All that could have been

[Black Cohort]

All that could have been

 

It is the 42nd millennium, the Emperor’s Blessed Imperium of Man has lasted for over a hundred centuries but is now on its knees.  Abaddon, cursed be his name, finally accomplished something his genefather never did, unleashing fell rites that shattered many of the barriers between realspace and the Immaterium.  Entire worlds sacrificed to power profane rituals to the Dark Gods.  Key nodes in the web of the Imperium went dark, dragging entire sectors under.  Even the light of the Astronomicon struggles to pierce the great storms.  For too many worlds, it matters not if Terra even lives.  But many key worlds didn’t fall, and in some ways the Imperium’s decentralized nature saved it.  Sector and Planetary Governors, Astartes Chapter masters, and Mechanicum forge lords were used to largely going it alone anyway.  Pocket empires were formed, anchored on an Astartes homeworld, Imperial Naval Base, or Forgeworld, sometimes all of them together.  These pockets could be a handful of worlds or entire sectors that managed to stay together.  Warp travel is generally slower and more dangerous as navigators have to travel slower and exit the warp more frequently without the Astronomican’s light to guide them.

 

Some say the Primarchs have returned, others that Terra and the Emperor are no more, yet more that a new form of the emperor walks the galaxy once again.  To the average Imperial citizen it doesn’t matter.

 

More than one human world has joined or been subjugated by some Xenos.  

Scope of the project

I have disliked many of the lore changes GW has made in recent years, basically since they actually started moving the timeline forward again.  I didn’t object to the timeline advancing, just the dumb things that were done to the setting when it did.  Cawl and Primaris are dumb and by 40k’s own logic Cawl would have been purged as a heritek the second any Inquisitor, senior techpriest or ecclisiarchy bishop found out about even a fraction of his activities.  So any changes in recent years are fair game to ignore unless stated otherwise.

 

What hasn’t changed is that the Imperium is shattered and the galaxy wracked by warp storms and materium/Immaterium overlays.  

 

At this point my focus is a specific region of Segmentum Tempestus around Deliverance and Gryphonne IV.  Probably with the intent of running some kind of rogue trader and Inquisition related campaign.

 

[Mazer Rackham]

Those games certainly go hand-in-hand, since many Inquisitors and Rogue Traders have enjoyed uneasy alliances in the past, whilst still having some measure of power in their own right.

 

Would you be looking specifically at DH1e, or would 2e be your Inquisitorial purge of choice mechanically?

[Black Cohort]

43 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Those games certainly go hand-in-hand, since many Inquisitors and Rogue Traders have enjoyed uneasy alliances in the past, whilst still having some measure of power in their own right.

 

Would you be looking specifically at DH1e, or would 2e be your Inquisitorial purge of choice mechanically?

 

probably neither, I don't see this as something that would be in the nitty gritty like Dark Heresy.  The main characters would probably never see personal combat.  An Inquisition character would probably be an actual inquisitor.  the campaign would be a lot of politics and exploration, and combat would probably either be in space or involving armies.