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| - The system of worlds orbiting the star of Esoterra are controlled by the Adeptus Astartes of the Imperium of Man. This system was hidden away by warp storms for millenia and was sheltered throughout all ages from contact from all sentient beings in the galaxy with the exception of the peaceful Marbongi people, who have since taken to the stars and abandoned their homeworld due to a false belief that their star was dying (Imperial astronomers predict the star will live hundreds of millions of years yet.) Since then these worlds have lain dormant until the arrival of the Demiurg and their mining craft, and eventually the Tyranids and Humans. The system is ruled by the Adeptus Astartes chapter known as the Angels of Acquittance. The system follows a republican form of government but with a tyrant at its head. Most social and civil laws are dealt with on a planet to planet basis, but large representative bodies exist to conform many of the laws that are tried on one planet to the others, to send the Pyre Phalanx into battle, regulate labor and corporations, and other administrative tasks that need to be decided upon for interplanetary trade. Above the planetary governers and Solar Representatives sits the chapter master of the Angels, Balthial. If Balthial decides the Phalanx will take part of a campaign then it is so, without so much as a whisper from the representatives. Citizenship is an honor that must be earned through hours of study, training, and meeting the requirements of the individual world. On most of the populated planets and moons require a high level of education and knowledge to achieve citizenship. Even so the minority of peasants who become citizens the lives of the people are relatively good in comparison with that of other Imperial worlds with higher education highly encouraged and displays of high art for the glory of the Imperium and for the glory of the emperor. A small degree of free speech is even allowed, though it is rarely exercised to criticize due to the threat of the commisariat and Office of the Holy Inquisition. All planets are required to enable their peasants to become citizens should they pass the tests required by republican law.
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