The Canticle Divergence

Argon beams fire across the sky, jetting spherical transports within them, to destinations both on and off-planet. industry flares on the surface of the Canticle home world, as blights might on other worlds, both fiercely aggressive and capable of overwhelming the natural order of things.   Those that adapt to the accelerated pace of life here will survive, perhaps even achieve. Those that cannot find a way to be a part of the Canticle, will be consumed by its fierce driven energies.   The Canticle does not rest. Its hordes of mechanised warrior-explorer cadres, are projected throughout the universe, heedless of where they might arrive. Only the six remaining Mainstay Worlds are off limits to those of the cadres. This is only a legislated observance. There are many in the Canticle who would see the law of inviolation repealed. Should this happen, all worlds might become part of the Canticle, brought into its Font of Futurism. Most in the Canticle believe it would be for the betterment of these ‘lesser developed’ Worlds...   Or they did until they detected an incoming projection from across the span of void space. This was not a projection made by a machine. This emission came from the essence of Chaos -- the Warp. With it returns the four Old Ones of the First Realm. With their arrival, the Canticle was unable to withstand the mighty eldritch energies unscathed. a schism occurred compressing the Canticle until it suffered a temporal schism. Where there had been one Canticle there are now two distinct frameworks by that name. They inhabit the same region of space but are only barely able to detect the other.   There may be some who can take advantage of this situation...