Kiama (Kee-ah-muh)

Kiama was a thriving Saurian agri world located near the middle of Kadar Cabal bordering territory. Relatively small yet impactful, Kiama had a population of around 2 billion people, providing food to a decent portion of the Kadar frontier sector. Then the Joint Kadar War began. At first there was some concern for the safety of the citizens of Kiama, but the Kadar were slowly but surely pushed back into their own space and Kiama was once again considered safe. After the war raged for over 300 years and all sides were greatly weakened, it was beginning to look like victory again the Kadar Cabal was assured. It was at this moment when the Walren took advantage of the Saurian Empire’s weakened state and attacked, sparking the Second Walren War. Sadly, there was no warning before the first attack. Even sadder, their first target wasn’t even a military one. In fact, it was the agri world of Kiama itself that was assaulted, the planet’s very surface cracked apart by the Walren Supreme Admiral Kharn’s own Starkiller, extinguishing billions of lives in a second. No warnings were given and no distress signals sent out, and thus it was months before High Admiral Zarock, who was but a lowly sergeant at the time, even heard that his home planet had been destroyed, along with his beloved wife Mesai and newborn daughter.

"They... just let us past. I don't know why, and I still stay up at night wondering. We were on the last flight of the day to leave the planet, right and the beginning of the long trip to Acadia. Nothing I hadn't done before a hundred times, just buckled up and laid back in my seat and just watched the clouds roll by and get farther and farther away. Next thing I know I'm staring at the biggest ship I've ever seen. It was just there, orbiting my home planet. It didn’t feel real, that massive thing just floating there, not moving. And then there was just this bright flash of light and just like that, everyone I ever knew or loved, my entire family, just gone in a second. I... sorry.
— Continued

It was so quite on the shuttle. Or maybe my ears were just ringing too loud to hear anything else. I just felt numb. Stared at my hands the rest of the way, was too shocked to even worry about my safety. Apparently it didn’t even matter, cuz we made it out of the system. Guess we were just too small to matter. Too insignificant. Not worth the cost in ammo. ...sorry, what was the question?"
— Anonymous Kiama citizen
10 Years After the War, 3/2/1097 ASD

In the present day, hundreds of years later, Zarock has converted the ruined planet into a sort of memorial/fortress; his home base and the home of Battlefleet Hammerfall. Fortifications and dockyards along with orbiting support and defense stations have been constructed all over the surface of the now black and shattered planet. Additionally, local mining and forging stations extract resources from the planet’s core and manufacture them into the bullets and weapons used exclusively by Zarock and his men, each Walren soldier they slay being a victim of a part of the very planet the destroyed that brought them their eventual demise.