Margin Crusade

The Margin Crusade into the Halo Stars was launched
following ratifying of the Lex Corvinus by the Great Synod Segmentum thirty years ago. This bull granted the power to
raise a war of faith under the auspices of High Confessor Corvinus of Thracian Primaris and called upon the Sectors
Scarus, Calixis and Ixaniad to provide the means. In the
subsequent decades, the Crusade made scant progress and
slowly exhausted itself, boiling away beyond the borders
of Calixian space, far beyond the frontier world of Kalf.
The Crusade continues to demand regiments from Lord Sector Hax, and he reluctantly supplies troops from the
worlds of Calixis under the proviso that surviving veteran
regiments are returned after a span of service before
fresh meat is fed to the grinder. The war is a diverse and
bloody affair, bogged down by the vagaries of warp travel
and the tactical ineptitude of those in charge, achieving
little despite thousands of lives spent and the continued
admonitions of its controlling priests.
It embarked in the year 784.M41 across the Periphery and
into the darkness of the galactic north; a flotilla of dozens
of cruisers and millions of troops. In the three decades since,
dozens more ships and millions more troops have been raised
in the name of the crusade and sent off into the void never to
return. What only a handful of the highest ranking members
of the Sector Synod know however is that Corvinus is dead,
slain by alien hands on a distant world and his crusade
smashed to bloody wreckage amongst the stars.
Despite this however the Ministorum continues to fabricate
news of the crusade’s success and to draw fresh troops and
vessels from the compliant worlds of the sector. Some of these
the church uses for itself (outside the sector of course), the
majority however find their way to other fronts far from the light
of their home stars. The church finds having an active crusade
useful in more ways than one. Quite apart from the resources
it generates, it allows them to draw attention away from more
local problems and the concerns of the System Synods and
planetary governance. So as long as it serves their purpose the
Margin Crusade will continue to exist, toppling fictitious alien
empires and reclaiming distant worlds for the Imperium.
==Background Packages==
Guardsman: Soldier of the Margin Crusade
Cost: 200 XP
The soldiers who have returned from Corvinus’s holy war
are scarred veterans who have seen much in their travels, and
their experiences out beyond the Emperor’s light make them
ideal for service with the Holy Ordos.
Effects: Apply all of the following changes to your character:
Characteristics: Reduce Toughness by –3.
Skills: You gain Awareness (Per) and Survival (Int).
Talents: Gain the Unshakable Faith talent.
Category:Red Links