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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 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:

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.

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-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 [[Known Xenos of the Prosperitas Sector|Xenos]] and the [[Criminals]] and the forces of the [[The Archenemy|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.
+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 [[Known Xenos of the Prosperitas Sector|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.
-=== '''Imperial Factions in the Prosperitas Sector''' ===
+=== The Ordos Prosperitas ===
-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 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]]
-=== 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]]
+=== 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 ===
+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.
-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 [[The Archenemy|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]]
+* [[The Prosperitas Crusade and High Command]] including:
-* [[Battlefleet Prosperitas]]
+** [[The Battlefleet Prosperitas]]
+** [[Imperial Guard Regiments of the Loyal One Hundred|The Imperial Guard Regiments of the Loyal One Hundred]]
+** [[The Prosperitas Commissariat and Stormtrooper Regiments]]
-* [[The Imperial Guard Prosperitas|Regiments of the Imperial Guard Prosperitas]]
+* The Astartes of the [[The Lions of Nemea|Lions of Nemea]]
-* [[The Officio Praefectus Prosperitas]]
+* The Adeptus Titanicus - the Titans of the [[Legio Ferraeus]] and the [[Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem]]
+* The Questor Mechanicum Knights of the [[The Knight Houses of Anaximund|Houses of Anaximund]]
 === Noble Houses in the Prosperitas Sector ===
-Born from the bloodlines of the Sector's conquerors, the Noble 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.
+Born from the bloodlines of the Sector's conquerors, the [[The Imperial Nobility|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 Durovera]]
+** [[House Vilas-Lobo]]
+** [[Houses Palamyr and Caerlyn]]
+** [[House Di Firro]]
+** [[House Majid]]
+** [[House Ruttyer]]
+** [[House Globex]]
+** [[House Volkov]]
+** [[House Sarandeen]]
+** [[House Roshan-Fikran]]
-* [[House Vilas-Lobo]]
+* the [[Minor and Former Houses of the Prosperitas Sector]]
-* [[House Palamyr]]
-* [[House Caerlyn]]
-* [[House Di Firro]]
+* and the Navigators of the [[Navis Nobilite Houses of the Prosperitas Sector]]
-* [[House Majid]]
-* [[House Monforte]]
-* [[House Ruttyer]]
+=== 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.
-* [[House Globex]]
+* [[The Adeptus Arbites in the Prosperitas Sector|The Adeptus Arbites]]
-* [[House Volkov]]
-* [[Minor 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 '''[[The Prosperitas Sector|Eremus Interdictum]]'''
+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 [[The_Ecclesiarchy_Sects_of_the_Prosperitas_Sector#The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Temple_of_the_Saviour_Emperor|Temple of the Saviour Emperor]] led by now-executed Heresiarch [[Grulge]].
-* [[Ecclesiarchy Loyalists|Loyal Factions of the Priesthood]]
-* [[The Order of His Sanguine Tears]]
-* [[The Temple|The Temple of the Saviour Emperor]]
+* [[The Ecclesiarchy Sects of the Prosperitas Sector]]
-* [[The Gearwrights]]
-* [[Other Sects of the Imperial Cult in the Prosperitas Sector|Other Sects of the Imperial Cult]]
+* [[The Orders of the Adepta Sororitas in the Prosperitas Sector]]
 === 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.
+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.
-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.
-* [[Ferraeus|The Mechanicus Ferraeus]]
-* [[Naximus Prime|The Mechanicus Naximus]]
+* [[The Mechanicus Priesthood of Ferraeus]]
-* [[Castellum|The Mechanicus Castellum]]
+* [[The Mechanicus Priesthood of Naximus Prime]]
-* [[Legio Ferraeus]]
+* Lastly, the [[Explorator Fleets of the Prosperitas Sector|Explorator Fleets]] form a nomadic, somewhat-independent element of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
-* [[Demi-Legio Custodi Incudem]]
+=== 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 Knight-Houses of Anaximund]]
+The primary population of the Prosperitas sector is split between:
+* The [[Imperial Colonists]] who arrived with the [[Prosperitas Crusade]].
-=== The Astartes in the Prosperitas Sector ===
+* The [[Annwfyn]] ethnic group, who represent the original human settlers of the Prosperitas Sector prior to both [[Regency]] and Imperial rule.
-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 [[Ruwwad]] ethnic group who lost many of their homeworlds during the formation of the [[Timeline_of_Historical_Events#331.M41_-_The_Tenebris_Arm_-|Tenebris Arm]]
-* [[The Sable Knives]]
+There are also two fairly significant subgroups:
+* The [[Voidborn]], a subculture amongst those humans born in space, who rarely visit worlds.
-=== Other Factions in the Prosperitas Sector ===
+* The [[Raivans]], an Abhuman subspecies unique to the Prosperitas Sector with their own unique subculture.
-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.