Port Wander - Notable Personnel of Port Wander: The population of Port Wander is approximately five million people, and the surrounding asteroids' population is roughly as large again. However, even amongst those teeming masses, there are those who stand above the rest. They are the notables, the movers and shakers of the station, and may even know (or take an interest in) a Rogue Trader and his entourage of explorers:Station Commander Larius Sans - Imperial Naval Commander Larius Sans tends to his duties as both Port Wander's highest Battlefleet Calixis officer and, to his dismay, the station's central authority. Commander Sans is a decorated Imperial Navy officer gifted with command of a space station for which he has little love. He suspects that his betters laugh at him from afar, his post as Port Wander's station commander a joke and inheritance from the blunders of his uncle, the late Admiral Sans. Leadership takes its toll, especially on a station like Port Wander. Commander Sans occupies a tenuous position between power brokers, wealthy merchants, ambitious Rogue Traders, and House Krin money-lenders, not to mention smugglers, cultists, and pirates.Captain Karsus Har - For Captain Karsus Har of the mercenary company known as the Ventan Iron Hounds, military might is more than just a concept, it is his stock and trade. A hard-bitten man of middling years, Captain Har is clearly no stranger to violence, his scarred flesh a testament to his experience, his manifold augmetics evidence of his dedication to a life of soldiery. Stationed in his cell-like abode in the grimy tunnels of the Port, he sells the services of thousands of eager, violent men every day.Captain Morthus Whitehold - Once a Rogue Trader of considerable renown, Captain Morthus Whitehold has since declined into a mad prison of his own paranoid making. It has been nearly three solar decades since the Captain of the Emperor's March has set foot off Port Wander even to enter his own ship, a tremendous vessel that dwarfs the Imperial Navy Light Cruisers which often rendezvous with the Port. In years long since past Captain Whitehold and his Trader fleet plied the Maw, practically a force of nature in the Expanse, and a legend to the would-be explorers trapped in the mundanity of Port life by fate and circumstance. It was during one such adventure, to an unknown region of the Expanse, previously untouched by human influence, that the famous captain was brought low. Morthus himself never speaks of the event and his loyal crew refuse inquiry, but it is said in low whispers throughout the Port that the majority of the Rogue Trader's fleet was battered to hulks and the captain himself was cursed by a being of baleful power.Constructor Acholus - Constructor Acholus, the master architect of Port Wander, oversees the constant, unflagging labour of the station's Servitor workforce, ensuring that they are kept operational at all times. Acholus was installed on the Port nearly two Terran centuries ago by the Priesthood of Mars, to serve Magos Toronos by both managing the Servitors and organising the slow, but constant expansion of the station. A rigidly orthodox servant of the Machine God, Constructor Acholus attends his duties with the pragmatic efficiency so prized by his cult, a swarm of Servo-skulls continually darting to and fro about him, relaying messages to his Servitor charges throughout the station.Marshal Dhorin - The ever-vigilant Marshal Dhorin is a veteran Judge and senior Arbitrator of the Adeptus Arbites precinct on Port Wander. Following the successful conclusion of a manhunt for a ruthless criminal, the Arbites agent turned his attention to the Proctors managing the station's precinct. In a ruthless move he had the leading Arbitrators demoted and reassigned throughout the system, and assumed control of the precinct himself. Despite his intentions, the station has improved very little since Dhorin's seizure of authority, and he has since realised that it was not the failure of the previous Proctors which lead to the Port's lawlessness, but the station's very purpose and position. The grim Marshal therefore does what he can to mitigate the danger to the citizens of Port Wander, and works diligently to stem the flow of illegal goods, censured xenos artefacts, and fugitive traffic through the station.Omidaeus and Isshaak - Omidaeus is the senior Astropath of Port Wander's Astropathic Choir. In a time long passed, Omidaeus would stroll about the Astropathic Choir Sanctum to greet visiting Sanctioned Psykers and welcome those in need of communications services. Today, only his trusted servant Isshaak may enter the antiquated, dust-covered chamber that once served as his private quarters, a refuge Omidaeus refuses to leave. On the rare occasion Isshaak forgets the door, some have claimed to glimpse movement, the occasional finger, or even a hand from behind a cascade of cable and wire that descends from one of the chamber's walls like constrictive vines and serpents. Attempts made to communicate with Omidaeus telepathically have been described sonorously as metal against glass -- no thought, no sign eligible for interpretation. The possessive and servile underling Isshaak holds audience with Omidaeus daily and dispenses his master's commands throughout the Sanctum. Despised by the rest of the Choir, Isshaak guards his privilege with haughty disdain and eccentric displays including donning his master's garb, performing self-flagellatory exercises in recompense for the Choir's supposed descent into sin, and flaunting his possession of the Sanctum's master key.Torvan the Fallen - Torvan the Fallen is a disgraced Navigator who lost control of his ship years ago on his first voyage through the Koronus Expanse. The unfortunate event led to an arduous ordeal on a desert-covered Death World shrouded in a cloak of near-eternal night. Through cold and hunger he endured, making his way back to the nomadic fleet, Aleene, from which his life journey began. But the fleet deemed him cursed, and a danger to all his house, banishing him and casting him off into the void. Dark years of exile followed, and he scraped out an existence by trading his services to ships of ill repute for meagre reward, until he settled upon Port Wander to sell his knowledge as a cautionary tale to the various Rogue Traders that pass through the port's halls. At many of Port Wander's places of rest may be heard whispers about a grounded Navigator, consumed by quiet madness, hoping to peddle his experiences to young and foolhardy explorers of the void.Linetta Res - Linetta Res is an Ordo Xenos Inquisitor stationed upon Port Wander. Ten Terran years ago a destructive artefact of unknown origin appeared on a Death World among the Halo Stars. Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Linetta Res discovered a cult unwittingly activating the artefact as a beacon -- what kind of beacon and what it might have summoned remains unknown. She ordered the entire world destroyed in hopes that the beacon had not yet attracted any unwanted attention, and as a reward found herself on missions of increasing difficulty across the Calixis Sector, working to uncover the smuggling of xenos technology.Rhaelee Mahvorn III - Rhaelee Mahvorn III is the Foremistress of the asteroid-turned-repair yard known as S/914 R IX. The Mahvorn dynasty has directed the labour for over a millennium. To the Mahvorns, leadership has never been a privileged position of luxury and decadence, but a seat from which to ensure a job well-done and a labour force well-rewarded. While the inhabitants of other installations toil under the harsh watch of would-be Imperial courtiers, the people of R IX have worked for one of their own. The Mahvorn dynasty was never a noble line, but rather a family of labourers who were artificially raised above their peers by the administrators of Port Wander during its construction early in the 40th Millennium. Rhaelee runs the shipyards of R IX with a practised hand resulting in a reputation for efficiency and quality. While R IX is a relatively small installation, only numbering roughly 50,000 souls, it is known to be one of the best facilities in the Rubycon II System, having even been contracted by the Imperial Navy itself in times of need.Thran Finn - Thran Finn can be found wasting time among Port Wander's admittedly few idle citizens of meagre means. Thran wants for little, however, preferring the company of the station's most indolent rogues as a matter of taste and vanity only. His pay, so the long running joke goes, comes from an unnamed pirate fleet that stationed him on Port Wander as a pair of eyes and ears. Though probably true, his innocuous smile and laid-back attitude relieve the curious of any concern about his associations and the more serious accusers are paid in laughs all around. Rumour-trading and word of ships and cargo at dock will hold his attention for a time, and though his rumours are as cheap as the hat on his head, he dispenses the occasional gem. When one has nothing to go on, he seeks out Thran Finn. If he leaves with nothing else, he will at least have had a laugh. For reliable informants willing to take the time and effort to temper a long-lasting relationship, Thran will gladly return the favour.Honourable Representative Pultarch Norn - Pultarch Norn represents House Krin, the pre-eminent supplier of loans, bonds of credit and surety of funds across the Calixis Sector. As the envoy of the most powerful financiers in the sector, he is one of the most influential individuals in residence on Port Wander, and his power carries far beyond the confines of the station. Though he is not a blood member of House Krin, he is one of their most trusted and senior servants, and has power to broker terms on vast sums of Throne Gelt.