The Unification Wars (Warhammer 40k)

(Made in collabortion with Comrade-Emperor.)

That's how I imagine the map of Terra at the end of the 29-th millennium. I do not pretend to fully correspond to the background!


Notes (Warning! Google transtale!):

1. In fact Panpacific Empire controls only half of a claimed territory. Occasionaly on its lands are even found some small technobarbarian states, who don't know that they are part of an empire, that is a size of a half of the world.

2. Mariana Trench is now called Mariana Canyon and is jam-packed with hundreds of merged hive-cities. One of them is Vhnori, that will be the last city to fall during the Emperor's conquest of Panpacific Empire. But its citizens will not surrender internally. While Emperor's troops will fight in space, Vhnori will become a center of an extensive terrorist organization, that will raise one of the bloodiest uprising of the millenium. The city will be destroyed by a huge landslide, arose from the collapse of the canyon slopes as a result of the exposion of the powerful bomb.

3. Brotherhood of Singularity prepares for its defeat after a long and exhausting uprising. Its leader is going to flee to Mars.

4. Yndonesic Bloc is an ethnarchy ruled by religious tyrant Cardinal Tang, who wishes to "return the world to a pre-technological age" burning scientists, matematicians and pholosophers. Paradoxical as it may seem, but he is also a huge fan of eugenics (that is kinda science), so the country is overflowing with death camps for "undersirables". Soon he will be overthrown by his own people.

5. "The Union" a.k.a the First cantons - the very first territories conquered by the Emperor. At the moment he has alredy created his first regiments of Thunder Warriors and is preparing for a large-scale blitzkrieg against technologicaly backward and scattered technobarbarian states.

6. Nay Monggol - during the campaign against this country, Emperor's troops faced formidable genetically modified giants.

7. Principality of Irkutsk is the satellite of Panpacific Empire. It is a huge hive-city, that fills the whole Baikal canyon.

8. North of the Sibranian steppes streches Taiga - the last forest on Terra, inhabited by mutants and savages.

9. Achaemenid Empire is one of few allies of Emperor in this war. Its population is surprisingly clean from many genetic gefects, which had affected other tribes, so many of them will be recruited to become the first Astartes of the Thousand Sons Legion. Has a strange cult of its ancestors' mystical powers.

10. Terrawatt Clan is the first power of Terra, that has sworn to the Emperor. The country is famous for its mountain-sized forges.

11. Principality of Archangelus will swear to insutgents of Vhnori, hoping for ability to restore own independence.

12. Homeland of the Rus. Its capital is Bilgorod.

13. The conquest of the Caucasus Wastes Ethnarchy will start quite early, but it will last until the end of Unification Wars, entering the number of final battles of the conflict. Practices eugenics.

14. Ursh - the most powerful and aggressive technobarbarian empire of Terra, ruled by a brutal tyrant named Kalagann. Quite bacward in technology, but compensates for this shortage by a HUGE number of troops and the ruler's connections with forces of Warp, which he uses as some kind of magical weapon. Deemed to be a Chaos Gods' puppet.

15. The Kingdom of Urartu will become a successor of Ursh after its fall. There, near the Ararat mountain, will happen the famous battle, that is deemed to be a final clash of Unification Wars. De jure.

16. The Black Sea is the last more or less large body of water on Terra, saved at Kalagann's whim.

17. Land of Gyptus, famous for its huge crater Cebir.

18. For a long time the state of Boeotia (under the rule of Yeselti dynasty) will successfully maintain its independence from the newborn Imperium of Man, thanks to its competent diplomacy. Emperor will give it 150 years to voluntarily become a part of Imperium, but after the expiry of the term Boeotia will refuse to integrate and will get invaded.

19. Old Albia will be conquered by Emperor not by using force, but thanks to his talent of persuasion. He will convince the lord of Albia to join his side, and it will work so perfectly, that soon this lord will become one of the most ardent supporters of the Unification.

20. Slovakia - small but daring feudalistic empire.

21. Principality of Bukurest

22. Moravia - here the leader of Brotherhood of Singularity was born.

23. Jermani is one of the few countries, that have preserved the culture of their ancestors. A rarity in the world of techobarbarians, whose aspirations are often reduced to the robbery and glorification of their leaders.

24. Britonnica, Franc and Nordyk - these regional powers are too busy with war against each other, so they don't have time to engage in global politics.

25. Nordafrik Conclaves - confederation of relatively developed republics, who consist of dozens of autonomous hive-cities governed by councils. Very attractive to Ursh because of its technologies.

26. Deserts of Afrik are inhabited by afrites - filthy savaged who rot alive. Pathetic spectacle.

27. States of Atlan - union of enormous hive-cities, scattered throughout what once was the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

28. Cephic Hives

29. Merica - the mightiest technobarbarian state of Nord-Merica, relatively developed in comparition with the rest of the region.

30. Hy Brasil - the mightiest state of Sud-Merica, governed from Planalto - the enormous cluster of merged hive-cities, including its real capital Sao Paol. Has a parliament, whose building is situated on the border of so called "Winter Fields", generated by strange heat exchange processes of gigantic plasma reactors, from which all the conurbation draw its power. Will be the last power of Terra to resist the Emperor's conquest in more or less organized manner.

31. Most of the former oceanic floor on Terra is endless wasteland, inhabited by single gangs of mutants looking for caravans to rob.

32. Orioc - religious city-state built in a huge rock, whose inhabitants believe they are only true owners of whole Terra.