“Rebels rise up and the segmentum lords blame our sinfulness, never their own incompetence. The Warp surges forth and the cardinals preach that the evil in our hearts has aggrieved the Emperor. Xenos fiends enslave our sons and daughters and the High Lords say that we are to blame, never that the Imperial Navy has been lax in the prosecution of its duties. Little wonder that the very stars abhor the rule of Terra, for what choice of path have we, the true sons of Askellon, ever been offered?”
–Unnamed author, The Decline and Fall of the Askellon Sector
Beyond the Grand Worlds and the Tributaries are those planets categorised as the Low Worlds, those with only fragmented or hazardous the Warp routes connecting them to other systems. Many are industrious contributors to the sector, lacking only better routes to allow them to become Tributary Worlds. Some are frontier worlds whose populations have never heard of the Imperium, or planets that have never known the tread of human feet. They are all nonetheless claimed by the rulers of Askellon, even if they exist as little more than an entry on a faded star chart.