Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim (section)

====Institution====

Most Imperial institutions have at least one outpost in Septiim.  The closest allies of the Chapter are the star-sailors, aviators, and seamen of the Imperial Navy, alongside whom the Daggers have shed and spilled blood, slaughtered aliens, crushed pirates, and generally defended the Imperium.  As a rule of thumb, the Imperial Guard and various Planetary agencies view the Astartes of the Daggers as somewhere between high nobles and terribly violent angels, though the flag-grade officers of the actual Septiimi Guard and system forces tend to understand them as people, instead of religious figures.  The Ecclesiarchy holds them in a measure of mingled respect for their loyalty to the Emperor and His citizens, revulsion for their flesh-twisting augmentations, and awe at their unmatchable combat skill.  There are temples and chapels in every major settlement in Septiim, but only one convent, and it has a mere handful of Sacred Rose Battle Sister Sororitas, who respect the Blue Daggers to their faces and glare at their backs.

The Adeptus Mechanicus is much more open to the Daggers, and share some assets and equipment with them for the common good of the Imperium.  The Daggers have never hesitated to pay the Mechanicus their tithe, even though as an Astartes Home System, the Septiimi are allowed to exempt themselves from it.  The Daggers, however, know how the Imperium is teetering on the brink, and do not want to be responsible, even indirectly, for the loss of a system or world because they did not contribute to the supplies of the Imperium.  Because of this generosity, and because of the Daggers’ inherited respect for their equipment (due to their Novamarine heritage), the Adeptus Mechanicus works alongside the Daggers when they are asked to do so.  The Daggers are also actively encouraging of the Mechanicus dig on Solstice, and their efforts to turn the gradually hollowing moon into a true Forge Moon.  At present, the number of Mechanicus personnel (as opposed to mere laborers) on Solstice is highly classified, but Lord Jonas Neverember’s office lowballs the number in the nine-digit range.

The Inquisition allows the Chapter a degree of discretion and leeway in the direction and guidance of their system, though they do not go so far as to allow the Chapter to administrate the Septiim system directly.  The Daggers have a long and mutually beneficial relationship with the Ordo Xenos, and get along about as well with the Ordo Malleus as any Astartes can after their harassment of the Chapters who defied them in the three wars of Armageddon.  The Ordo Hereticus has no particular special vision for the Daggers, since few are stupid enough to be openly heretical in a system with an entire Chapter based within.  The minor Ordos are generally not interested in the Chapter, either.

The Officio Assassinorum doesn’t greatly concern itself with a backwater Chapter in a backwater sector, even one in an extremely wealthy system like Septiim.  Likewise, the great distance between Septiim and most major Warp storms prevent there from being a significant number of psychic births or mutations locally, and so the Adeptus Astra Telepathica pays them little heed.  The Adeptus Arbites are given free rein to enforce Imperial law and judgment throughout the Septiim system and all adjacent systems by their administrators and the Daggers, and so their relationship is rather comfortable, if formal.

Likewise, the Imperial Estate and Administratum pay lip service to the Chapter, and in turn are allowed to rule the system as long as they do not abuse their positions to the extent that the defenses of the sector are compromised by bureaucratic nonsense.  The Chartist Captains and Rogue Traders of the sector were delighted to learn of the presence of a new Chapter, since there are few more ominous portents for local pirates than an entire Chapter moving into their back yards, and will generally assist the Daggers at-cost if extra evacuation craft are needed.  If there are any small-scale alien empires or colonies in proximity to the Septiim system, nobody really cares what they think.