
Your ship will move there, letting you disembark at the station’s docks. Then, left-click your first destination - Footfall, a void station in the asteroid belt, one of the main trade hubs of the Koronus Expanse. To start, click the icon over the table with a big glowing green globe, located in the middle of the bridge. When you’ve finished exploring, it is time to get to your first quest - to repair the ship damaged in the encounter that led to the death of your predecessor. Hover over choices to see more details.Īfter character creation, you will have a short conversation with your officers, and then will be allowed to explore your voidship’s bridge and captain’s quarters, talking freely to your officers and companions. Choices made here determine your starting set of stats and skills. This is a temporary substitute for a proper character generation screen which will be available later. The first thing you’ll see in the game will be a book event screen, allowing you to select the specifics of your background. If you are not familiar with other games of this genre, we advise picking Normal difficulty.

You will be offered to select the difficulty, portrait, and the gender of your character.

Once you’ve launched the game, click “Start a new game”. You’ve inherited her voidship (simultaneously a mighty space fortress, a cathedral, and a factory - home to thousands of people) and her trade empire. The Alpha starts in Act 2, after the events of the prologue, where your predecessor, Theodora von Valancius, has died, leaving you as the new leader of the dynasty.

You are a Rogue Trader, one of the few truly unique individuals in the Imperium of Man, a galaxy-spanning human civilization living through a dark age of eternal warfare and terror, besieged from all sides by xenos, heretics, and existential horrors.Ī combination of an explorer, voidfaring merchant, and a powerful feudal lord, you operate on the fringes of known space, moving freely across the Imperium and beyond, standing far above most of the laws and limitations of the Imperium. Warhammer 40000: Rogue Trader is a turn-based сRPG set in the grim darkness of the far future.
