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Made in us
Regular Dakkanaut




North Augusta, SC

I've been working on a custom Imperial Guard Army for a while, but I haven't put time into the lore of it until today. The guard is going to be from the planet Lycia, an agri-world in the Praesidium Sector (made up.) I just wrote this describing the sector itself. If anyone has the time and doesn't get too bored with it, I would appreciate any feedback on any errors in the fluff or otherwise for that matter. The sector history is vital to the direction I want to go so I don't want to put in the time into writing the planet's and army's fluff until I'm comfortable with this. I made up a custom Space Marine chapter in this, but I don't have any plans to do much with it so I don't want to get in the weeds with too many details on it. At least not yet. TIA.


The Lycian gray
In order to understand the history of the planet Lycia and its army of Imperial Guard known as the Lycian Gray, we must first explore the setting and history of the space that surrounds it: The Praesidium Sector.

The Praesidium Sector

Near the center of the Segmentum Pacificus lies the Praesidium Sector. Many planets in this sector tend to generate larger than normal numbers of human psykers. For this reason the Black Ships of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica frequent the region. For many millennia, it had no formal name rather just a sector number.

The sector, like so many others, was originally brought into Imperial compliance during the Great Crusade. There is little localized history recorded for this sector following the early years of compliance and the Horus Heresy. Up to mid M34, systems of the Praesidium Sector remained totally independent of one another save for trade until the crisis that came to be known as “The Howling.”
During the Catelexis Heresy a xeno cyborg called “The Cacodominus” used his enormous psychic powers to mind control 1,300 planets of the Imperium. When the Black Templars killed the Cacodominus ending the Catelexis Heresy, his death scream ripped through the warp killing and maiming billions of Astropaths and distorted the beacon of the Astonomican. The planets of the Praesidium Sector were not only cut off from the Adeptus Terra, but also from each other. Hives began to starve and Forge World production came to a halt.

The Rogue Trader Morgant Seleucus happened to be doing business on the Hive World Varsovia when the upheaval hit. Luckily, his Astropath survived the scream of Cacodominus along with a handful of others across the sector. Seleucus was able to devise a way of travel that involved using the surviving Astropaths themselves and a navigation tool. If the Astropaths were close enough, they could see a brief glimmer of one another in the warp. In order to avoid being lost in the warp, Seleucus had to drop his ship out of warp as soon as his Astropath lost sight of the other. This constant jumping in and out of the warp got the nickname “warp hopping” and was brutal to the Astropaths. What was once a short hop from planet to planet took weeks to complete, but Seleucus was able to train enough supply ships to keep the Hives from starving. However, many planets were simply too far away for the Astropaths to see one another and some planets had no surviving Astropaths at all. Even though the Astronomican did not remain distorted, some of these planets did not regain contact with the IOM for thousands of years while others perished altogether.

During the time in isolation, the planets formed close bonds with one another. They even made a loose governing body for the sector under the guise of a trade organization led by Rogue Traders. At this point the Sector obtained its first formal name as the Fratris Sector while the “trade organization” was named the Fratris Trade Confederation. The FTC was made up of a varying number of Trade Officers all of whom were Rogue Traders (it should be noted that few, if any of them were native to the sector itself.) The FTC was able keep the populace of the planets content and fed while skimming enormous wealth for themselves. They became bolder and bolder until the end of the Age of Apostasy.

Around the time High Lord Goge Vandire was able to seize power, the FTC had begun secretly trading with the Iybraesil Craftworld while at the same time pillaging Eldar Exodite worlds and selling the Exodites who lived on them as slaves. As Cardinal Bucharis began the Plague of Unbelief, the FTC under the leadership of the Rogue Trader Drusilla Domitia, openly declared itself independent of the IOM. Drukhari raids were blamed for the disappearance of civilians of the backwater Agri-worlds, but in reality Domitia was trading human slaves to the Drukhari.

At the start of M37, Domitia’s vile rule came crashing down. The newly formed Ordo Hereticus brought its forces to bear upon the renegade FTC. When the first forces of the Imperial Guard arrived on Craxum II reality set in upon the renegades. Their PDF forces were completely overrun by the battle hardened Shock Troops who had already been through decades of civil war in the Imperium. Most of the PDF simply surrendered only to be lined up and shot hours later.

The truth surrounding Drusilla Domitia was soon exposed. The forces of the Inquisition were brought to a halt upon their arrival on the feudal world Loper Prime. Domitia had an elaborate palace built on the highest peak of the world from which she seldom strayed. To the surprise of the Inquisition they came under attack from a contingent of Noise Marines as they landed. The stalemate was broken when what one second was a Slaaneshi cultists was suddenly slicing off the head of Domitia with a Phase Sword. The report from the Callidus Assassin exposed her ploy. The assassin found her performing some type of hedonistic ritual on a group of Drukhari. Apparently she would lure the Drukhari to her palace promising more human slaves in order to drug them and sacrifice them to Slaanesh.

The purges that followed were merciless and seemingly unending. The Inquisition took direct control of the sector and gave it its current name, the Praesidium Sector. The Inquisitors would protect the sector from Heresy by rounding up and executing civilians by the millions. With the presence of xenos, chaos, and heretics all three Ordos set up a presense, but they all had one thing in common. All were followers of the philosophies of the long dead Inquisitor Goldo known as Monodominance. This is the belief that everything that is not part of the plan of the Emperor of Mankind must be destroyed.
They replaced the FTC with the rule of a single Lord Inquisitor who would be served by other Inquisitors and their henchmen along with all of the military forces that would soon be mustered from the sector. Over the millennia that followed, the Monodominants of the Inquisition tightened their grip on the Praesidium Sector. At the latter part of M37, the newly founded chapter of Adeptus Astartes, the Headhunters, appeared on Varsovia. The Headhunters are purported to be of the 23rd Founding and the Chapters Progenitors are stated to be the Red Hunters. They are a sadistic chapter of killers used more for mass genocide than for fighting battles. Their home world is the hive world of Varsovia where they draw their recruits from the most sadistic killers in the many prisons there. The Headhunters are under the direct control of the Lord Inquisitor.

Sorry for the sudden stop, but from here I plan to go into the fluff of the planet itself.

   
 
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