Editing Aprior Sector (section)

==History==

The Aprior Sector (named for its most powerful subsector, itself named for its most powerful [and first settled] star system) is deep in the Eastern Fringe, where the Astronomican's light pushes out against the intergalactic calm in the Warp, creating massive Warp turbulence.  Sometime in M31, the colony ship "Icarus" was sent out to probe the furthest reaches of the galaxy.  As their warp drive was of an early generation, the turbulence was too great for them to continue, so they were forced to make an unplanned Realspace transition, which left the ship damaged and unable to continue, so they made an emergency landing on the third planet of the star Aprior.  The Icarus was built to run lean, in order to give it the range to reach the edge of the galaxy, and so the emergency strained its resources to their limits, which resulted in the colony fragmenting, falling into civil war; the violence faded with time, especially as the colonists fell into an uneasy truce in the face of the threats of the Fringe, but the divisions remained, and the colonists were never able to unite.

[[Explorator Fleet|Explorators]], pilgrims, and crusaders found their way to the Aprior Sector over the next few millennia, bringing new technology and news with them; these proved to be extremely valuable to whichever Apriori faction could get their hands on them.  Even so, the end was looming and inevitable: each new find only delayed it a little.

Then, in 244.M40, the [[Knights Inductor]] fleet arrived in the Sector, their Crusade having taken them out to the edge of the galaxy.  They immediately intervened on Aprior, offering the residents a deal: cooperate with us, and we will build a [[noblebright|noble, bright]] future together.  Only one faction accepted at first, but once the other factions saw how their lives could be improved if they cooperated, they started to come around.  A few years into the pacification effort, the Warp turbulence became so strong that the Knights Inductor could not leave the Sector, and so they decided to put down roots and make Aprior their home system, a model of their ideals.

For thirteen hundred years, the Aprior Sector grew in isolation, but in mid-M41, the approaching [[Tyranid]] Hive Fleets and awakening [[Necron]] Tombs stifled the turbulence, restoring contact with the Imperium.  Since then, Inquisitor Rightina Immam has visited the Sector twice to ensure their loyalty, and report to an Inquisitorial Panel on their irregularities.  On her second visit, she decided that the Sector was too potentially valuable to the Imperium to be destroyed; Inquisitor Lord Damnos disagreed, and he responded by organizing a Crusade to burn the whole Sector to ashes.

''For a detailed list of events pertaining to the Aprior Sector, see the [[Aprior Sector Timeline]].''