The Imperial Trust

### Fleet

56 + 35 Battlefleets (38 New Model and 18 Modern + 35 Upgraded Imperial) as of T37

### Extraordinary assets

High Grandmaster Ridcully, Jane Oakhearth, over a dozen Paragons, access to The Crucible

## Known Relations

### Allies

Empire of Ashes (Close), Quartus Imperial (Distant), Imperium Secondus (Distant), Callamus (Distant)

### Enemies

Chaos (In particular: Nurgle, Tjapa, Abaddon, Perturabo), Orks, Slaugth

The Imperial Trust was founded shortly after the Death of the Emperor while the Asgard Sub-Sector, now the Core Sub-Sector, was trapped within a Warp Storm. Over the century spent trapped within the Warp Storm the Imperial Trust cemented itself in the minds of its people, and rolled out a massive program of technological improvement based on datacores found near Avernus.

After the end of the Warp Storm the Imperial Trust first started to interact with the wider galaxy, forming an alliance with Dragon's Nest, the one powerful human polity in the region and quickly finding itself at war with the three nearby Ork Domains and the Tyrant worshipping Chaos Domain of Valinor. Soon enough all of the Trust's immediate enemies were destroyed, and the three Ork Domains colonised. Another Chaotic Domain that attacked, under the Daemon Prince Turoq of the Changer of Ways, despite archieving moderate success initially collapsed after the death of its leader at the hands of Eldar allies of the Imperial Trust.

The Imperial Trust was one of the major driving forces of the Grand Conclave, where the Imperial Trust and the three most powerful Imperial Successor states met within the Webway and exchanged their technological secrets. As well as leading to major boosts to all of the main human powers this allowed the Imperial Trust to boost its own power, a boost that it soon found needed with the approach of Hive Fleet Grábakr.

The Grábakr War was one of the most bloody in the history of the Imperial Trust, with billions of elites and many notable heroes laying down their lives for their comrades, but between the forces of the Trust, its Eldar allies and the forces of Dragon's Nest it was defeated.

Shortly afterwards, the Imperial Trust colonised Valinor, merged with Dragon's Nest, and adapted its system of government to better fit its new size.

However, following the successful rescue of Isha from Nurgle's domain by a force of Avernite heroes led by High Grandmaster Ridcully, Cadia, the capital of the Black Imperium was destroyed. As a result of the rescue and its explosive aftermath, the Imperial Trust has attracted the personal attention and enmity of Abaddon the Despoiler, threatening its very survival, as the Daemon Primarch Perturabo and the Iron Warriors Traitor-Legion have been dispatched to lay waste to the Imperial Trust.

Calling upon their debts with the Empire of Ashes, the Trust, after a few decades, had managed to draw the enemy into a massive battle in the Vanaheim system, where the Primarch was dealt a shattering blow, losing his trophy flagship, Phalanx, along with a good portion of New Olympia's military power. As a result, Perturabo was forced to withdraw out of the region, and the Trust, despite the sizable losses, was left in a position to expand through their now leaderless neighborhood.

Years Later, it was forced to face the Grand Incursion of Doom, with both the world of Avernus being invaded by immeasurable hordes of daemons, and fleets from their allies sent against the Trust itself. While that incursion was weathered, the Trust now prepares for its next threat. The Slaugth are close to the Trust's borders, and the allies are too busy to provide significant aid without compromising the status of the galaxy.