Threats of the Prosperitas Sector
The Galaxy is dark and full of horrors.
Though the Imperium controls the majority of what was once known as the Milky Way Galaxy, that doesn’t mean that it has rendered it safe.
The Prosperitas Sector is a good example of that. As a recent addition to the Imperium – with only five hundred years of occupation – many of its outer limits have gone untamed, many dangerous flora and fauna roam the wilds, and, most insidiously, rebels and heretics plot the downfall of what they view as Imperial tyranny even as other foes seek to destroy it from without.
The astrography of the Prosperitas Sector does not make this any better. It is a frontier sector. Barring two fluctuating corridors leading to the Segmentum Solar and the Cadia Sector, Prosperitas is bordered by wild, untamed, and unexplored space. To make matters worse, fluctuations in the nearby Eye of Terror in 328.M41 – just under three hundred years ago – resulted in a tendril of the infamous storm consuming part of the sector.
Now, the border of the lesser Eye stormfront dubbed ‘Tenebris’ corrupts worlds along the border of what was once Subsector Quartus, and unleases hellish horrors and hordes of warp-tainted foes from the storm’s depths. With the coming of the storm has also come madness.there has been madness. The Imperium has done its best to maintain control of the Sector, but sometimes its grip is too tight, and things begin to splinter.
Enemies of the Imperium
The 41st Millenium is not a peaceful place. Though the Imperium is the dominant power of the Milky Way, it is not without those who would challenge that dominance – from xenos races that seek to reclaim long-faded glories, to wayward human worlds that refuse its rule, the Imperium has been in a near-constant state of war since its creation. New wars break out almost daily, while Imperial authorities fight threats emerging within their own ranks.
Dangers of the Prosperitas Sector
Not all threats to life in the Prosperitas Sector are malevolent, or sentient, despite Imperial opinion that is humanities manifest destiny to conquer the stars there are plenty of worlds hostile to human life, and plenty of dangers that will see a ship never reach its destination.
Flora and Fauna of the Prosperitas Sector
Most of the planets capable of supporting life in the Prosperitas Sector possess some form of native life, though sentient xenos lifeforms might once have been supported upon them the majority of xenoform life comes in the shape of non-sentient fauna and flora. Though the Imperial creed exposits hatred of Xenos, it is rather more flexible about xenos beasts and plantlife, with the Imperium co-opting many xenos creatures and plants as food sources, working animals and even pets and ornamentation. But for every benign xenoform, there are as many dangerous and unique threats; predator-animals that cannot be tamed by Imperial colonists, or carnivorous plants that prey upon them.