Lightless Century

The Lightless Century was a period of anarchy and turmoil within the Calyx cluster and neighboring regions of space surrounding the Eye of Terror. For a period of roughly 100 years, the roiling power of the warp obscured the light of the Astronomicon in its entirety. Warp travel was rendered virtually impossible for the first sixty years, in which countless horrors overran dozens and dozens of worlds and the societies of the Ixaniad Sector with distance between them greater then a light year or so were cut off almost completely. At the tail end of the century, warp travel remained exceedingly dangerous. Economies came undone and populations starved without the agri-worlds to support them.

In the passing of the worst of the warp storms and the dimmed light of the astronomicon flickering in the dark, the damage was finally able to be accounted for. Thousands of worlds had suffered warp incursion of some manner with the worst falling to chaos, being subsumed into the warp, dead at the hands of some alien menace or vanishing completely with no trace.