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[Naturegirl1999]

Gentile (1) NG
Moderate (0)
Harsh (0)

[Glass]

Gentile (1) NG
Moderate (1) Glass
Harsh (0)

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Harsh. WH40k is one of the toughest realities in fiction. Any opportunity to be strong or endure hardship is a plus here. Hell, there is not even a Heaven as we mortals screwed up the spiritual realms via existing ( The Warp.)

[Rockeater]

Gentile (1) NG
Moderate (1) Glass
Harsh (2) TL Rockeater

[Glass]

I think technically the immaterium is currently an ok place. It shouldn't be until the Eldar royally fuck up both figuratively and literally that it becomes the shitshow it is at 40k.

[chaotick21]

Gentile (1)NG
Moderate (1) Glass
Harsh (3) TL Rockeater, Chaoskl21

[Ardent Debater]

Gentile (1)NG
Moderate (1) Glass
Harsh (3) TL Rockeater, Chaoskl21

Harsh. Vast and crimson, the sun pours unthinking malice onto all within its embrace, radioactivity that would render the hardiest of man a scalded mass of tumors in a fraction of Terra's rotation. Most species would deem this system uninhabitable, worthless for settlement outside of what mineral or relic bounty might lie within, but to one, it is their origin, for good or ill. Though they don't yet exist, as the proto-system calms and the sun simmers still, a spiraling planetoid stumbles into tumultuous orbit. It is only one of a few, notable solely in that it's destined to become the site of something more.

How close does this feeble satellite's orbit bring it to the monstrous sun?

Extremely Close: The heat is beyond human comprehension, water boils in open air and if life is here, it has taken a form radically different from what a practitioner of conventional xenobiology would expect.
Somewhat Close: The sun looms large in the atmosphere and its presence is felt, a weight on any who would dare enter its sight, sapience would find cold to be a rare and exotic notion.
Middling: Neither close nor far, close-minded scholars would call this the goldilocks zone and were it not for the radiation, find it no surprise, though there's ample room for variance in temperate climes.
Somewhat Far: The sun is a pinprick against the horizon, distant and felt only in a feeble warmth insufficient to stop the chill, the sole distinction between day and night is the horrible glare burning a hole in the sky or the lack thereof.
Extremely Far: The cold is all-consuming, as is the dark and stark solitude, the planetoid could be said to be a part of the system in that it follows its orbit, and then only slightly, the glint of the sun is scarcely distinguishable from any other star.
Elliptical: Fate is cruel in this universe and it has chosen to afford the future life-forms of this planetoid no respite. Instead of a stable orbit allowing a sense of perpetuity, its orbit brings it spinning close and far, from boiling back to freezing. If life is here, it adheres to an adaptive cycle or it is snuffed out.

Spoiler:  The Home System (click to show/hide)

Location: The Galactic South
Sun's Radiation: Harsh

[Screech9791]

Middling, because fuck it

[Lidku]

Middling

[chubby2man]

Middling

[Shadowclaw777]

Eliptical

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Neg. middling. Closer would make it more exotic and useful. But the idea our Xenos deals with the radiation akin  to Monsterverse  Kaiju is a plus. ( As yeah in Legendary Godzilla. Earth was supervirradiated in time before Dinosaurs, when Godzilla and his pals roamed the Earth. No not all of us being gigantic monsters, that notion is silly. Is being that damn tough to the point we may evolve energy attack resistance? He’ll yeah.)

Note: Because Tau Ion weaponry, kills you by radiation, the Human Techpriests have guns like that, and Melta guns in general involve atomics. Just throwing that out there.  ( In fiction, Mass Effect Turians got our set up.)

[Tyrant Leviathan]

I think technically the immaterium is currently an ok place. It shouldn't be until the Eldar royally fuck up both figuratively and literally that it becomes the shitshow it is at 40k.

Errr the Immaterium always has pores so, it depends where we are in the time scale. Alan way wa born 10k years before the Imperium of Man stuff, the other 3 Chaos Godscwere made due to humans way back in BC.

Also in narrative the Orks and Nids and Necrons and etc. WH40k is basically stylish Hell as a system of a war game franchise. No way in Hell the killing will ever stop and things are doomed to get worse. Hell if the God Emperor completes his plan for an secular human society, a 5th Chaos God of unbelief would have been born.

The only solution for the Warp is to make everyone in material play nice.

That shit is not happening.

[Ardent Debater]

Extremely Close: (0)
Somewhat Close: (0)
Middling: (4) 0rca_tr0per, Lidku, chubby2man, Tyrant Leviathan
Somewhat Far: (0)
Extremely Far: (0)
Elliptical: (1) Shadowclaw777

The planetoid's distance from the star could be held to lie in its goldilock's zone, were such possible with a star so extreme. Neither too close or too far, its Middling distance affords it a rare variety in the cosmos, of merciless heat and biting cold, and life within it will learn to endure the same or return to the particulate murk from whence it came. The state of the sun and the planetoid's distance from it are critical factors of how life takes shape, but perhaps not so close as the raw weight.

How large is the planetoid, and consequently, how severe is its gravitational pull?

Tiny: A fourth of Terra's size if not smaller, there is little room for expansion except outward and less for hesitation, as the small resource base demands progress be made. Life-forms on these worlds tend to be lightweight and fragile, but dexterous to compensate and well-suited to zero-gravity.
Small: Close to half of Terra's size, perhaps larger, the weakness of gravity is noticeable, allowing a man to advance in leaps and bounds. Life-forms on these worlds are often slim and feeble by terrestrial standards, though a mite faster and quicker to adjust to zero-gravity conditions.
Moderate: Near exact to Terra, though inevitably a shade smaller or larger, the gravitational pull is neither weak or strong and there's no reliable method of predicting what life could arise, except that it's likely to be somewhere between either of the extremes.
Large: Anywhere between one and half-again the size of Terra or twice so, room to grow is ample but gravity is stubborn, demanding ingenuity or unorthodox methods to escape its well. Life-forms on these worlds are notably hardy and strong, but clumsy in the absence of weight pulling them down.
Enormous: Easily five times the weight of Terra or more, the immensity of its bulk may keep ambitions inward, as does the nigh-insurmountable difficulty of escaping orbit. Life-forms on these worlds often possess hulking strength and toughness, but fare poorly without pressure to accompany them.

Spoiler:  The Home System (click to show/hide)

Location: The Galactic South
Sun's Radiation: Harsh
Home-World's distance from Sun: Middling
Home-World's Size: To be determined

[Ardent Debater]

Spoiler:  GM Note (click to show/hide)

You won't be able to ignore the implications of gravity entirely, at least as far as the initial challenge of getting the species into space goes, but evolution has myriad paths and none can predict what horrors and wonders may grow under alien stars.