And in the aftermath of the Blood of Reign, many great storms disturbed the Warp. Disturbances that helped propagate the Plague of Unbelief. The Chimaera's Breath swelled close, barring travel beyond the border of the Thulean Sector. We can only hope that any human settlements beyond farthest Thule clung to their Faith in the Emperor and were delivered to him.

In the following years, the treachery of forge world Vichka was uncovered, and they punished by a combined force of the Iron Hands, the Adeptus Mechanicus from Mars, and an Inquisitorial Armada. With the destruction of the sector's chief forge world and its dependent colonies, Thule quickly devolved. By the end of the thirty-second millennium it was declared no longer a part of the Imperium. Once again, the borders had been redrawn closer to Holy Terra. We have lost so much, the promise of progress and understanding. Many have lost Hope too. But, we must persevere if His dream for Humanity is to be claimed from the Cosmos. - from the archives of remembrancer Athia Nortine, instructor of the Schola Progenium at Cypra Mundi.