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Well-dressed crews and ornately detailed voidships engender comment, most of it envious, in every port from the Maw to Naduesh. Even underdeck voidmen are required to uphold an uncommonly rigourous grooming standard or face a hundred lashes.{{Fn|3b}}
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'''House Chorda''' also known as '''House Bastaal-Chorda'''{{Fn|5}} is a [[Rogue Trader House]] and is one of the most powerful to operate out of the [[Calixis Sector]].{{Fn|1a}}
==Known Members==
*[[Esme Chorda]] - Led an alliance of [[Rogue Trader]] ships that aided in destroying the [[Space Hulk]] [[Cauldron of Savagery]] in 673.[[M40]]. The [[Imperium]] gifted House Chorda the freedom of the [[Drusus Marches]] [[Sub-sector]] in reward. Repealed a century later, but cemented Chorda as one of the [[Calixis Sector]]'s most powerful [[Rogue Trader House]]s.{{Fn|1a}}
==Dynastic Fleet==
Chorda’s ships tend toward small, fast frigate and raider class hulls to haul smaller, higher-yeild yield cargos. These are multi-role ships that can carry a respectable amount of cargo and can either fend off or run from serious trouble with equal skill. There are few capital ships in the service of the Chorda Dynasty—typically used to make a show of force or impress the impressionable.{{Fn|3b}} Well-dressed crews and ornately detailed voidships engender comment, most of it envious, in every port from the Maw to Naduesh. Even underdeck voidmen are required to uphold an uncommonly rigorous grooming standard or face a hundred lashes.{{Fn|3b}}
===Flagship===
[[Image:implacable_flame.jpg|right|500px]]
Initially laid down in [[M37]] at the [[Ryza]] yards as '''''Searing Light''''', '''''Implacable Flame''''' was the lead ship of her class, the experimental and failed [[Ignis Class Heavy Cruiser]]s. Designed to carry devastating plasma weaponry in large broadside batteries, the Ignus class was to be a close-quarters ship that would operate in squadrons of battleship killers. Their powerful engines and thick armour would allow them to weather fire while they closed with larger prey, where concentrated plasma broadsides would cripple a target. While good in theory, the plasma drives could not provide power for the weapons while maintaining thrust under heavy armour. Eventually it was decided that the continued upkeep of the only Ignus vessel was too expensive and she was decommissioned and sold out of the service.{{Fn|3c}}
Over the next few millennia she saw service with numerous provincial navies and private shipping concerns. She even spent a few centuries as the flagship of a [[Corsair]] Clan. She was rebuilt so often that it’s thought her keel is the only part of the original ship remaining. Unwanted, unloved, and unnecessarily maligned, she bounced from owner to owner then disappeared from all records for at least a thousand years. Eventually, she turned up as a hulk in the Koronus Expanse at the Breaking Yards at [[SR-651]]. It was there in her pitiful state that this much-reduced ship was noticed by Lord-Captain Aspyce Chorda. Encouraged by one of her closest advisors, a representative of the [[Mechanicus]], she purchased the sad hulk and returned her to the [[Drystan Construction Yards]] in the [[Calixis Sector]] for a lengthy and expensive overhaul.{{Fn|3c}}
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