frozen. The majority of the world is covered in ice, broken by thin rivers of water and the equatorial sea. These waterways are often used as a cheap method of transport, allowing for the transport of bulk goods without resorting to spacecraft. Some tundral forests manage to grow around the equator. Native Flora and Fauna have adapted to the cold environment. Common plants include lichen, steppe shrubbery and limited trees in the warmer climes.

The populace on Guchov is often considered to be, at best, tenacious, formidable and implacable. At worst, the population is dour, uneducated and unimaginative. Most of the population works in the mines or the manufactoriums, although a surprisingly large percentage of the population live in frontier towns, making a slim, if independent living off the frozen plains. Guchov maintains a local PDF, the Guchovian Defence Force. The two major military threats come from the gangs and mutants that plague the bowls of the cities, mines and factories, as well as the small settlements of feral Orks that infest the limited forests.