It will be at least one more payday before I'll be able to pick up the new rulebook; can someone who already has it please tell me where the Askellon Sector is located?

I plan on using the Ordo Xenos in my next campaign, and would thus prefer the setting to be in Ultima Segmentum so I can draw upon the full range of iconic 40K xenos (some of which are found mainly in Ultima). If Askellon is in Ultima, I'll happily use that setting, but if it is in Obscurus, I'll have to make up my own sector...

It's not very far from the Scarus sector, in the opposite direction from Calixis. All of them are fairly close together.

Thanks.

Sigh ... homebrew sector it is. How does the name 'Thanatos Sector' sound...?

I like it! Say, mind if i ask what xenos are so hard to find outside of ultima segmentum? Besides the Tau i can't think of any.

Say, mind if i ask what xenos are so hard to find outside of ultima segmentum? Besides the Tau i can't think of any.

Tyranids are rare in Obscurus Segmentum. And there have been tantalizing references to the 'hyper-violent' Barghessi, native to Ultima's Ghoul Stars... But Tau are mainly what I'm after. Their tactic of swaying Imperial worlds to renounce their loyalties and side with xenos makes them the perfect alien 'counterpart' to human heretics, with experimental science substituting for sorcery...

Thanks.

Sigh ... homebrew sector it is. How does the name 'Thanatos Sector' sound...?

Sounds ok to me.

And why the sigh?

It's your campaign. Why not just pick up the Askellon sector and transplant it straight wherever you want it?

The Askellon Sector is actually already shown in the first edition of DH. If you go into the two page galactic map at the beginning of the Life in the Imperium section (or thereabouts), there is a smaller inset box on the bottom of the left page that shows Calixis, Ixaniad and Scarus sectors and position relative to one another. At the right end of that inset, there is an "X" with "Access Denied" over another sector and that is Askellon Sector. The exact same inset sectors map is in the new book.

~ alemander

Are you sure alemander? I thought that was the sector Fihad Constantine was from, which is why he got shipped to Sinophia. The Mandragora Sector?

The inset "sector" maps are identical except for the art. They both only show 4 sectors and the DH1 map has a skull-X over the exact position Askellon Sector is on the DH2 inset "sector" map.

And why the sigh?

Because creating a whole sector from scratch will be a lot of work. Oh well, who needs a 'social life' anyway...?

Why not just pick up the Askellon sector and transplant it straight wherever you want it?

I'm too OCD to be able to do that...

And why the sigh?

Because creating a whole sector from scratch will be a lot of work. Oh well, who needs a 'social life' anyway...?

That's what I've been saying the whole time! Its about time someone else can see this need for priorities beyond myself.

But on another note, surely you don't need to make everything in one go? Just decide on a few main themes and ideas for the sector, write up the most important worlds and people with short entries - around a dozen or so entries altogether, and off you go and make things up as you go.

Have some rogue acendant C'tan pick up the Askellon sector and transplant it straight wherever you want it!

The inset "sector" maps are identical except for the art. They both only show 4 sectors and the DH1 map has a skull-X over the exact position Askellon Sector is on the DH2 inset "sector" map.

I just checked this out. yeah if the location is on the other side of the Scarus sector. That'd fit perfectly. Nice easter egg find!

And very nice to see its close to the other settings of the game, so that characters based in the Screaming Vortex can take their misdeeds into an entirely new sector.

And very nice to see its close to the other settings of the game, so that characters based in the Screaming Vortex can take their misdeeds into an entirely new sector.

You're not invited to the Thanatos Sector...

Does anyone have any information on the "when" ?

Especially compared to the Calixis-setting from DH1 ?

And does anybody have a good guess how long it would take to travel between the Calixis Sector and the Askellon Sector (months ? Years ?).

Does anyone have any information on the "when" ?

Especially compared to the Calixis-setting from DH1 ?

And does anybody have a good guess how long it would take to travel between the Calixis Sector and the Askellon Sector (months ? Years ?).

Certainly not years. The Black Ships can pick up psykers on the one end of the Imperium and take them to Terra for training in less than a year.

Certainly not years. The Black Ships can pick up psykers on the one end of the Imperium and take them to Terra for training in less than a year.

And thus I also imagined that someone could theoretically spend a very long time on the Blackships before actually starting their training, leading me to believe that "The Assignment" was done aboard the Blackships.

Also: wouldnt is make the whole "sector" concept absurd, if you could travel very fast anywhere anyhow ?

Why making a "real distance"-based organization, when warp-travel is the same length to every corner of the imperium ?

Is Terra as "close" to Desoleum as Juno is in warp-terms ?

Does anyone have any information on the "when" ?

Especially compared to the Calixis-setting from DH1 ?

The game is set 999.M41, so 100+ years "after" the stuff in the Calixis Sector.

BYE

The game is set 999.M41, so 100+ years "after" the stuff in the Calixis Sector.

Wow, I knew it would be set later than DH1 , but I didn't think it would be that late. Since one of the themes in WH40K is 'two minutes to midnight', and it is constantly implied that the turn of the millennium is The End, that doesn't leave much wiggle room. My DH1 campaign is coming up on two years of 'in-game' time...

Could you tell, where this is stated in the rulebook (page) ?

Page 319 ( "As the 41st Millennium draws to a close...") .
Page 321 ( "In the ten millennia that have passed since the founding of Askellon..." - Askellon was founded during the Great Crusade, which was M31).

So 2nd Ed takes place about 180 years after 1st Ed.

BYE

But that doesnt really say what year it is.

One could also define 877M41 as drawing close to the end of the millenium. Or 942. Or 988.

Is there any stated year anywhere, or is this just guessing ?

Just saying "10 millenia passed" is way not precise enough. By "ten millenia", you certainly not mean exactly 10.000 years, but this is rather a ~ number.

So it could also easily be 9.803 years and on the big scale you'd still say: "well it was about 10 millenia."