Adrion is an Imperial Industrial World and Chem World whose atmosphere has become so poisoned by industrial pollutants from the world's manufactoria that it eventually mutates anyone who lives on its surface.
Much of the population is composed of former workers in the world's manufactoria, who were cast out and replaced after they could no longer do their jobs due to the rampant mutations that gradually accumulate through exposure to the world's toxic atmosphere. These mutants are then forced to fend for themselves. While some proved able to form successful communities outside the world's cities, they did not survive for long on Adrion's surface.
Due to this incredibly high rate of attrition, a large portion of Adrion's workforce are immigrants imported from off-world to keep its manufactoria always running at full capacity.
Adrion has one of the highest mortality rates of any world in the Imperium, a common problem for those planets designated as Chem Worlds.
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- Sacrifice (Short Story) by Danie Ware