Vasenica sector

The planets of the Vasenica Sector

The Vasenica sector is divided between six main power blocks: the Imperium, the Orks of Waaagh! Grimsnag, the human separatist Heraclian Confederacy, the Necron Ra'Thekt Dnasty, the Tau Empire, and a splinter fleet of Tyranids. The vast majority of the sector is contested space, between the major parties and more minor, isolated cults and exclaves.

Imperial region

Phorcys New sector capital, a gas giant orbited by a series of large orbital docks, housing most of the crusading fleet and a host of adepts.

Krusevac A fortress world. Lynchpin of the Imperial reclamation effort.

Agantyre Forge World. Main manufactorum of the sector.

Belion Agri-world. Its atmosphere is unbreathable, and it exports rations made from fungal matter.

Kebrade Mining world. Known for production of high-spec bronzes, and heavy infantry Guard regiments.

Siberis Ice penal world, homeworld of the Death Consuls.

P-33 A newly established Munitorum depot.

Accha Paradise-hive world. A marvel of the Dark Age of Technology where the Mechanicum has a lot of power. One of the key planets of the sector.

Carelia Civilized world. Home to a cult that praises the superiority of non-augmented humans. At odds with the Mechanicum.

Heraclian Confederacy

Hoākau Oceanic hive world and capital of the Heraclian Confederacy. It has few protruding landmasses, and so hives take a variety of forms. Some are built on the little dry land, and others on the sea bed. Some are built upon giant rockrete and plasteel legs, and others yet are gargantuan ships, moving under their own propulsion. At the foundations of the capital hive of Patuatenga, there lies an ancient Necrontyr tomb, which is slowly awakening.

Loqar's World A scorched and barren planet with no natural resources, this desert world would be entirely worthless were it not for the voracious swarms of genetically-engineered insects cultivated by its scattered inhabitants. The Loqari locust, as it is known, was developed to consume almost anything. It sifts minerals from the sand, devours rubber and plastic, and the planet’s own highly poisonous plant-life. Through these creatures the waste of the sub-sector and the useless resources of the world itself are re-purposed. Every year, once the swarms swell to a certain size and the insects have spawned the larvae of the next generation, they are harvested en masse, funnelled in their billions into storehouses where they are ground up into a pulpy, gelatinous mass, ready for shipping. When the Imperium withdrew from the sector the population of Loqar’s World were left utterly helpless, numbering just over two million souls and utterly lacking in defences or industry. Indeed their PDF forces consisted of only a few thousand local enforcers armed with autoguns. It was only the coming of Heraclius the Liberator - or the Angel of the Emperor’s Mercy, as he is known on their world - that saved them from the ork invaders. The people of Loqar’s World are the most devoted of all the Heraclian Confederacy's worlds, for they are the most reliant on it for protection. In turn valued by the Confederacy as the primary supplier of food to Hoàku.

Telos II A civilised ocean world. Telos II was a peaceful, loyal world until Genestealer acivity was discovered half a century ago. Whilst it was quickly crushed by the Home Guard, the planet came under inquisitorial scrutiny. The popular Princess-Regent was deposed for her supposed incompetence in the handling of the crisis and replaced by a military governor. The new Governor's personal guards were well-known for their petty cruelty and his officials terribly corrupt. Tensions were high, and when the governor declared his intent to use artillery to cull a riot started by a group of dockers, the Home Guard leadership staged a coup, executing the governor and his top men. The old monarchy was restored, and Imperial loyalists fled the main islands to wage a guerilla from the smaller ones, without much success. Knowing very well that the Imperium would return sooner or later, the Princess-Regent has sworn fealty to the Confederation of Man.

Waaagh! Grimsnag

Pascal's Haven A jungle death world named for its discoverer, the Rogue Trader Wiktor von Pascal. Its atmosphere cannot shield it from cosmic radiation, and so the surface is deadly to unadapted life. It experiences frequent and manifold natural disasters, such as the destructive acid tides cause by its two moons' alignment, several times each month. This causes a certain toxic chemical compund to cover the ground from deep pockets underground, which will kill or erode anything that hasn't adapted to it.

Tau Expedition

Brachyura A true canon addition, home to the eponymous Brachyura, a tiny dexterous-limbed crustacean race under Tau dominion. #they are unmatched in the delicate assembly of of small plasma generators needed to fuel Tau Earth Caste inventions.

Contested Space

Kex Though a civilised and developed world, high levels of ambient radiation mean that life has always been comparatively short on Kex. Yet as is said by the planet’s clergy - with half their years their faith burns twice as bright. When Cordesancti died and the Imperium abandoned the sector, and in their bewilderment and fear neighbouring worlds turned one by one to the so-called Heraclian Confederation - the people of Kex stayed faithful. They honoured their ancient covenant with the God-Emperor, and swore to protect their world no matter the cost. The cost has been high indeed. The orks of Waaagh Grimsnag and the heretics of the Confederacy have both invaded Kex, and the conflict destroyed most of the planet's cities and agriculture. Those who have survived ork massacres and indiscriminate Confederate bombardment now face starvation in ill-supplied Confederate refugee camps. Kex Primus - the world’s major landmass - is predominantly mountainous however, and so a nightmare for the occupying forces of the Confederacy to control. Kexan guerrilla resistance groups infest the vast mining networks that riddle the mountains, launching continual raids on Confederate depots and making off with arms, ammunition and most importantly rations with which to feed the surviving loyalist population. They hold out in hope that the crusade shall come soon, and liberate them from their unending war.

Hrud Infestation

Cordesancti Ex-capital of the sector. Cordesancti is a carrion waste of rubble and ash. An entire world entombed in it's own ruins. What few remnants of imperial authority survive the planet's great downfall have turned on each other even as they face annihilation from the xenos hordes, that came not from the void, but from the depths of the world itself. It was not always so. Once the hive world of Cordesancti, birthplace of seven saints and a hundred hallowed dynasties, was the undisputed capital of Vasenica. It was among the eldest of the Imperium's hive worlds, and the entirety of its surface sprawled with gothic spires of continental scale and immeasurable majesty. Beneath the palaces and cathedrals toiled a vast slave population in excess of a trillion souls. Cordesancti's factorums fuelled a thousand wars across a dozen sectors, and its imperial guard were the mightiest of the Sector. Every spire bristled with defence lasers, macro-batteries and missile silos, each stratum shielded by impenetrable fortress-catacombs garrisoned by the sector's finest troops. When war came to Vasenica others quaked in fear, but the Lords of Cordesancti rejoiced at their coming victories. Pride came before the fall. So cataclysmic was their fall, that the sector itself has never recovered. For Cordesancti harboured a vast hrud infestation, a xenos swarm that had been multiplying in the forgotten depths of the underhive since the 35th millenium. The most damnable property of that vile parasitic race is the entropic field biologically generated by their alien bodies. When their population finally reached a critical mass, their powers of decay were so strong, that the very foundations of the world-city crumbled. The Hives were torn asunder, spires that had stood since the age of the Emperor crashing down and pulverising the billions below, crushing level after level as the screeching ruins bored their way to the ancient surface