What does one do when they have an indecent ammount of money, the legal ability to leave home and see the universe in all of its grim glory, and the obligation to grow the family's fame and fortune?

Why, buy up an ex-Imperial Navy escort ship for a start! Then you can set about carving out your own little chunk of the back end of the Imperium of Man... as soon as you can get it back into working order, of course... and deal with the fact that buying a ship left you just about broke...

You get the feeling that, somewhere out there, somthing is laughing at you.
Part 1 of the Aegisverse Saga.

Second Person is used throughout. If that isn't kosher with you, best to back out now.

A Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader fanfiction
Complete, with a total of 100 chapters and 309 pages.

On the series - This series was first written as a Choose Your own Adventure (CYoA) on the /r/HFY forum. The between chapter votes have been omitted, as they are not part of the story, despite their influence on it.

On the the Author's notes - These were included in the original document, and are included here for the purpose of completeness.

Spelling, grammatical, and formatting changes have been made in the process of archiving this story and re-formatting it for publication on Royal Road. None of the contents of the story has been substantially affected.
Cover by gej302!