The Great Houses
Structure
The Great Houses are lead by their Amut. The Amut is the strongest general of all the houses it is traditionally hereditary, but it can be challenged. If a member of one of the Great Houses challenges the Amut they can slay them in single combat. If they do so they become the new Amut and their house becomes the ruling party.
The Great Houses are 7 in number. Each with specialties and contributions to the Great Houses.
House Khatep - The current ruling house, They are the factories of the Great Houses, producing the war machines and ships of the Empire. Characteristically identified by their Pious nature.
House Eopri - They create the bulk of the biotech of the Great Houses, from biomods to medical devices. Often outspoken about equity within the Empire, but in the minority.
House Hakor - The agricultural core of the Empire. If you're eating food within the Great Houses your eating Hakor product. They have a vice grip on production of food as they heavily tax imports on a planetary level.
House Masaka - The information brokers of the Empire. They act as the secret police of the Great Houses, ensuring that royals are protected from the average man. They have a strict non-interference policy with all the houses.
House Nkoss - The house of magic, they are the lore keepers. Enigmatic, often skipping court for other pursuits. While they sit on the outskirts of the royal circle, they are known to always have the Empire's best interest at heart.
House Thothmeties - The Reclaimers, oldest of the houses. They reclaim the secrets of the past and offer them up to the houses in large bidding wars and jostles for power. They are the coffers of the Empire because of this.
House Bithiah - The Slavers, they control the most worlds and the bulk of the labor in them. If a product is made it's often using Bithiah resources. Lead by intellectuals that think they are owed to them more by their virtue.
Culture
Each of the desperate houses have many nuances to their thinking and ways of life. But there are a few commonalities.
They all can trace their origin to the original Martian tribes.
Martians and by extension Solarians hate weakness, it is the greatest failing of oneself to let themselves wither into mediocrity.
They value strength, glory, and cold logic.
By this reason it is the not just the right of the powerful to rule, but it is the duty, for a people must have great leaders, or fade into the annals of time.
Public Agenda
The Great Houses promise to unite mankind under its banner. For they wish to discover the secrets of the past and avoid the great catastrophe that befell ancient humanity.
Suffer no weakness, endure no pity, glory to those who lead
Founding Date
There is much debate on the first date of the Empire, but the earliest recorded dealing was House Thothmeties declaring a blood fued with House Nkoss over Vault Baset.
Type
Geopolitical, Empire
Capital
Alternative Names
The Imperium, The Empire, The Old World
Demonym
Solarian
Leader
Leader Title
Family Leader
Head of State
Head of Government
Government System
Monarchy, Crowned Republic
Power Structure
Federation
Economic System
Traditional
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Location
Official Languages
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