Calixis Sector
The Calixis Sector is an Imperial sector in Segmentum Obscurus near the Halo Stars and the Eye of Terror.[1b] The Sector capital is the Hive World of Scintilla.[1c]
History
Conquered by Lord Militant Angevin a thousand years ago, the Calixis Sector contains many heavily populated and important worlds, although it lies a great distance from the Imperium's heartland. Its first governor was Drusus, one of Angevin’s most capable generals, a man now revered as an Imperial Saint.[1e]
Galactic Position
To trailing, the Calixis Sector is bordered by the hazardous territories of the Fydae Great Cloud and to spinward by the Scarus Sector. Bordering to coreward, its nearest neighbour is the Ixaniad Sector. To rimward lay the contested and unregulated frontiers of the Koronus Expanse and the Halo Stars.[1c]
Sub-sectors
The Calixis Sector is split into several sub-sectors:
Adrantis Sub-Sector
The Adrantis Sub-Sector contains the Adrantis Nebula and the Hive World Baraspine.[2a]
Drusus Marches
The Drusus Marches is heavily populated with several Hive Worlds, but also wilderness and warzones on its edges, as well as the Imperial Navy station Port Wander. It also contains the Koronus Passage, a stable but dangerous warp route that passes through the Great Warp Storms separating Calixis from the Koronus Expanse, the Screaming Vortex and the Void Dancer's Roil.[1][2b]
Golgenna Reach
The Golgenna Reach is at the centre of the sector and contains the sector capital Scintilla.[2c]
Hazeroth Sub-Sector
The Hazeroth Sub-Sector contains the Hazeroth Abyss and a several ill-omened planets.[2d]
Josian Reach
The Josian Reach exists on the coreward edge of Calixis containing the Hive World of Fenksworld.[2]
Malfian Sub-Sector
The Malfian Sub-Sector is heavily populated with several Hive Worlds, notably Malfi.[2e]
Markayn Marches
The Markayn Marches contains the planet Solomon.[2]
The Periphery
The Periphery exists on the spinward edge of the Calixis Sector and was the domain of Severus XIII until his secession. It is the location of the Spinward Front and the Severan Dominate. The sub-sector capital is Kulth.[5]
Government
The Hive World of Scintilla, situated in the Golgenna Reach, is the capital of the Calixis Sector. Along with the hellish Mining World Sepheris Secundus and the war-torn planet Iocanthos, it forms a triumvirate of worlds essential for the sector’s survival. The most powerful man in the Calixis Sector is officially Sector Governor Marius Hax, who rules the sector in the name of the Adeptus Terra from the Lucid Palace on Scintilla. However, the Calixian Conclave, led by Lord Inquisitor Caidin, is the ultimate authority in the sector, a clandestine and all-powerful presence behind the visible emblems and figureheads of power. No one can gainsay the word of the Inquisition. Other important Imperial servants are Lord Inquisitor Zerbe of the Tyrantine Cabal, Cardinal Ignato of the Ecclesiarchy, Lord Marshal Goreman of the Adeptus Arbites, Senior Astropath Xiao, and Canoness Goneril of the Adepta Sororitas. However, the power of the Adepta is rivalled by the Great Houses, the noble families and corporations, which maintain a presence across the sector. Even the minor noble houses, those whose influence is limited to a single world, hold a great deal of power over ordinary citizens.[1c]
Currency
The currency of the sector are the Thrones Gelt. There are precious shell tokens or coins of rare metals.[1d]
Masters of Corruption
Many are the Daemons and dread entities that enter into Dark Pacts with mortals to corrupt and enslave them,[1a] the ones known to be active in the Calixis Sector are:
- Balphomael - The Voice of the Flame, lord of the dark fire, the horned darkness, grants power, wealth, long-life and unnatural vitality to those hungry and ruthless enough to gain his favour.[1a][3]
- The Dusk Hag - Black Annaiys, Old Mother Ruin. On the accursed world of Dusk a dark legend speaks of the Hag deep within the swamp who give bones to those willing to pay her price.[1a]
- The Dweller in the Depths - The Sightless Gaze, autochthonic entity, nature unknown.[3]
- The Empty Hunger - Astral entity/aetheric residue of extinct xenoform, attributed cause of lethal psychic phenomena.[3]
- The Lord of Misrule - Fickle, manic and terrifying, the Lord of Misrule brings anarchy and madness in his wake.[1a]
- Mord’dagan - The Eater of the Dead, supernatural beast of legend, godhead of the Saynay cannibal cult.[3]
- The Night Traveller - The kin-slayer, one that returns from where none has before and whose predicted coming will herald the End of Days.[3]
- The Radiant King - The Treader in the Dust, legendary avatar of madness.[3]
- Tychak Crowfather - The False Prince, spiteful, pre-crusade indigenous deity of the Ashleen, incarnate form slain by Saint Drusus.[3]
Gallery
Major warp routes of the Calixis sector.
The Calixis Sector.
Calixis Sector in Segmentum Obscurus
Trivia
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- The Calixis Sector is the primary setting for the Dark Heresy role-playing game.
See also
Sources
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- 1:Dark Heresy Rulebook:
- 2: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 2a: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector - Adrantis Sub-Sector (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 2b: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector - Drusus Marches (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 2c: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector - Golgenna Reach (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 2d: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector - The Hazeroth Sub-Sector (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 2e: Fantasy Flight Games - The Calixis Sector - Malfian Sub-Sector (saved archive page, dated October 2012)
- 3: Dark Heresy: The Radical's Handbook, pg. 97
- 4: Rogue Trader Rulebook, pgs. 335–362
- 5: Only War Core Rulebook, pg. 335
