Wonders
Adeptus Mechanicus
Advance: Manufacturing
Requires: Adamantium in city radius, 5 Factories
Government: -
Bonus: +100% production
The Adeptus Mechanicus is an organisation that controls the technological knowledge of the Imperium. They can produce the Imperiums most advanced and powerful weaponry and equipment. Their adepts, the Tech-Priests, are vital in maintaining much of the important Imperial technology, such as the Emperors Golden Throne. It has managed to separate itself somewhat from the Imperium, to the point that it is more like an allied state rather than part of the Imperium itself. They also follow a different religion than the rest of the Imperium, a religious structure known as the Cult Mechanicus, which worships the Machine Spirit.
Adeptus Ministorum
Advance: State Religion
Requires: 5 Temples
Government: -
Bonus: Doubles effectiveness of Temples
The Adeptus Ministorum, also known as the Ecclesiarchy, is the only official state church of the Imperium. It is charged with maintaining and spreading the Imperial Cult throughout the Imperium.
Altar of Ultimate Darkness
Advance: Heroes
Requires: -
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Increases chance of leader appearance, +20 culture
Astronomican
Advance: ??
Requires: Harbour
Government: -
Bonus: Safe sea travel, +1 ship movement
Black Library
Advance: Administration
Resources: -
Government: -
Bonus: Gain any advances owned by two factions
The Black Library of Chaos (also known as just the Black Library) is the Eldar's repository of forbidden lore. The Eldar craftwords became the only surviving sources of their ancient knowledge after the Fall. As the craftwords have drifted apart, this knowledge has consequently become fragmented, and as some craftworlds have become lost over the millennia, more knowledge has been lost with them.
The Library is the only source of the Eldar's knowledge concerning Chaos that has remained untouched. It was created by Cegorach, better known as the Laughing God. Though for what purposes can only be guessed. The Black Library is spoken of by Eldar as a dark craftworld existing within the Webway, far beyond the reach of the Imperium. Within are collected tomes and writings describing the Eldar studies of the warp. These writings describe all aspects of Chaos: its perils, promises and horrors. The Library is enclosed within a nearly impenetrable psychic barrier, and is watched and maintained by its Guardian-scribes, who collate and transcribe the knowledge of the Library, a task they have carried out since the Fall.
It contains not just Eldar knowledge of Chaos; any knowledge of Chaos is taken and kept within the Library, such as the copy of the Book of Magnus. It is as much a source of knowledge for those who fight Chaos as it is a vault to keep dangerous knowledge hidden and protected from those who would misuse it.
The existence of the Library is known to few, and even fewer are allowed access to it. The Library's mind defends itself, barring the weak and corruptible. Only those who have mastered the Chaos within themselves are able to enter. Only two groups come and go at will: the Human Illuminati and the Eldar Solitaires. The Inquisitor Czevak gained entry once, but had to prove himself worthy. Ahriman of the Thousand Sons seeks entrance to the library in his vain attempt to understand the ever changing Tzeentch, Lord of Change. Inquisitor Jaq Draco also managed to find a way into the Black Library and steal the Book of the Rhana Dandra, aka the Book of Fate.
Blackstone Fortress
Advance: Siege
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: Doubles city defences
Blood Pact
Advance: Chaos Cults
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Produces Blood Pact Warrior every x turns
Book of Judgement
Advance: -
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: -
The Book of Judgement is the legal code of the Imperium, enforced by the Adeptus Arbites. It has long ago spread beyond the confines of a single literal volume. It is a vast body of laws, rulings and precedents compiled over the ten millennia of the Imperium's existence, and ranging from the words of the Emperor himself from the days he walked among men, to the most recent decrees of the High Lords of Terra.
Book of Magnus
Advance: Thousand Sons
Requires: -
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Doubles scientific output
The Book of Magnus is sometimes called the Book of the Thousand Sons. It is a monumental tome of sorcery compiled by Magnus the Red from the arcane lore he gathered from across the galaxy during the Great Crusade. This book still exists within the library of the Daemon Prince Magnus, of the Planet of the Sorcerers, and a copy is said to reside in the Black Library of Chaos. Before the Heresy, Ahriman, as Chief Librarian of the Thousand Sons, sharing his Primarch's obsession with arcane knowledge, had come to be keeper of the book.
Catachan Reinforcements
Advance: Reinforcements
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces Jungle Fighter every x turns (4.2.2, ignores jungle movement)
Chamber of Heroes
Advance: Heroes
Requires: -
Government: Craftworld
Bonus: Reduces war weariness in all cities, increases chance of leader appearance
The Chamber of Heroes is in the centre of the Biel-Tan Craftworld and is where the spirit stones of fallen aspect warriors are placed. Farseers often go to this room to consult the dead on courses of action.
Chaos Node
Advance: ?
Requires: -
Government: Chaos
Bonus: +100% production, +12 culture, +2 pollution, can explode
Codex Astartes
Advance: Tactics
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: Gain a Barracks in every city on continent
The Codex Astartes is the doctrine of the Space Marine Chapters, governing all aspects of Chapter organization and battlefield tactics. For any given tactical situation, the Codex has hundreds of pages devoted to how it may be met and overcome. The wisdom of thousands of Imperial warriors have contributed to the Codex, and details on everything from unit markings to launching a full-scale planetary assault are contained within its pages.
The codex was written and formalized after the Horus Heresy by the Primarch of the Ultramarines Roboute Guilliman. A few Chapters, such as the Ultramarines and their successors, regard the codex as a holy text, and follow it without question. Many other chapters also follow the Codex, though not always as strictly as the Ultramarines, and all chapters that do follow the Codex are known as Codex Chapters. Among the Ultramarines, each battle brother must memorise whole sections of the codex, so that within a company there exists an entire record of the text.
Crusade
Advance: Black Templars
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces an army every 25 turns
Eye of Terror
Advance: ?
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: City growth causes +2 citizens instead of +1
The Eye of Terror (Ocularis Terribus) is a massive warp rift, where the warp co-exists with real space, the largest and most well-known in the galaxy. It is located at the edge of the galaxy, to the north and west of Terra, in the Segmentum Obscurus.
The region of the Eye constitutes its own reality, existing within both the material universe and the warp. Although planets and star systems exist within the Eye, the laws of reality no longer apply. Time is a meaningless concept, and matter, thought and energy are indistinct.
The worlds within the Eye are known as Daemon Worlds and each constitutes its own bizarre sub-reality. The warp and real-space are indistinct and intermixed within the Eye, and the whole region is a maelstrom of psychic energy, impossible to navigate through. Imperial ships avoid the area around Eye for thousands of light years. Ships travelling too close to the Eye can be thrown far off-course - they can also be caught in temporal whirlpools which carry them backwards or forwards in time, or which trap them in limbo forever.
The warp storms that disturb the Eye are so intense that there is little point in even trying to steer a ship in a particular direction. The Chaos renegades simply launch their ships into the swirling energies of the warp, trusting fortune to carry them to their enemies. This makes Chaos attacks so random, sudden and unpredictable, often occurring on worlds far from the Eye.
The Fang
Advance: Space Wolves
Requires: 5 Monasteries
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Doubles city defences, +1 trade in every trade producing tile
The Fang is the name given to a fortress on the Space Wolves' homeworld Fenris. It is located on the highest peak of a mountain range towards the centre of Asaheim. These mountains are the tallest on Fenris, and the highest is located at the centre of the range, looking like a great fang above the other mountains.
The Fang is the greatest fortress constructed since the fortifications of Terra. It is so big as to pierce the atmosphere of Fenris, providing a docking point to space ships and allowing quick access to the surface without having to use sub-orbital transport. It is clad in immensely thick armour and is protected by void shields stronger than those even on the mightiest of the Imperial warships. Shafts have been cut into the moutainside concealing vast laser batteries capable of blasting the biggest ships in the galaxy. These weapons are as old as the Chapter itself, a testament to the reliability of the level of technology produced during the Great Crusade. Also, the thermal reactors powering the weapons and shields are of that age, wondrous though it is to think they still actually work. The top of The Fang is the centre of the Space Wolves' fleet dock where hundreds of ships are moored. They can be easily maintained and materials can be moved easily from surface to space via this huge fortress. It is from here that the Space Wolves set out on missions across the galaxy.
The Fang was attacked in 300.M36 by Cardinal Bucharis, Colonel Gasto and Admiral Sehalla during the Plague of Unbelief. The Fang was besieged for 3 years until the Space Wolves managed to break out and reconquer the minor empire, converting its people back to the Emperor. Also, it was attacked by Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons as revenge for the destruction of Prospero.
Ghazghkulls Waaagh!
Advance: Goffs
Requires: Waaagh! Banner
Government: Waaagh!
Bonus: Same as Waaagh! as well as doubles the effect of Bosspoles
Golden Throne
Advance: Arbiter
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Doubles happiness of Shrines
Originally built to provide access to the Eldar Webway, the Golden Throne took the form of a bulky machine-like chair suspended over gigantic mechanised doors made of gold metal. The doors were said to be large enough for a Warhound Scout Titan to walk through unbowed. The chair was linked to the portal by huge bundles of cables, wires and conduits. The whole machine was made of the same golden metal. The throne was built at one end of a vast hall big enough to house up to six fully equipped Space Marine Companies. This was the Emperor's main laboratory, which was itself at the centre of his underground complex, known as the Imperial Dungeon. Even after the throne's construction, the lab remained littered with other huge machines and storage crates. Hundreds of red-robed technicians and labourers worked in the lab.
The Emperor built the throne as a means of entering the Webway. Having this fixed point of entry was meant to free humanity from its reliance on warp-ships and astrotelepathy, since humans could simply enter the Webway and emerge wherever they chose in the galaxy. He sent armies of workers through the portal and had them construct a new short section of Webway linking to the rest of the abandoned Eldar network. Since the original Webway was built of a psychically resistant material which the humans could not replicate, the Emperor used his powers, via the Golden Throne, to protect the human-built section from the Warp. The Golden Throne is connected to a massive warp beacon known as the Astronomican which generates a system of signals making faster than light Warp travel in the Imperium possible. In the last year of M41, tech-priests discovered failures in the mechanisms of the Golden Throne that are far beyond their ability to repair.
At the outset of the Heresy, when Magnus the Red used his sorcerous powers to warn the Emperor of Horus's treachery, he inadvertently created huge holes in the Emperor's psychic shield. Daemons poured into the human-built portion of the Webway and slaughtered thousands of Adeptus Mechanicus workers there. The Custodian Guard and Sisters of Silence were left fighting a desperate battle to prevent the daemons from reaching the portal through into the Imperial Dungeon. Eventually the Imperial forces had to abandon the Webway and retreat back into the Imperial Palace. The portal was closed but only the psychic power of the Emperor was enough to keep it that way so he was forced to remain on the Golden Throne or find a suitable replacement. When the Emperor was forced to battle Horus on board the Sons of Horus flagship, the Vengeful Spirit, his place on the throne was taken briefly by Malcador the Sigillite. Malcador perished performing this endeavour, and the mortally wounded Emperor was reinstated upon the Throne after his battle with Horus. At his instruction, it was then enhanced and converted into the life-sustaining form it currently bears.
Hall of Devices
Advance: Production
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: Halves unit upgrade cost, +50% research output
Inquisition
Advance: Inquisition
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: +1 happiness, +1 happiness in all cities
The Holy Orders of the Emperor's Inquisition, more commonly known as the Inquisition, are a secretive and powerful organization of the Imperium responsible for guarding the souls of humanity. The purpose of the Inquisition is to identify and destroy the myriad of potential threats to the Imperium and humanity. The organization's members are agents known as Inquisitors.
Krieg Reinforcements
Advance: Reinforcements
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces a Death Korps every x turns (3.2.1, +1 HP)
Kult of Speed
Advance: Fast Attack
Obsolete: Goffs
Requires: -
Government: Waaagh!
Bonus: Produces War Buggy every x turns
The Kult of Speed is an Ork affiliation. Its members are Speed Freeks, Orks obsessed with and addicted to speed. Although most Orks prefer slaughter and explosions, some become addicted to driving really fast. These crazy individuals band together in their own mobs and warbands, full of War Buggies, Warbikes and Wartrukks. Most vehicles are painted red as, according to Orky superstition, "Da red wunz go fasta!" They rely on Mekboyz to build and maintain their vehicles, and sometimes a warband is even led by a Big Mek instead of a Warboss. The obsession with speed can affect any Ork - so it is possible to find Orks from different Clans in a Speed Freek force. Of all the Clans the Evil Sunz have the most Speed Freeks.
Liber Daemonicum
Advance: Daemon Hunters
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces Daemon Hunter every x turns
The Liber Daemonicum is the Grey Knight Chapter's sacred book of battle rituals. It contains prayers, rituals, litanies, funeral rites, and Chaos lore collected from the Librarium Daemonica, the repository of dangerous knowledge pieced together by the Ordo Malleus over the millennia. Each Grey Knight fights with a copy of the book displayed in a beautifully decorated ceramite case fastened to his breastplate or hanging from a chain around his neck.
The book is also represented in Grey Knight iconography, on the chestplate and pauldron of both power armour and Terminator Armour. It is a symbol of the greatest weapon against the forces of Chaos - an unshakable faith in the Emperor of Mankind.
Liber Heresius
Advance: Witch Hunters
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces Witch Hunter every x turns
The Liber Heresius is carried by Witch Hunter Inquisitors. The book consists of the wisdom of thousands of Witch Hunters from the past and better allows current Inquisitors to understand the movements and ideas behind the foes they are stalking. Often this allows Inquisitors to attack with forces from unforeseen angles to increase their chances of victory.
Navigation House of Belisarius
Advance: Naval Supremacy
Requires: Harbour
Government: -
Bonus: +2 ship movement, +1 trade in every trade producing tile
House Belisarius is one of the oldest and most powerful Navigator Houses in the Imperium. Their main dwelling is in the Navigator's Quarter on Holy Terra. Aside from their duties as Navigators they also have extensive mercantile intrests, including 50% ownership of the rogue trader vessel Star of Venam and controlling interest of the promethium exploting operations on the jungle world of Hyades. House Belisarius is ruled by a Celestarch, chosen from among the most senior Navigators in the house.
Nurgles Gift
Advance: Death Guard
Requires: 5 Shrines
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Allows units to heal in enemy territory
Obliterator Cult
Advance: Chaos Cults
Requires: 5 Workshops
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Doubles science output, produces Obliterator every x turns
Ordo Xenos
Advance: Inquisition
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Doubles combat strength vs barbarians (xenos), veteran ground units, spawns Deathwatch Marine (4.3.1, may stealth attack xenos) every x turns
They were created to investigate, and catalog Xenos species, and destroy any classified as a threat to the Imperium. This jurisdiction has been expanded to any members of the Imperium that deal with xenos, trade (or deal) in their technology, or seek to hide or protect hostile alien species from Imperial forces. Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos are devoted to their cause (fanatically so, in many cases), and is among the greatest force that can be wielded against any given xenos species.
Armed with the best human and xenos technology known, extremely knowledgeable about their foe, unflinching in their mission, the Ordo Xenos can respond to any possible xeno threat. Their tactics vary depending heavily on the situation, species of xenos involved, and level of xenos influence on the local population. Where the threat is subtle they will use guile and stealth, wielding their power as if a scalpel used to cut out a cancerous growth. When the alien menace is great, the Inquisitor can enlist the aid of entire regiments of Imperial Guard and Space Marines. When the threat is too great for even these to handle, the Inquisitor will call on the elite battle-brothers of the Deathwatch. In extreme cases, entire planets are known to be destroyed through Exterminatus.
Red Grail
Advance: Blood Angels
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces a Sanguinary Priest every x turns
The Red Grail is said to hold the blood of Sanguinius and is part of a Blood Angels ritual where one of their Space Marines must drink this blood, to, so they say, become closer to their dead primarch. Once they have drunk from the Red Grail, they become a Sanguinary Priests. It is from these priests that the blood is taken to be used in the rituals of transforming aspirants into Space Marines. The Red Grail is often taken to the battlefield where it provides a source of great inspiration for the Blood Angels, it also incorporates a powerful force field generator to protect the bearer from attack.
Resurrection Orb
Advance: -
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: Allows units to heal in enemy territory
Rogue Traders
Advance: Logistics
Requires: Trader
Government: -
Bonus: Gains Trader in all cities
Schola Progenium
Advance: -
Requires: -
Government: -
Bonus: -
Tallarn Reinforcements
Advance: Reinforcements
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces Desert Raider every x turns (4.2.2, ignores desert movement)
Temple of Cegorach
Advance: -
Requires: Webway
Government: Craftworld
Bonus: Produces a Harlequin every x turns
Temple of Khaine
Advance: ?
Requires: -
Government: Craftworld
Bonus: Increases army value, increases army size, requires a victorious army.
Temple of Vaul
Advance: Production
Requires: -
Government: Craftworld
Bonus: +100% production
Throne of Judgement
Advance: Heroes
Requires: -
Government: Imperium
Bonus:
Vostroyan Reinforcements
Advance: Reinforcements
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Imperium
Bonus: Produces Firstborn every x turns (3.3.1)
Vraksian Renegade Militia
Advance: Chaos Cults
Requires: 5 Barracks
Government: Chaos
Bonus: Produces Renegade Militia every x turns
