For 10,000 years, the galaxy-spanning Imperium of Mankind has endured, surviving disasters, heresies and invasions from alien races intent on the extinction of humanity. The largest empire ever known, the Imperium spans the galaxy, boasting a million worlds and billions of soldiers sworn to its cause. From Terra, known as Earth in ancient days, the fate of the Imperiums' numberless subjects decided with every decree. There is no peace however, for the stars are awash with the blood of Mankind. The Imperium is beset on all sides: invaded by voracious aliens eager to consume and annihilate, assailed from within by renegades and threatened by traitors who seek nothing less than the utter enslavement and destruction of humanity.

The planet Hakson had been a wealthy world, enjoying relations with rouge traders and xenos. But the corrupt rulers were digging themselves into a hole. A taint was taking hold of the world. Eventually the taint became unignorable. The governing bodie fled, placing a blockade over the planet. None could leave. Hakson was abandoned, left to rot in it's own corruption. It is here our story begins,