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.
Military Forces of the Prosperitas Crusade
Though it commands incalculable numbers of individual military personnel and kilometer-long warships, the Prosperitas Crusade is a largely disregarded and under-resourced Imperial campaign. 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 distant 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 military factions that support it in force.
- The Prosperitas Crusade and High Command including the:
- The Astartes of the Void Hounds and the Sable Knives
- The Titans of the Legio Ferraeus and the Demi-Legio Custodii Incudatem
- The 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.
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 under attack by 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.
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.