Setting:Ætern Sector

Long ago, a celestial clock was constructed, a testimony to the very concept of time. Long ago a daemon committed the penultimate sin, and was hounded to a place colder than hell. Long ago and to this day he drags the ill fated to share his prison. Now the clock's gears are welded, melded, sprung and stripped. There are those that wish to fix it for their god, there are those who wish to break it for good, and there are those that wish to command it for their own gain. The most, however, have become so many ticks and tocks. The spring is wound tight, the pressure mounts, and the friction is burning red hot.

 Where will you stand when the clock strikes midnight?

Welcome to the work of 8chan /tg/, a custom sector built on a whim from scratch. It is intended to serve as a setting for Fantasy Flight's Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying games, and to an extent also the tabletop wargames. Work started on it back in September of 2015, and has continued on and off since then. This article will be continuously updated as the contributing posts of various elegan/tg/entlemen are organized into something coherent. Come join us in Æternity.

Summary

The Ætern Sector is a part of the Imperium of Man skirting the edges of the Veiled Regions, and within the bounds of Segmentum Tempestus. Imperial forces carved it out in late M37, but humans have inhabited it for much longer. It is a relatively sparse region of space, only containing a few dozen stars and few planets of mineral wealth; in addition, stellar activity and climates are often colder than average in Ætern, exacerbated by the shadowy phenomena of the Veil (among other factors). The Imperium controls much of the sector, though its reach weakens further into the clouds, and ceases altogether in the region's center. Ætern is divided into four sub-sectors (technically five) surrounding the center, clockwise: Vladimur's Domain, housing the Sector Capital (Carstein), Sothoth Deeps, containing the Adeptus Mechanicus hub (Belmond), Függönyfal, the Veil-choked permanent frontier (Liona Prime as the de jure capital) , and the Bram Highlands, paradoxically containing a seat of Ecclesiarchal control (Himmelwelt) and primary destination for a unique xenos-and-human immigration problem sector-wide. This problem is termed the Pharos Aeterno Effect, an inexplicable psychic lure radiating across the galaxy from the sector's center, the Ænigma Damnatio, a bizarre and impossibly old doppled warp anomaly (composed of the Brass Labyrinthe and the Forever Pit below it). The Pharos draws in the unwanted, the undesirable, and the misfit in their billions every year through infectious dreams, and within Ætern they come to stay. The peoples of the sector all move to a rhythm, billions migrating (often in circular fashion) around the sub-sectors. It is their blood, souls, and actions which fuel Ætern, both in mild prosperity and in the coming damnation. The forces of Chaos boil within the center and rampage without, aliens swarm in from all corners of the galaxy, a Daemon-god bellows in its maze, and a great clock counts down to midnight.

Entities and Organizations

Imperial

• The Voivode's Dragulmen (Imperial Guard)
  • Dragulmen Hussars (Stormtroopers)
  • Carstein Armoured Gauntlet (PDF)
  • Carstein Militia
• Godalming Penal Legions
• Belmond Firemen (Skitarii)
• Legio Spectral (Collegia Titanicus)
• The Martlet Horde (Adeptus Astartes)
• Desert Tempests (Adeptus Astartes)
• Order of the Burning Void (Adepta Sororitas)
• Mothers of the Abyss (Adepta Sororitas)
• Knight House Barbarossa
• Die Uhrmacher (Adeptus Mechanicus sub-faction cult)

Chaos

• Hashut
  • Chaos Squats
• The Floating Butcher's Bill
• The Hidden Hands
• Hunter's Moon
• Biologis Plaga
• The Diomedarches
• Malalik Warband