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Fluff for an Imperial Sector for army background, campaign settings and for the joy of fluff. Bits and bobs to be added as and when. C&C is very welcome.
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Verana Sector

Verana is a highly populated Sector of Ultima Segmentum, located on the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way to the galactic west of Ultramar. Boasting over one hundred inhabited systems and a population estimated in the trillions, Verana is a major regional source of industry, trade and soldiers for the Imperium.

Major Worlds:

Gotha Maxus: Sector Fortress and administrative centre. A billion bureaucrats bustle through its subterranean archives, struggling to deal with the gargantuan task of running the sector. The planet’s lone moon, Gotha Parvus, is home to the Verana Battlefleet.

Cob’s Den: Best described as a ‘Market World’, Cob’s Den is the epicentre of Verana trade and home to the ancient merchant house of Koba-Jaheem. Untold wealth flows through Cob’s Den as hundreds of massive freighters arrive and depart on a daily basis. Millions live and work in the vast orbital docks which ring the equator. Below several large cities dot the archipelagos that make up only 10% of the planet’s surface. Each is dominated by a sumptuous palace built by one of the family branches of Koba-Jaheem. Beneath are the slums, littered with slave markets, drug dens and chrono-gladiator arenas. Such is the affluence and reach of Koba-Jaheem that the Imperial tithe is paid in rare luxuries and transport, the House’s freighters shuttling munitions and soldiers across countless war zones.

Falkenfaul: A feudal agri-world with a strict and complex social hierarchy. All of noble blood are barred from ‘common’ professions regardless of personal poverty. As such soldiers have supplanted food as the primary export of the planet, if only to provide an escape valve for a large class of martial yet landless aristocrats. The famed Falkenfaul Dragoons are known across the sector and beyond for their haughty manner, dashing cavalry and unprofessional zeal in battle. During the Second Canopus War Lord-Marshal Rann quipped “The Dragoons may very well be the bravest warriors in the Segmentum. They’re certainly the worst led”.

Saint Maximon: Shrine and Cardinal World. Formerly a Feral World, it is named after Missionary Maximon Jehrard who was martyred attempting to convert the barbarian inhabitants in M33. Following a viral bombing campaign the planet was subjugated and brought under Ecclesiarchy control. Amidst its verdant jungles and mountain peaks cathedral-cities stretch high into the atmosphere and attract millions of pilgrims who wish to touch the platinum sarcophagus of Saint Maximon and see countless other holy relics. The planet also acts as Verana’s religious centre, being the seat of Cardinal Yama XXIII.

High Castell: Home world of the Marines Ardent. Once known for its paddy fields and rich fisheries, the land and its people were ravaged with the coming of Hive Splinter Samael in 755.M41. Despite halting the Tyranids advance with help from the Shadow Walkers Chapter and dozens of Imperial Guard regiments, desperate scorched earth tactics have ruined the ecosystem, leading to millions of deaths through post-invasion famines and atomic radiation. The Marines Ardent have promised to stand by their subjects but it will take centuries for the planet to return to its previous heights.

Vedor and Alaraph: Hive Worlds. Located in the same system, Vedor and Alaraph host over a trillion citizens each, making up roughly half of the Sector’s entire population. The Twin Hives as they are known have a fractious history. Vedor was first settled en masse by dissenters of the Alaraphian Church during the Age of Apostasy, renamed after the proto-Thorian preacher who led them there to escape the pogroms. Vedor was a bleak planet but rich in resources, allowing the rapid expansion of its industries and population. The fall of Goge Vandire saw Alaraph purged and Vedor receive favour by the Sector Administratum. By M.39 the Vedorians had reached equal standing with Alaraph, much to the latter’s shame. This millennia old rivalry has broken out several times into armed conflict over the moons of the gas giant Slan Majoris, rich in aquaculture. Both worlds’ Planetary Defence Forces have large naval contingents for this very reason. Sector intervention to partition the moons often provide only temporary peace at best.

The enmity extends even to the Imperial Tithe, with neither world willing to allow the other to best them in their industrial and military contributions to the Imperium. As such both provide vast numbers of men and women to the Imperial Guard. The Vedorian Iron Riders and Alaraphian Armoured have thousands of battle honours to their names and, it should come as no surprise, a fierce rivalry. If Vedorians and Alaraphians are present in the same campaign a commander can be assured both will fight to their last breath. It just a case of keeping them apart.

L6-24: Known to space farers as the ‘Spiteful Star’. Save scattered asteroid belts rich in minerals the red giant has no satellites of note. Its only reason for a presence in Imperial records is its bizarre nature, sending out vast solar flares at passing ships and producing strange signals known to agitate Astropaths even to the point of madness, believed by some to be best described as language. The possibility of sentience interests some but the Imperium warns strenuously against entering the system following the CHOAM Refinery disaster of 961.M39.

It made me smile to think of Maximon ending up in a big pot and I like the religious based rivalry in the hives, given the setting puts the Imperial Creed as central to almost all citizens lives in some way or other we don't often see it represented very much in the novels et cetera, glad you've got that little bit in there. I also liked the idea of the landless nobles on Falkenfaul, there seems something immensely appealing about them having these grand histories but no money. Good stuff.