User Guide

The Age of Strife & The Rebirth of Man
For more than 5,000 years, humanity was wracked with war as
nation bottled nation and planet fought planet. Men fought bitterly
with Daemons, aliens, and with each other. Only the worlds where
psykers were rigorously suppressed survived intact.
Fortunately, grwt heroes often arise in the moments of greatest
peril. The Age of Strife brought forth one such man -the man who
would eventually become Emperor of Human Space. A shrewd
diplomat, he gathered the loose fragments of humanity into
a single
empire. He conquered those who would not join forces with him
and reclaimed whole worlds lost to aliens. He’s also the strongest
psyker that galaxy has ever seen - it was the Emperor himself that
finally drove the Daemons back into the warp.
The Emperor
The Emperor still reigns after 10,000 years. As an immortal, he has
ruled for millenia, ordering the lives of men, protecting humanity
from the great threats of the universe, and sacrificing himself for the
future of the race. Only the Emperor’s strength, will, and
intelligence have held the Imperium intact and allowed it to flourish
through the centuries of strife and discord
- it is to the Emperor
that humanity owes its existence.
Space Hulks
The largest and most advanced human civilization ever, the
Imperium encompasses millions of stars and planets. Each human
colony in this vast galactic realm is on island in
a sea of emptiness,
separated from its neighbors by thousands of light-yews of space
and connected to the Imperium only by fleets of spacecraft,
The vessels that form the infrastructure of the Imperium use warp
space ,
a separate and complete universe that exists alongside our
own ‘real’ space. The two universes
- real space and warp space
-ore intimately connected. For every point in our space, there’s a
corresponding location in warp space. Warp space, however, is
not on exact duplicate of our universe. Two points that, in our
reality, ore tens of thousands of light
years apart might be
separated by a few miles in warp space. Thus it’s possible for a
suitably equipped ship to enter warp space through a warp gate,
travel for few a hours, and re-emerge in our space millions of miles
from the ship’s departure point.
Warp space allows
a spacecraft to travel hundred of thousands of
light years in only a few hours. The Imperium would not exist
without this alternate universe - protecting and administering such
a colossal empire would be impossible if ships could only travel
through real space at sub-light speed. But warp travel is not without
its dangers. Warp space is filled with cross-currents, eddies and
whirlpools of power. Some ships disappear without
a trace, only to
emerge centuries later or millions of miles from their intended
destination.