A Prison for Gods: Phase 2 Worlds

The planets of Phase 2.

As we come closer to the end game of Phase 1 (1/3rd of the way!!), we take a look at the new territories about to be opened up.  Maybe, predicting where the plot will suddenly take us...

The Hulk, Gospel of Fear – Zone Mortalis rules. 

The Gospel, slow and certain, has been moving through the Subsector like some sign of the end times.  Her path thankfully doesn’t bring her into dangerous proximity to any of the Imperial territories no serious attempt has been made to board.  Though word on Tresium’s seedier bars tell of a great hoard of archeotech there, aboard an old xenos vessel found deep in her mashed up innerds.  Though those same rumours also tell of its spectoral guardians…

·         Planet 5 – Tresium

Official Designation: Tresium Primus Population: c.5.1 Billion >> Settlement Stamp: C.M35 Tithe: Penitentus Sanguine
Corruption Decline: Mutations 1/5000 Military Presence: Arbitus Maximal

Tresium sits before two ice worlds before a hot yellow sun, ringed by two layers of asteroids and ruined void craft. 

Outworld, Borderworld, Scummerland.  Tresium, despite its noble origins as an Ecclesiastical Mission of some lesser known saint, has become a haven for all of the Imperiums Scummers and Villains.  The precints of the Adeptus Arbites have long since lost their battle to retain order.  Cold Zones and Crime Lords run the surviving population centres, while bribed officials allow ruthless Pirates and dodgy Rogue Traders to go about their business, whatever it may be.  Some aren’t even human.

·         Planet 6 – Nest

Official Designation: PX-R55Kappa Nest Population: c. 12.9 Billion >> Settlement Stamp: C.M35 Tithe: Vermillion Corruption Decline: Mutations 1/9000 Military Presence: Substantial

Colonised prior to the Horus Heresy, the planet has a long legacy that through constant civil conflict has been lost.  Tall hive spires dot her surface as the planets previously stable atmosphere chokes on the Imperial production machine.  Beneath these gigantic metal towers lie the ruins of old.  Pre Imperial and some, even older.

The Imperium however only cares about its recruitment rates, as the constant fighting and brutal gang warfare breeds excellent soldiers.  From its many lofty Hives come Nest’s greatest export: People. Violent people.

Recently reports have come in of non-licensed cults of the Emperor becoming more restless and the Adeptus Arbites have deputised the Imperial Guard regiments garrisoned there.  Civil conflict has erupted anew, even as something older stirs beneath the earth and the cities.    

·         Planet 7 – Sordid

Official Designation: Sordid Prime Population: c. 4.3 Billion << Settlement Stamp: C.M37 Tithe: Punitary Corruption Decline: Mutations 1/500 Military Presence: Purgation

A world close to the edge but circling the drain.  Sordid’s long rotation brings it closer and closer to a raging Warp Storm called the Depths of Gorath.  Strange effects have begun occurring, psychic registration is through the roof and the Black Ships leave full each time they pass.  A plague has begun on the planet, causing many quarantines to occur, and cities to be left empty.

Sordid is alone in its system, the star ironically a white sun that does little against the coming dark.  The doomed world is a grim reminder of the effects of the warps corruption, and emigration, largely unchecked threatens to spill that corruption to other worlds in the sector, in the form of cults.-- Warp - Winds: For the duration of the game, Psychic powers require a 3+ to cast instead of the normal 4+, however miscasts occur on any double.

·         Planet 8 - Wake

Official Designation: Wake Quintus
Population: c. 1500 << Settlement Stamp: C.M35 Tithe: Nil Corruption Decline: Nil Military Presence: Auxilia Observa (Ref: Increased self murder)

Wake is a barren airless moon, dotted with ancient cites of Xenos origin.  Though many Rogue Traders and Mechanicum Explorators have dared to go there, those that return speak of sleepless visits, haunted by ghostly whispers and hallucinations of a world long since lost.  Psyker analysis of the surrounding area proves that no warp influence exists.  Which makes the whole matter even more terrifying.

Wake sits as the fifth body in its own diminished system of barren planets.  Most showing sings of former life but at some time or another some great ancient tragedy has seen their atmospheres blasted from them.

Rumours still insist however that amid those blackened dead pyramids and shattered cities lies a prize worth all the risk.

- Psychic Dead Zone: For the duration of the game, Psychic powers require a 6+ to cast instead of the normal 4+.