Mutabilis

conversation to cease, and meaningful glances to be exchanged.

The younger generation mocks it, until quelled by stern glares from their greybeard elders.

Parents tell their offspring the story of a ghost planet, beyond witchspace, lost in the void. The

name is interspersed throughout popular culture as a synonym for futility.

Pervading opinion suggests it is indeed a planet, but no one has ever seen it and lived to tell

the tale. Its very existence is in doubt, its reputation spread only by hearsay via notorious border-

land trading posts on the edge of inhabited space, far from civilisation. Where there is any overlap

in the reports that have come back, they seem to suggest Raxxla contains some kind of alien con-

struct – a gateway or portal to... somewhere else. The nature of this device remains unclear.

A number of missions have been undertaken with the express purpose of locating Raxxla,

some official, others less so. The most recent being undertaken some eight years ago by the Ryder

Expedition in early 3132. Two members of the expedition were recovered in an escape capsule

some months later, raving incoherently and dying shortly afterwards of an obscure degenerative

brain disease. As a result, some pundits have suggested Raxxla is guarded by a corps of ruthless,

power crazed Elitists who will stop at nothing to preserve their anonymity.

A planet older than the Galaxy itself, a gateway to different dimensions or a power base for

a clandestine group of Elite combateers; Raxxla remains as inexplicable as it is elusive.