Beast House - Beast House: The Beast House is an interstellar criminal syndicate that deals in the trade of exotic xenos creatures and holds bloody arena combats between them for the entertainment of its clients. It is active in the Calixis Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus and is a target for eradication by the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition.In the shadowy entertainment zones on the edge of underhives from Scintilla to Solomon and beyond in the Calixis Sector, the name "Beast House" is synonymous with extreme blood sports, arena combats, and the xenos-creature trade. Likewise, many jaded sons and daughters of the wealthy great houses also know the term through wicked and scandalous tales of hunts and monstrous things forbidden by the restrictions of Imperial law -- all provided for discerning clients at enormous expense.Stories and rumours about the Beast House have been doing the rounds, high and low, for so long most believe that the name itself is little more than a traditional effectation for those who deal in the blood sport trade. The popular belief held by most is that if an original Beast House once existed, it is now long gone and that others have long since sought to cash in on the legend to further their own reputations. This is a view shared by many local enforcer groups, most criminal groups, and until relatively recently by the Adeptus Arbites and the Ordo Xenos. However, recently several incidents have come to light casting a far darker pall over the Beast House and its secrets.The Ordo Xenos and the Calixis Sector Arbites are slowly recognising that there is a dark thread connecting those who run the blood arenas and those who deal in xenos beasts. In the last few solar decades, encounters and reports of dangerous and proscribed xenos-predators appearing in illegal arenas or the hands of depraved recidivists have steadily increased in the sector's core worlds and on Scintilla in particular.Subsequent investigations into these occurrences pointed time after time to the so-called Beast House. Further investigation also turned up rashes of disappearances among the poor and the underclass in the areas where a particular Beast House was said to exist, rumoured links to smuggling rings, murder for hire, strange sightings of creatures, and other peculiarities.Yet nothing was concrete enough to show an overarching threat. It was only when Inquisitor Layvan and his retinue disappeared while investigating the Beast House on Fenksworld that the full attention of the Ordo Xenos came to bear on the organisation, and it has not liked what it has begun to uncover.Currently, Inquisition-backed elements are conducting a widespread series of covert investigations into the Beast Houses on several worlds, but they have met with little success in penetrating its higher echelons. However, alarm at their discoveries to date is spreading due to the Beast House's links to many of the wealthy houses and criminal gangs across the Golgenna Reach and Markayan Marches sub-sectors and the suspicion that extreme and dangerous alien corruption lies at the Beast House's heart.In direct response to ongoing events and with characteristic subtlety, the Ordo Xenos is doing its best to uncover the full extent of this xeno-crime before it takes overt and decisive action, rather than attempting a premature strike risking the Beast House's fragmenting and scattering only to resurface latter. This strategy, while sound and based on past experience, is not without the wider risk that the alien corruption may spread further before it is checked and thus is the cause of some contention within the Holy Ordos.