As a stellar empire, the size of the Imperium cannot be measured in terms of contiguous territory, but only in the number of planetary systems under its control.

Consequently, an Imperial planet might be separated from its closest neighbour by hundreds or even thousands of light years. Were it to pass into nothingness, so too would the human race, destroyed by enemies uncountable, to the braying laughter of the Dark Gods. In its name, terrible wars are fought and desperate sacrifices made, yet even this river of carnage and blood is a small price to pay, for the Imperium is the guardian of Mankind. Its territories encompass untold millions of stars and countless more human lives. A truly vast domain, the Imperium is spread amongst the many stars of the galaxy.

It is a place where you are but one amongst billions and, no matter how heroic your death, you will not be missed. Millennium is to know that the universe is a terrifying and hostile place. The peoples of the Imperium live in a place where daemons are real, mutation is frequent and death is a constant companion. 00 Terran years it has been ruled by the deathless Emperor, a being of almost limitless psychic power, to whom thousands of souls are sacrificed daily.

The Emperor continues, at least nominally, to rule the Imperium as both its political master and its primary religious figure, though His badly damaged body is interred within the cybernetic life support mechanisms of the arcane device known as the Golden Throne following His mortal wounding during the interstellar civil war known as the Horus Heresy.īecause of this terrible fate, the Emperor is incapable of interacting with others on a day- to- day basis and has left the basic governance of His Imperium to the Senatorum Imperialis, an oligarchic ruling council of the most powerful lords and Adepts in the galaxy. Millennium during the Unification Wars on Old Earth following the terrible period in human history known as the Age of Strife. The founder and ruler of the Imperium is the god- like Emperor of Mankind, the most powerful human psyker ever born. However, there are other humanoid species classified as Imperial citizens, mainly mutant offshoots of genetic base- line humans who are known as Abhumans and include such human sub- races as the Ogryns, Ratlings and Squats. It is ruled by the living God who is known as the Emperor of Mankind.

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