Warhammer: The Free Captain

Synopsis: Heavy on Warhammer flavor, light on Lovecraftian horror, featuring sector warlords and Rogue Traders. A children's book for advanced Warhammer fans.

Foreword: This is the forty-first millennium of humanity. For more than a hundred centuries, the Emperor has sat motionless upon the Golden Throne on Earth. He is the Master of Mankind, appointed by the will of the gods to rule all humanity, and the master of a million worlds conquered by countless armies.

He is a remnant struggling within invisible energies that have persisted since the Dark Age of Technology. Every day, a thousand souls are sacrificed to the decaying ruler of this empire, so that he may never truly die.

Yet even this rotting empire still needs explorers who can transmigrate among the stars. While the Master of Mankind still walked among mortals, the trade licenses he issued gave rise to ancient and mighty Rogue Trader Dynasties, opening up countless new worlds.

As the descendants of these immensely powerful pioneers stir up fresh bloodshed within the empire through their own adventures in this dark forty-first millennium, will they become new legends and shape the future, or be destroyed amid the schemes and sinister laughter of the gods of the Warp?