History of Calixis Sector

The granting of the Haarlock Great Charter by Sebastian Thor to the Free Captain Mordercai Haarlock for his service against the apostate fleets of the Frateris Templar.

As the Granted Personal Fiefdom of the Rogue Trader Teresa Sinos at the end of her voyages. The planet is situated beyond the edge of the Scarus Sector and rapidly becomes a staging post for expeditions into the Calyx Expanse and the Halo Stars.

The Propheticum Hereticus Tenebrae; being a compilation of many sources, case studies and prognostications is compiled into a single archive of dark lore by the Tyrantine Cabal and housed in the depths of the Bastion Serpentis, (although rumours abound that is merely a version of some much earlier work of unknown origin). Its implications trouble the sleep of many great minds.

The dominating commercial power of the Tellurian Combine is uncovered as a front from the malefic cult of The Brotherhood of Horned Darkness. Such is the groups widespread power and infiltration, even of the Lucid Court, that rather a risk civil war and open purge, the Ordos Calixis declare a shadow war against the brotherhood, which lasts for three years and involves what is believed the largest employment of both the Offico Assassinorum and the Grey Knights in the sector’s history before its conclusion. An unforeseen side affect of the wide spread secret purges and fearful suspicion they create is a dramatic and long term weakening of the sector’s central government which has detrimental effects for centuries to come.

Erasmus Haarlock, Rogue Trader, thought to be the last of his line, vanishes after completing the extermination of his bloody kin and leaving himself the sole-survivor of his clan.

The militant Explorator Archmagos, Umbra Malygris, goes renegade after clashing with the High Fabricator of the Lathes, taking with him hundreds of adepts and followers and threatening a full dogmatic schism within the Machine Cult’s ranks within the sector. Hunted on all sides, Malygris becomes increasingly insane but refuses to flee the sector, hiding instead in its shadows and cultivating a conspiracy of sympathisers and traitors to aid him. The renegade unleashes blasphemous horrors and forbidden weapons seemingly at random in order to further his research or avenge himself on his enemies. His forces also plunder and attack Mechanicus facilities, exploratory bases and even rival tech-heretic forces in order to obtain their secrets. Eventually destroyed at the hands of the Mechanicus Dragon Secutarii. However, Malygrisan lore still exists to plague the Omnissiah’s cult to the present.

A mining penitentiary outpost is re-established on the frozen world of Mara in the Hazeroth Abyss.

Long tolerated, the centuries old void born death cult of the Astral Knife is found to have become tainted by association with dark forces and declared heretical by the Holy Ordos.

A mutant uprising in the soot warrens of the minor industrialised hive world of Tranch rapidly develops into a planet-wide insurrections which topples the ruling class, the brutal Oligarchs of Tranch.

Mysterious cult activity on Kalf forces a notorious clash between differing Inquisitorial factions, leading to bloodshed and acrimony within the ranks of the Ordo Calixis.

A small Adeptus Arbites taskforce, investigating evidence political corruption, murder and tithe-theft on the mining world of Luggnam, instead encounter the horrors perpetrated by the wanted arch-heretic Myrchella Sinderfell. In the aftermath, the Inquisition steps in and instigates a two year planet-wide witch-hunt to weed out recidivist elements.