Here a thousand forms of deadly intrigue can be found, and anything from a starship to a human soul can be bartered in Footfall - for a price. Beneath this tumult of lawlessness can be found and an even more shadowy world: hereteks, cultists, unrestrained criminals, unsanctioned psykers, and worse. Here, religious fanatics rub shoulders with assassins, spies, fugitives from Imperial justice, narco-tribesmen, rowdy crew on furlough, and a wide range of disreputable merchants. Over the centuries since its establishment, Footfall has become a lair of villainy and intrigue, the descendants of its original population of stoneworkers and Rogue Trader vassals now far outnumbered by less-reputable newcomers. The few structures that have their own stable grav generators are highly desired prizes and are fought over by the most powerful factions, changing hands over the corpses and regrets of their prior occupants with alarming regularity. Sections of Footfall have no gravity, and many have fluctuating levels of generated gravity.
Many of Footfall’s buildings would not look out of place upon a planetary surface, while other spiral mazes and winding tunnels of unsupported stone would fall apart under the tug of gravity. At the very centre is tethered a huge macro-statue of the God-Emperor, larger than many warships. Most are linked by enclosed stonework tunnels and arch-bridges, in addition to huge steel chains. It is a mass of buttressed temples and plasma-pitted fanes whose towers jut out at all angles into the void. The settlement that was once Dewain’s Footfall, and now simply Footfall, is a tethered network of hundreds of stone structures floating in void surrounding the red star Furibundus.
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