The Archenemy

Warp Cults are an insidious and constant threat to the Imperium. Many are insane heretics who give worship to false “gods” they claim to have seen in dreams and visions sent from realms beyond reality. These false religions bring with them unspeakable horrors, said to foster bonds with Witches and Mutants to undermine the moral security of Imperial citizens. Though rebels – and xenocults, when they occur – are no less a threat, it is the warp cults that the Imperium most swiftly brings judgement upon. Within the Prosperitas Sector, a foul gathering of false “Priest-Kings” and their cults ruled over the sector for ten thousand years before the coming of the Imperium: and this period of history still scars the sector. Foul “shrines” and dark texts are still uncovered and the remnants of those once powerful cults still being hunted down to this day. No single cult is the same: some are obvious in their foulness, bringing bloodshed and plague, whereas others are more subtle corruptors and manipulators.

Not all humans fall under the righteous dominion of the Imperium. Many live upon the untamed worlds where warp-cultists and their foul mutant brethren hold sway, though every year more fall to Imperial might. Unlike the warp cults within the Imperium, it is not uncommon for heretical demagogues and warlords to arise in these untamed places, gathering vast warbands of the lost and the damned – before assaulting the Imperium in the name of foul false “gods”.

The Regency Remnant are the foul remains of the false Priest-Kings of the Prosperitas Sector, military units that continue to fight a war they lost five hundred years ago. The Regency are a grim reflection of the noble Imperial Military – unlike the Archenemy forces encountered across the wider Imperium – drilled to a high standard rather than a barbarian horde. Their weakness is in their scarce numbers – the Remnant are but a shade of what they once were, vastly outnumbered by the Imperial Military.

In 583.M41, a Regency battlegroup known as the Talons of the Way successfully invaded the Titan proving ground at Henlock supported by Heretek elements and the foul Undine. Since establishing this foothold – well away from the warp-blighted worlds the Remnant survives on on the Eye’s edge – the Talons have engaged in little direct warfare with the Imperium. Their conquest of Henlock was seemingly settled, until the Imperium launched a third battle for the planet in 593.

The Weeping Eye and the Creeping Death were for many years the greatest military threat to the Prosperitas Sector, a foul conglomerate of diseased tribes from the depths of the Tenebris Eye Storm. These foul hordes were led by a pair of twins, the warlords or Herforingi Arnkatla Tain and her brother Greppur. The Tain Twins led a series of major assaults on Imperial space resulting in the invasion of the Crusade HQ at Polarnus Station in 592. Thanks to the brave efforts of Imperial forces, they were beaten back. However, neither of the Tain Twins were defeated or captured, and their barbaric horde of assembled warp-tribes may rise again as a threat in the future.