Event · M41
Flect trade war on Eustis Majoris
The flect trade war was a criminal conflict on Eustis Majoris fought between rival underworld factions for control of the flect trade. It centred on the hive city of Petropolis, where competing syndicates sought dominance over the manufacture and distribution of flects, illicit devices used to record and replay sensory experience. The violence drew the attention of the Ordo Xenos, whose investigation into the trade formed the opening phase of Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor’s inquiry on Eustis Majoris. Flects were prized and addictive on the black market, allowing a user to relive another’s recorded sensations, and their trade generated substantial illicit revenue within the hive’s underworld. Control of production and distribution networks was contested by criminal bosses and gang cartels operating beneath Petropolis, and the resulting struggle destabilised existing territorial arrangements among the hive’s underworld powers. The conflict remained largely hidden from the hive’s official authorities, conducted through intermediaries and enforcers in the underhive and its associated criminal economy. Ravenor’s cell, newly arrived on Eustis Majoris, began its investigation by probing the flect trade’s networks, an inquiry that subsequently uncovered connections to wider criminal and heretical interests on the world. The trade war thus served as the initial thread through which deeper conspiracies affecting Eustis Majoris were exposed, establishing the context for Ravenor’s broader operations in the sector.
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