What is the setting for this game?

 The same setting as the rest of the 40K rpgs, just from Chaos' point of view.

Big Damn Hero said:

Yes, I know it's set in the 40K setting (I'm not a moron ), I mean what is the specific setting - as in DH was Calixis Sector, RT the Koronus Expanse, and DW the Jericho Reach ... what is this one's?

Adam France said:

The Screaming Vortex (which, if you look on the Rogue Trader map, is in the Warp Storms between the Calixis Sector and Koronus Expanse) is mentioned on the Description page.

 Huh. I thought the Screaming Vortex would be some reference to the Eye of Terror.

I'd say "good catch", but...

That reminds me: An interesting question might not only be "where" but "when". There are two pictures with Necron elements (a scarab and a lord). Either they wake up a little sooner in the Vortex than in the rest of the galaxy (and for some reason, Chaos isn't interested in telling the Imperium) or FFG advances the timeline.

Cifer said:

There is nothing to say that the Necrons cannot awake before the incident at Sanctuary 101. You could argue previous sightings were unreported.  Besides, as I have always said, the Deceiver has been active for a long time and there are Necrons who have infiltrated the Imperium.  I guess then that we would have some active tombs already.

 There is nothing to say that the Necrons cannot awake before the incident at Sanctuary 101. You could argue previous sightings were unreported.

There most defintely was Necron activity prior to Sanctuary. However, since FFG can't change established facts, any imperial sightings would have to be near-insignificant and only involve servitor constructs like the scarabs - which is pretty much what happened in Deathwatch. However, any major (gaming, not military) campaign with Necrons would most likely turn out too significant. Of course, it's only known that the Imperium doesn't know of the Necrons before Sanctuary...

This might also be one of those hooks that were mentioned in another group - an Imperial (Inquisitor, Rogue Trader, general, whatever) who gets a glimpse of the power of Necrons decides they can only be fought with the single energy they can't tap: the Warp. Thus you can be trying to save humanity while dropping deeper into the forbidden arts than most radical Inquisitors would...

It doesn't contradict previous fluff for the Necrons to be active, it just means they have a reason to be active in the part of the galaxy the game is set in, befow they became more active throughout the galaxy at large. Or from an even worse point of view, they win, and exterminate everyone who could have tattled on them.

It's highly likely that any that make their appearance in the game lines we've got will have a good excuse for it, probably something along the lines of some artifact or tomb world of their's that's been disturbed.

If the setting is inside a warp storm, then all notions of linear time and coherent reality are suspect. It's possible there's a tomb world that was lost in this vortex due to the enslaver plague or some other calamity, and the chaos servants have awoken them, or they send people there as tests. Heck, the warp can also permit you to be in multiple places, and times at once....which would be a trip.

Possibly this game might also take place after the 'official' canon incidents from the regular 40k timelines. Specifically it would take place at the beginning of the next millenia right after Abaddon's last black crusade and the destruction of both the blackstone fortresses, and flaws being found in the golden throne.

I'm going for warp storm says rules of reality take a mini hike though.

Though I'd have preferred something like a xenos RPG supplement, I can get behind the idea of playing as Alpha Legion marines, and Hertek Tech priests.

Hm, the game's default setting is inside the Warp Storm itself? Wouldn't that mean your opponents are all going to be Chaotic themed foes (of one kind or another)? 

I assumed the Crusade title implied you'd be Chaotic characters pushing out into a region of the Imperium.

Adam France said:

It's more likely that the Warp Storm is friendly territory, like Footfall in Rogue Trader and the Collar of Iron in Deathwatch.  Well as friendly as Chaos territory gets.  From there the PCs will raid and intrigue into Calixus and Koronus and getting into all sorts of trouble abroad when they aren't intriguing and feuding with other champions at "home".

don't forget it may be also a way to get to the jericho reach , but as some one said its probably going to be as "safe " as any chaos place is

Hold on...

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My first response to the announcement of Black Crusade would be...WHAT!?!

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Right, got that off my chest...is the mythology/setting set prior to or during the 13th Black Crusade?

(Which would mean that the Segmentum Obscuras would be subject to a major chaos incursion).

Seeing as part of the running theme is submission to the ruinous powers the likes of the Alpha Legion, and the Word Bearers will be in their somewhere...?

(I'd like to see something on the Blood Gorgons but, well...)

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What's next FFG a WH40K RPG specificially for Xenos...get to play Ork/Eldar/Tau (etc.)...?

Obviously it's not, "Black Crusade" is just a cool sounding name for the book. It's going to take place during the same time and near the same location as the other games.

It does talk about forming up a warband around your banner and going on a crusade of your own against the weakling Imperium of Man. Which strikes me as kind of being the end-game content of it.

Also, I doubt we'll ever see a line come out for the various Xenos races, especially one specific one...

Well, maybe Eldar.

Pehaps Black Crusade is more than just a cool title. I could see a game where the PCs strike out into the galaxy to cause carnage (of course) AND to pave the way for a full-blown Black Crusade XIII. Missions could involve sabataging defensive outposts & listening stations, creating cults & corrupting PDF troops, or causing daemonic incursions to weaken the veil between worlds.