Worse things still stalk its radiant darkness. Located near the dense stellar masses of the galactic core in a near-linear path between the core and Terra, the Maelstrom covers an area many hundreds of light years across, and its presence in space is marked by a vast, slowly turning gyre comprised of nebulae, dust and stellar material in which countless stars and worlds have long been lost.Īlthough turbulent and unpredictable enough to make any true chart worthless and any hopes of conquering or even patrolling it an insurmountable task, it remains considerably more stable than most other Warp Storms on record, and evidence indicates that it has been in existence since before the evolution of Mankind.Īncient Imperial Navis Locem Cartographicae Map detailing the Maelstrom Zone.īecause of its relative stability, the Maelstrom has long served as a haven for all manner of corsairs, Renegades, outcasts, exiles and forgotten horrors, from the Traitor Legions to the Craftworld Aeldari's debased Drukhari kin.Īt any one time it is estimated by the Deathwatch that at least twenty major Ork infestations or petty pirate kingdoms make their home in the Maelstrom, warring against each other and venturing forth to raid and pillage. It is salvation for the Damned and a shifting sea of storms to trouble the righteous.
It is a dark, twisting light in the Warp, and a fell beacon for those that would find solace in hell, a place where the material universe and the Empyrean interpenetrate each other and it is frighteningly easy to slip from reality to unreality and back again. Second only to the great Warp rift that is the Eye of Terror, the Maelstrom is a vast Warp Storm that scars both the physical universe and the fabric of the Immaterium beyond. Warhammer 40K Darktide Review - Left To Shredĭepartmento Cartographicae map detailing the Maelstrom Zone. It is also said to be home to the infamous Huron Blackheart and his piratical Renegade Space Marine warband known as the Red Corsairs as well as a large contingent of Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines and their Chaos Cultist allies who fled there and established a base on the Daemon World of Ghalmek in the early 31st Millennium in the wake of the Horus Heresy's Battle of Calth. Within the Maelstrom is a region of lawless Wilderness Space containing an estimated twenty-plus Ork Empires, numerous Hrud infestations, and countless Human pirate strongholds. Swirling with Warp-energies that permeate its worlds, this region is riddled with the evil energies of the Warp which slowly poisons those mad enough, or desperate enough, to reside within. With the difficulty of travelling through the region, this area of space became a haven to pirates, criminals and Renegades. Unlike the Eye of Terror which was created by the birth of the Chaos God Slaanesh, the Maelstrom is, as far as Imperial scholars can ascertain, a naturally occurring phenomenon.
This area of space is riven with Warp Storms so intense that stellar travel in the region is virtually impossible. The Maelstrom, with the region of Imperial space surrounding it commonly referred to as the Maelstrom Zone (also known by its ponderous Administratum designation Maelstrom Adjacent Autonomous Imperial Resource Extraction Zone Grid 004-357), is a massive and ancient Warp rift located near the galactic core in the Ultima Segmentum. Imperial Departmento Cartographicae map detailing the location of the Maelstrom Zone in the Ultima Segmentum.
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