To the cheers of workers at the Palatine Space Port, the 728th Cadian Regiment arrived on Hegira yesterday (3 017 735.M41) in a fiery display of space shuttle landings that raised the spirits of all Imperial citizens who saw it. The arrival of Imperial reinforcements to the beleaguered fourth moon […]
It’s not always clear how the various planets and moons of the Sculptor System are geographically arranged with regards to one another. This planetary map should help ease the confusion. A note about stellar terminology in the system. Planets have names, but for ease of reference, usually are […]
Among the Knights of Altair, no name is spoken with more hatred and loathing than Voloh Gudag, a champion of the Ruinous Powers whose crimes have embittered and outraged this noble Space Marines Chapter for more than three centuries. A baneful influence on the Corvus Cluster, Gudag first […]
“The fall of Veris Island places the greenskin menace at the doorstep of the northern hemisphere. If Dracos hadn’t shot Lt. Casius, I would have.”—General Tiberius Vectrix (Hegira PDF) What follows is the report based on the interrogation of Commissar-Major Rael Dracos, one of a handful of survivors of […]
Who would have thought WH 40k could be so educational? In writing the backstory we had to fit the campaign into WH40k canon events and so became conversant with the Imperial Dating System at Lexicanum and many variations of contemorary dating systems. The imperial three-digit date/time group (DTG) was […]
Born halfway across the galaxy on Drakhul II in the Segmentum Pacificus, Commissar-Major Rael Dracos is the fifth son of a wealthy aristocratic family with a long history of Imperial service and intense devotion to the Imperial Cult. On Drakhul II, the Code of Inheritance strictly codifies the […]
The campaign began on the first day of 735.M41, and by 012.735, we already have seen the strategic situation shift in the Scupltor System: Hegira Two years ago, an ork Rok crashed on Hegira (fourth moon of Sculptor II) and, since then, the orks have spread across most […]
The ork invasion of Hegira began about two and a half years ago, when a Rok crash-landed near the southern pole of the moon. Since then, the xenos have solidified their hold over the “southern continent” of the arid moon, and Imperial forces know that they face a […]
Over the years TheGM had put together Imperial Guard and Tau armies for “serious” science fiction gaming, mostly skirmishes using home rules or other published rules such as the Dr Who Miniatures Game (DWMG). I had played a couple of games of WH40k about <ahem> 25 years ago […]
The other day, as I was facing wholesale defeat in the latest tabletop battle of our campaign, I started to worry that I was going to lose my commissar, Major Rael Dracos. He was surrounded by orks, and the last round of melee hadn’t gone well. My entire […]
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