Actual intro:
It is the 41st millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is the rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed very day, so that he may never truly die.
Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds.Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only as few. But for all their multitude, they are barely enougth to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.
To be a man in such times is to be one amoungst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.
First of all, this sub-forum is based of a major name of books, personally some of my favoured. Just to let you all know.
Groups of the Imperium:
Adeptus Astartes-Space marines
Adeptus Mechanicus-technicians, engineers, worship the machine god claiming it is another form of the emporer.
Adeptus Arbites-police force
Administratum-manage the imperium
Imperial Gaurd-soldiers of the imperium
Navy-spacecraft and their crew
Munitorium-distributes and handles munitions and supplies.
The Imperial Inquisition-inquisitors, extremely powerful and feared.
Forces of Chaos:
Chaos Marines
Khorne-blood god
Nurgle-God of disease and plauges
Slaanesh-God of unholy and dark pleasures
Tzeentch-God of change(mutant and such things)
