Pech
| Map | Basic Data | Planetary Image | |
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Name: | Pech | 
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| Segmentum: | Ultima Segmentum | ||
| Sector: | Unknown | ||
| System: | Pech System[7] | ||
| Population: | Unknown | ||
| Affiliation: | Kroot homeworld, Tau Empire | ||
| Class: | Unknown | ||
Pech is the homeworld, also known as the nest world, of the Kroot.[1]
Overview
Pech has three main continental masses; the largest of these is a warm and temperate, and covered in evergreen jagga trees.[1] It is a place of steaming jungles, enormous forests, towering mountains and abundant wildlife.[7] Unforested areas are rocky, parched, or affected by violent storms, and generally inhospitable.[1]
The native species of Pech have been almost made extinct due to Kroot activity. Fauna consists almost entirely of Kroot and their subspecies, such as krootox, kroot hounds, and what may be the original kroot genus, the kroothawk.[2][7]
The Kroot live in homes constructed from hides and regurgitated wood among the tree tops of Pech. There are the ruins of least five hive cities created by the kroot during their expansionist phase, but these are overgrown wildernesses now that the Kroot have returned to their traditional ways of life.[1]
Pech holds many places of great cultural significance to the Kroot, such as the enormous carved jagga tree on Mount Kaikown where Anghkor Prok is buried, the Grove of Ancestors in the Kamyon Mountains, and the Oathstone on the Plain of Bones where Prok pledged the Kroot's allegiance to the Tau. There're also places the Kroot avoid, such as the Ygothlac Forest where the trees aree black and twisted and terrifying monsters distantly related to the Kroot dwell.[7]
As the homeworld of the Kroot, Pech has an instinctive hold over their species. Most kroot, even those born on other planets, feel called to migrate to Pech at some point in their lives.[7]
History
Sometime prior to 844.M38, an Ork Rok crash landed on Pech. The survivors were defeated and eaten by the Kroot, who soon began to manifest the abilities of the consumed Ork Mekboyz. This led to a period of development and expansion, when the Kroot expanded beyond Pech in Warspheres and settled other nearby worlds.[1]
However, a few thousand years later, Pech and its surrounding worlds were overrun and occupied by Orks. Eventually, the Tau Empire agreed to liberate Pech from Ork control at the behest of the Kroot leader Anghkor Prok. After years of hard fighting which began with the War in the Place of Union, Pech and other core Kroot worlds were finally freed from Ork control.[1][3]
In 991.M41, it was the site of the Dark Eldar Pech Raid.[5]
In 919999.M41, a lone Tyranid bio-ship of Hive Fleet Gorgon disgorged its vile swarms upon Pech. Though the Kroot are able to kill the smaller Tyranids, multiple tribes are killed by the giant Bio-Titans attacking their world. It is only when the Tau Empire deploys to Pech, to save their long-time allies, that the tide of battle turns against the swarm. Working together, the Kroot and Tau soon hunt down and kill every Tyranid infesting Pech.[4]
It was invaded again by the Tyranids in the Second Tyrannic War, but the invasion was repelled. Afterwards, the Murabla Kindred vowed revenge for the lives of their kin that were lost, and left to pursue the creatures.[6]
Sources
- 1: White Dwarf 264 (UK), pgs. 94-98 — Index Xenos: Savage Evolution
- 2: Codex: Tau (3rd Edition), pgs. 10-12
- 3: Codex: Tau Empire (6th Edition) pg. 18, 78
- 4: Dataslate: Tau Firebase Support Cadre, pg. 10
- 5: Haemonculus Covens - A Codex: Dark Eldar Supplement — The Chronicle of Endless Woe
- 6: The Inquisition (Background Book), pgs. 94-95
- 7: Codex: T'au Empire (10th Edition), pg. 31 — The Warriors of Pech
