[centre][i]"The Commissar was dead, and our CO too! We had been fighting the very environment itself for Emperor knows how long, I saw twelve good troopers get swallowed by rock...a warp damned rock! I am no coward, but I am just a man, and a saw a chance at freedom - [/i][b]freedom![/b][i] - and I took it. So shoot me if you have to, but I go to His side knowing that I was in the right.[/i]

- Ex-trooper Kortan of the Tarkenton Fusiliers, executed for cowardice and desertion.[/centre]


The Imperium - and thus most of the known galaxy - has been fractured by the eruption of warp storms from the Eye of Terror, and created a scar that now runs the length of the previously unified realms of mankind. This splitting of the Emperor's domain into the Imperium of Man and the so-called 'Dark Imperium' brings torture, pain and death for many, but for others it brings something which has been lacking in the lives of a great number of Imperial citizens...opportunity.

Under the churning and oppressive wheels of the Imperiums tithes, taxes and everlasting wars, the average citizen would be forced to do something drastic just to make the most of their squalid little lives; with the coming of the [i]cicatrix maledictum[/i] such choices have been both taken out of their hands and been expounded upon exponentially.

I am seeking other writers to join with me in a character driven roleplay based around writing and a semi-democratic system - that being that, due to the makeup of our band, their will be no 'leader' to speak of at the beginning - should one arise through IC and OOC discussion and circumstance though, well then that's a different matter.

Our roles within this RP will be those of a group/band/cluster/syndicate etc of extraordinary ordinary characters, like those you might find in a Rogue Trader or Inquisitorial setting but much more on the [i]mercenary[/i] side of things. 

The choices are pretty inexhaustible in most cases, ranging from the deserter or veteran of the Guard, to a simple village doctor, to a lifetime miner who happens to want out of his painful and unfulfilling life. Each with their own story(s) to be told in-character, but each also thrown together by the fates.

Much like the characters themselves, I'm also hoping to make the RP a series of short arcs - from the hiring of the group by one mob boss to whack another, to gathering information or 'acquiring' something, to being roped into a Rogue Traders retinue, to becoming embroiled in a full scale military campaign (possibly) - all things that could happen within the rather lawless confines of the Dark Imperium.

Guilliman and Dante may be looking to clean the place up a bit, and are making a good start of it, but for all intents and purposes it remains the 'Wild West' of 40k for now.

So, from humble beginnings on some backwater planet of the Segmentum Obscurus to the warp knows where, who wishes to join me? Who wishes to partake in some adventures in the Dark Imperium?

(As always, questions are welcomed and even encouraged, so place feel free to ask them.)