Cestelle Alliance
The Cestelle Alliance was born on the planet Regulus. When the Administratum adepts were all killed by a meteor impact, the small feudal kingdoms took over the management of their world. When contact with the Imperium was re-established, the alliance of indigenous peoples ran the Agri-World more efficiently than the Administratum, and were left to their own devices as long as their tithe of food was met. From there the Alliance sent members to other, less promising worlds and transformed them over the following decades into fertile agri-worlds in their own rights, until the Cestelle Alliance amassed the wealth and power to make them the equal of the other Great Sector Houses.[1]
To keep the Alliance firmly on the Imperial side, Sector Governor Hax appointed Egoyan Cestelle as the governor of the Adrantis Nebula. The Alliance participates in the sector’s games of politics and etiquette, even though it is considered little more than a gang of primitive yokels by most other nobles, and resisting visits or interference by adepts to their agri-worlds. The traditions of Regulus include facial tattooing (with the higher-ranking nobles sporting extraordinarily intricate scrollwork), incinerating the house’s dead on funeral pyres and praying to the Emperor in the raucous manner first taught to the people of Regulus by Imperial missionaries.[1]
Sources
- 1: Dark Heresy: Core Rulebook, pg. 313
