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The Periphery, lower right.[2]

The Periphery is a subsector of the Calixis Sector.[1]

History

Early History

Conquered in M39 as part of the Angevin Crusade to conquer the Calyx Expanse (which would later become the Calixis Sector) from unnamed hordes of xenos defenders,[4] the Periphery Sub-Sector of Calixis was largely neglected by the Imperium. Treated more as a buffer against the unexplored Wilderness Space between the Calixis and Scarus Sectors than the center of power and trade that it's conqueror, Severus I, wanted it to be. Although initially quite prosperous, it has since suffered a marked and steady decline over the past two millennia. It's natural resources and trade opportunities just were not as enticing as were those of neighbouring sub-sectors, and so the infrastructure that was needed for the region to thrive was not developed. Political sniping to prevent the overambitious Duke Severus from pursuing his goals by Lord Sector Drusus also restricted the sub-sector's development. This lack of early investment led to compounding losses of interest and inevitable stagnation.[5a]

Recent Events

Generations later, in 779.M41 Severus the First's descendant, Severus the Thirteenth, took control of his family's dwindling holdings, and within twenty years, had managed to get appointed to the position of Lord Sub-Sector.[5b]

Severus' spies then discovered a kabal of drukhari outcasts calling themselves the Children of Thorns. He made a deal with the Children, to make sure that the frontier worlds of the Periphery would always be lightly defended when they came raiding for slaves, in exchange for their services as special forces and assassins. Severus would spend a little over a decade after this deal was made, making strategic assassinations against Planetary Governors who might resist corruption, and cutting as many ties to the greater Calixis sector as he could without anyone noticing.[5b]

Before Severus' plans could fully come to fruition however, orks came out of Wilderness Space, led by Ghenghiz "Git-Slaver" Grimtoof. The orks hit those same poorly defended frontier worlds that Severus had promised to the Children of Thorns, and so rampaged almost completely unopposed across them, with neither Severus nor the Children able to do much to stop them. Despite initial reluctance, Severus begged Lord Sector Marius Hax for Imperial aid. Severus sent multiple emissaries to Scintilla, but only one of them, Severus' granddaughter, made it to the Sector Capital alive. Lord Hax begrudgingly agreed, having recognized Severus' recent actions at an attempt at secession, but also recognizing the ork threat on his doorstep. The sector's scant military reserves (most of which were off fighting in the disastrous Achilus Crusade) were sent to relieve the Periphery, succeeding in stabilizing the sub-sector capital of Kulth[5c] (though not even coming close to eliminating all ork presence on the world[5d]), but with absolutely no hope of eliminating Grimtoof's other forces, which had become a full-blown Waaagh!.[5e]

Despite their agreement with Severus, the Children of Thorns increased their slave raids on the humans of the Periphery, and the violence also attracted the attention of the Thousand Sons Warband of Sektoth, who walked openly on the war-torn worlds. The Periphery was thusly declared a warzone. In response to this, Severus announced that he was annexing the rimward worlds of the Periphery into what he called the Severan Dominate. Lord Sector Hax responded by declaring Severus a traitor, however, with the sector's forces concentrated as they are on the Achilus Crusade, he lacks the military might to crush the Dominate, or any of the other enemies fighting in the Periphery.[5c]

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