Calixis Sector
- – Inquisitor Vownus Kaede
The Calixis Sector: Located in Segmentum Obscurus on the edge of settled imperial space, is the last stop of real civilization before hitting the halo stars. The real might of the imperium is lightyears and possibly actual years away. There's all kinds of wild space and interesting problems and interesting monsters that cause them. This of course made it the perfect place to set Dark Heresy, and thus a boatload of lore was written for it. So much so that you'd think this is the center of the 40k universe. Next door is the setting for Rogue Trader, I guess.
Background[edit]
So after Goge Vandire was too busy to die, Sebastian Thor sent a rogue trader named Haarlock on a great journey to map the outer reaches. He discovers a place he calls the "Calyx Expanse". There were a bunch of people left over from the Dark Age of Technology and some dead xenos empires and other shit that left the sector, despite the possible resources, not worth the squeeze in his opinion and it would be best for everybody if they just left it all alone.
Not to be deterred, various rogue traders, iconoclasts, and other oregon trail types decide to set up shop there to loot the place dry before fun is made illegal. Many would have too much fun and would never be seen again.
In M39, Lord Militant Angevin conquered the region of space that would later be subdivided into sectors like Calixis. He drug about 17 million troops and several space marine chapters with him, such as the Black Templars and the Sons of Medusa. Somehow despite his advantages, he choked during the conquest thunder run but that's ok, his subordinate and later local saint, Drusus, finished for him. I guess that's what you get for letting a terran noble run a military campaign.
Eventually, the crusade wraps up after exterminating several xenos empires not important enough to be written of, and the mechanicus got their own fief within the soon to be born Calixis sector.
There, I just saved you about several chapters of nonsense about political infighting.
Locations of Interest[edit]
Scintilla[edit]
Sector Capital, hive world, manufactorum, and home to a moving city that crawls around the planet like a great big bug. Basically the most important world in the sector not just due to this being where the pencil pushers live. They make starship drive parts and weapons here, and all the crims boiling in the lower hive make for great cannon fodder. Also the sector governor lives in a place here called "The Lucid Palace". I'd call him a drama queen, but his portrait drawn by John Blanche speaks for itself.
Sepheris Secundus[edit]
Have you ever looked at an open pit mine and wanted to live there? Well the feudal mining planet of Sepheris Secundus has you covered. Instead of hive cities, you have mines the size of cities, making scars in the land easily visible from orbit. A planet literally so depressing, an Arbites proctor once said torture doesn't work on the serfs that work at extracting the ores that make this miserable rock worth mentioning. Run by a Queen also rendered by Blanche.
The Lathes[edit]
Remember that fief I mentioned earlier. Well the cog boys, as a thank you for their help, got a solar system, then named Pondus Impare, to do with as they please. Like a nation within an empire, the lathes is totally run by the mechanicus. All the planets, plus every stable anchor point in space is jam packed with as much as can be mustered, resources permitting. Over time they were able to grab a few places here and there throughout the sector, but the main show of interest is here. Run by an Arch-Magos, who unfortunately isn't illustrated by Blanche.
Minor Xenos[edit]
Due to its history, and close proximity to the halo stars, the Calixis sector is home to many minor xenos races that elect to be a problem for some reason or another. Despite the best efforts of mister clean in a big hat, there are still some xenos besides the factions that get miniatures.
Enoulians[edit]
Imagine a species so perpetually butthurt about getting stomped by the imperium, that it's an exercise in self control for them to not reee every time they see an aquila. That's an Enoulian. Looking like Yellow Voldemort if he dressed like he was poor instead of an edgelord, the Enoulian is about 1.5 meters tall with a thin body. Usually these losers hire themselves out as mercenaries to crims and heretics. They want their payment in bones and dead plants.
Simulacra[edit]
Simulacra are a species of shapeshifters that like to live amongst humans so they can eat their brains. Consuming the brain allows them to pretend to be the person they ate. The way they act is like if aCallidus assassin didn't kill you to assume your life so it could be in striking distance of a target, but instead killed you to eat your brain so it could assume your life so to be in striking distance of other brains to eat.
The Cryptos[edit]
They're gas monsters from outside the galaxy. No idea why they're here or what they're doing. All that is known is that they like to show up, and possess people in some isolated community and take over like invasion of the body snatchers. They then proceed to...do nothing. Well that's not exactly correct. They live the lives of the people they took over. The only thing that outs their strange conspiracy is that wherever they take over, things are just a little too neat. Ledgers are flawless, every checkbook is perfectly balanced, and the pavers on the road are all clean and straight. The inquisition believes that they have come here to hide from something that may have been chasing them at some point. Who knows?
Slaugth[edit]
Slaugth are what happens when fluff writers get creative. You know it, you love it. It's the worm that walks, everybody. Straight outa the Hazeroth Abyss, they're coming for your recently dead so they can get high off of eating corpses. Yes, really. Eating a recently dead person is like consuming addictive narcotics to them. One even thirsts for the brain in particular and even became a deserter to satisfy his addiction. Why is it always the brains in this sector?
