Greater Thurian League - League History: At the most recent count, the Greater Thurian League contained over two hundred allied Kindreds. Between them, they boast vast flotillas of voidships and near-endless ranks of Kinhost warriors. Huge and wealthy Guilds -- such as Yngvâry Combined Logistics, the Starstrider Mercantile Confederation and the Cthonian Guild of Kâdokh -- see to the league's continued and immense prosperity.Greater Thurian holds, such as the Hold Worlds of Crimson Gulf and Ûrvymm's Bulwark, are famed throughout the galactic core for their sheer size and impenetrable defences. Meanwhile, some of the most storied heroes of the Kin lead the Greater Thurian League's Oathbands to war: Kâhl Kovymm Rheyd, heroine of the Blackharrow Expedition; Grimnyr Vôk, known as the "Fire of the Votann" and Ûthar the Destined, wielder of the Blade of the Ancestors. These, and many other names besides, have found fame throughout Kin society for their exploits, and the ways in which they embody their race's core values of pragmatism, survivalism and mercenary conquest.The Kin of the Greater Thurian League have long ventured into Far-space, whether to trade with other intelligent species, to explore and exploit new regions or to fight as mercenaries alongside the Imperium of Man. However, the recent manifestation of Warp Storm Örgvayr upon their north-eastern border has forced the league into a more aggressive stance. When the Warp storm first sprang into existence with the birth of the Great Rift, it swallowed two Thurian Kindreds outright -- Lâkhryr's Kindred and the Void Strider Kindred.Yet those lost Kindreds' pan spectral arrays gave some small forewarning of the Warp storm's eruption, and so ragged flotillas of Kin refugee ships limped from the fringes of Örgvayr solar days after its emergence, their passengers telling of holds dissolved into raw madness or overrun by howling Daemons. The Hearthspakes of many Thurian Kindreds soon voted to remain in place and establish defensive positions from which they could weather the onslaught of the forces of Chaos that soon began to pour out of the rift in reality. While there were some Kin successes in the fight against the servants of the Dark Gods during the subsequent Battle of Örgvayr, such as the rescue of the Cthonian Guild miners trapped on the world of Törg by the Oathbands of the Kindred of Vôrtun, the conflict remains ongoing and a serious threat to the league.Even as bristling Kin mega-cruisers ferry Kinhosts to the galactic east to bolster the rapidly solidifying Stormward Front, the Greater Thurian League are also dispatching numerous Prospects west beyond the circumnuclear disc that marks the boundary of the galactic core. They have deployed forces into the neighbouring Marsalis and Sepulchor Sectors in numbers not seen outside the galactic core since the Kin first settled there.The remit of these forces is to claim new worlds for those Kindreds dispossessed by the Chaos invaders pouring from the Warp storm, and identify safe star systems for the league to fall back to should its defences fail or the fight become too costly. Imperial planetary governors throughout both sectors have responded to this apparent invasion with a predictable mix of panic and zealotry, hurling armies at the encroaching Kin even as their astropaths' fragmentary distress calls wing their way out to the wider Imperium. The Greater Thurian League thus finds itself embattled now upon two fronts, yet their Kindreds remain as determined as ever to survive and to prosper.