Are there any non-jungle death worlds?

[RexTalon]

Originally Posted by Bran Dawri

Isn't Mordia a Death World, too?
I know there's one that has a breathable atmosphere only where the night and day sides meet, as the planet revolves in such a fashion that it always has the same side facing its star.
(Though I do believe that IRL all the atmosphere on such a planet *should* have been frozen on the dark side or evaporated into space, so technically the planet cannot exist.)

Oh, and Fenris hasn't been retconned into a Deathworld, it's been one since 2nd edition. I think that the bit about one of the three deadliest was in the 2nd edition Codex, too.

Mordia is not a deathworld. And it can exist as a livable planet if the magnetosphere is strong enough. (I'm just not sure what the weather pattern would do.)

The problem on Mordia is that there are very little resources so it takes a totalitarian hand to manage them well enough to keep everyone alive.

[FeetOfClay]

Originally Posted by Jackmojo

Clearly the Imperium is run the way you play a 4x game.

Ah, yes, poor citizens of Nottingham, stuck in the frozen tundra just so the aristocrats in London can wear nice fur coats...

[fisher368]

Originally Posted by First Captain

Caliban didn't have any jungle, did it? Sure, it was covered with forest, but not anything tropical.

ok bitof vicab real quick
jungle: a forest where one can see the ground well/ at all

so i think one Caliban is a jngle but a temperate one

[RexTalon]

Originally Posted by fisher368

ok bitof vicab real quick
jungle: a forest where one can see the ground well/ at all

so i think one Caliban is a jngle but a temperate one

Main Entry: jun·gle
Pronunciation: \ˈjəŋ-gəl\
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Hindi jaṅgal & Urdu jangal forest, from Sanskrit jaṅgala desert region
Date: 1776

1 a : an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of tropical vegetation b : a tract overgrown with thickets or masses of vegetation.

It would seem that the plants should at least represent some sort of "tropical" nature. The forests of Caliban were impenetrable at times, but if you've ever lived around various types of forest (especially those containing Vine Maple trees) you'd know that forest comes with patches that are impenetrable as well.

[Argastes]

Yeah, jungle MUST be tropical. That's part of the definition. Rainforests aren't necessarily tropical, but jungles are.

[Obyri]

Originally Posted by Narf

there are human made death worlds aswell

necromunda, armaggedon and most heavily industrialised hiveworlds have destroyed the atmosphere, created acid/rad storms, and an strange heirarchy within the surviving hives, that basically leads to death world style life. when the local rats are 1/2 your size, and that grren sludge on the floor keeps trying to eat your face, its not butlins

You wouldn't say that if you HAD ever been to a butlins.

[incarna]

Death worlds are as varied as there are bioms and more.

A Jungle death world can kill you with: disease, weather, carnivorous critters.
An Ice death world can kill you with: disease, weather, carnivorous critters.
An Ocean death world can kill you with: disease, weather, carnivorous critters.
A desert death world can kill you with: disease, weather, carnivorous critters.
A death world made of cotton candy inhabited by vampires can kill you with: disease, disease, carnivorous critters.

Even a world like earth could be made into a death world if our common cockroach grew to the size of an SUV.

It’s the 40k UNIVERSE man. Anything’s possible – and Death Worlds is a pretty broad term.

[Imperialis_Dominatus]

Originally Posted by spetswalshe

That Catachan is able to supply full regiments to the Guard any time they need it seems to suggest that it's all just a load of hot air from some pampered jungle-dwelling nancy boys.

Well, sending Guard regiments out is all Catachans really do between trying to survive till age ten and trying to survive till old age (i.e. 30). There's no industry, no mining, no oils, no trees that can be reliably chopped down and transported, no cities, nothing. That the atmosphere is breathable is a mixed blessing in that yeah, humans can live there, but only because the Imperium kinda wants them to to cover space and breed Rambos.

Originally Posted by MagosHereticus

considering how rare baneblades are suppose to be i have never understood why the munitorium would ever deploy them on ****** deathworlds without tactical or economic value

Because the Emperor's light must shine from star to star, across the galaxy.

Originally Posted by madd0ct0r

My ocd compells me to try and make a roll up table for different climates and worlds - it was the possible variety of death worlds that had me confuzzled, as the exact defination seemed to vary from book to book.

3rd edition rulebook, page 128, has a very limited table.

Originally Posted by madd0ct0r

Of course, a counter example would be austrailia, where nearly everything seems to be stupidly poisonous. no real reason has been found.

Failed Tyranid invasion.

Originally Posted by borithan

As far as I am aware "iceworlds" are scientifically possible (earth having been one some point in the geological past). Don't know why anyone would bother trying to live on one though.

See two points above. Also, death worlds that are not Catachan might have some awesome ore, promethium stores, or other valuable material that must be taken FOR THE GLORY OF THE IMPERIUM.

Originally Posted by Murphey

I mean, if humans didn't have the metabolitic pathway for breaking down Tylenol, two pills would probably utterly destroy a grown man's liver.

But if that was so, there wouldn't be Tylenol. We wouldn't have invented it.

:P

[RexTalon]

Why would we live on an ice world?

Because ice is made from hydrogen and oxygen. Two key elements in rocket fuel.