Foundling Worlds
“It is a place cloaked in storms, where the ghost lights of false stars lure you to a depthless nothing. It is a place that wants us not, and will see us dead for our daring its bounds.”
–Navigator Helias Yeshar speaking of journeying into the Foundling Words. The Foundling Worlds lie beyond The Cauldron, a lesser warp storm whose baleful churning might be seen as a warning against further exploration. By strange accident of fate, the Foundling Worlds cluster, although relatively close to the Koronus Passage, was not visited by Imperial ships until several centuries after the opening of the Koronus Expanse to exploration. Amongst voidfarers the Foundling worlds are described as a cursed place of sudden warp storms, temporal distortions, and strange stellar phenomena, and it is said that nothing will come to any good that is undertaken within its bounds. That is not to say that none have tried to probe the mysteries of the Foundling Worlds or tame it through colonization and exploitation, but even after a route into this storm-wracked region was established, most of its stars and planets remain unexplored. Those few endeavors that have been made to establish settlements or to harvest the wealth of the Foundling Worlds have met with disaster or misfortune. As most of the stars in this region have burned out from one reason or another they have been named the corpse stars and all manner of terrible xeno life and threats from beyond lurk in their smoldering shadows. Warp Surges and gravity waves are common and even in the event of a stable warp route being found they are not prone to lasting long as the constant shifts of the warp storms which surround this region on almost every side constantly shift so do the ebbs and flows of the warp lanes which rely on their energies.
–Navigator Helias Yeshar speaking of journeying into the Foundling Words. The Foundling Worlds lie beyond The Cauldron, a lesser warp storm whose baleful churning might be seen as a warning against further exploration. By strange accident of fate, the Foundling Worlds cluster, although relatively close to the Koronus Passage, was not visited by Imperial ships until several centuries after the opening of the Koronus Expanse to exploration. Amongst voidfarers the Foundling worlds are described as a cursed place of sudden warp storms, temporal distortions, and strange stellar phenomena, and it is said that nothing will come to any good that is undertaken within its bounds. That is not to say that none have tried to probe the mysteries of the Foundling Worlds or tame it through colonization and exploitation, but even after a route into this storm-wracked region was established, most of its stars and planets remain unexplored. Those few endeavors that have been made to establish settlements or to harvest the wealth of the Foundling Worlds have met with disaster or misfortune. As most of the stars in this region have burned out from one reason or another they have been named the corpse stars and all manner of terrible xeno life and threats from beyond lurk in their smoldering shadows. Warp Surges and gravity waves are common and even in the event of a stable warp route being found they are not prone to lasting long as the constant shifts of the warp storms which surround this region on almost every side constantly shift so do the ebbs and flows of the warp lanes which rely on their energies.
Geography
“There are some ventures that only the mad would undertake; you will be rewarded only with ashes and the laughter of the dead.”
–warning to Kobras Aquairre
Many are the corpse stars of the distant reaches of the Koronus Expanse: the Seven Dooms, the Pyres, and the ragged, nameless embers that drift within the very fringes of the Rifts of Hecaton. These are stars that guttered and died long ago in some vast and sweeping catastrophe. Now veiled by the cast-off gases of their destruction, they await the coming of mankind. Dire forces, dead for eons, may now stir upon blasted worlds in those distant regions, and the warp is troubled.
–warning to Kobras Aquairre
Many are the corpse stars of the distant reaches of the Koronus Expanse: the Seven Dooms, the Pyres, and the ragged, nameless embers that drift within the very fringes of the Rifts of Hecaton. These are stars that guttered and died long ago in some vast and sweeping catastrophe. Now veiled by the cast-off gases of their destruction, they await the coming of mankind. Dire forces, dead for eons, may now stir upon blasted worlds in those distant regions, and the warp is troubled.
History
The Foundling Worlds lie on the Trailing edge of the Koronus Expanse. Similar to Winterscale’s Realm, this subsector is easily accessible from Footfall and is a frequent target of colonists, missionaries and enterprising Rogue Traders. However unlike its Spinwards counterpart, endeavours here have a tendency to fall apart, and leave those who sought to exploit the worlds poorer from when they began.
Despite the well-charted Warp Routes, navigation in this region is oftentimes perilous, and the route can appear to vanish from underneath an enterprising trader. There are whispers among traders that a power lurks inside these worlds that sabotages all who try to lay a claim to its resources.
Despite the well-charted Warp Routes, navigation in this region is oftentimes perilous, and the route can appear to vanish from underneath an enterprising trader. There are whispers among traders that a power lurks inside these worlds that sabotages all who try to lay a claim to its resources.
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