Fornax Emperox Platform

From the dawn of our Ascension to Emperox, House Fornax will:

* **Ensure the continuity of the Empire** and the tenets by which it reigns supreme, without compromise, resisting any and all groups who seek to diminish our Divine mandate.
* **Increase civil infrastructure and research**, in the aim of easing the burden of the current labour crisis.
	+ *Research into civil agriculture technologies*, especially relating to House Fornax robotics.
	+ *Relocate and allocate Serfs to specific worlds*, in order to ease the labour crisis.
	+ *Offer tax incentives and compensation for freemen* to work in the sectors of agriculture and manufacturing.
	+ *Implement tax incentives for larger families on agricultural worlds*, in order to stimulate population growth.
* **Expand the Imperial Legions and Navy**.
	+ *Return House Aquila to full operational strength*, through both technological and administrative means.
	+ *Allocate budget to military equipment* and the production capacity thereof will be increased.
		- Design and produce equipment for the sole use of House Aquila.  This includes but is not limited to: multipedal mechs, bipedal mechs, infantry equipment,support equipment, and logistical equipment.
	+ *Increase the budget for void based armaments and countermeasures*, produced and developed by House Reticulum exclusively.
	+ *Assist and provide healthcare* to those who have fought in the name of the Empire.
		- Fund research and development into new treatment options, under the purview and expertise of House Serpens .
	+ *Protect the shipping lanes of the Empire* from those who would attempt to sever our lifeflow.
	+ *Reinforce and refit the Imperial Fleet*, in accordance with modern standards.
* **Foster competition within the empire**, by breaking up the large conglomerates and establishing new anti-monopoly laws for freemen businesses and corporations.
	+ *Outlaw any non-Noble entity to owning ‘private security forces’*, or a monopoly of a market for any industry including but not limited to: manufacturing, entertainment, mining and agriculture.
		- Prosecute any corporation caught breaking this law with criminal charges.
		- Forcibly dismantle any corporation that is not willing to face these penalties.
		- Determine the extent of each corporation’s monopoly as a threat to the Empire.
	+ *Disband any groups who form unions, merchant guilds or other entities* that the Empire deems threatening to the financial security of the Empire, imposing harsh penalties on its members.
		- Exemptions may be afforded to Allies from preceding war efforts.
* **Reform the Imperial Tax Code**, eliminating known methods of tax avoidance.
	+ *Expand Eridanus’s ability* to seize liquid and material assets in pursuit of payment.
	+ *Expand funding to House Eridanus*  to facilate more accurate and greater records of financial misdoings.
	+ *Introduce harsh financial and criminal penalties* to all who are guilty of tax evasion.
* **Provide crown assistance to House Pyxis to seek out lost Noble Houses**, and other Imperial Heritage artifacts.
	+ *Increase the number of exploratory vessels*, particularly to survey unexplored star systems.
	+ *Research into failsafes in new models of spike drive*, in order to ensure the safe return of ships in the event of navigational failures.
* **Expand anti-gang laws** to address the recent crime wave in the Outer Core.
	+ *Increase visible House Crux presence* in the everyday lives of Imperial Citizens.
	+ *Introduce harsher sentencing laws of any gang related crime*, up to and including contact with known criminal organisations.
	+ *Enforce strict probation conditions* on all known and discovered criminals, and their associates.
	+ *Restrict access to equipment* that would facilitate criminal activity to non-Nobles.
* **Restore the industrial capability of Gats**  with assistance from Houses Eridanus and Triangulum .
	+ *Clear all structures that are too damaged* to be salvageable, or aided the production of synthetics.
	+ *Rebuild infrastructure and cities* lost in the Bombing of Gats.
	+ *Reclaim all property or technology* that belonged to the Empire, prior to Cygnus ’ betrayal.
	+ *Destroy all signs, icons, banners and insignias relating to the traitors of Cygnus* that still remain after their extermination.
* **Lead an Empire wide effort to push us past our current limits in technology**, with the assistance of House Triangulum .
	+ *Collaborate with the expert skills of the Houses of the Empire*, in their respective fields.
		- Grant House Triangulum, and any other Houses involved, the resources necessary to pursue this research.
	+ *Found a task force with the aim of controlling and monitoring all research* that could hinder the survival of the Empire.
		- Empower Houses Crux , Aquila, and Triangulum to determine the boundaries of ‘maltech’, with guidance from the High Church.
		- Enforce strict criminal prosecution of any production or research of Maltech not carried out under the purview of this task force.
		- Seize all known research of ‘maltech’ from unsanctioned research facilities, so House Triangulum may study the viability under guidance of the task force.
		- Create fail safes and protocols to ensure the safest possible route in this experimental research, with the assistance of House Crux.
* **Establish a new media network, owned by the crown and managed by House Lyra**, to project and exemplify the culture of the Empire.
* **Increase tithes given to the High Church of Messiah-as-Emperox**, to strengthen the spiritual standing of the Outer Core.
	+ Increase spending towards the creations of art, monuments, churches and cathedrals in the Outer Core.
* **Increase mass transit and cheap, affordable transportation** for civilian, commercial and military traffic.

For information pertaining to the House Fornax Emperox Election Campaign, please contact one of the following representatives:

* Dominex Fornax Anesidora Clodius: Head of Fornax Release Document Information.
* Augur Iuris Fornax Alfsson Janus: Head of Fornax Speech Documentation.
* Augur Iuris Fornax Astril Vesh: Q&A Information.
* Artaefex Fornax Selekai Aleria: Q&A Information.