Janus is an Imperial Agri-world in the Telikos Epsilon system of the Koronus Expanse that is part of the trade empire of the Rogue Trader House von Valancius.
Janus is covered in jungle plant life and was repurposed by House von Valancius to serve as a world where profitable cash crops could be grown for export to other worlds in the Expanse and the Calixis Sector.
Janus was once a world of the Aeldari Empire and a gate into the Webway remains operational on the planet. It was through this gate that the Craftworld Aeldari Ranger Yrliet Lanaevyss arrived on Janus to offer her services as a "mutant" sharpshooter to the planetary governor Vistenza Vyatt while searching for the location of her missing home, Craftworld Crudarach. To continue this search, Yrliet would later join the retinue of the new Rogue Trader of the von Valancius dynasty following their arrival on Janus.
History[]
A gate into the interdimensional corridors of the Aeldari Webway remains operational on Janus. It was through this gate that the Craftworld Aeldari Ranger Yrliet Lanaevyss arrived on Janus to offer her services as a "mutant" sharpshooter to the planetary governor Vistenza Vyatt while searching for the location of her missing home, Craftworld Crudarach.
Few worlds are as fertile as the rare gems scattered throughout the galaxy, those elusive and storied paradise worlds in which anything can take in their soil. Among this pantheon of sought-after planets stands the pinnacle of gaia worlds -- the likes of Janus.
Janus sits as the golden bread basket of the Rogue Trader von Valancius dynasty, an Agri-world capable of producing such a magnificent bounty of crops that every world settled by the house's lord captain need not worry for foodstuffs so long as it remains under their control. Whether through animal husbandry, typical agriculture or more esoteric methods employed by the Imperium to produce food, there is always a great yield to be had here by those who know how best to manage such an obstinate world. However, it is but one amongst a trio of gem worlds that bring untold prosperity to the von Valancius Protectorate in the Koronus Expanse, including Janus, Dargonus and Kiava Gamma. Each one works in conjunction with the other, providing what they cannot produce on their own.
However, with the collapse of well-trodden Warp corridors and loss of much navigational information in the wake of a recent Warp storm, Janus alongside its two sister von Valancius worlds have become cut off from a once equitable partnership. Thus it falls to the new Rogue Trader of the dynasty to reunite and relink these worlds, restoring House von Valancius to its former glory and more.
Unlike many Agri-worlds in the Imperium, Janus has always been a temperamental mistress for which a strong hand is needed to guide and make ready for the harvest. But few of the vassal leaders of the von Valancius dynasty had the wherewithal to stand up to her. That is until the Vyatt family took up the reins and managed to tame this ornery world for their Rogue Trader lord.
Through techniques and methods cultivated over solar decades of diligent service to the dynasty, the Vyatt family achieved agricultural wonders no other planetary governor could dream of. They brought thousands of acres to heel, managed to till enough cropland to feed ten planets three times over, and learned new and better ways to stamp out the unruly weeds that cropped up from time to time. Much like a maestro orchestrating a grand symphony, the secrets of the world continued to pour forth into their ears like sweet honey. But not all is well in a world bereft of the oversight of its dynasty, of a lord captain.
War has come to Janus with all its turmoil and horror, and it will take a set of sharpened ears and the stout hand of the House von Valancius heir to set things right in paradise. The conflict had emerged because the world's planetary governor, Vistenza Vyatt, an Imperial noble who was a vassal of House von Valancius, had treated the local farming population very harshly in an attempt to keep productivity and efficiency as high as possible. These abuses resulted in the outbreak of a rebellion against von Valancius rule.
The rebellion was ultimately put down by the new Rogue Trader of House von Valancius after they and their retinue arrived at Janus to reintegrate it fully into the von Valancius Protectorate's economy following a series of Warp storms that had disrupted Warp routes across the Koronus Expanse. It is unknown how the Rogue Trader resolved the rebellion, either turning against their tyrannical planetary governor and instituting reforms to make their labourers' lives better, or siding with vyatt and suppressing the rebellion once and for all an an affront to the God-Emperor's divinely ordained regime.