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 it’s shared fear of everything beyond its borders of the Xenos and the Criminals and 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, and indeed civil war is not unknown in the span of Imperial History. 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, eventually.

Imperial Factions in the Prosperitas Sector

Unity, in the Prosperitas Sector has always come as a result of necessity, the Prosperitas Crusade used to ensure loyalty to a single goal, and a single cause, reclaiming the Sector in the Emperor's name, but in recent years these bonds have begun to unravel as personal ambitions have grown in the face of the Archenemy's seeming defeat. Recent years have proven these indulgences to have been lethally stupid but it has not ended the bitter feuds that have divided the Sector.

The Ordo 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 a Crusade ongoing, agents of the Inquisition have remained in the shadows hunting down first the lingering 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 oathed to defend the Prosperitas Sector from the threats that lurk in the shadows, and the wider Imperium from the threats the Prosperitas Sector contains within its ancient worlds.

• The Prosperitas Conclave

The Prosperitas Crusade

Once, the Prosperitas Crusade was the entire reason for the Sector's existence, but several shameful performances from its leadership and the loss of multiple prominent Leaders have seen it loose the support of Terra and of the Prosperitas leadership in recent years. It endures, but its existence has long-hung on the knife edge, kept alive by skilled commanders. But life has not got easier in recent years despite the Archenemy's resurgence. Planetary tithes and loyalties once-pledged to the Crusade have been diverted to serve political ends, and the Crusade's leadership finds itself increasingly fighting attempts by the Nobility to politicize it.

• Crusade High Command

• Battlefleet Prosperitas

• Regiments of the Imperial Guard Prosperitas

• The Officio Praefectus Prosperitas

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.

• House Durovera

• House Vilas-Lobo

• House Palamyr

• House Caerlyn

• House Di Firro

• House Majid

• House Ruttyer

• House Globex

• House Volkov

• Minor and Former Houses of the Prosperitas Sector

The Ecclesiarchy in the Prosperitas Sector

The Ecclesiarchy has become fragmented, the iron fist of the rule of Cardinal-Emissiarus Grulge has officially been ended by his declaration as an apostate by the Ecclesiarch on Terra but he still holds power, and his sizable faction of the proscribed Temple of the Saviour Emperor holds considerable spiritual and political sway over the fragmented regions of Eremus Interdictum

• Loyal Factions of the Priesthood

• The Order of His Sanguine Tears

• The Temple of the Saviour Emperor

• The Gearwrights

• Other Sects of the Imperial Cult

The Mechanicus in the Prosperitas Sector

The Machine Cult could be argued to be more schismatic then its Imperial sibling, the Three Forges of the Prosperitas Sector each have their own massively divergent philosophies on their approach to their faith and their mastery of technology. This has historically led to multiple political spats and confrontations between them that have boiled over on occasion to open hostility. Each forge is culturally, and philosophically, distinct - its ways alien to eachother, and the mechanicum.

Beyond the Three Forges there are also the Questor Mechanicus, and the Titan Legions that are bonded to the forges but distinct entities in their own right.

• The Mechanicus Ferraeus

• The Mechanicus Naximus

• The Mechanicus Castellum

• Legio Ferraeus

• Demi-Legio Custodi Incudem

• The Knight-Houses of Anaximund

The Astartes in the Prosperitas Sector

For many years the Prosperitas Sector and the Prosperitas Crusade did not see the blessing of the presence of members of the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, the Emperor's Angels of Death. But the space of recent years has seen the arrival of not one, but two groups of Astartes from two Chapters of these potent transhuman warriors.

• The Void Hounds

• The Sable Knives

Other Factions in the Prosperitas Sector

While the above factions represent the primary players in the Prosperitas Sector there are a few minor factions of Imperial servants worth noting for their importance even if they have so-far played a minor part in events.