Port Wander

Port Wander is a massive void station located in the Rubycon II System, on the uttermost edge of the Drusus Marches Sub-sector of the fallen Calixis Sector. Port Wander was founded by the Imperial Navy in 917.M40 as a staging ground to investigate the loss of many vessels on the fringes of the Drusus Marches. With the discovery of the Koronus Passage into the Koronus Expanse region of the Halo Stars in the late 40th Millennium, the space station grew in importance owing to its close proximity to the Passage. Its original role as a base for Imperial military operations was slowly forgotten, and Port Wander became a way station for those daring passage into the Koronus Expanse. Merchants and mercenaries began to choke the once-deserted corridors of the station, and strangers shook the dust of distant stars from their boots while trading wondrous things from beyond the Great Warp Storms.

Once upon a time, it was rightly regarded as the last bastion of the rule of the Emperor of Mankind this side of the Koronus Expanse and the last stop before entering that untamed region of the Halo Stars. Always a place of desperate hopes and vain dreams, Port Wander is a darker place now, a vast fortress controlled by malign machine intelligences, and infested with twisted mutants - and still darker things. Yet still, the trade flows, and people come and go, for the riches and wonders of the Koronus Expanse call to the hearts of greedy men, who will risk all, if there is hope of profit.