Foundling Worlds

“It is a place cloaked in storms, where the ghost lights of false stars lure you to a depthless nothing. It is a place that wants us not, and will see us dead for our daring its bounds.”
–Navigator Helias Yeshar speaking of journeying into the Foundling Words
The Foundling Worlds lie beyond the Cauldron, a lesser
warp storm whose baleful churning might be seen as a
warning against further exploration. By strange accident
of fate, the Foundling Worlds cluster, although relatively close
to the Koronus Passage, was not visited by Imperial ships until
several centuries after the opening of the Koronus Expanse
to exploration. Amongst voidfarers the Foundling worlds are
described as a cursed place of sudden warp storms, temporal
distortions, and strange stellar phenomena, and it is said that
nothing will come to any good that is undertaken within
its bounds. That is not to say that none have tried to probe
the mysteries of the Foundling Worlds or tame it through
colonization and exploitation---but even after a route into this
storm-wracked region was established, most of its stars and
planets remain unexplored. Those few endeavors that have
been made to establish settlements or to harvest the wealth of
the Foundling Worlds have met with disaster or misfortune. Among other dangers, the Eldar Corsairs known as the Crow Spirits hunt here.
==Lost to the Storm==
It is extremely difficult to navigate a course into the Foundling
Worlds, even if one is following a charted route. The warp
trashes and twists as if trying to throw a ship onto another
course, and furious tempests suddenly appear and claw at
a ship’s Gellar Field. At other times the cluster gives rise to
strange pockets of stillness that hold ships becalmed. Even
established routes are unreliable, sometimes appearing to
vanish altogether or suddenly lead to different locations. Many
ships have been lost trying to make passage into the Foundling
Worlds, and with every craft lost, the evil reputation of the
Foundling Worlds grows. The strange localized nature of
the storms, and anomalies that enfold the Foundling
Worlds, have led some amongst the Navigator houses
to privately speculate that the region is hidden and
protected by something that does not wish its
worlds violated by human presence.
==Cursed Endeavors==
The Foundling Worlds are littered with the dead carcasses of
hopeful attempts to wring profit out of its stars: derelict space
stations not crewed for centuries, shattered outposts inhabited
by the burnt and dried corpses of the dead, feral colonies of
humans who have turned from the light of the Emperor. All
are a testament to the belief among many who explore the
Koronus Expanse that all endeavors in the Foundling Worlds
are cursed. With each passing decade, a bold new generation
scoffs at the tales of older and more wary explorers and set
their plans amongst the Foundling Worlds. Some prosper
for a time, but fate is inexorable, and the malignancy of the
Foundling Worlds is patient; in time, all are undone and their
fortunes with them.
==Planets==
*Charnel Stars
*Grace
*Iniquity
*Rain
Category:Koronus Expanse
Category:Koronus Expanse Regions