Interior schematic of the Luetin Hive on the world of Luetin Necropolis. Hive cities often exist in closely-spaced groups known as "hive clusters" and there can be several thousand hive cities on a single Hive World. In general, the higher up one goes in a hive city, the more wealthy and powerful the residents, until one reaches the hive's spires where the city's nobility live, work and play.Ĭonversely, the lowest levels of the hive, down below in the great tunnels that catacomb a hive's foundations even below the industrial and forge levels, lies the Underhive, a massive slum inhabited by violent gangs and vicious mutants who have never seen the light of their world's sun. Hive cities are layered constructions of rockcrete and adamantium, comprising thousands of residential and industrial blocks leveraged one atop the other, forming a massive, man-made mountain usually capped by a crown of great spires that stretch thousands of metres into the sky. Hive cities have been built up over thousands of Terran years, in many cases stretching back into the Age of Technology long before the founding of the Imperium. Hive cities are often found in clusters on the densely populated urban planets known in the official Imperial lexicon as Hive Worlds. A typical hive city as seen from the Outskirts.Ī hive city or simply a hive, is a massive arcology, or fully self-contained city, that is home to millions or even billions of Human beings loyal to the Imperium of Man.
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