Planetary data

History
Found and settled circa M12 during a wave of human expansion into Segmentum Tempestus during the Grand Age of Technology, Tintagel was a jewel in the human crown. Lush, verdant, with a perfect and stable climate, it saw rapid expansion across its surface and this was made especially easy by the bipedal walkers the settlers had brought with them.

The planet is not as it once was. It is no longer the garden world the colonists had found, twenty-two millennia ago as at some point, Tintagel suffered destruction on a scale that would forever marr its surface. A war - though no history agrees on whether it was xenos invasion, chaos-led uprising or internal conflict - raged for a hundred years and more. Many millions of lives were lost, though never so many as during the last heinous act. Thermal bombs, weapons of mass destruction, were rained upon the planets huge polar ice caps. The flood that followed permanently changed the planet's climate, leaving only a few island chains peaking about the surface.

While the floods and storms did huge damage to the world and its people, human life clung on as it has so many times before. Islands were turned into huge stretches of farmland, the machines that had been so important previously for industry were turned to the purpose of war - the ploughs were forged into swords. Its population is much diminished and much technology was lost, but society on Tintagel continues as it once did.

Locations
There are three major landmasses on Tintagel, an island group which hosts the largest houses and most important nobility. They are also the largest concentrations of knights and so the focus of Imperial attention:

Gleinn: The Northern island and also the smallest, Gleinn is dominated by a mountain range, tall peaks acting as landmarks no matter where on the island you stand. While half the island is craggy and difficult to grow on the rest is fertile farmland all the way to the shore.

Tibruit: The Western island is almost uniformly flat, broken only by small hills and the rivers which curl lazily across the landscape. Large castles are the only true landmarks, the knights keep's which tower over towns and hamlets.

Camlann: The Southern island is the planetary capital, and is host to the high king which all three islands swear oaths of fealty to. It is the wealthiest and most established of the islands.

Tintagel is host to two reminders of its duty to the Imperium:

Imperial City:

The High Port: