When the tear in the galaxy sucked their ships into the blackness they thought all was lost. Supplies dwindled as they drifted through a miasmic wastespace. They feared all was lost and that they would die in this uncharted place. However, without warning it ejected them beside Ur’veil, as they came to call it, a beleaguered Imperium planet all but forgotten by a sprawling empire that cared nothing for it. The populace of this planet embraced the message they brought. The populace embraced the Greater Good.
Following a brief uprising Ur’veil became a place of prosperity, with species of all forms living in tranquility. For the humans that had lived under the yoke of the Imperium it was as though they had stepped into a dream. Ur’veil, meaning the ‘place of dreams’, had been aptly named.
Time demands entropy and now the Imperium were again gaining a foothold on Ur’veil. An incursion of the green-skinned aliens the humans refer to as Orks threaten settlements in the southern hemisphere. Open rebellion from an hitherto unknown religious cult erodes security across the planet. Ur’veil had ceased to be the utopia they had tried to build.
The T’au scientists found a way to return to the Fifth Sphere, a distance previously thought impossible to traverse. Leaving Ur’veil was not a decision taken lightly, but unsupported they could no longer hope to hold it. The evacuation has begun…
We begin a new chapter in the history of the planet the T’au named Ur’veil. The T’au are gone, leaving many disaffected inhabitants to turn to the salvation offered elsewhere. The Brotherhood and their sub-cults, including the Cult of the Burning Sun, offer such salvation. They are preparing for the arrival of the Celestials by seeking to take control of not just this planet, but the entire sector. The Imperium and their agents attempt to retake the planet code-named Alpha.220, its name redacted from history. The cult uprising now acts as the most immediate impediment to their attempts. Its Xenos origins remain hidden to almost all acting for the Imperium. A small number of Orks promise to serve as a further complication to their plans. Hopefully their numbers will remain small…
What does this all mean? First off, it means a short Kill Team campaign to kick things off. It places our old friend Ni’loc, a zealous preacher for the Cult of the Burning Sun named Hanz, and an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor named Calicus Rackham at the centre of a plot that could see Alpha.220 and the planets in its sector consumed …
Until next time,
Owen