Hassik Corrino III was the fifth Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe. During his reign, the former League of Nobles capitol and Corrino homeworld of Salusa Secundus was laid to waste by an atomic catastrophe by a renegade family, House Tantor. He secretly relocated the Imperial Golden Lion Throne to Kaitain and turned Salusa Secundus into an exiled prison planet. in order to rebuild this governmental infrastructure, Hassik III had taxed his subjects nearly into bankruptcy.