Behold the darkness across the galaxy

    Shadows of the past haunted by decline

    Warp storms churned through the stellar systems

    Daemons and Xenos prayed on the weak

    Isolated for thousands of years

    Humanity returned to barbarism

    Knowledge and technology were all lost

    People craved religion and dominion

    Waging wars over land and property

    Earth and Mars fought for supremacy

    Techno-barbarian hordes fought for scraps

    Billions died in radio-active mud

    Lived a harsh and [bad word] existence

    Oceans boiled away, famine and thirst were everywhere

    Skies were blackened, clouds on fire, living [bad word] 

    Scattered, helpless, hopeless, alone

    One man united the world...

    ...with armies of super-humans

    Genetically enhanced with superior weaponry

    Conquered the earth's empires

    Banishing all religion to oblivion

    Genetically engineered his twenty sons

    Using his own blood as blueprint

    But then all his sons were taken

    Through a rift in real-space

    Drifting through the warp, helpless

    At the whim of the Daemon Gods