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| == Pre-M.41 ==
| | The modern history of the Prosperitas Sector begins in 05.M41, when Jacinta Durovera, a Rogue Trader of modest standing, discovered the Great Crusade charts of the sector deep within the Imperial Astrocartographic Archives on Terra. Inspired by promised riches, the Rogue Trader commissioned an expedition to the Sector and arrived four years later in 09.M41. |
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| === Mid-M25 - Early Human Settlement of the Prosperitas Sector - ===
| | What followed, beginning with Jacinta Durovera's sack of what would become the planetary capital of Duroverum, was the beginning of what would become the Prosperitas Crusade as the Imperium sought to reclaim the entire sector for itself. |
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| Archaeological and Archival evidence suggests that humanity first arrived in the sector in Mid-M25. It is presumed these craft were early warp vessels or perhaps sleeper vessels travelling on sublight drives - little is known about this early settlement. Scholars have long attempted to study the older native archives of the sector but many of these were destroyed during Archenemy occupation.
| | For the most part, the Imperium framed its invasion of the region as a ‘liberation’ of the population from Regency rule and prioritised their conversion to the Imperial Cult. |
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| === M25-M29 - The Age of Strife - ===
| | However, many populations found that they had replaced one totalitarian government with another, and despite promises, most natives were reduced to being an underclass unless they capitulated and collaborated with the Imperium. Combined with the arrival of Imperial colony ships, loaded with excess populations from Segmentum Solar, this bred a huge level of unrest amongst the natives of the sector, who feel that they are slowly losing control of what was once their own. |
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| Warp Storms cause massive rifts in real and warp space making space travel nearly impossible and cutting off entire regions. On Terra, civilization regresses as techno-barbarian’s survive to fight for dominion of the wasteland that was once a green and wonderful Earth.
| | Over five hundred years later, the Prosperitas Crusade is still slowly advancing, pushing back the wildspace with the dream of returning the sector to the same shape it had on those ancient charts now held within the Sector Governor's Palace on Duroverum. For the most part, however, it has ground to a halt, trapped in a quagmire of political disputes amongst its leaders, made worse by supply issues caused by waning Imperial interest from the Crusade's lack of recent successes. |
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| === M30-M31 - The Great Crusade - ===
| | The [[Timeline of the Prosperitas Sector]] covers in brief a summary of the history of the Prosperitas Sector. |
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| The Emperor unites Holy Terra and sets out across the Galaxy, founding the Imperium in HIS name. At some stage during this period, fragmentary records point to the unification and official designation of the Prosperitas Sector as a sector of the newborn Imperium. The names and titles of those responsible for its foundation a unavailable due to corruption in Crusade-era data recorders. | | The [[The Story So Far...]] offers a summary of plot run prior to the Covid-19 Lockdown in 2021. |
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| === M31 - The Horus Heresy - ===
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| The Emperor and his 9 Primarchs are opposed by the Arch Heretic, Horus, one of 9 Daemons in the service of the Archenemy, Chaos. In the resulting war Terra is besieged and through a combination of destroyed charts and shifting warp tides the Prosperitas Sector becomes one of the forgotten lost regions of the galaxy.
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| === M31-013.M41 - The Regency - ===
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| The Imperium specifically destroyed the majority of archives detailing the history of the so-called ‘Regency’, the [[The Archenemy|Archenemy]] occupying government that ruled the Sector in the absence of the Emperor’s Light. What is known is that it laboured in the foolish belief that Horus won the Battle of Terra.
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| For over ten millennia the Sector was ruled by a ‘Regent of the Emperor’, an archenemy tyrant there is significant evidence of native resistance which is why a considerable number of native populations have been spared immediate extermination in the years since reconquest of the Sector has begun.
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| == 0 to 100.M41 ==
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| === 09.M41 - The arrival of the Durovera Expedition - ===
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| A fleet of Imperial ships led by Rogue Trader [[Dramatis Personae|Jascinta Durovera]] in search of a new passage to the Cadia Sector through the minor warp storms surrounding that sector, discovers a stable warp passage from Segmentum Solar into the Prosperitas Sector. There she discovers a stable Sector occupied by a people who believe she has come as an emissary of the Emperor on Terra
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| Affairs are cordial until Durovera’s reception on [[Duroverum|Legio Venia]] whereby the “Emperors Regent” rolls out banners displaying the Eye of Horus, deeply heretical to the Imperial delegation. Despite herself, Durovera masters her doubts and remains cordial, the unsuspecting Regent goes through formalities oblivious of how the sector has been misled.
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| Returning to her ships, Durovera takes advantage of the fact that she has the benefit of surprise and launches and immediate bombardment of the Regencies’ governmental buildings, before ordering the ground forces accompanying her fleet to launch an all-out attack on the sector capital. After a successful conquest of the capitol, the Rogue Trader hunkers down and sends astropathic messages to Terra requesting assistance and prepares to weather the coming counter-attack and siege by the Regency Fleet.
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| === 013.M41 - 101.M41 - The Prosperitas Crusade Begins - ===
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| Four years after [[Dramatis Personae|Jascinta Durovera]] conquered [[Duroverum|Legio Venia]], Imperial Forces arrive to relieve the Rogue Trader at Legio Venia. They carry with them heralds of the High Lords of Terra who proclaim Durovera to be; Warmaster of the Prosperitas Crusade. Armed with astro-navigational knowledge she has plundered from regency data vaults beneath the surface of [[Duroverum|Legio Venia]], Durovera launches a lightning campaign against several major staging worlds for Regency forces, crippling much of the Regency Fleet, and what little nominal leadership survived her attack on the capital.
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| She is supported by numerous forces including the nomad Titans of [[The Taghmata Omnissiah|Legio Ferraeus]] to whom she grants the Forge World that will eventually come to bear their [[Ferraeus|name]]. In addition she is supported by local resistance fighters known as the [[The Rising Flame|Rising Flame]] who have formed a nebulous resistance against the Regency for millennia.
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| In her later years as Warmaster, Durovera became obsessed with hunting down the flagship of the Regency fleet, the ancient Gloriana-class Battleship Manifest Destiny. From her flagship, the Nemesis-class Stormchaser, the Warmaster hunts the huge warship down over a series of engagements, damaging it heavily with waves of fighter craft.
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| Durovera is last seen translating to warp without her flagship’s escorts, no sign is ever seen of her again, however the Manifest Destiny is discovered several months later bearing heavy damage and will all onboard seemingly dead or evacuated. It is brought under tow back to Legio Venia and remains their undergoing re-sanctification. When Durovera is eventually declared MIA by Crusade High Command, the vessel is re-christened Iron Lady and Legio Venia is officially renamed as [[Duroverum]], in honour of the fallen Warmaster. [[The Great Houses|House Durovera]] are granted the seat of Sector Governor by right of blood, and one of the Warmaster’s cousins takes the throne.
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| == 100-200.M41 ==
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| === 101-196.M41 - The Crusade Stalls and the Strife - ===
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| Without an obvious heir to the Warmaster, Crusade progress stalls, and the lack of guidance as to how to divide the holdings already taken by the Crusade fragments the alliances formed by Jacinta Durovera in her quest to take the Prosperitas Sector. Terran nobles and their families promised riches and worlds to establish themselves beyond the reach of their parents war amongst themselves, and Military commanders bicker over their rights to control the Imperial-controlled Prosperitas Sector.
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| Though the Imperium has a foothold over most of Subsector Primus and has broken most of the Regencies greatest armies, local populations are found to be non-compliant either dogmatically continuing to follow the [[The_Archenemy#Warp_Cults|heretical religion]] practiced by the Regency or being of [[The_Lowborn#The_Anfywnn|Annwfyn]] or [[The_Lowborn#The_Ruwwad|Ruwwad]] descent and difficult to control. In perhaps the greatest reversal of Jacinta's policies, Imperial commanders decide that the [[The Rising Flame|Rising Flame]] must be snuffed out. The insurgents realize the threat too late and the Imperium is able to deal devastating blows to the rebellion before it can withdraw and hide from persecution, the Rising Flame will remember this 'betrayal' and it begins hundreds of years of resistance against the Imperium.
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| This brings the arrival of the first iteration of the [[The Prosperitas Conclave|the Prosperitas Conclave]] of the Inquisition, an assembly of Witch Hunters from the Ordo Hereticus arrive in 142.M41. Witch-pyres burn hot with entire heretic populations put to the flame, while military leaders squabble amongst themselves the Inquisitors of the Ordo Hereticus make themselves busy, spreading across the sector, some travel beyond Imperial lines even, bringing their shadow war to the non-compliant worlds beyond the Imperium's light.
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| === 139.M41 - [Outside Sector] The Gothic War - ===
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| The Crusade deadlock is made worse by the invasion of the Gothic Sector by the most hated Despoiler, Warmaster of the Archenemy. Forces originally intended for the Prosperitas Sector are diverted eastward to the Gothic Sector instead, leading to massive supply shortages which will dog the Crusade long into the present era.
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| === 197-304.M41 - The Folly of Warmaster Monforte - ===
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| eventually [[Dramatis Personae|Warmaster Monforte]], an unobjectionable if unimpressive leader is selected from amongst the available candidates.
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| On the border of what will be designated Subsector Tertius, the remaining forces of the [[The Archenemy|Regency]] proper gather to mount a major counter-attack against the Imperium. Made aware by spies, [[Dramatis Personae|Warmaster Monforte]] throws everything he has against the gathered forces. Because of the difficulty navigating the asteroid field in the system, the fighting is long and harsh and what is supposed to be a surprise attack drags into a long-term attrition war in the field, with the Imperium eventually winning a pyrrhic victory after ten years of conflict and innumerate losses
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| Made worse by political friction between [[The Great Houses|House Durovera]] from the Sector Governors throne, and Warmaster Monforte - the Crusade forces fall into a lull nearly a hundred years long. While this allows for subsector Primus to be stabilized and fully tamed by the Imperium, the lack of progress frustrates House Durovera and many Imperial Commanders who believe the aging Monforte to be growing incompetent as his age advances, more so than many already did. Unlike his more ill-fated predecessor and those who will follow, the Warmaster dies of old age at the end of this century, without regret. On his deathbed he swears that he will never apologise for not overstretching his forces and consolidating the Imperium’s victories.
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| == 200-400.M41 ==
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| === 304.M41 - The Victories and Fall of Warmaster Ulian - ===
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| [[Dramatis Personae|Warmaster Ulian]], the third individual to carry the title of Warmaster and the youngest yet, enjoys unparalleled success opening both the Secondus and Tertius Subsectors to Imperial expansion. With the Regency largely defeated, many of the worlds are home to non-Imperial, Archenemy and xeno-worshipping cultures. These enemies reel before his advance. Many of their forces are driven out of Imperial space and into the currently lawless regions, buoyed by success under Ulian’s leadership Imperial forces prepare a three-pronged assault on the Eyeward regions of the sector that lie close to the malevolent light of the warp storm known as the [[Threats and Hazards of the Prosperitas Sector|Eye of Terror]].
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| Always in flux, tragedy strikes as the Eye bursts its borders, splinters of the storm ripping apart realspace in their wake. One such tendril, known as the Lash of the Eye, surges through Subsector Quartus. Imperial forces flee the storm while many of the Archenemy joyfully meet it, some even driving fleets into the maelstrom . The storm devastates the Crusade forces as it swallows the whole subsector, in the aftermath Warmaster Ulian is missing presumed dead, and the Crusade reels and stalls as it loses much of its fighting strength.
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| === 331.M41 - The Tenebris Arm - ===
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| Even as the Eye wanes, the storm consuming the lost regions does not abate, creating an impassable region of space for Imperial forces, and a haven for the forces of the Archenemy. The Arm of the Eye is named [[Threats and Hazards of the Prosperitas Sector|Tenebris]] and is declared lost. It is ruled impassable and many forces are dedicated to worlds like Strayvia on the borders to act as fortress-worlds to hold back any archenemy who might emerge from the storm. This loss is devastating to the [[The Lowborn|Ruwwad]] people, who are native to the region claimed by the Eye ,and scatters their populations amongst the other worlds of the Sector.
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| === 349.M41 - Warmaster Fassir - ===
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| [[Dramatis Personae|Nudara Fassir]], a Terran-born General, is appointed by the High Lords of Terra to take over the Prosperitas Crusade, after they grow tired of the petty squabbling of the Crusade’s leaders and their inability to agree upon a leader. Fassir is a veteran of the Solar Regiments, and a talented warrior. She is a more conservative commander, but is also a veteran of Terran politics, and does well holding the Crusade together during the long years of doubt that will follow. Once again the Crusade’s progress slows, but she mitigates frustration amongst her commanders by assigning forces to expeditionary fleets, probing the more stable warp-routes in the Rimward Marches of subsector secondus, her reign as Warmaster lasts long into the later years of her life, but ends in tragedy and betrayal.
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| === 392-399.M41 - [Outside Sector] The Macharian Crusade - ===
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| On Terra, a brilliant Imperial Commander, Macharius, is appointed Lord Solar, and launches a brilliant crusade into Segementum Pacificus. Many commanders of the Prosperitas Sector claim Warmaster Durovera inspired the Imperium to support commanders like Macharius, but the Crusade also hails the waning interests of the High Lords in the Galactic north and further crippling reductions in resources available to the Prosperitas Crusade.
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| == 400-500.M41 ==
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| === 439.M41 - The Assassination of Warmaster Fassir - ===
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| [[Dramatis Personae|Warmaster Fassir]] is assassinated in her command quarters on [[Polarnus Station]] her wife, Majal, is the sole witness to the crime, and gives an account of a skin-changing woman who struck her wife down. Her testimony is ruled unreliable, as Crusade High Command refuses to accept such a thing could have spared her life too, Agents of the Inquisition take Majal away for interrogation, she is never seen again. Accusations of betrayal and treachery fly freely in the years that follow as squabbling over the position of Warmaster intensifies.
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| === 444.M41 - [Outside-Sector] The Armageddon War - ===
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| A major Archenemy force launches an assault on Armageddon, a major manufacturing world in Segementum Solar. While the actual account of the war is sealed by Inquisitorial record, the loss of a supply world has major consequences across the Imperium. It could not come at a worse time for the Prosperitas Sector where strained tensions already close to breaking point.
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| === 446-484.M41 - The Inheritance War and Censure - ===
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| The conflict for the position of Warmaster intensifies into open civil war between three Imperial commanders (whose names are later struck from record), Imperial forces clash with imperial forces over a period of twenty years. Most of this fighting occurs away from the eyes of others, and many of them are honour battles, but the infighting utterly paralyses the crusade once again and in some cases leads to opportunistic pirate raids and rebel uprisings on planets left poorly defended by the distracted Imperial forces.
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| Belatedly the High Lords of Terra deliver a proclamation of censure, ordering the execution of those commanders involved in the Inheritance War, and suspending the Crusade indefinitely, and re-deploying the grand majority of non-native forces from the Crusade to other Sectors in need of reinforcement, reducing its strength to the weakest in its history.
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| == 500-600.M41 - Present Era ==
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| === 553.M41 - The Cadian corridor, and the rise of Warmaster Hroth - ===
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| The High Lords repeal their censure after ships from [[The Great Houses|House Majid’s]] fleet discover the Cadian corridor, a warp passage that effectively grants Imperial reinforcements for the Cadian gate a five-year shortcut on the journey to the Sector. This heightened strategic importance, in addition to the sector geosurveys' discovery of rare resources in the Rimward Marches, leads to the High Lords appointing Janus Hroth as Warmaster. Hroth is a Munitorum Administrator with very little tactical aptitude which leads to several very near strategic disasters as he attempts to command Imperial forces like a civil servant.
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| === 563-566.M41 - Waagh! Gazbag - ===
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| Smashing out of wildspace between the Gothic Sector and the Prosperitas Sector, Waagh! Gazbag crashes into the exposed flank of the Imperium on the Galactic East. The [[Known Xenos of the Prosperitas Sector|Greenskins]], not previously seen in sector, tear through several Imperial worlds in the space of a few years. The tide is turned when [[Dramatis Personae|Arch-Militant Voss]] deploys a strategy of funneling the Orks towards [[Persephon IV]] where they are bogged down and a stalemate is reached. For his part Voss is inducted into the ranks of the Inquisition, becoming Inquisitor Voss, and granted considerable support from Crusade High Command.
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| === 566.M41 - A New Warmaster - ===
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| With Warmaster Hroth’s failings exposed he is forced to resign his post in shame, and [[Dramatis Personae|Warmaster llenyós]] is appointed in his stead. He is exactly what the Crusade needs, being ready to knuckle down to work, and taking the lead on a number of major strategies to return the Crusade to action.
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| === 570.M41 - The Unwanted Governor and the Great Losses - ===
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| Long ignored, and long treated as the lesser rewards of the House, the seat of Sector Governor is taken up by [[Dramatis Personae|Armelius Durovera]] after his sister abdicates the position in order to take control of the families Warrant of Trade so she might lead the House fleet out into the Rimward Marches in search of treasures beyond Imperial battle-lines. Armelius is a vain man, not prepared for the position of Sector Governor and relies heavily upon his aids, he quickly develops a friction with Crusade High Command, and an outright political enemy in the Warmaster. This marks the beginning of a period of upheaval and great loss for the Prosperitas Sector.
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| A formerly productive and reliable agri-world supplying crops to feed many Hive-Worlds across Subsector Primus, [[Strayvia]] suffers near-total economic collapse through the mid 570s as a great portion of its able-bodied youth are shipped off to newly-founded Guard regiments to defend the Tenebris Border. The resulting mutiny among the population springs into a fully-formed insurgency with reported Archenemy links, and the planet is virus-bombed in 577.M41 Exterminatus by Inquisitorial decree. The remnants of the Strayvian regiments remain committed to Battlegroup Hesperidus, embittered and downtrodden after massive casualties at the front and the loss of their homeworld.
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| In 582.M41 both [[Korimesta]] and [[Caudica Secundus]] suffer tragedies;
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| The Hive World of [[Korimesta]] see’s several months of panic after the entirety of Hive Secondus is destroyed by an atomic device at the loss of billions of lives. When no further attacks are forthcoming things quieten down, but the planet remains on high alert, the figures behind the attack are never discovered.
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| A thriving cultural and economic centre, the Hive World of [[Caudica Secundus]], sees a resurgence in fanatical religious activity among the miners of its southern continent. This quickly reveals itself to be a facade over an outright heretical uprising. After local authorities fail to contain the growing threat, the planet is interdicted and subjected to exterminatus by orbital bombardment. Caudican refugees spread across the mining colonies and vessels of the sector, carrying dread tales and fear with them.
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| === 580.M41 - Massacre of Blackstation 101 - ===
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| A hidden Inquisitorial fortress is hit by an agent of the Archenemy while many of the sector’s Inquisitors are gathered in conclave, the resulting massacre leaves a handful of survivors of those who were there or lucky enough not to have been present. Without the numbers, the surviving Inquisitors are increasingly dependent on empowering their Agents to act for them, and calling upon the aid of other factions.
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| === 583.M41 - The Death of Hroth - ===
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| An Mechanicus Colony on the reaches of the Sector, the planet [[Henlock]] comes under attack from Archenemy forces in the first such aggressive action for hundreds of years. Imperial forces are caught completely off guard, and to make matters worse, a Titan of the Demi-Legion [[The Taghmata Omnissiah|Custodii Incudatem]] is captured by Archenemy forces. This marks the Imperium’s first encounter with a unified Archenemy force for centuries, these forces bear the insignia of the Regency and are believed to be the remnants of that former power.
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| In response Crusade High Command launches the disastrous ‘Operation Righteous Fury’ intent on blunting the Talons of the Way before they can capitalize on their success at Henlock. Crusade Forces easily overwhelm the Archenemies picket fleet but this turns out to be a trap as a massive fleet of Archenemy vessels drops out of warp several days later. Most of Crusade High Command, including the Warmaster, and much of the Crusade Fleet are destroyed or captured in the subsequent chaos, with talk of Imperial vessels turning on each other in the midst of the battle.
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| === 584-586.M41 - The Rise of Cardinal Grulge - ===
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| In the aftermath of [[Henlock]] the disruption of sacred ceremonies on [[Nivalis]] sparks sector-wide unrest. Imperial forces scramble to stop the sector falling into total anarchy as they stave off assaults from rebels, heretics and xenos alike. The arrival of reinforcements from beyond the sector and the pacification of Nivalis by the Battle Sisters of the [[Adepta Sororitas|Order of His Sanguine Tears]] provides stability at the end of the year.
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| With this force of Holy Warriors comes a new figure [[Dramatis Personae|Cardinal Ignatius Grulge]] the charismatic and ruthless Cardinal takes control of the leaderless Ecclesiarchy and sets about disciplining wayward and apostate Priests. His actions provide the sector with stability and spiritual guidance.
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| === 586-592.M41 - The Rise of Warmaster Durovera II - the Faceless King's Victory ===
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| '''Detailed in [[Sector Report I]]'''
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| An attempt is made on the Sector Governor’s life, and the planet of Everholt rises against the Imperium. While the small backwater is subjected to Imperial Censure, Armelius Durovera comes out of the experience a changed man, he throws aside the image of noble incompetence and claims to consider his role allot more seriously now. In earnest he begins to politic better than he has before, slowly clawing control of the Prosperitas Crusade back into the House Durovera.
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| After several years of political arguments and maneuvering, Sector Governor Armelius Durovera is granted, by decree of the High Lords of Terra, and right of Blood, the title of Warmaster. There are many within the Prosperitas Crusade who are dissatisfied with this appointment, but enough Imperial Commanders back him to ensure conflict goes no further than discontent grumblings amongst the commanders spurned by them.
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| But not all is as it seems for [[Dramatis Personae|Armelius Durovera]] died on Everholt, the creature taking his place some form of changeling daemon of the [[The Archenemy|Archenemy]]. Known only by legend-lore of the Ordo Malleus as the 'Faceless King' the Daemon strangely doesn't sow strife with its reign instead pushing the Imperium to follow a 'peace doctrine' to strengthen its holdings while avoiding further conflict, this makes the new Warmaster highly popular amongst the smallfolk of the Prosperitas Sector and highly unpopular with much of the Crusade.
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| === 590.M41 - The coming of the Weeping Eye and the Creeping Death - ===
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| Emerging as a new threat, the Weeping Eye, and the Creeping Death are largely formed of mortal fodder whipped up from the twisted worlds within the boundaries of Warp Storm Tenebris. Although poorly equipped, these forces are the product of survival within the warp storm, and are not to be underestimate for their raw physical strength and innate skill. Led by sibling warleaders Herforingi Greppur Tain and Herforingi Arnkatla Tain these forces counter-attack the Imperium at the Strayvian Gateway and Polarnus Nebula salients.
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| === 592.M41 - The Year of Strife ===
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| '''Detailed in [[Sector Report II]], [[Sector Report II.5 Nivalis]], [[Sector Report II.5 Polarnus]] and partially in [[Sector Report III]].'''
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| Alerted to the fact that Armelius Durovera has been replaced by a changeling daemon, the Inquisition dispatches Agents to retrieve the true surviving Heir to the family [[Dramatis Personae|Hermione Durovera]] a Rogue Trader who has not been seen in civilized space for a number of years, she is found engaged with the locals of the planet [[Finisterra]] who are supported by the insurgents of [[The Rising Flame|Rising Flame]] who have declared the world symbolic to their cause. This culminates in a confrontation with the Rising Flame's leader [[Dramatis Personae|Sharre Ajax]] who is captured by Inquisition forces after the Rising Flame (who have become more radical under Ajax's leadership) attempt to detonate a nuclear device to destroy the world and the Imperial forces on it. Imperial Forces prepare to conquer the world before they are ordered to leave by the arrival of mysterious [[Astartes in the Prosperitas Sector|Astartes]].
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| Hermione Durovera returns to Terra immediately after Inquisition Agents inform her of the loss and replacement of her brother, seeking the aid of the High Lords, but is seemingly rebuked, and leaves Terra n search of other allies to back her claim on the Sector Throne.
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| On [[Korimesta]] the popular Feast of Khan-Hatlik is interrupted by a local rebellion and an uprising of members of a local Warp cult that threatens to topple the local hierarchy, it is stopped by a team of Inquisitorial accolytes who successfully banish a warp entity summoned by the cult.
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| In the same year both [[Polarnus Station]] and [[Nivalis]] are attacked by [[The Archenemy|Archenemy]] warbands from the Weeping Eye and the Creeping Death.
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| Catching the Imperium completely off guard, forces of the Weeping Eye emerged from the borders of the Eye of Terror near the Polarnus Nebula. Although initially safe behind their defences, the Imperial battleline is devastated when the outer defences failed to function, and the automated weapons systems on the station open fired on loyal vessels. The total number of casualties are currently unknown, but are believed to number in the high millions, causing a serious blow to the morale of the Navy and the Sector population. Many Imperial forces survive still, but remained trapped and besieged in the station itself, as the surviving Naval vessels – including the Iron Lady – immediately retreat from the Polarnus Nebula to fallback points.
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| Creeping Death forces assault the Imperial cordon in the Strayvian Gateway. Although their attack is initially sustained, the arrival of unknown black-hulled vessels in support of the Archenemy forces, allowed for a number of ships to break out of the Gateway and enter Warp. These ships later appeared over Nivalis, and deployed landing forces – the Nivalis Astropathic Choir is silenced, and reports from the planet are spotty accounts describing hordes of archenemy troops, supported by heavily armoured warriors.
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| As the year ends the Inquisition watches the false-Warmaster carefully, but rather than use this to cause further strife the daemon rallies the Imperium with a series of orders that are tactically sound.
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| Cardinal Grulge has continued to cement his power throughout this year, and at the years end begins rallying the faithful to lead a crusade to retake Nivalis from the Archenemy - this is notably close to violating the terms of the Decree Passive, but in desperation many turn a blind eye to his actions, and others aid him.
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| === 593.M41 - The Year of Apostasy ===
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| '''Detailed partly in [[Sector Report III]] as well as in [[Sector Report IV]], [[Sector Report V]], [[Sector Report VI]] and [[Sector Report VII]].'''
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| The year opens with riots on the colony-world of [[Olethros Secunda]] that owes fealty to both Imperium and the Mechanicus of Forge [[Naximus Prime]] - this is reaction to a resurgence of the Imperial Faith on the planet amongst a local population tired of oppression by the Adeptus Mechanicus. This is believed to be the first emergence of the sect that will become known as the [[The Ecclesiarchy|Gearwrights]]
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| The [[The Rising Flame|Rising Flame]] emerge once again striking against the [[Psykers|Adeptus Astra Telepathica]] facility known as ''The Orphan's Wail'' on [[Gaudium]]. Using an allied xenos, a [[Known Xenos of the Prosperitas Sector|Shavasti]], the massive psi-eruption devastates the planetary city and causes massive mental upset sparking further violence and a mass lock-down of the planet. Because of perceived failings by the psyker responsible for Adeptus operations, the Black Warden [[Dramatis Personae|Jacinta Kreel]] a non-psyker Warden from the Black Ships, assumes control and massive repression against Psykers becomes the norm, Kreel is an ally of [[Dramatis Personae|Cardinal Grulge]] and this sparks a rise in the number of Witch Finders and Hunters anointed by the Ecclesiarchy.
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| Unsurprisingly this has the reverse effect of causing the number of Rogue Psykers and Witches encountered by Imperial Forces to spike, as they flee to both the Rising Flame and the Archenemy. This in turn becomes a tool for Cardinal Grulge to increase his power, he openly defies the Decree Passive citing the need for the Ecclesiarchy to have the tools to combat Witches and Heretics, and formally creates the 'Fidelis Militia' a not-too-distant echo of the Fidelis Templar disbanded by the Decree Passive.
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| Unsurprisingly this sparks open conflict with moderate Priests and the Order of His Sanguine Tears who are bound by duty to enforce the Decree.
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| ==== Mid 593.M41 - Polarnus Stands ====
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| The spark of light in a dark year comes as [[Polarnus Station]] is retaken by [[Dramatis Personae|Grand Admiral Sarina Khan]] who, with the aid of numerous individuals including Inquisition Agents, is able to retake the station from the forces of the [[The Archenemy|Weeping Eye]] - the saying 'Polarnus Stands' becomes a popular rallying cry for the warriors of the Prosperitas Crusade.
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| At the same time, Inquisition Agents retrieve an item of great power to the changeling daemon and destroy it, this device causes it to loose control of its form and kill a number of high-ranking Officials in order to hide its identity. It goes into hiding shortly after this.
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| In the shadow of this the Inquisition discovers that one of their own, [[Dramatis Personae|Inquisitor Voss]] has betrayed them to the forces of the Archenemy and has made a pact with a daemon, he escapes arrest and remains at large as a major threat to the Inquisition. Similarily, the Arbites Marshall-Protector [[Dramatis Personae|Drusilla Vox]]
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| ==== Late 593.M41 - The Red Saint and Rumblings of Civil War ====
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| On the planet [[Midsummer]], Inquisition agents battle to contain a threat of the Blood God a daemon known only as the [[Malleus Lore|Red Saint]]. They are not successful in stopping its rise, but are able to save the planet as it flees to pursue its own goals.
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| Perhaps because of its influence, a rogue scion of [[The Great Houses|House Majid]] unleashes a weapon on the House fleet as it musters around Midsummer - this digital weapon a carnivore-code utterly devastates the fleet killing huge sections of the House and its retainers, overnight [[The Great Houses|House Majid]] becomes a pallid ghost of what it once was, and this in turn leads to the rise of their former vassals [[The Great Houses|House Volkov]] who rule Midsummer to the status of a Great House due to the latters alliance with [[The Great Houses|House Durovera]] as [[Dramatis Personae|Hermione Durovera]] returns to the Prosperitas System and, in the absence of the changeling daemon, seizes both control of her House, and of Duroverum.
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| Such a rapid conquest would be a difficult task, however the Lady-Captain is accompanied by a detachment of Astartes from the [[Astartes in the Prosperitas Sector|Void Hounds]] who enforce her seizure of control of the world. Her actions, followed by the declaration of her claim to rightful rule, as the Lady-Governor, of the Prosperitas Sector cause friction with the other Great Houses with [[The Great Houses|House Vilas-Lobo]] actively opposing her claim.
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| Weather by the malign influence of the daemon, or the actions of years of growing tension between the factions of the Imperium, the factions of the Prosperitas Sector teeter on the edge of civil war.
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| === 594.M41 - The Year of Suspicion ===
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| The opening of 594.M41 sees the revelation that the [[Officio Praefectus]], the Commissariat, has been infiltrated extensively by servants of the Archenemy, these individuals known as Talons, appear to be tied to the traitor [[Dramatis Personae|Inquisitor Voss]] as well as a mysterious party who has aided the embedding of Archenemy traitor Agents deep into the ranks of the Commissariat. Before the conspirators are able to be captured, however, a botched Inquisitorial mission causes them to scatter with only one of the ring-leaders captured by Inquisitorial forces.
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| [[Korimesta]] which has always waivered in its loyalties to the Imperium falls victim to civil war as members of the [[Rising Flame]] successfully tople the local aristocracy and install a 'provisional government'. Out of fear that by allowing the rebellion to go unchecked other worlds will be emboldened to rise against Imperial rule, the Imperial Navy arrives above the world. No mercy is given to the Rebels as the fleet bombards it from orbit killing many, of those who are not killed many die laterin mass executions as 'examples' to the citizens of the Imperium. The world is a ruined wasteland, no longer desiring it its rulers [[House Vilas-Lobo]] secede it to [[House Globex]] who transform the surviving population centers into vast 'rehabilitation camps'.
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| The Warmaster, the changeling daemon, is officially killed in the early months of the year, though the exact nature of the mission against him is classified, the creature is banished from this plane of reality aboard the ''HMSS St Sanguinius'' - an act that cripples the financially weakened [[The Imperial Nobility|House Monforte]] and provides enough of a favourable environment for both the rival House Vilas-Lobo and House Durovera to begin land-grabs on Monforte assets, this sparks a period know as the Toll Wars as both parties seek to impose levies on eachothers trade this only ends when Naval vessels commanded by [[Dramatis Personae|Admiral Ridea Holtz]] strike at several vital areas to both Houses and force a temporary ceasefire to their conflict. With Hermione Durovera not confirmed as Lady-Governor yet, she is powerless to override the Navy, and the conflict comes to an end.
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| A glimmer of light emerges for [[Dramatis Personae|Cardinal Grulge's]] opponents as the Ecclesiarch themselves, the Terran-based leader of the Ecclesiarchy, declares Grulge to be defrocked for his violations of the decree passive, and demands he be brought to Terra to stand trial for membership of a proscribed religious sect known as the [[The Ecclesiarchy|Temple of the Savior Emperor]]. Grulge, surrounded by supporters, resists this command from the Holy Leader of the Faith and begins a bloody fight against his opponents to retain his power in the Sector.
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| ==== Mid 594.M41 - The Unblinking Eye ====
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| The nebulae along the border of the [[Navigational Hazards|Tenebris Storm]] – the astral terrain that shields the Prosperitas Sector from a clear glimpse of the Eye of Terror – swirl and part for the first time since the chaos of the Lash of the Eye. This allows the Eye’s baleful gaze to spill out onto the sector; waves of madness follow in its wake, and Imperial forces move swiftly to enforce curfews on the Imperial populace of worlds close to the Eye to prevent any witnessing but a glimpse of the warp-storm. However, with the damage to the Administratum done by earlier betrayals, warning travels slowly and many worlds have been complacent in running warp-storm drills for decades. The resulting outbreaks of madness and mutation only add to the chaos in the sector, as the Dark Gods see a resurgence after years of waning power.
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| What was once the warbands of the [[The Archenemy|Weeping Eye and the Creeping Death]] re-emerge from the Eye at [[Kelper Prime]]; in the wake of the Eye’s flare, pestilence and rot spread amongst the population and the Imperial defences there loose coordination. A barbarian horde of Eye-tribes overwhelms the defences of the fortress world – wearied after years of continuous fighting – forcing the Imperium onto the back foot as previously valuable indigenous Rising Flame units are crushed underfoot by the tribes and Imperial lines suffer their worst breaches in the years since the first invasions were mounted there. Vermin, in their thousands, pour from the sewers beneath the cities and before the advancing hordes of the eye-tribes. Kelper Command screams out for aid over the vox-link to orbit as they are slaughtered, describing a vermin-monster amongst their midst; in the wake of this, only a cooing motherly voice is heard chuckling before vox-link is severed. Total defeat seems inevitable unless something is done to relieve the beleaguered Imperial defences of the world.
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| The barbarians send a scouting fleet back into the Polarnus Nebula but are robustly rebuked by the forces of [[Polarnus Station]] commandant [[Dramatis Personae|Admiral Chandier]], who sends the scout fleet fleeing with severe losses. The reinforced forces at Polarnus are able to hold off against subsequent probing raids thanks to the hard work of Crusade personnel.
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| Arbites across the sector struggle to contain a ‘blood madness’ spreading across the population, as uncontrolled rage erupts where they desperately attempt to enforce the curfew and warp-storm protocols. Maddened citizens assault anything that moves; where their blood falls upon the untouched, the same rage grasps them and this sickness spreads like a frenzied plague. In its wake the cult of the so-called [[Malleus Lore|Red Saint]] – known as the [[The Archenemy|Red Hand]] – begins a renewed assault against planets where Ashen cults have taken root. Across the sector whole civilized regions burn as the Red Hand assault Imperial and [[The Darkness|Ashen]] alike, leaving nothing to chance in their ‘crusade’ to purge the Ashen forces from the sector. Only the support of several squads of Adepta Sororitas deployed across the sector prevent the madness and the Red Hand from spreading further. Ordo Malleus forces report their first sighting of the so-called ‘Red Saint’: a blood-drenched woman, armoured in a contemptuous parody of Sororitas power armour, bearing mutations of the Blood God. With the Red Saint directing Red Hand forces.
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| ==== Late 594.M41 - Faith and Damnation ====
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| The [[The Archenemy|Regency]] long believed to have been utterly destroyed by the Imperium, strikes back from hidden enclaves at the edges of the Sector, striking suddenly with their fully-mustered numbers they invade [[Olethros Secunda]] driving the Imperium from the planet, the noble work of the [[The Ecclesiarchy|Gearwrights]] saves millions who are able to evacuate before the onslaught - thousands martyr themselves fighting to the last faithful warrior against the oncoming Regency forces, in the aftermath, the Regency begins to build temples to the Dark Gods upon the planet.
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| This is not the worst of their forces however, as massive Regency fleets emerge from the enclaves and begin pushes towards the planets of the Prosperitas Sector with major confrontations occuring at [[Helaerus]] and [[Lerwick]] both vital strategic locations to launch attacks towards the more developed and defended coreward worlds.
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| At [[Helaerus]] the Imperial forces are hard-pressed to fight the invaders until the arrival of Astartes from the [[Sable Knives|Astartes in the Prosperitas Sector]] brings unexpected aid and gives the Imperial forces the advantage to turn the tide of battle against the Regency.
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| At [[Lerwick]] a [[The Rising Flame|Rising Flame]] uprising catches the Imperium off guard as a Regency fleet arrives in the system, through mysterious means, the defence grid of the planet has been compromised but rather than leave it vulnerable, the mysterious actors cause it to fire at just the right moment to intercept the Regency fleet before it finishes translation from the warp and raises shields, devastating it turning a possible victory, into a bloody protracted battle.
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| With war raging late into the year civilization beyond the core worlds teeters on the balance.
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| === 595.M41 - Current Date ===
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