Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161111010915

XD this might take awhile.

The Codex known at large as the Codex Imperium is a book. A massive book one that is so large that is has to be split up into 5 books that are as equally as large and must be split up into dozens of books that must also be split into hundreds of little books and so fourth.

The Codex Imperium is split into 5 main sections:

Codex Historium (Split into 3 main sections, Civilis, Militum, and vetitum)

Codex Administratum (Split into dozens of books covering the Adminstratum departments and the Ministratums.)

Codex Militum (Split into the Legio, Classis, and Custudo which splits into dozens of books covering all the aspects of the branches)

Codex Hereticus (Split into the Internum, Xeno, and Forbidus)

Codex Civilis (Hundreds of branches I'm not bothering to list)

Each of the specific books (EX: Codex Ecclestum) is split into hundreds of small books that cover a specific topic, for example, their is a book on the tax code and a box on planetary tithes.

Now these books are not books in the sense we would think (Ex: Hereticus Xeno has 678,965 pages) To be able to fit the entire Codex Imperium you would need a library 4 times the size of the Library of Congress.

Each Codex is hand written for a multitude of reasons:

1. If all tech was to fail the future generations would still be able to govern themselves properly

2. The Information is never uploaded in any data base (For the most part)

3. Keeps the information within state control.

The duty of writing these novels goes to the imperial scribes. Their are hundreds of types of scribes all fall under the Authority of the Administratum as a whole. Some sit at imperial meetings to record the information for the Historium while others follow the legions to tell/write down their tale.

Scribes are assisted by 'Servitors' which are helpers that have had the Codex uploaded to their hard drive to help assist the Scribe (A servitor is like a floating orb) 