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More Clues To 40k’s Fluff As a New Galaxy Map Arrives!

Warpstorm Space MarineGames Workshop just changed up the way we look at the Warhammer 40k galaxy! Come take a look at what the space map looks like now.

The galaxy we used to know is shifting, and the warp seems to be moving things around from the way we remember. Let’s see what Warhammer Community had to say about the latest map update.

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This is the same galaxy, but it’s showing some wear and tear. A catastrophic warp storm looks to have rent the Imperium nearly in half. Even before the Fall of Cadia, the immaterium had been growing ever more turbulent. Travel and communication suffered increasing disturbances as the events of the Gathering Storm unfolded. It seems that eventually reality could take no more, and a titanic warp-rift tore across the galaxy from the Eye of Terror to the Hadex Anomaly on the Eastern Fringe. There will be more on this new interstellar feature in the coming days.

While Terra still stands at the heart of Segmentum Solar, and much of the galaxy will be familiar, there are also a few other new arrivals on the map. At a quick glance, you can see the Planet of the Sorcerers, an expanding Necron empire in the galactic east and new warp storms in every segmentum.

Is the lesser talked about Maelstorm in the middle getting bigger as well? Coincidentally we know of someone that calls the Maelstorm home, and that would be Huron Blackheart, the Tyrant of Badab.

Huron and Abaddon both recently disappeared from the GW display cases, and there is rumored to be a new Chaos Triumvirate on the way. Could this be further proof of said rumor?

Warpstorms are starting to pop up all across the galaxy, something Magnus the Red and Abaddon have been trying to accomplish in recent events, and that will also most likey disrupt the Astronomican, the Emperor’s Divine Light.

Cadia Blowing Up

Cadia recently fell and you can see the obvious warp signature where it used to be on the far left of the map. The warp’s tendril’s then stretch out to the right of the ma throughout the Tau Empire in the Eastern Fringe. But the rift developing in the Ultima Segmentum and the designation Imperium Nihilus is what’s raising a couple questions.

We’re not sure what Nihilus means, but Nihilistic is defined as:

Rejecting all religious and moral principles in the belief that life is meaningless.

Will this side of the galaxy soon become rejecting of the the Imperial Truth, and descent into Chaos? Is it increasingly becoming too late for the Imperium?

Games Workshop also announced that more big news is on the way tomorrow. So be sure to check back in with us to find out what it is.

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