Legion Of Caliban

Here is the back story to a new campaign I am running, using narrative and matrix elements for 4-6 people at the game store. Looking forward to seeing how all this plays out. In the time since the indomintus crusades, the cicatrix maladictum, the rift dividing the imperium santum from the imperium nihlus, has posed a grievous threat to humanity. Astropathic travel has been blocked and the blessed emperors light has been snuffed by the ruinous powers for those in lee of the Warpscar. However even across the most dangerous stretches of space rogue traders continue their intrepid journeys and word of their successes has reached the ear of bureaucratic machine of terra. Whispers of a newly stable warp rift are rumored near the planetary system of Goliath. A rogue trader of some considerable clout, Janus Draik had claimed that he traversed the temporary rift conduit and was been called by the lord commander of the imperium for an audience. Under the instruction of Roboute Guilliman an...

The campaign for Goliath sector is under way!  As the forces mustered in the Goliath Sector the Slaneshi death cult struck against the mining facilities of Firestone. Calling themselves the Denizens of Asphodel, the death cult led by Lord commander Eli Tyson attempted a flanking manuver and was supported by a renegade knight piloted by the twins Apollan and Artamyn, traitors to their oathes to defend the Imperium. While the mainforces remained encamped at their planetary landing zones, The Defenders of the Imperial creed; Azreal of the Dark Angels and Cannoness Moiray, leader of the Order of the Blessed Reliquiae also sent a strong flanking force for a night assault. Herein lies the report of that battle: