517-18

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517-19, also known as the Barony Gerra is the house of the Family Gerra, one of the 3 major houses of the precompliance system. A death world by Imperial Standards, the planet itself is barely more hospitable then the closest planet to the Infernus Star, because of this the population is predominantly based in the Great City Locarno that circles the entire length around the equator, this is broken up into the individual districts; Rheinfelden, the Penal Colony; Siokun, the Southern Mining Station; Tymmons, the Northern Mining Station; The Adamantine Station, and the Capital Barilan. Bar the Hive City Brasa based in the northern badlands.

When the King Atreides bent his knee to the Imperium, the populace felt that this would herald the start of a new era of freedom upon Gerra. Instead the Baron found that without the Lasair Dynasty to control him, the grip on the planet tightened, the Prisons population started to be conscripted into a PDF, military police started cracking down on any word of dissent and communication off world was restricted to just those within the aristocracy. When the great Betrayal happened, what happened in the Capital Barilan is unknown but overnight all links to the Imperium were quickly severed, and the Great City swore allegiance to the Warmaster.

The Hive City Brasa on the other hand declared its loyalty to the Imperium, by fortifying its defences and digging in, all too aware that they lacked the manpower to stand up to the sheer manpower that was amassing in Locarno south of them. Their greatest asset was that the canyons, acid storms and fire tornadoes of the deserts south of them would slow any incursions down long enough for them to launch quick hit and run raids against them, before Loyal Legionnaires used the Hive as a staging post to try and force their way south to the Great City.