Minor and Former Houses of the Prosperitas Sector

The Myriad of the Nobility

Beyond the Great Houses there are hundreds of smaller noble Houses in the Prosperitas Sector, these are divided between the Vassal Houses to swear their allegiance to one of the Great Houses, the Cadet-Houses who take their names from the Great Houses from which they are born and double-barrel it with the chosen name of their bloodline, and the Lesser Houses which are often young newly-formed families currently independent of the rule of one of the Great Houses. Although a Vassal House, Cadet-House or a Lesser House are technically of the same social standing, a Cadet or Vassal House will be more appealing for marriage because of the guarantee of protection from a Great House.

Because all but a few worlds within the Prosperitas Sector were awarded to their various governors as ‘prizes’ for military service and outstanding actions in the line of duty, the majority of the noble Houses in the Sector are young by Imperial standards. Most of them trace their lineage back to Imperial officers and war heroes who were elevated to noble status when they were granted dominion over their worlds. These majority of these smaller Houses are too small and too numerous to cover in this entry, and their power is simply not enough to move things on the interstellar scale, though a few families of note are covered below.

House Sarandeen

Sits at the centre of a vast trade empire and holds the Munitorum charter for the production and distribution of all conventional solid-slug ammunition across the Prosperitas Sector – formerly a vassal of House Majid until it broke with them in the aftermath of an assassin murdering many of its senior members and its ancestral home on Kydos being destroyed. Unable to believe House Majid could protec them they swore themselves to House Vilas-Lobo becoming their Vassals.

The House continues to hold its charter for solid-slug ammunition only adding to the power of its Vilas-Lobo Masters, but seeing the fate of other former Majid vassals who have been disbanded and assimilated into the whole of its new Masters, it worries for its future.

House Roshan-Fikran

Renowned for its impressive educational facilities on the hollowed-out moon of Mazar-63, the House provides funding to multiple educational establishments across the sector, taking nothing but inducting their best graduates into their own facilities, or indeed adopting them into the house.

For this reason despite being only a 'lesser' House in terms of the conventional measure of power within the Sector, Roshan-Fikran remains an influential House thanks to its position as an educator of the best and brightest.

Fallen and Lost Houses

In the brutal environment of the Prosperitas Frontier many Houses do not survive more than a few generations, falling victim to rivals or simply the ardours of surviving on the worlds they have colonise. Others, have suffered darker fates and those still worth mentioning are listed here in memoriam and as a warning to those who follow them.

Hose Van Der Vyver

Once known and well liked as the 'Healer House' of Korimesta, House Van Der Vyver was revealed in 592.M41 to be a Warp Cult in service to the foul Plague God of the Archenemy, this monstrous betrayal ripped though the social order of Korimesta as it was revealed that many of the historic outbreaks of disease amongst the population had been down to the Houses cruel manipulations of the hearts of the populace.

Though the House was destroyed by the Inquisition in the aftermath of the revelation of its true loyalties, the damage was already done, and the loss of faith in the Nobility played a big part in the spread of Rising Flame sympathies throughout the population of Korimesta that would lead to its failed rebellion against the Imperium in 594.M41.

House Monforte

Once a great House, House Monfore was the only House other than House Durovera to count a Warmaster as one of their renowned relatives, House Monforte was more widely known for their monopoly over interplanetary transport of live human cargo trading slaves as well as providing passenger vessels. This did not make them particularly popular, as their extortionate prices for transport made them intensely unpopular amongst Imperial Citizens who saw the House as money-grabbing parasites. This was not helped by the poor reputation of Warmaster Monforte, but was far worse by the end of its history thanks to a series of poor ventures resulting in massive financial losses.

The loss of the HMSS St Sanguinius in 594.M41 financially crippled the House and it was on the verge of losing its Noble Charter when it's tithe-fleet bringing owed revenue to Durovernum was suddenly and mysteriously lost in the void, the loss of its wealth followed by the death of many members of the family at the hands of assassins, resulted in the House being declared insolvent and most of its surviving bloodline scattering to the winds seeking shelter by marrying with their meagre possessions into lesser Noble houses.