The Black Expanse
A epically scaled Rogue Trader game of massive battles and dark mysteries.
About the Game
The Black Expanse is the sequel to a large scale structured Rogue Trader I’ve been running over the last year. With a rich history of fully developed supporting characters, devious enemies and mysterious tales this game is now being rebooted into a high-level conquest style game in which the player characters, both new and old, form the ruling council of the Rogue Trader alliance in the Foundling Worlds known as The Black Imperium.
This game will feature massive scale structured conquest with each player controlling their own ship and having the ability to command their own troops while they cooperate with the other players to conquer, colonise and develop worlds. On top of this large scale game play is the mystery surrounding the enigmatic "young" Rogue Trader Zonia Tenebrarum Rex who, along with her cadre of unusual comrades and reluctant partners, founded The Black Imperium in the previous game.
But don’t fear; this game won’t be too rules complex or impersonal. At its heart this game is about good writing and character development.
New Players
I’m currently looking for two, three or four people to join us myself and the one remaining player from my previous game.
Characters joining this game will begin at Rank 5 and start the game with a 100 Ship Points to design some truly monstrous void ships.
Characters may use any career path but will start with a ship of their own, which means they are either a Rogue Trader (without having to use that career path) or serve some other agency in a similarly independent capacity.
Unfortunately, I cannot allow and Ork or Kroot characters due to the difficulty this causes when dealing with social situations (which are very common in this style of game). While there are no other limitations on the kinds of character who join us I would strongly advise against being too pious – given the dark and dirty nature of The Black Imperium someone with a paladin’s heart wouldn’t fit in very well.
If you’re interested, or just curious, please drop over to our new forum and say hello.
History of The Black Imperium
Present Date: 812.M41
Three years ago the mysterious Zonia Tenebrarum Rex called out to the brave and bold of Calixis Sector’s Rogue Traders to join her on a quest into the Expanse; a quest to find a fabled functional Standard Template Construction device of untold power. She possessed a ship of monstrous strength but had few allies and little sympathy from the Expanse’s many mighty factions and forces.
In fact, Zonia Tenebrarum Rex had been denounced as a heretic by Inquisitor Lord Lucius; a crazed madman who’s shocking disregard for the Imperium’s other authorities toes radicalism. And this insane Inquisitor is not the only person pursuing her as a powerful Chaos-infested battleship has followed the Rogue Trader doggedly across half the known galaxy in a quest for vengeance at some past misdeed.
Of the five Rogue Trader’s who joined their fortunes to Rex’s quest only one survived – the former merchant noble Aurellius Kinzo – and profited.
During their adventures they encountered the beleaguered forces of House Von Kalgin, who’s master Kero, a famous Rogue Trader of Calixis Sector, had recently died and left a sizable fleet and army to fester on a backwater planet in the Foundling Worlds. Fighting off xeno and traitorous human, Rex and Kinzo’s combined efforts brought the long lost human colony world of Zyst back into the Emperor’s Light.
Now acknowledged as a fearsome emerging power in the Expanse, Rex seeks to establish a true empire so that she may continue her pursuit of the mythical Standard Template Construction device without having to fear the predations of xeno, heretic and crazed Inquisitor.
So began The Black Imperium; a dark and dangerous power beyond the fringes of the Imperium and barely within the eternal Light of the God Emperor.