Hi,
Since my players have done the Inquisitor thing we've deceided do the political thing, I always liked the Dune series and the original move had some great scenes which inspired me to this.
This is the basic history for the campaign:
Welcome young pupils I was expecting you, my name is Adept Gregorius of the Adept Monks and I’m here to teach you some of our history and ways.Our people left Holy Terra some eight and a half thousand years ago with three ships and a handful of escorts right after the event which was than called the Horus Heresy. Holy Terra was in turmoil and we needed a new place to start over.The three ships of the Desolator Class were called The Righteous, The Vigilant and The Fury, the three ships together carried a bit over three hundred thousand souls.We entered the Warp guided by the Astropath Navigator on the Fury, what exactly transpired on The Fury after we entered the Warp is mostly unknown, but from the few Data Stream rapports we did receive we suspect it was a mutiny.What we do know is that the Astropath Navigator was killed and that we were expelled from the Warp totally off course and with our Gellar shield beyond repair. To make the matter worse The Fury crashed unto the only inhabitable planet within range almost totally obliterating the southern hemisphere and poisoning the atmosphere for over 400 years.So for the centuries after the crash we endured in our two remaining ships, our numbers dwindled and when our geologists and atmosphere surveyors finally declared the planet inhabitable there were only one hundred thousand descendants left of the original settlers.The settlers settled on the northern continent, a landmass approximately the size of what we used to call Europe on Holy Terra.Of the original three greater noble houses and 12 lesser noble houses there were now only 2 greater and 5 lesser houses left.The greater houses are House Gheiron and of course House Carseirron, the lesser houses are Diaspora, Myratha, Noxia, Satehra and Sibulla.Our people were sick all the years in those defective ships had left a trace; our people didn’t age well any more and few survived the rightful age of thirty, most died of virulent forms of cancer and with too little medicine to go around our number increased only slowly.But eventually we managed grow and become the marvellous society we are today.But there were more sacrifices than just human lives; the technology supplied by the Red Priesthood was unfortunately also lost for a great part along with the means to reproduce it.Though the noble houses and their armies are still well armed and supplied, though less than that normally would be the case the peasant population has to rely on more primitive technology if you would prefer to call it that. Prometheum powered vehicles are still around though the fuel used to power them is all but depleted, what we have is what we have left from the supply we took with us from Holy Terra all these years ago.The noble houses wouldn’t be noble houses if they wouldn’t war among themselves, the ruler ship of Terra Secundus changed hand several times over the last eight thousand years. For almost one thousand years House Carseirron has ruled and your father King Verden Carseirron XVII is the current monarch.To prevent the wholesale slaughter which is caused when greater houses go to war we instated the Law of Vendetta, a knife duel between nobles to decide who is right if now other agreement can be found, though the disagreements can quite childish if I may be so bold.The greater house that can muster the most of the lesser houses to its side has the right to choose the rightful monarch and is the thus the defacto rulers of Terra Secundus.
To facilitate my players I've designed this special homeworld, I know it is not blanced but since all my players will have it it will not matter
Heir to the Throne
Skills:You begin play with the Charm (Fel), Deceive (Fel), Literacy (Int), Speak Language (High Gothic), Speak Language (Low Gothic) and Wrangling (Ag) skills.Traits:Art of the Blade:Over the centuries the art of vendetta has fought out with knives to prevent escalation and thus war. Knife duelling has been taught to every childe by both the great noble houses and even to several of the minor houses.Effect:You gain an effective +5% to WS when fighting with knives exclusively; you also always start out with the Melee Weapon Training (Primitive) talent and may buy the talent Blade Master talent for 100xp.You also add the Vendetta Blade to your inventory.