Luther Macintyre IX

Luther Macintyre IX is a planet which features in Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 universe.

Description
Located somewhere in the Ultima Segmentum region of the Milky Way, Luther Macintyre IX is a death-world (a planet inimically hostile to human life) of the desert variety. Consisting entirely of vast swathes of blistering sand dunes and rocky canyons, Luther boasts tornado-level winds that create giant sandstorms which constantly march across the face of the world; these storms are said to be powerful enough to flay the skin from a man in a matter of seconds, and are one of the main reasons that the planet is so dangerous.

Luther Macintyre IX is also suspected of being a Necron Tomb World, although for the moment this is unsubstantiated.

Fauna
Luther Macintyre IX boasts many indigenous species of complex organisms, a majority of which are subterranean, an adaptation which allows the creatures to avoid the hostile environs of the planet's surface. Several of these creatures have been exported to other worlds by Imperial scientists in an effort to exploit their unusual biological talents. These animals include:
 * Ambulls
 * Crawlers
 * Sunworms