It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the Master of mankind by the will of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.

Yet Even In his deathless state, the Emperor continues his eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defence forces, the ever vigilant Inquisition and the tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat from aliens, heretics, mutants - and worse.

To Be A man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.


Anyone up for it?

Dark Heresy is in essence, a Dungeons and Dragons version of Warhammer 40,000. The characters are a group of Acolytes in the service of a Inquisitor of the Imperium, you level up and move along your career paths, and get all sorts of cool weapons, armour, gear, and abilities. All characters are human, and you have to choose a career. Each career focuses on different sections of the game, for example the Imperial Guardsman is the heavy weapons soldier, while the Adept is the loremaster.
We've been playing this for a bit over a month at the University now, and its been alot of fun. Id be GMing the session, so Ill be making all the long descriptions, designing the campaign, and since we're doing this on the net, Ill roll all the dice. Hopefully this will mean we'll have more activity than DiaT and the Old Republic thread, since players wont need to invest as much time into their posts. In general, player posts will be to post what their combat actions are, talk in character, or try and bluff the GM into allowing them to do something that might take a bit of explaining/wheedling/reallyreallyfasttalking. However anything else you want to stick in will be allowed and encouraged, and Ill be giving out extra XP to characters who provide background and character notes. Obviously these can be submitted at any time, in public or in private.
Is anyone interested?

The Dark Heresy Corebook can be found here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=70LB03DQ
And the Inquisitors Handbook (Add ons, extra character classes, more guns, more backgrounds. Not essential, but theres some fun stuff in there.) can be found here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6C72TG9U

If youre interested you might want to have a quick glance over the start of the DH corebook, looking over the descriptions for the careers and how one would build a character, so you can get some ideas