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|quote = ''Such secrets lie waiting beneath cold, dead stars. To reach out and take them, to be tested body and soul and found worthy... that is the fate I crave and the path I chose to walk.''
|source=Duke [[Lassarack Hass]], [[Pirate|reaver]]-[[Psyker|seer]] of the outer Expanse.{{Fn|8}}
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[[File:Koronus Expanse Map (jpg).jpg|thumb|right|400px|Map of the Expanse{{Fn|1b}}]]
The '''Koronus Expanse''', also known as the '''Koronus Sector'''{{Fn|4}}, is the name given by Imperial authorities to a dangerous, unexplored region of the [[Halo Stars]] beyond the [[Calixis Sector]].{{Fn|1a}} This region of semi-explored [[Wilderness Space]] is located to the galactic north-east of the Calixis Sector.{{Fn|8}}
==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]]. 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}}
==History==
The [[Calixis Sector]] was first charted during the [[Age of Apostasy]] by [[Solomon Haarlock]], though fragmented naval records indicate that it was actually first charted by a prior [[Explorator]] fleet belonging to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. The method of traversing the field of intense [[warp storm]] activity in what is now the [[Drusus Marches]] [[subsector]] was missing from both sets of data, however, and so the Imperium designated the storm field as the farthest border of the Sector.{{Fn|2a}}
The area would be a subject of mystery for years. Tales of "golden shores" were abound, telling of undreamed riches of long-dead civilisations once sat beyond the warp storms. A number of waystations were established along its length as many attempted to map a safe course through.{{Fn|8}} 73 years after the Imperial Navy constructed the space station [[Port Wander]] near the storm field, a Rogue Trader named [[Purity Lathimon]] discovered "[[Koronus Passage|the Maw]]", a safe passage through the storms. However, rather than returning to the Expanse, she sold her knowledge on and departed Calixis, never to return. The Koronus Expanse was effectively declared part of the Calixis Sector by the [[High Lords of Terra]].{{Fn|2b}}
The void colony of [[Footfall]] is often the first stop through the passage. A lawless void station and den of anarchy and recidivism beyond [[Imperial Law]].{{Fn|8}} Several worlds in the Expanse are colonised, while others were destroyed. The destruction was largely caused by the [[Inquisitor]] [[Kobras Aquairre]], who eventually leds led his fleet into the [[Rifts of Hecaton]] and vanished. [[Aeldari]] and other, even more mysterious [[xenos]] species were discovered in the Expanse.{{Fn|2c}}
For centuries, Rogue Traders have braved great evils and the treacherous [[warp]] to venture into the Koronus Expanse, but their efforts have barely begun to uncover its secrets. Footholds have been built close to the few semi-stable warp routes into the area.{{Fn|1a}}
===Winterscale's Realm===
{{Main|Winterscale's Realm}}
'''Winterscale's Realm''' is an area of the [[Koronus Expanse]], that is ruled over by the [[Rogue Trader House]], [[House Winterscale|Winterscale]].{{Fn|2c}} It is located on the coreward side of the Expanse, bordering the great [[Warp Storms]] of the [[Koronus Passage]].{{Fn|1b}}{Fn|8}}
===Unknown Regions===
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Rogue Trader Rulebook]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 335–362
**{{Endn|1b}}: pgs. 338-339 - ''Koronus Expanse Map''
*{{Endn|5}}: [https://web.archive.org/web/20200104195718/https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/rogue-trader/news/the-navis-primer/Rogue-Trader-Stylized-Map-large.png Rogue Trader Stylized Map] ''(saved archive page, dated January 2020)''
*{{Endn|6}}: [https://roguetrader.owlcat.games/ Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader Website] (Last accessed on September 20 2022)
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (Video Game)]]:
**{{Endn|7a}}: ''Act 1''
**{{Endn|7b}}: ''Act 5'' - ''Endings''
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Black Crusade Core Rulebook]], pg. 318 - ''The Koronous Expanse''
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