The Innermost House of Trantor Populations: Ortus and Demarch Heartlands: Inner Babylonian Shells of Trantor Common Polities: Vadunite Dominions ​ Far down Trantor’s Babylonian shells, Vadun lies in command of the Deep. Where there is neither light nor heat but the planet’s beating heart, the innermost house delves for libraries of untold knowledge, for resources and works of forgotten ages, and even peoples long abandoned to reclaim. Vadun does not venture beyond the inner

The Merchant House of Trantor Populations: Ortus Heartlands: Gilded Contorworlds and Bazaar Orbitals Common Polities: Hansa States and Syndicates ​ The mercantile republics of Misadin lie at the heart of Trantor’s imperial realms, controlling worlds along the Ardent Range and its vibrant trading routes. Born from guilds and caravaneers, Misadin was long among the lesser houses, and preserves to this day traditions of merit and opportunism above all. Its lords are not dynastie

The Youngest House of Trantor Populations: Bioroids and Ortus Heartlands: Primordial Frontier- and Derelict Worlds Common Polities: Noble Houses, Guild Exclaves, Colonial States ​ North of the Great Ardent Range, Trantor’s youngest house commands territories long held by vassals of the Eternal Empire. Many ruins and wreckage fields still speak to the wars fought for millennia, now long overgrown and decayed. ​ Kamadriisi lies on the frontier, and close to peripheral powers e

The Imperial House of Trantor Populations: Ortus Heartlands: Ancient Crownworlds Common Polities: Eddasumite Dynasties and Royal Estates ​ Honorable Eddasuma is a realm of high feudal culture and imperial tradition, a realm of fiefs and lords appointed by the grace of the Celestial. Claims, alliances, and feuds make up its tapestry of power, where nothing is valued higher than the binding oath and name. The houses’ festivals and tournaments are renown across the stars as heig

Imperial Palatinate, Defenders of the Twin Civilizations Populations: Simulacra Heartlands: Cthonic Citadels Common Polities: Palatinate Protectorates ​ Gondwana persists only under the protection of the Celestial Glaive Palatinate. Sanctified by the Crown, fed by the tithes of their fiefs, armed by the realms of the Union and Empire alike, the palatinate orders fight the unbound war. ​ At the behest of the Palatinate, entire civilizations are raised like regiments, the cont

Sovereign Church of the Celestial Illumina Populations: Ortus Heartlands: Sacrosanct Shrineworlds Common Polities: Church Chapters of the Celestial Illumina ​ Upon Calhall resides the holy see of the Church Celestial Illumina, arbiter of the Celestial Crown and Cosmic Light, from which all authority and order of Gondwana’s many fiefdoms are derived. All worlds, claims, titles of recognition are awarded by grace of the Celestial through Hallowed Calhall. On this world, the ju

The Demarchist House of Trantor Populations: Demarch Heartlands: Demarchist Holy Worlds Common Polities: Akkite Theodemarchies ​ Dermarchist Akkath builds its rare worlds like bulwarks with narrow approaches, insular strongholds of high civilization amongst otherwise barren worlds. Unlike other houses and their myriad polities, all Akkath is one, a singular demarchy of all spirits united, its people bound by an empath-collective. Their rulers are to be mere avatars, the will

Sovereign Realms of Gondwana Celestial Glaive Palatinate - Martial Order of the Crown granted lands and tithes by Cambria and Trantor to wage unbound war against the Eternal Empire and Hegemony. Hallowed Calhall of the Church Illumina - Citadel of imperial law and records serving as Gondwana's tether to the Crown. Vulpecula Ascendant Federation - Elusive watchers and peacekeepers created by an archon clade of Cambria.

The first hypercivilization, founded by the Celestial Queen and galactic patron of all humankind. The Terran Empire is ruled by the Celestial Queen, ultimate human ascendant and embodiment of Cosmos, the orderly universe. She oversees the three aspects of the Empire, into which its vast feudal tapestry is structured: The Imperial State, The Celestial Illumina, and the Palatinates. At its foundations, the Terran Empire is maintained by ways of Psionic Providence. The Celestial