Editing NiS/Background (section)

==Xenos in the Eastern Fringe==
The Eastern Fringe is home to many alien races, although many are confined to a single home world or system. 

Others, such as the advanced and enigmatic Demiurg, apparently reside solely on board massive commerce vessels. These stately craft have become an increasingly regular sight in the Ultima Segmentum over the last centuries, either lending their might to those who offer sufficient financial incentive, those whom they deem as allies - as well as their legendary wars against the Ork race. 

The mighty Alaitoc and once-great Iyanden Craftworlds are the most prominent members of the scattered Eldar diaspora in the Eastern Fringe, relying on the Webway -- alongside the Exodite and other Craftworld populations of the region -- to travel from world to world, either as Rangers following the Path of the Outcast, or astride the wings of the mighty war fleets of the craftworlds -- or the lethal talons of the Corsair fleets. So, too, do the Druchii ply the stars via the Webway, striking at colonies and starships in search of souls to enslave. 

The Orks are as numerous and militant in the Eastern Fringe as in any other region of the galaxy, their warp-capable starships and commandeered space hulks guided by their warlike gods to battle against alien races, when they feel bored fighting each other! 

Like a terrible shadow covering the worlds of the Galactic races, the inexorable force of the Hive Mind brushes aside any psionic resistance as its hive ships ply the stellar void, seeking new worlds to strip of resources and new species to consume. 

Eschewing the use of the Immaterium entirely, the ruthless and ancient starships of the Necrontyr use their higly advanced Inertialess Drives to roam the galaxy at will, working towards the time when the bridge between realspace and the empyrean is sealed forever -- and their C'tan masters gorge on the younger races. 

Guided by the same warp entities who seek to consume the souls of every living being, the pirate fleets of Chaos have found fresh hunting grounds in the region, despite the great distance to the Eye of Terror. 

Given the increasingly precarious situation the Imperium finds itself in the Eastern Fringe, many worlds find themselves de facto abandoned to their fate, be it as fodder for the Hive Mind, as cattle for the Orks or soul-morsels for the Ruinous Powers. 

Thankfully, there is a new dynamic on the Eastern Fringe which offers the most rare commodity in the galaxy at war: hope