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A development of crystal technology is its use for personal ornamentation. Many races apply paint or tattoos and within the Imperium the practice is common. This is true of all levels of society, from the lowly city-scum of the hive-worlds to the most sophisticated of the Adeptus Terra.

The Imperium is a vast empire struggling to survive against threats from both inside and outside their frontiers. An empire of millions of worlds all working to support the war effort. Interstellar travel is difficult and not an everyday event. How does the economy of the 41st Millenium work?

The computers of the 41st Millenium are in one sense complex and sophisticated machines, yet in other ways they seem contrived and horribly crude. Why? The answer to that conundrum lies at the heart of the technology used to build them, and thats what this article will discuss.

The priests of the machine are a secretive, reclusive sect that has a grand Quest for Knowledge, where their aim is to know the mind of the Machine God, the sum of all knowledge, by finding all information in the galaxy. The Standard Template Construct (STC) database is an important step on that road to total knowledge, and some believe it contains all human knowledge (which is probably false).

The Planet Carisa is a feudal world that doesn’t want to be feudal anymore but is so filled with internal conflict the Imperium has kept a tight lid on allowed technology on the world. The sprawling capitol city of Parlisa is much like Imperial Cities on non-restricted world. While not a hive build the city is filled with heavy industry and agricultural processing and tech is unrestricted inside the city. Outside the city on the rest of the planet technology, particularly military technology is tightly controlled.

The Ghostclaw Fraternity is a rather new organization when compared to the other assassin guilds in the Calixis Sector. Nevertheless, it has managed to rise quickly to it's current station as one of the major players in the business of death. For the most part, this is thanks to the Fraternity's unique history of nascency, for it has not risen out of nothingness, but rather formed as an alliance of several smaller guilds which banded together in an effort to fend off their imminent destruction at the hands of a rival they could not defeat alone. This Assassin's War, which lasted several centuries, went by largely unnoticed by the general populace and Imperial authorities. Of course the Inquisition as well as the Lord Sector's office were informed, but as this conflict was limited to just a handful of assassin guilds, it had been decided to ignore the matter rather than to spend resources on a useless suppression of existing rivalries.

Here is a series of latin phrases that can be useful for players and GMs alike whenever a holy man appears to give a blessing or two. Specifically I have got six prayers, their translations into english (with hopes that they might be of better help) and descriptions of situations where they are to be used.

I only truly came to fully appreciate the deeply corrupt and decadent nature of Foundation Mountain during our investigation of that sick bleep Severin Tryster, the so-called Libidomancer-Pontiff of the Church of the Ecstatic Dream.