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Siracxis is a death planet and a penal colony. The only citizens that call this wasteland home are criminals of the worst sort. Only murderers are admitted to Siracxis Penal Colony, so their Death Legion is one of the most dangerous in the Imperial Guard. They are often confused with the 1st Generation Adeptus Astartes, as they wear power armor that closely resembles the smaller stealth armor of that generation. 

“’Course I know about plasma generators, an’ warp-core as well. You think my family’ve always bin grox-herders? My father’s father’s father’s father’s father, he was a rating on the Belasarro: decided to join the colonists when they dropped ‘em off here. Now pass’em gloves: gotta fence needs mendin’.”

The spread of ‘civilisation’ has taken an uneven course in the Calixis sector, gaining only tentative footholds on some worlds and withering on others. Simultaneously, the tech-level of many of the sector’s most prodigious planets is by no means uniform: the great hive cities of Scintilla, Malfi, Solomon and elsewhere give way to stretches of wilderness containing many tentative settlements whose inhabitants hold substantially different mentalities to those of most hivers. These partially-colonised areas represent the outer edge of Imperial rule: the periphery, where the reach of Imperial justice’s mailed fist does not always extend, and where survival often depends upon one’s ability to compromise, both with one’s environment and one’s neighbours. 

For quite some time there is an awesome tools available to support rpg over the internet: RPtools. The flagship of RPTools is Maptools which primary function is to create a virtual platform whereupon rpg-ers can play. This can either be accross the world or at the same table with a screen.

In our modern society, technology, innovation, and progress are intrinsically linked in our minds. This has not always been the case in our own history, and certainly is not the case in the 41st Millenium.

The Imperium of Man’s attitude toward technology is one of the hardest things for new players in this setting to fully grasp. We live with the confidence of knowing that our current level of technology is the highest it has ever been in the history of the human race. Further advancement lies ahead of us through innovation and new discoveries. Humanity in the 41st millenium, however, lives in the shadow of the Dark Age of Technology, a time in their distant past where mankind’s technological prowess was far superior to the technology of their time. All the energy we put into innovation they put into reclamation. Why bother inventing a thing if the ancients did it so much better? All that need to be done is find some long-lost world, some fragment of the legendary Standard Template Construct, that will bring into the fold of human knowledge great and long-lost power.

Polymorphine is the drug used by the assassins of the Callidus to alter their features. The assassins inject this drug to restructure their facial look, as well as their body shape.

Rather than use a pre-made background package for their characters, in my gaming group I allowed them to make their own, under my supervision as the GM. Here is the example one I made for my character, a Noble born Arbiter called Eli Morgenstern. I realise that it is quite powerful, but I allowed my group to make theirs so provided they make up some good background which fits it.

"These weapons are from the Dark Age of Technology. All who bear such weapons should beware of their age and power. The weapon recorded below is a weapon for high ranking members of the Inquistion. They are passed down from Inquisitor to Inquistor and are very rare. Only use them when you need to."

Inquisitor Tiburius Von