Minor Worlds of the Vastrid subsector

Hemera is a wet, temperate world with innumerable shallow swampy seas.Existing off the beaten track it was never properly colonised by the Imperium but was eventually settled by the Caligulan Manufacturing Cartel in 745M39. It has a population of roughly half a million working on production of spaceship parts and other metallic bulk items.

Though nominally part of the Imperium the officials of the Administratum have not ventured onto the planet since it was settled, the tithes being handled by the Caligulan cartel themselves. The planet will generally do business with anyone who offers a fair price.

Eris is a small world of tall mountains and pine forests with limited natural resources. Its proximity to the Perseus Deeps puts it outside the sphere of Imperial control, but the settlers of the planet are humans, ruled over by a hereditary monarchy. There are about two million inhabitants, mostly poor farmers, though the capital Erisburg does have a spaceport and trade is brisk in local food produce. Eris is notable as a satellite of a gas giant rather than a planet in its own right.

Minos is a heavily forested world with just under five million inhabitants. It has little or no valuable resources and the planets inhabitants live off he land in nomadic tribes. They are friendly to off-worlders, human or alien and have already been approached by the Tau. The Imperium is aware of this but until recently took little interest in the affairs of nomadic tribesmen. Now the planet's strategic location as a base has forced them to think again.

Aethor is a warm and wet planet who's mountains have been warn down by the process of erosion leaving broad plains rich in heavy metals. There are several mining operations across the planet operate by several mining companies. Most of these are registered in the Imperium though not all are. A few are known to be openly dealing with the UFP, Chaos renegades, pirates and Tau...

Ares is a cold dry barren rock. There is no water or Oxygen and the planet's 50,000 inhabitants are reliant on food and provisions brought in from elsewhere. The system is a research station for anyone who wants to test something out. It specialises in high technology but lies outside the Adeptus Mechanicus control, a fact which irks them deeply. Rogue traders are known to favour the station for testing alien artefacts or recently discovered human technology from the distant past.