Factions of the Prosperitas Sector

It is a cunningly spun lie that the Imperium is one united entity – a thousand spiralling arms of the Imperial Government, an infinite number of Noble bloodlines, and all manner of expressions of faith are constantly locked in subtle conflict for the right to guide and control the very soul of the Imperium. The Imperium of the 41st Millennium is only united by its shared fear of everything beyond its borders, from the Xenos and the Criminals to the forces of the Archenemy. Were it not for these threats putting combined pressure upon the Imperium, it would have likely imploded many years ago. Indeed, civil war is not unknown in the span of Imperial History, often not fought over some heresy, or because of the tainted touch of some outside influence, but because the endless competition of various factions of the Imperium inevitably leads to hostilities.

The Ordos Prosperitas

The Prosperitas Sector has always been plagued by strife, and so long as there have been Imperial forces attempting to pacify it, there have been Inquisitors fighting in the shadows against the myriad foes that lurk there. For as long as the Sector has had an ongoing Crusade, agents of the Inquisition have remained in the shadows hunting down first the remnant threats of the Regency, and now the rebels and heretics the unstable sector is prone to producing. Collectively the Ordos Prosperitas - known in Low Gothic as the Prosperitas Conclave - are sworn to defend the Prosperitas Sector from the threats that lurk in the shadows, and to defend the wider Imperium from the threats the Sector contains within its ancient worlds.

• The Prosperitas Conclave

Military Forces of the Prosperitas Crusade

Though it commands incalculable numbers of individual military personnel and kilometer-long warships, the Prosperitas Crusade is disregarded and under-resourced relative to Imperial campaigns in other Sectors. While those who join it and lead it are devoted towards its eventual victory, the distant powers of Holy Terra show little interest in its fate and that of this far frontier of the Imperium so very removed from their affairs, and those of the Imperial state.

The Prosperitas Crusade is divided between those who directly serve the Warmaster in the Crusade 'proper' and those other military factions that support it in force.

• The Prosperitas Crusade and High Command including:

• • The Battlefleet Prosperitas
  • The Imperial Guard Regiments of the Loyal One Hundred
  • The Prosperitas Commissariat and Stormtrooper Regiments

• The Astartes of the Lions of Nemea

• The Adeptus Titanicus - the Titans of the Legio Ferraeus and the Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem

• The Questor Mechanicum Knights of the Houses of Anaximund

Noble Houses in the Prosperitas Sector

Born from the bloodlines of the Sector's conquerors, the Nobility, the Houses of the Prosperitas Sector have storied histories stretching back to the Sector's founding. But despite their heroic roots in the military conquests of the Prosperitas Crusade, the Noble Houses have lost focus upon the great heroism of their ancestors and turned to their own petty selfish needs, waging war on each other in order to expand their own control over the Sector.

• These comprise the Great Houses of the Prosperitas Sector:

• • House Durovera
  • House Vilas-Lobo
  • Houses Palamyr and Caerlyn
  • House Di Firro
  • House Majid
  • House Ruttyer
  • House Globex
  • House Volkov
  • House Sarandeen
  • House Roshan-Fikran

• the Minor and Former Houses of the Prosperitas Sector

• and the Navigators of the Navis Nobilite Houses of the Prosperitas Sector

The Adeptus Arbites in the Prosperitas Sector

The Adeptus Arbites are the Imperial law enforcement and judiciary. Oath-sworn to uphold Imperial Law above all else, they pursue, prosecute, judge and summarily punish the most serious criminals, answering to neither Planetary Governor nor Noble House in their pursuit of the Emperor’s Justice.

• The Adeptus Arbites

The Ecclesiarchy in the Prosperitas Sector

Wounded by conflict, the Ecclesiarchy in the Prosperitas Sector is recovering from the influence of a bloody internal struggle fought between loyalists and the heretics of the Temple of the Saviour Emperor led by now-executed Heresiarch Grulge.

• The Ecclesiarchy Sects of the Prosperitas Sector

• The Orders of the Adepta Sororitas in the Prosperitas Sector

The Mechanicus in the Prosperitas Sector

The Three Forges of the Prosperitas Sector each have their own massively divergent philosophy on their approach to their faith and their mastery of technology. This has historically led to political spats and confrontations between them that have boiled over on occasion to open hostility. Each Forge is culturally and philosophically distinct, and their ways are alien to each other.

• The Mechanicus Priesthood of Ferraeus

• The Mechanicus Priesthood of Naximus Prime

• Lastly, the Explorator Fleets form a nomadic, somewhat-independent element of the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Significant Ethnic Groups of the Prosperitas Sector

While not factions in their own right, there are some significant sub-groups and cultures found within the Imperial population of the Prosperitas Sector whose differences make them notable enough to be mentioned in detail.

The primary population of the Prosperitas sector is split between:

• The Imperial Colonists who arrived with the Prosperitas Crusade.

• The Annwfyn ethnic group, who represent the original human settlers of the Prosperitas Sector prior to both Regency and Imperial rule.

• The Ruwwad ethnic group who lost many of their homeworlds during the formation of the Tenebris Arm

There are also two fairly significant subgroups:

• The Voidborn, a subculture amongst those humans born in space, who rarely visit worlds.

• The Raivans, an Abhuman subspecies unique to the Prosperitas Sector with their own unique subculture.