Darkness in the Mines of Tunnox

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[SOURCE: Tunnox Mining Colony, Borisian March, Sector Heracles, Segmentum Tempstus]


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TIMESTAMP: Inconclusive

"THIS IS MAGOS EISTER, CHIEF ENGINSEER OF TUNNOX MINING COLONY. WE HAVE EXPERIENCED [Unintelligible]. I REQUEST [Language lost in transwarp relation. Indiscernible emotional conveyance]... IMPACT TO MINE OUTPUT IS SEVERELY HINDERED. AUGURIES INDICATE [Shadows cause the transmission to decay. Portents suggests the following sentence articulated a negative affect..]"
END OF TRANSCRIPT   {SAP: Suglitor Yeun, Tunnox Mining Colony/RAP: Cell Resident 34, Phelos IV}


Note:

Scanning for Astropathic Echoes has discerned a faint whisper in the either maddness, seemingly related to this event.

Alas, something dark is afoot in the mines of Tunnox.

{RAP: Astropathic Choir of Bihandra.}

The Literan Council

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High Governess Navina called for the formation of the Literan Council on her capital world of Litera II in M42.001, following the publication of "The Memorandum." The stated purpose of the council was to form a unified sector government in the absence of Imperial Rule. After four standard months of deliberation, the Council drafted and ratified the Literan Concord, the constitution of the the new government. This established the Council of Literan as the permanent ruling body of the sector under the executive leadership of the Lord Commander's Seat.

There was some debate and Tension over the nature and placement of executive power, between the Sector Governor, the Cardinal Palatine and the Archmagos.  Judge Ornuc Aenbitas argued convincingly that "The Memorandum" specifically charged the office of the Sector Govenor rule, and legally any foundation of a legitimate government must rest on "The Memorandum." Archmagos Dulan grudgingly accepted High Governess Navina's leadership, under the weight of two millennia of precedent.

List of Members
- High Governess Saisi Navina, Imperial Commander of Sector Heracles
- Arch Magos Dulan, Forgemaster of Phelos IX and most Senior Member of the Cult Mechanicus
- Cardinal Palatine Tonnatas Barnerby, head of Church.
- Judge Ornuc Aenbitas, chief of Justice and parliamentarian of the Council
- Inquisitor Kalice Dellana, representative of the Heraclean Conclave and Astra Telepathica Matters
- Lord General Yubin Welles, Commander of the Interior Guard
- Lord Admiral Donello Aground, Advisor of Naval Affairs
- Professor Oria, Scribe and representative of the Euridition Council
- High Count Plyn Caverich of the Hevelus Cluster
- High Marq Gudruc Masiere of the Borisian Marches
- High Count Justin Thurman of the Dantan Subsector
- High Count Rudus Equin of Subsector Rittan
- High Marq Jules Napet of the Undiscovered March
- Astartes Captain Jutrios Sicatus, Liason for the Knights of Gryphonne Chapter

BIO: Inquisitor Kalice Dellana

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Archivist Note: A suitable abstract of Inquisitor Dellana has yet to be constructed. Though admittedly this is a considerable shortfall in the strength of this database to lack a encyclopedic brief of such a prominent and important figure within Segmentum Tempestus, Taking it upon myself to remedy the problem once it was brought to my attention by one of my junior lexmechanics, I believe I have identified a document that will serve a suitable placeholder for her entry until a scholar of appropriate skill and mastery of source material undertakes her biography. Something I am sure the readers of this entry anticipate with as much eagerness as myself and the rest of the Erudition Council. Please accept my sincere apologies and enjoy. - HSD

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Purpose: Recommendation to Elevate Interrogator Kalice to the station of Inquisitor

TEXT: Well met, my brothers who bask in the emperor's light. I offer my greetings and deepest gratitude for taking time to read my words of explication, as I submit to you my most promising student. I intend to be succinct, since I am painfully aware of the great insufferable tedium you are enduring for the good of our order and all mankind. Yet, the subject matter makes my task an easy one, because she is indeed ready to don the rosette and stand should to shoulder with the likes of us.
Our life of service requires a great deal more than other servants of the immortal God-Emperor of Mankind. The make and mettle of an Inquisitor must be finely balanced between extremes. We must possess the intellect to root out threats and the strength to destroy them, the charisma to lead others and the conviction to sacrifice them when needed, peerless knowledge of our foes and the wisdom to avoid becoming what we seek to destroy.  In my three quarters of a century I can think of no more qualified individual under my tutelage that personifies these qualities than Interrogator  Dellana.
Born on Graxis Majoris in M41.962 to the Zutchdin Class, she was sent to Scholae Progenium without her birth parents ever seeing her as part of that planet's tithe to Holy Terra, a requirement ever since the Graxian Insurrection of 266.  Lucky for our small sector of space, she was enrolled into Bihandra Instructorum. At Bihandra, she excelled scholastically, - succeeding in being published twice before graduating at the top of her class- Martially- she came in second twice in planetary marksmanship competitions within her category- and spiritually- leading a prayer group that become popular even among drill abbots. Naturally, all vocations were open widely to her and she chose the Inquisition.
Since meeting the vital and sharp young woman at the chilly mountainous Scholatorum, my confidence and admiration has grown daily for the 15 years she has served by my side. In that time, she has performed exemplarily. She is singlehandedly responsible for the capture of the heretic and apostate, Deromius Jalice. Her scholastic prowess has contributed to identifying and classifying the Druforean Stratumites as a minor Heresy. Lately, she has proved herself extremely adept at managing my Tolemet Station office in my absence for the past two and a half years.
Details of her record are enclosed in the file I have submitted with the cover letter. Her quality is made evident within. I recommend she is selected ahead of her peers for elevation to Inquisitor.
The Emperor Protects

AYNOSIS, GERMOND
INQUISITOR, HERETICUS
Herculean Conclave

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CASE CONTEXT: Ruin of Xandi III

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CASE CONTEXT: RUIN OF XANDI III
ASTROPOLITICAL ABSTRACT: Xandi III is an ecclesiastic world of average gravity and atmosphere, as far as habitable planets go, in them middle of the DANTAN SUBSECTOR in SECTOR HERACLES,  SEGMENTUM TEMPESTUS. The planet is the traditional Seat for the Cardinal Palatine of Sector Heracles. Historically, Xandi III was instrumental in reclaiming the Sector after the Horus Heresy. The planet survives on the donations of the Emperor's faithful and the profits of pilgrimage. Since the planet was settled for it's spiritual significance, instead of economic significance, it has become dependant on the Sector Community to allow it to continue to thrive.
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        -M40.803 Spatian Greer
        -M41.003 Simon Racutan 
        -M41.103 Yutini Wassex
        -M41.326 Ergus Nomador
        -M41.487 Algan Nomador
        -M41.491 Bergerius Shrike
        -M41.562 -VACANT-
        -M41.732 Gedor Velleran
        -M41.818 Gellox Phrax
        -M41.933 Tonnatas Barnerby
        -M42.016 Magsumas Prater 
        -M42.019 -VACANT- (Claimed by the False Cardinal Rafael)

        -M42.026 Diadus Vorn (Appointed by the Ecclisiarch of Terra, yet to consolidate Power)
                                                 Cardinal Palatine Vorn has yet to make planetfall on Xandi III to                                                            confirm his ascension to the Seat of Xandi.

RECENT HISTORY: THE MEMORANDUM originally did not affect Xandi much, since their connection to the rest of the Imperium is chiefly spiritual rather than political, a dangerously shortsighted opinion. Yet, the sector's economic downturn at the beginning of M42, sparked in large part because of the economic downturn put a great deal of strain on Xandi's income. To compensate, and because he disagreed with  paying Terra's Token to a Sector High Governess, Cardinal Palatine Magsumas Prater refused to submit to the sector's authority.  The Adeptus Arbites refused to prosecute for two years, claiming a lack of law to govern the peculiarity of the ditiation and a lack of any legal precedent. While the legators of the Adeptus Arbites searched through their emmense archives for a legal stance of the matter, Inquisitor Dellana of the Ordo Hereticus ordered that the Cardinal submit to the Sector Governess and pay the tithe, in addition to any money owed from previous failures to pay.
Cardinal Magsumas Prater tried to comply, but the planetary recession spiraled into a severe depression. Popular resentment against the Sector government stewed, allowing demagogues to rise in the street. Riots eventually saw the collapse of the planet's systems. Finally the Adeptus Arbites concluded they had grounds to prosecute Cardinal Prater for tithe evasion and executed him. The minimal detatchment present to keep order on the planet was insufficient because they misjudged the magnitude of the response and was overrun and themselves killed by the mob.  M42.018 Madness, riots and poverty consumed the planet. Millions die from hunger and violence.
Warlords and Demagogues struggled with one another for the power to control the starving population. Eventually, a preacher named Rafael gains control of the capital city and claims the title of Cardinal and claims all the trappings of the high Cardinal. It takes another year for him to consolidate power, but through the power of his own personality and conviction, and the weariness of conflict in the denizens of Xandi, he gained legitimacy in the eyes of the people on that planet.

The False Cardinal Rafael traveling through the ruined streets of Xandi III surrounded by faithful bodyguards. - Image Captured by a Loyal Imperial Subject, all contact with this individual has been lost.
Preoccupied with an insurrection on a strategically important mining world, the Sector lacks the forces to control Xandi.  The False Cardinal Rafael begins his campaign to bring the emperor's misguided flock into his fold across the Sector.  M42.020 Inquisitor Dellana names Rafael Hereticus Extremis.

Bio: Inquisitor Ignatius Ligatus

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INQUISITOR IGNATIUS LIGATUS

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ALIAS & HONORARIUMS: Margus Kempt, Solovus Drite,

AFFILIATIONS: Ordo Xenos,

PHILOSOPHY: Amalathian, 

Bio Brief: Possessing mild Psychic talents, the Black Ships took him and after receiving an Psionic assignment of THETA, he received training and employment within the Holy Ordos. Initially, he worked at a planetary office, using his abilities to detect any hint of malevolence, when dealing with ancient Xenos artifacts. 

Displaying promise, Inquisitor Lefeaux elevated him to the station of interrogator. He served with distinction, most notably on Meria's Mercy where he uncovered a radical splinter cell of a Nurgle cult that sought to summon a demon to the "Bread Basket" of Sector Heracles. 

Shortly after his display of insight, courage and resolve on Meria's Mercy, Iganatius Ligatus was elevated to Inquisitor. For his first assignment he was to monitor all out of sector shipping for illicit Xenos Trade.  During this time his mentor, Inquisitor Lefeaux famously went missing. 

After uncovering troubling records on two ceased cargo ships, he began his search for, "Victor the Heretech." His investigation has brought him to Druforus IV. 

He considers himself a field inquisitor, paying little attention to the troubles of Sector Politics. The only change the Memorandum has had on his operations are to make them more numerous.  He has promised to protect the people of the emperor from the alien, and he will do that regardless of the squabbles of interplanetary courts. This aloofness has made him unfavorable with other powerful Inquisitors in the Sector, like Dorn and Dellana, who believe he may have something to hide.

A Selection From "Confessions of a Heretic: The Inevitability of Recidivism" [-RESTRICTED-]

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INQUISITORIAL CENSURE FOREWORD: This is a selection of illicit text. Despite that, these passages seem to be relatively inert and  are an effective tool as a cautionary tale from a man of high station, brought low by his own digressions and indiscipline. Very often, we cannot analyse the mind of the heretic, in many cases because there is not much of a mind left, either psychologically or physically. Yet, the subject matter and author of this text possessed enough presence of mind to describe his descent into corruption and the price of accepting the vile in search for the beauty of truth. As with all censured texts, you must remain on guard, "Vigilant always!"

BODY (Selected): Sometimes, for our own sake, we should simply accept we have looked deep enough into the chasm of tumult. Unless, of course, it festers. It ebbs at the sanity of your subconscious, planting small spores which blossom into questioning fungi. Read through pages of the proscribed texts again, then again, to find the deeper meaning. You know there must be more, there are tantalizing gaps that you lust to have filled. Yet as you reflect in the dark of your inner mind's eye, the lust goes unrequited, as though it spurns you for being unworthy, for not being mad enough.

So, you adopt the cloak of insanity, only for a time, to disguise yourself and gain your entrance into the court of shrouds. Then, when you have had your fill, and for good measure and odd pleasure you over consume. You realize it is time to take the cloak off,  but now, when you try to remove it you will cry out in pain! You tug at it but it feels as though you are ripping at your own flesh, and you no longer can tell where the trappings of insanity ends, and the old self, naive yet uncorrupted, begins.

Then you weep alone in the alleyways of that strange city at the bottom of the pit, where the grotesque denizens pay you no more heed than a false holy-man does a beggar after a sermon. You see two roads, equially grim, diverging into a bloody and dark wood. Either painfully remove that which has become your skin and be scarred forever, or embrace your new home, where you may blissfully forget what you lost, except in dreaded and terrible cold sweats in the night where you scream stabbed with the memory that you were once a creature of the light. ///END TEXT SELECTION///

Bio: Inquisitor Hastatus Dorn

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INQUISITOR HASTATUS DORN

HOMEWORLD: Scadia, Sector Heracles

ALIAS & HONORARIES: Crusade Father, Lord Abbot of the Brotherhood of St. Timon

AFFILIATIONS: Ordo Malleus,  

PHILOSOPHY: Monodominant 



Bio Brief: Born on the Feudal World of Scadia in Sector Heracles. His father Brutus Dorn, a great baron, answered the call of Crusade after his wife died during the childbirth of their third child, leaving the children under the wardship of a local magnate.  His father died in the Fourteenth Verinium Uprising, while fighting valiantly. Therefore, Hastatus and his two sisters were swiftly whisked off to Scholae Progium on [CLASSIFIED] known as Bihandra. Both of his sisters entered the Adepta Soroitas, the youngest survives and is a canoness in the order of the Nameless Martyrs.

        Dorn performed well in scholae, displaying intellectual acumen as well as physical prowess. In truth he matured into a rather fine physical specimen. What his schoolmates recall most is his dedication to the traditions of Scadia and his deep religiosity tempered by unshakable stoicism. He requested a special dispensation to enter the Crusader House of Xandi and serve as part of the Cardinal's Crimson. The senior Drill Abbot approved the request but then revoked it shortly before his graduation to fulfill a shortage of interrogators in the holy ordos.

        The Herculean Conclave assigned Dorn to Inquisitor Laquadus as an interrogator upon graduation. There he served alongside Nixious Barbossa, ten years his senior, shortly before Barbossa was accepted into the Ordo Malleus. [Access to Files Barbossa, Nixious [INQ] are sequestered] The two men seemed to be kindred spirits despite the age gap and became fast friends. After fifteen years of service to Inquisitor Laquadus, including a trip to Titan as part of a delegation of Ordo Malleus Inquisitors in outer rim worlds to discuss methods of fighting demons with the fabled grey knights, Dorn accepted a rosette in the Ordo Malleus but was also introduced into the local community of Inquisitors in the Sector known as the "Herculean conclave."

        His short time with they grey knights taught him that to be effective against the demon, wherever it appears, you must be prepared to fight him. So Dorn Slowly collected great warriors and trained them to for the threat beyond. He meanwhile, established numerous acolyte cells lead by his interrogators. Dorn requested and appointed more Interrogators than most Inquisitors would deem prudent, to hunt for signs of demonic cults across the system. Inquisitor Cefeax in the Ordo Xenos and the Herculean Conclave developed this model of investigating Xenos conspiracies and used it for more than a century to great effect.

        Dorn suffered from a lack of an extra-material threat. The boredom tempted his ambitions and lead him to overstep his traditional jurisdiction and prosecuted the Emperors justice himself of his strike teams and informants identified anything amiss, including heresy and Xenos influence. The Herculean Conclave groaned about this, but ceded that his efforts helped stave off existing dangers to the Imperium in their Sector rather than continually holding warriors in reserve.

        It did not take long for Dorn to receive a chance to confront a significant demonic menace head on. With the dissipation of the warpstorm in the Unexplored March worlds infested with Chaos and demonic entities presented themselves. Already of monodominant temperament, he ordered the Sector to organize a crusade into the marches to eradicate the demon worlds.  Though he was not a General of the crusade he certainly served as its spiritual leader and significantly altered its direction and objectives through the course of the campaign to reflect his own vision. [Campaign History Omitted] Ultimately, the crusade succeeded in purging the most heinous demonworlds in the subsector.  Though victorious, the conflict resulted in millions of casualties. On the first world they crusaders conquered, Crucible III, the Cardinal of Xandi consecrated it as a tomb World for the crusade's dead and the headquarters for a new order of the Adepta Soroitas to guard the tombs of the martyrs. This is how the Order of the Nameless Martyrs came to be.

        After the crusade Dorn entered quasi retirement, still full of his vitality, he took the station of abbot of a monastery on Scadia where he lives as a model Scadian lord, praying, hunting and participating in tournaments. He collects the greatest knights of Scadia into his retinue, arms them with the finest equipment and sallies from his beloved home world only when the his network of informants tell of a demonic presence. Then he charges headlong into the fray with his warriors.

        As a right of passage to enter Inquisitor Dorn's mesne as a warrior, they must climb to the top of the jagged peaks of the Enstor Heights and slay a scadian snow bear. The creature's pelt identifies a knight of Scadia as a member of their resident inquisitor's retinue.

The Undiscovered March

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Since the dissaptation of the Warpstorm which isolated the Endiscovered March for eight millennia Agents of the Imperium, Adeptus Mechanicus and Rouge Traders flocked to the system to discover the dangers and treasures. Naturally the volume of the reports on this sector of space bars access to its many secrets, a problem that is expounded by the fact that such reports are often sequestered or jealously guarded secrets.  For the information we do have we owe a great debt to the late Abelard Scitus, a monk in the Order of St. Fabian's Book on Scadia. He compiled, catalogued and analyzed the extant documents thus producing the most complete resource of the Undiscovered March to date.  Several readers are familiar with the Order of Fabian's Book since the famous Inquisitor Hastatus Dorn is their honorary Abbot.  This provided the foundation for Astra Militarum intelligence for the First Scadian Crusade.  As the honorable warriors of mankind exercise the Emperor's Will in the chaos infested subsector Abelard Scitus continued his work he titled "Rursus." His brothers are heirs to his work and do his memory much honor by continuing to refine and expand the Rursus for the homor and glory of the God-Emperor of mankind.

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The faction of The Undiscovered March we know the most about is also the most frivolous, yet that does not mean it is benign. Far from it. The rouge traders who were foolhardy enough to establish relations with these creatures discovered their nature far too late for their own good.

The creatures that make up the ruling elite of the Enkattel Regate are not isolated to the Undiscovered March Subsector. The Black Templars encountered their kind on Cephian IV, a rather remote system from Sector Heracles. In all truth, they are not from real space. They are a type of warp entity but they do not fit the most scientific definitions of demon. They are Vampir, polymorphic entities who feed on the life force of sentient races. Normally, they are shadow creatures who exist in greater numbers in peoples imagination and fears than reality. Yet, the warp storm allowed them to subjugate the human population on their worlds and establish a society to serve them.

They call themselves Maestru and Marasa, the former is the masculine the latter, feminine. Maestru Lords, Domns, arrange courts about them that consist of their extened family as well as any Sangjurat. The Sangjurat are human individuals who have been made half Maestru in return for their dedication and service. The most notable position in the Domn's Court is the Sangpazine, or blood guard. These are the Domns military companions who go with him in battle.

The human population on these worlds are serfs forced to serve their Domn. They are called Cottars. They provide him with food and labor and children for his Fortarzi. The serfs have an agreement to render specific services and taxes for the Domn and in return the Domn won't eat them. The most common punishment for a Cottar who has broken the law is to end up on the Domn's table.

While the elite of the Enkattel military establishment are the Domn and his Sangpazites, the bulk of their armies are from cottar levees. The Fortarzi are cottars taken as children into the service of the Domn. Normally, they take the healthiest of one in every twenty boys. They are trained to serve in his army and be a laborer for specific projects that fall outside of the normal agreements between a Domn and his Cottars. Though there is always some variation across the worlds these levees form Fortarz Regiments. They are often only equipped with Laslocks which are more precious to the Domn than their Fortarzi's lives.  The form in groups of ten called Zekes, lead by a Zekom, and groups of hundreds called Suta, lead by a Sutar.  All a Domns Suta form his regiment.  Fortarzi are not allowed to marry and are often condemned to short brutal lives though it can be an opportunity to rise into the ranks of the Sangjurat for the brave and the clever.

One dark truth of the Maestru is their form. They have the ability to alter themselves between their human form or their natural form, called the Adevar. If a Maestru goes too long without feeding a furious hunger take them over and they loose control over themselves. They become mildless beasts stuck in their Adevar form always seeking to feed. Many Domns keep these Adevar as dangerous pets and beasts of war.

[DERGONIAN WORLDS]

Scholars with access to the most sequestered of records know that the spirits of the warp are not always as random, or if my readers will excuse the term, chaotic, as they seem. A greater demon of Tzeentch rose to power on the planet Deragog, for which the name of his dominion is derived. He conquered great swaths of space where the warp storm was the most volatile and carved out a great garden of maddness in honor to his master.

The Scadian Crusade's primary focus was the eradication of this vile presence. The waning of warp energy with the abiding of the warp storm weakened the demonic kingdom and with faith the crusaders banished the spawns of Deragog's infernal imagination and exterminated the vile races he created to please his master.

After the Crusade a number of colonies were established on these worlds to harness their natural resources, with special inquisitorial oversight. Despite the occasional mass suicides, establishment of cults, and manifestations of demonic creatures, to be expected on such a world, the colonies succeed and were rather profitable to the sector as a whole. That is, of course, until the Am Parat Star Empire's counter attack to claim these worlds for their own.

[WORLDS OF THE DEMON'S CLAW]

There are many places in space that seem devoid of life, purpose or reason, yet somehow the scum of existence and order manage to build a home in these places.  The Demon's Claw is an unstable and hazardous part of space which bears the uncanny resemblance to a enormous claw. Small outcast worlds scratch a living off asteroid belts, space hulks and death worlds, often supplementing their scant productivity with void piracy. Many of these void pirates provide the members of the Enkattel Regnate with void transport or a mercenary navy. Such areas are beneath the notices of Sector governors and are the responsibility of subsector magnates to police and eradicate such wrinkles in a well ordered Imperium. Its continued existence is proof that the surrounding factions are unfit to rule the subsector.

[AM PARAT STAR EMPIRE]
...Information is limited and Fragmented. The consensus among augers is a small two to three system coalition of heretic worlds exist hidden amongst the last remnants of the warpstorm in the Undiscovered March.  

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M32
Sector retaken by Crusade was lead by an unknown chapter of Astartes which did not settle in the sector. They are often believed to be successors of the White Scars. The Adeptus Ministorum establishes a Cardinal's Sea on Xandi III to oversee the indoctrination of the worlds into the Imperial Cult. Adeptus Terra establishes beurocratic framework throughout the sector following the rather successful conversion effort lead by the Venerable Cardinal Violno.
M35
Mars establishes forge worlds on Phelos and surrounding moons.  A Knight worlds emerges in a nearby system, on Belian, a once primitive agriworld, to help provide the base of a bio nutrients paste for Phelos' population. The Explorator who established the world was not materially limited so they simply gave the peasants harvester mechs and gave the nobles Imperial Knights to keep them in line. They also established ministries of the sacred sciences for better food production and maintenance.
M36
The sector quietly weathers the Age of Apostasy. Though Vandire executes Eiphus the Poet, Cardinal of Xandi III and refuses to name a replacement, the Sector Commander consolidated power and control of the sector and the strong presence of the Priesthood of Mars reinforced stability until the coming of Sebastian Thor.
M37
Kurscon Wahggg . Adamar the valiant (imperial knight) becomes a hero in the war against the green skins and myths begin to enshroud him after his death. Ultimately the Wahggg was halted by the excellent tactics and skill of High Admiral Stohrn, commander in chief of Battlefleet Heracles.
M38
The Cult Mecanicus proliferates throughout the sector, largely in the wake of devistation from the Kurscon Wahggg. This overwhelmingly agrarian and back world territory of space becomes more industrialized. The Cult of Mars establishes two forge worlds and establishes a parallel system of governance in the Hercules Sector. This is a relatively peaceful period of growth. This period is considered a slightly unorthodox time by the Ordo Xenos and stringent adherents to the cult of Mars alike. The increase in industrialization drew rogue traders to the sector.  Xenos technology became abundantly available and the trade was difficult to suppress.
M39
Civil war on a Maldos prevents payment of Tithe. The Sector level parties gets involved, primarily with a large Arbite led expedition to restore order and enforce the tithe. The Arbite forces reinforce the world's ruling family. Two nearby worlds join in dissent because they believe the Arbites are overstepping their authority on the grounds that sub-sector law and custom has precedence in resolving disputes. It is a particularly zealous movement which challenged secular imperial authority over the personal and local devotion to the emperor. This was declared a heresy (naturally) and the next 300 years were spent resolving it.
M40
First Dark Eldar Raids and the "Lost Fleet" occurred in 207.  In 219 the Dark Eldar raided the Knight world of Belian , home of adamar the valiant, and enslaved the majority of the population and their swift hit and run attacks managed to swarm and destroy or capture the Knights themselves. By the time Battlefleet Heracles arrived they found only a few stragglers which they destroyed. The same year Ordo Xenos inquisitor Dalmatus went missing. When the Mechanicus lost Belian it was forced to reorganized how it provided it's adherents in the sector with nutrients. The trade agreements made in the wake of this disaster brought the powerful Cult Mechanicus to heel under the Sector Commander.
M41
The warp storm in the sector, known as the Undiscovered March, begins to dissipate and the first Scadian Crusade follows. (Named by the overwhealming leadership and manpower originating from that world.) The crusade is relatively successful but culminates after the expurgation of the Derogian Worlds.With the fall of more Coreward sectors to Hivefleet Leviathan and Behemoth, the imperial tithe increased, stifling local efforts to consolidate Imperial power locally, this left the fledgling colonies and missions in the recently reclaimed Derogian worlds to flounder. The strain on the Adeptus Munitorum at a galactic level eventually lead to the "The Memorandum" issued by the Adeptus Administratum. For all practical purposes, Sector Heracles was no longer under Imperial Rule.
M42
-001 Times seem grim. Lord Commander of Sector Heracles, High Governess Navina, immediately calls for a counsel of Lords across the Sector on the capital world of Litera II. The Literan Council, as it was named, had representative members of each subsector and the major powers that were once parts of the Imperial Political and Social architecture. From this she established the new Government of Sector Heracles.

The Astropolitical Organization of Sector Herecles

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ABSTRACT...

---Civitas Imperialis Suspended---

IMPERIAL COMMANDER'S SEAT: Litera II: Subsector Helevus
--------------> Lord Commander Navina, Saisi
CARDINAL's SEAT: Xandi III: Subsector Dantan
--------------> Cardinal Satimer, Urich
FORGE PRIME: Phelos IX: Subsector Helevus
--------------> Magos Dulan

SUBSECTORS: Helevus, Dantan, Rittan, Borisian March and The Undiscovered March

Heracles Sector is a Rim Sector on the edge of Segmentum Tempestus. It is astronomically composed of a sparse segment of the Segmentum's outmost spiral arm. Despite its proximity to Hive Fleet Leviathan's path the sector has been bypassed by Tyranid invasion. This is likely because of the success of clensing of Ulik Sector. The Sector has also been fortunate enough to avoid any major Ork incursions, with the exception of the Barbari Wahg in M37.  The small and rather disperse sector does, however, fall prey to piracy and there have been significant problems with Dark Eldar raids in the past. Currently, the primary threat is the Am Parat Star Empire, a small empire which developed in the heart of the Undiscovered March while enveloped in a warp storm. As the storm receded in M41 it exposed the dangerous and heretical threat. To cope with the dramatic changes of late, Lord Commander Navina has began to strengthen her position as the sector commander in absence of the rule of Terra.

The Memorandum

The Memorandum

From the office of the Adeptus Terra in conjunction with the Adeptus Munitirun.

Memorandum for the Imperial Commander of Sector Herecles

1. As of M.41-999.72 Civitas Imperialis on all worlds in Sector Heracles is suspended.

2. Tithe Grades are redesignated to Aptis Non until such tile as Civitas Imperialis is restored.

3. Battlefleet Heracles conducts change of mission to facilitate the containment of Orpheus Sector when the memorandum goes into effect. BF Heracles is reflagged to Orpheus Secundus immediately.

4. 364, 49, 281, Heradrian, 99th, 123,124, 282nd, 621st Druforean and Adeptus Arbite Martial Detatchment "Blackshield"  Are retasked in support of Battlefleet Orpheus Secundus. Lord General Decarian is named Lord Marshal and will establish a fleet marine headquarters to provide command and control of all Astra militarum forces tasked in support of BF Orpheus Secundus.  

5. High Governess Navina is charged with sustaining the local sector beaurocratic  and legal infrastructure of Sector Heracles as well as providing for the defense of the emperors flock in her region of space.

///Original Signed///

I wanted to explore what the loosening of imperial rule means to the average citizen. What happens to the remnants of mankind who are severed from the heart of humanity? The ones who are miracously bypassed by Hive Fleets and Whaags.  Sector Heracles is the grim setting that explores the challenges of maintaining order and surviving in post imperial rule. (Naturally I do not own the rights to anything 40k at all)