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At first, the people felt they were free to speak their minds again, no longer subject to the gruesome punishments of the Night Haunter, but replacing his autocracy with the Administratum soon became a return to the old ways{{Fn|1}}. Eventually [[Ashkar Skraivok]], a relative of the [[Night Lords]] Captain [[Gendor Skraivok]], launched a coup that massacred the [[Imperial Governor]] and his cabinet. Ashkar did not secede from the Imperium, but declared the old ways of Nostramo were to be restored.{{Fn|6}} The bureaucratic corruption of the Administratum was bad enough, but the Emperor's arrival robbed the Nostramans of their ignorance. They now knew that there were better places in the galaxy than this one and they would never be able to see them. The only class of people who would ever get off-world were the new breed of violent criminals who were selected to fill the ranks of the [[Night Lords]] [[Space Marine Legion]]{{Fn|1}}{{Fn|4}}.The criminals were dispatched to the Legion as the old nobility of Nostramo, now gaining strength in Curze's absence, intended to keep the best fighters for their own interests.{{Fn|6}}