The Ghoul Stars are a sinister region lying beyond the galactic rim, a stretch of dying and dead suns cloaked in an especially fearsome reputation. Even by the standards of a galaxy full of horrors, this shadowed frontier is regarded with dread, for it is said to be home to ancient powers older and stranger than almost anything the Imperium has faced.
The region takes its ominous name from the pallid, guttering light of its aging stars, and it has long been associated with menaces that predate the rise of humanity. Among the terrors linked to the Ghoul Stars are the Necrons, the undying skeletal legions who slumbered for aeons in tomb worlds scattered through the dark, alongside other xenos horrors whose nature the Imperium scarcely comprehends. Expeditions that stray too far into the region seldom return.
For the Imperium, the Ghoul Stars are a place to be feared and avoided rather than conquered, a graveyard of stars from which nightmares periodically emerge. Its worlds are little mapped and less understood, and the Imperial presence there is thin to the point of nonexistence, a forsaken frontier as shunned as the Halo Stars on the galaxy's far edge. The region stands as one of the galaxy's great dark corners, where the light of dying suns falls upon secrets best left undisturbed.