Places You've Visited

Port Wander

A huge Space station at the Calixis end of the Maw. Port wander is thick with traders, merchants, soldiers, navy personel and the minions of rogue traders. Serving both as the gateway to the Koronus Expanse and the portal through which the wealth of the expanse flows back into the Calixis Sector, Port Wander is a place where nearly anything can be found, for thr right price. 

Footfall

Built upon the remains of a Ramilies class starfort, Footfall is a collection of smaller stations, weapon emplacements, ship hulks and stone work that floats in the void, each section connected by tunnels or huge chains. Overseeing the whole is a 15 kilometre statue of the Emperor, one of the most remarkable works of art any imperial human will ever see. Footfall itself is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, run by criminal gangs, gangsters and the all power Rogue trader dynasties. Here anything can be bought, no matter how illegal, heretical or deadly. Criminals, exiles, recidivists, traitors and traders all rub shoulders. Xenos are very rare but not unheard of. A wise man visits Footfall only with friends, only when armed and only when he has to.

Normans World

Normans world is a forest moon orbiting a gas giant. The trees are vast things growing hundreds of metres and the ground has a number of relatively rare ores.  Normans world was once settled by a round 10 million humans but after a disaster relating to some kind of vil sorcery, all but half a million were turned into mindless savage mutants. The survivors have sealed themselves into fortified villages and they work the land as best they can. Due to a lack of trade with off worlders, they have exhausted their technology and have reverted back to a medieval level of tech. They are quite aware of this loss and are eager to raise their tech levels back up again and reclaim their world.

The Battleground

One of the jump stations on the way through the warp storms blocking the Koronus Expanse off from the Calixis sector. The battleground lies in the only navigable routes through the storms, known as the Maw. The battleground itself is an ancient battlefield. Sometime in the unrecorded past, a vast fleet action was held here and thousands of ships were lost. The remains of these ships now float in a giant debris field. Most of the wrecks have been here millenia and are so battered and ruined that there is little of salvagable value left. Occasionally however a more recent wreck is found. The battleground is a favoured place for both pirates and salvagers.

Chorda's Rest

A large imperial mining world, Chorda's Rest was colonised by the Chorda family many centuries ago and handed over to Lord Governor Hax of the Calixis sector (he administers it from his seat on Scintilla as a semi-independant fiefdom). With a population of 10million and great mineral wealth, Chorda's rest is a productive place. Until recently, the planet had been out of contact with the Imperium after its astropaths were slain by xenos raiders. The raiders would come every year and take a tithe of slaves, minerals and food from the colony. Resistance was met by orbital lane strikes followed up by ground troops and the most horrific type of slaughter. After the Thors Redemption destroyed the xenos vessels, the colony has been building its defenses up.  The discovery of a nearby warp portal has made Chorda's Rest a potentially very mportant strategic location. Chorda's Rest is a mountainous world dotted here and there by fertile valleys (the result of incomplete terraforming millenia previously). The capital city occupies a vast plateau like shelf halfway up a mountain overlooking a large valley full of food crop.  Gigantic mines bored into the surrounding mountain range bring up massive amounts of mineral wealth including some minerals not commonly found elsewhere. Abandoned and cleaned out mines have also been converted into bunkers and storehouses sufficient to hide most of the planets population, these were built to protect the populace against the xenos raiders.

Tomb

Formally known as the Kilgore Republic, Tomb was once a xenos world covered in ancoent necropoli.  Imperial settlement to explore for archeotech was made several centuries ago. Approximately 100 years ago a vast alien spaceship entered orbit and landed hundreds of thousands of poorly equipped and malnourished troops on the planets surface.  The aliens seemed to think they had some claim on the Emperors property and began a war which the people of Tomb were unable to effectively counter. Local rogue traders came to the rescue, shipping thousands of battle hardened mercenaries to the planet and maintaining regular supply drops of weapons and food. The alien mothership was destroyed by the flagship of House Chorda itself, the Emperor class battleship Dominion in an epic space battle still talked about today. The poorly prepared aliens were swept away and the planet was put under the control of a mercenary commander named Kilgore. Within 50 years however Kilgore had gone mad and had seized total control of the planet and seceeded from the Imperium. Slaughtering the astropaths, adeptus servants and the small detachment of arbites on the world he installed himself as President Kilgore. The Parol Dynasty, checking on the world after some 50 years of silence deposed Kilgore and restored Imperial rule.  Tomb is a world of rolling plains dotted with vast stone necropoli. The stone for these enormous cities of the dead is not from this world and must have been brought here at tremendous expense. The human population live in one of the smaller Necropoli that has been largely cleared of archeotech, xenotech and danger. Other cities are still wealthy and extremely dangerous places.