DataSheet for House Corrino

Siridar: Tat'iana Anstasovna Corrino, Empress-Regent of the Known Universe
Homeworld: Kaitain
Other Fiefs/CHOAM Holdings: Salusa Secundus, Liathon
Political Alignment: Strongly pro-Imperial
Web Site URL:
FH Contact Email: corrino@dune3.net

Crest/Heraldry: White a lion sejant guardant erect (On a white field, a gold lion, seated, facing the viewer).

House Character:
House Corrino enjoys the enormous wealth brought it by its holdings in CHOAM and Imperial levies against the Houses of the Landsraad. The extreme lavish conditions apparent in the Court betray the Imperium's absolute military and monetary stranglehold it has over the Landsraad. Many members of the Court are pure hedonists, taking advantage of every available pleasure. The Emperor's harem is filled with princesses and concubines of the highest birth, gifts from the Great Houses of the Landsraad. Intrigue in the Court is typical. Every member of the Royal Family is constantly aware of the possibility of assassination attempts, be it chaumas, chaumurky, or an assassin's knife in the back. Desire to assassinate members of the Royal Family could come from both without and within. It is not unheard of for a son to desire the Lion Throne before his time: the Corrino Noble must be ever vigilant against attempts on his life.

History:
House Corrino was formed at the Battle of Corrin in 88 BG, when Count Sheuset Ecevit (afterward Emperor Sheuset Corrino I) defeated the Landsraad army in a space battle near the Corrin Quasi-Nebula. This victory secured House Corrino's position on the Imperial Throne. Since then, the Imperial House has carefully balanced its own power against that of the Landsraad and the Guild. Over the last thousand years, until quite recently, the Corrino Emperors have enjoyed long reigns of relatively stable conditions. In 10,079, Fredhrick XIX was coronated. His reign was cut short, however, by the untimely crash of an ornithopter in 10,081, resulting in the death of the Emperor, Empress and their two heirs. The political fallout from the accident was felt across the Imperium and continues even today. Fredhrick's nephew, Jeon XIV, then assumed the throne. Despite the new Emperor's efforts to appear as a man of the people, his rule was marked by dissention within the Landsraad and mutterings of illegitimacy. After several spectacular public relations failures on the part of his Sardaukar, an unknown assailant assassinated Emperor Jeon. As Jeon had no heirs, the throne fell to Jeon's brother Eduard, who abdicated in favour of his son, Erich Ladislas Corrino. Coronated Erich I, the Emperor soon after married Lady Tat'iana Rastanyev, sister of the Siridar-Duke Rastanyev, and crowned her Empress. In early 10,099, the Empress gave birth to twins -- a boy, Corrin, and a girl, Anuril -- providing legitimate heirs to the throne and hopefully establishing a clear, direct line of inheritance to end a period of marked instability.

Major Exports:
Salusa Secudus: Imperial Sardaukar, Caids and Bashars
Kaitain: Imperial bureaucrats and administrators; the various services and agencies needed to run the vast network that is the Imperium