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==Overview==
The Expanse is accessed via the [[Koronus Passage]], a treacherous but navigable route through the great [[warp storms]] that bar the passage to the Halo Stars beyond the way station of Port Wander.{{Cite thisCME}}
As is true of the Calixis Sector itself, the Expanse was untouched by the [[Emperor of Mankind|God-Emperor]]'s [[Great Crusade|Crusade]] many millennia ago and so it is a realm of fearsome [[xenos]], treasures beyond imagining, heathen worlds of men, and the echoes of the ancient doom.{{Fn|1a}}
The Koronus Expanse in the [[M41|41st Millennium]] is a scattered, partly explored region containing a few young colonies and vast natural wealth still barely explored.{{Fn|1a}}
Rogue Traders vie with one another for known resources, heedless of lives lost in the pursuit of riches, while a tentative attempt at Imperial colonization follows in their wake.{{Cite thisCME}}
Drawn by the flow of wealth, [[pirate]]s and servants of [[Chaos Gods|Dark Gods]] have also slipped into the Expanse, eager to cast destruction upon the works of the God-Emperor's faithful, living by what they wrest from dead hands, while the Expanse itself holds many secrets and native inhabitants no less dangerous. Beyond these human conflicts lie truly dark and dangerous voids, rife with rumoured terrors, undiscovered stars, and worlds of man who have never known the God-Emperor. There are no defined [[warp-route]]s, no safe ways through the swirling empyrean. These regions hold the fearsome [[Ork]], the treacherous Aeldari, and strange ruins that lie beneath the light of dying stars.{{Fn|1a}}
