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|Class=Unknown[[Port World|Void Port]]{{Fn|1b}}
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'''Footfall''' is an [[Imperial]] void port and wealthy waystation in the [[Koronus Expanse]]. It is seen as a island of relative stability for explorers passing into the area.{{Fn|1b}}It is an anarchic place of anti-[[Imperium of Mankind|Imperial]] lawlessness where [[xeno]]s, [[Cold Trade|cold traders]], [[mercenary|mercenaries]], slavers and pirates coexist, and an [[Inquisitor]] has as much power as a beggar.{{Fn|3a}}
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==History==
The cluster of asteroids that would become Footfall was settled by the [[Rogue Trader]] [[Parsimus Dewain]] in 410.[[M41]]. He sought to build a grand palace on Footfall, but some of Dewain's followers questioned the sanity of such an order. For doing so, some are were put to death by being sealed alive within the walls of the world's rapidly expanding void settlement{{Fn|1a}}. Dewain would then become the [[Imperial Commander|Liege]] of Footfall and in time it would become a wealthy waystation. However after Dewain's death in 498.M41, the world immediately became submerged in a struggle for its political and economic control.{{Fn|1b}}
The [[Recidivist]] [[Tarn Marvolus]] took part in this and rose to become Footfall's next [[Imperial Commander|Liege]] in 499.[[M41]], through a campaign of assassination and the use of [[Chaos|dark sorcery]]. With the world under his tyrannical control, Footfall entered an era known as the '''Reign of Blades'''. Any who questioned Marvolus, was later found sliced into quarters—one in each of the four most distant points of Footfall. Despite this, his rule lasted for over a year, due to Marvolous' brutal alliance of criminals, [[Rogue Psykers|witches]] and narco-tribesmen. In truth, though, his reign was owed mostly to the indifference of passing [[Rogue Trader]]s, who cared little as to who ruled Footfall, as long as it served their needs. Marvolous grew to become too bold and arrogant, however. This caused his reign to come to an end in 500.M41, after he demanded that the Rogue Trader [[Cassilus]] pay him personal tribute for docking at Footfall. Afterwards, the four quarters of Marvolous' body were later found in the four farthest points of Footfall.{{Fn|1c}}
==Known Major Factions==
;'''The Astral Knives''': A The [[Astral Knives]] are a death cult from the Calixis Sector that arrived on Footfall in 795.M41 fleeing the Inquisition. They believe that in performing their ritual killings on those that the Emperor's Tarot declares to be corrupted, they protect others from the dangers of the Immaterium. They also work quietly as assassins-for-hire, and have gained a great deal of power in Footfall from both those who have a lot of enemies, and those who wish to spare themselves from being sacrificed to the Emperor.{{Fn|2b}}
;'''The Black Brotherhood''': Information brokers and hired thugs identifiable by their crude black tattoos. Without effective leadership, they often find themselves being used as tools by smarter criminals.{{Fn|2b}}
;'''The Drusians''': Unsanctioned cultists of [[Saint Drusus]] who believe that the cessation of the [[Angevin Crusade]] was an unforgivable [[heresy - ]] – that the Imperium should be conquering and colonising the entirety of the Halo Stars, starting with the Koronus Expanse.{{Fn|2b}}
;'''The Kasballica Mission''': An arm of the [[Kasballica]] crime barons of the [[Drusus Marches]], the Mission brokers (or steals) xenos artifacts from Koronus traders and arranges quiet transport into, out of, and within the Expanse.{{Fn|2b}}
;'''The Narco-tribes''': A fractious collection of heathen tribesmen, differentiated from each other by the specific scarring they inflict upon their own faces with hot brands. Few tribesmen have any idea of what's really going on around them at any given time due to the perception-altering drugs that they take, making them unpredictable at the best of times, though they do engage in ritualistic traditions, contests of fighting prowess, and bloody internecine feuds between the different tribes.{{Fn|2b}}
==Sources==
*1: [[Rogue Trader: Epoch Koronus]]
**{{Endn|1a}}: pg. 6 - – Rogue Trader Parsimus Dewain founds Footfall**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 7 - – Parsimus Dewain **{{Endn|1c}}: pg. 7 - – The Reign of Blades**{{Endn|1d}}: pg. 11 - – Tanthus Moross
*2: [[Rogue Trader: Lure of the Expanse]]
**{{Endn|2a}}: pgs. 8-9
**{{Endn|2b}}: pgs. 10-11
*3: [[Black Crusade Core Rulebook]]
**{{Endn|3a}}: pg. 318 – Chapter X: A Galaxy in Flame
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[[Category:Segmentum Obscurus]]
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