So, I'll be the first to admit I don't always optimize, be it characters, or their means of conveyance, so I thought I'd ask for some good ideas, if not a whole ship build. I want some good ideas for a Conquest, with a Captain and crew devoted to ruins spelunking, and "treasure" hauling, along with maybe some mapping/cartography. Not really interested in moving people, be they military, or pilgrims. Stuff the galleon can be seen understandably having to go into unknown space, steal their treasure, if the owners are still around, and carry it off, for profit; a more "commercial" Rogue Trader's ship. This is going to have been the starting ship of a line, before the family became more militant, with a different ship, or where they are, now.

As an aside, what's usually a good point for a Rogue Trader to pass on his responsibilities? I have a whole familial line for the dynasty, small though that line is, and the people of their rank can live for 200+ years, with access to varying degrees of technology to either heal, or entirely bypass, certain ailments, and infirmities. Would it be reasonable for a Rogue Trader to have known his grandfather, while his father was the RT, or would grandpa have pretty much had to be dead, before dad was the warrant holder? Might he still have been spry, or just wasting away in a bed? Not sure how old you need to be to decide to give it up, especially if you could conduct your affairs from your ship, and through intermediaries. Between the force of will, and possible arrogance/hubris many Rogue Traders are assumed to have, I'm not sure how bad off, health-wise, one would usually have to be, before they decide to pass on their responsibilities, and enjoy relaxing at the end of a long life, when the system they live in doesn't have "mandatory retirement age", or sometimes even the expectation of living such a long life.

Lastly, since I don't want to page through numerous RT and DH books, I'll just ask. What sort of time gap is there between the end of Drusus' war, where he sort of becomes a living saint, and first Lord Sector Calixis, and the discovery of the stable Maw passage to the Expanse? The origin of the line I'm going with right now is that the first was one of Drusus' loyal confidantes, and as his reward for all the things he did, he received a warrant from the new Lord Sector. At a later point, when the Maw was proven stable, and the various Rogue Trader lines flocked to the new space of the Koronus Expanse, he did the same, and his line has been there, ever since. Is the time window going to work, or is there a 600-year gap, or something?

Okay, that's it. As always, thanks very much, and please have a good one.

The Angevin Crusade lasted from 322-384.M49, and Drusus died in retirement on 417.M39. Officially, anyway.

Epoch Koronus gives the hard date of the discover of the Maw at 997.M40. Prior to that, the Koronus Expanse was thought to be unnavigable. Officially anyway.

So there's actually about 1,500 years between the death of Saint Drusus and the discovery of the Koronus Expanse, which might actually be too much time for what you were thinking.

Yep, math makes for a sad me. Perhaps I'll have to have the family poke around the other "wild spaces" in the area, and then have one of the descendants follow the other Rogue Traders into the Expanse. Oh well, it's only a little thing, I suppose. Considering how eternal many wars of the Imperium drag on, I had no idea that the Angevin Crusade was so seemingly short an affair. I suppose the Imperial Calendar isn't quite as simple as 384-322=62 years, but there are places where battling continues, across single areas, for over a century, and this was across an entire sector.

Thanks for the book work, Erathia

Well, that's exactly how it is: It lasted 62 years, although for most campaigners significantly less than that because of time dilation from being in the Warp. The Angevin Crusade was actually reasonably long for the liberation of a sector, especially if you compare it to Macharius.

This is still theoretically workable. Perhaps a Rogue Trader was given a Warrant of Trade to support the Angevin Crusade, and at the end of it the warrant was sold off since it was now extant. When the Maw is discovered, the current holder argues that the Koronus Expanse, being adjacent to the Calixis Sector, was an implied frontier of the Angevin Crusade and should now be a viable candidate for trading.

Second option: Some of his faithful, recognising the danger of a Warp Storm on the borders of the Calixis Sector were left a Warrant of Trade in case the Maw was ever opened, and even though more than a millennium has passed, when the Maw is discovered the crazy faithful rally their forces and set off for Koronus to execute the last will of the Saint.