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A Tyranid ship the size of a moon is lobotomised when an Imperial cruiser suicide rams its primary brain cluster. The Gargant-class bioship drifts helplessly through space, its symbiotic organisms attempting to revive it while lesser organisms run uncontrolled through its body.

One the thriving hive world of Rivoli, Maquin's Tomb was compromised ten years ago by an alpha-class telepath named Maquin. Overloaded and driven insane by fifty billion busy minds, he seized control of the entire population and drove them to suicide over the course of twelve hours. Only a few ships in high orbit could protect themselves long enough to cast themselves into the warp and escape. The mass deaths distorted the warp surrounding Maquin's Tomb, and the escaping ships have only recently dropped out of the warp to inform the rest of the Imperium about what has happened. The industry and science of an entire hive world lay ripe for anyone who dares to to brave the wrath of an insane alpha-psyker hiding somewhere in the empty hives.

The huge blue gas giant that is the largest and outermost world in the Galimatius system is the least useful planet by itself, but what is much more interesting is the space hulk in a stable orbit around it, which emerged from warp space two hundred years ago, and appears to be staying put. Scavengers have been picking over the hulk ever since emergence, searching for salvageable ship hulls, archaeotech or alien artifacts. Over time, parts of the hulk have been converted into functional habitats and even spaceports. The hulk is nominally overseen by a governor tasked with ensuring that the salvage proceeds in an orderly, organised manner. In practice, the authorities are quite thoroughly corrupt, prepared to overlook (for the right price) anything short of open warfare. The power structure is a web of crime lords and robber barons, each controlling certain salvage sites or settlements. Turf wars, claim-jumping and exploitation are facts of life on Blemish.

Located in a backwater section of a backwater sector, Black Atlantis is a giant Dyson sphere built aeons ago by some ancient xeno race that then sealed it up for reasons unknown. Later explorers have not been able to penetrate the single planet-sized pore that blocks all entry, but colonies were set up to harvest the rare metals and xenotech off the surface. Thousands of years later, they have penetrated many kilometres into the surface of the sphere in great labyrinthine tunnels. Though the xenos have never openly shown themselves, many claim they still reside within the sphere and punish those who try to "reclaim" the wrong systems or pieces.

This world in the Heathen Stars is a heavily forested world, with a mild disposition (in terms of predators and hazards) and climate. Augur readings indicate low mineral wealth, but a panoply of biological resources. It is inhabited by a race of green-furred xenos, standing about one and a half meters tall, that have achieved a stone-age level of civilization. They have a form of ancestor worship that is eerily similar to the Imperial Creed, and minor psychic abilities that allow them limited future-sight in the form of prophetic dreams.

REPORT TRANSMITTED: Tranch RECEIVED: Scintilla DESTINATION: Scintilla DATE: 6.771.816.M41 TELEPATHIC DUCT: Astropath-terminus Agrius REF: OrdHTCS/05689741117.k /Epsilon-Theta AUTHOR: Inquisitor Lucius Surr TITLE: Rim Witches of the Halo Stars THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: “Virtue is the barrel of a gun.”

Inspired by the British East India Trading Company (amongst the most successful Rogue Traders ever) a campaign seed for trading with the Xenos races of the Eastern Fringe.

This is my secound post on my Dark Heresy game, my other post was in the wrong section though, but this one is in the right spot, im going to continue from where i left off, if you havent read my other post heres the link http://www.darkreign40k.com/general-background/betrayal-of-the-loyal.html