Historically, Reth has been entirely dependent upon its reputation as a paradise world. Consisting largely of a vast archipelago of thousands of golden islands scattered across a shallow warm turquoise sea, its climate and environment are said to be per… more »

Arbitrator-Auditor is the official title of the person appointed by the Imperium to go through a planet's tithe-books. It is the Adeptus Administratum that actually collects and counts the tithe, but the Auditor is always from the Adeptus Arbites, since… more »

The Fydae Patrol Detachment is a reinforced Imperial Navy squadron tasked with paroling the fringes of the Fydae Great Cloud. The majority of the Detachment is made up of long-range scouts, fixed monitoring stations, and the auxiliary ships to support t… more »

Driscol City is any outlying 'spire' (it's not really a spire, more of an underground complex cut into a rocky ridge a dozen clicks outside the capital) of Skaltine, the planetary capital of Baraspine. more »

+++PLANETARY DATA+++ CLASS: Hive World POPULATION: 1,500,000,000. TITHE GRADE: Exactus Median Principal cities: Kephstron Altis, Kephistron Infer… more »

Timestamp: 6.086.998.M41 Location: Somewhere in the warp, between the Markayn Marches and the Golgenna Reach, Calixis Sector Situation: After Haarlock's last will has been read - there will be blood! Body: For those chracters who are unfortunate enou… more »

The Calixis sector is bordered to rimward (in this case that's the same as galactic north) by the Koronus Expanse. This vast region stretches from the outer edges of the galactic disk and into the galactic halo, where young vibrant stars are rare, and… more »

Trailing of Calixis lies the vast stretch of wild space called the Fydae Great Cloud. It is named partially after the massive star cluster of the same name (the Fydae Cluster) and partially after the Great Cloud, which is a mass of interstellar gass and… more »

The Scarus Sector lies spinward of Calixis (together with Ixaniad it's Calixis' closest sector neighbor). The old hive world of Sinophia (Calixian Periphery) was once a hub for ships going to and from Scarus, but in the latter half of M41 most trade… more »

Several hundred lightyears to coreward, beyond the troubled regions of Hazeroth and Adrantis, lies Ixaniad Sector (regularily misspelled 'Ixanid Sector'). The most common route between Scintilla and Ixaniad goes by way of Fenksworld in the Josian Reach,… more »

The Minor Arcana of the Imperial Tarot consist of fifty six cards. It comprises four suits, most commonly named Chalices, Batons, Swords and Thrones, although there are a wide variety of different names and suit symbols used in different decks. Learned… more »

The Major Arcana (plural) of the Imperial Tarot consists of twenty two cards. Each Major Arcanum (singular) depicts a scene, mostly featuring a person or several people, with many symbolic elements. The psychoactive nature of the cards allows them to… more »

The Emperor's Tarot (also know as the Imperial Tarot) is a pack of seventy-eight psychoactive liquid-crystal wafers that are linked to the will of the Emperor. The Tarot, commonly believed to have been designed by the Emperor himself, is used throughout… more »

The Holy Ordos operate Inquisitors: Inquisitors are the true lords and masters of the Holy Ordos. Their rank far and above even the most renowned and experience Interrogator. more »

The Adeptus Astartes – the Space Marines – is an ancient warrior brotherhood created by the Emperor more than ten thousand years ago to help him reclaim the galaxy for Man. In the 41st Millennium they are humanity's champions in the unending struggle for… more »