Koronus Expanse - Notable Rogue Traders of the Koronus Expanse: Aspyce Chorda - Aspyce Chorda is ruthless in both negotiation and battle, a dangerous woman who does not hesitate to cruelly remind others why they should be terrified of her. She cares greatly about form and elegance, but little for Human life, save when it provides wealth for her coffers. When she ravaged the pirates of Iniquity at the close of the Harvest of Reavers in 754.M41, the survivors were crudely lobotomised and sent as slave-serfs to House Chorda's various domains. When vying for resources with Calligos Winterscale in 785.M41, she initiated a violent war to get her way, heedless of the cost to her crews. The Chorda lineage is of piratical origins, its descendants only distinguished from those still hunted by Battlefleet Calixis by their Warrant of Trade and noble birth. So the tale is told, a younger Aspyce Chorda captured her siblings and forced them into hidden cryovaults to ensure her sole mastery over the House Chorda Warrant of Trade. There those unfortunates remain, frozen souls awaiting a revival that will never come.Incendia Bastaal-Chorda - Incendia Bastaal-Chroda is a Rogue Trader and the current leader of House Chorda in the Era Indomitus, one of the three most powerful Rogue Trader dynasties, alongside House Winterscale and House von Valancius, operating in the Koronus Expanse. Unusually for a bearer of the Warrant of Trade, Baastal-Chorda is a firm believer in the doctrines of the Imperial Creed and a fanatical Puritan. She will stop at nothing to see the light of the God-Emperor spread across the Koronus Expanse and the destruction of every Heretic and xenos beast that threatens to obstruct the spread of the Emperor's domain.Calligos Winterscale - A man of passions, ruled by his notorious temper, Calligos Winterscale is not to be idly crossed. His demeanour can swing from back-slapping friendship to screaming anger and back again in a matter of minutes, and he does not hesitate to unleash his wrath to get his way. Winterscale respects strength of will -- though he may not show it whilst raging with anger. Those who concede are weak inferiors and will be treated as such. Even his allies and closest retainers are terrified by Winterscale’s intimidating, stormy moods. Calligos Winterscale is a forceful captain of battle and commands a potent vessel, the Emperor's Vow. He possesses a gift for leading common scum and hardened voidfarers, and attracts dangerous men to his crews. Many of his servants and emissaries are but a single step from murderous criminals: muscled, intimidating men who might well be fresh from an Imperial prison.Theodora von Valancius - Theodora von Valancius was a Rogue Trader and the leader of House von Valancius, one of the three largest Rogue Trader dynasties operating in the Koronus Expanse alongside House Winterscale and House Chorda, and the mistress of the interstellar trade empire known as the von Valancius Protectorate her house maintained there. After many solar decades in command of the dynasty, Theodora was assassinated while in her quarters during a Warp incursion on her flagship, and the leadership of her dynasty passed to a distantly-related heir she had met only scant solar hours before her death. That heir would go on to shape not ony the destiny and fortunes of House von Valancius, but of the Koronus Expanse itself.Jonquin Saul - There are nobles who pour scorn on the source of the House Saul fortune, built though merchant trading between established worlds like common Free Traders or Chartist Captains. Jonquin Saul is the epitome of his ancestry, a wilful and charismatic soul more captured by commerce and the ebb and flow of markets than by plunges into the unknown. Every circumstance and obstacle is an opportunity for trade, and it is a crime to let a meeting between Rogue Traders go without a deal struck to make both wealthier. Jonquin Saul views the Heathen Stars as the true grail of the Koronus Expanse: their billion souls will one day be linked to the Calixis Sector by trade routes and a staggering flow of goods. Vast wealth will accrue to Rogue Traders who can establish good routes though the dangers of the Expanse and reliable trade compacts with the heathens. In this endeavour, Saul has powerful allies amongst the Drusus Marches Adeptus Ministorum, which is eager to bring the God-Emperor's words to souls lost in the far voids.Wrath Umboldt - Wrath Umboldt has seen horror in the Koronus Expanse: places to shrivel the soul and make blood run cold, places where Yu'vath once writhed, and places where the dead yet gather. It was he who discovered the Processional of the Damned in 746.M41 and glimpsed the Alenic Depths where souls are stolen. In the solar decades since that terrible voyage Umboldt has quested less within the Koronus Expanse and more within his own heart, in search of a deeper connection to the God-Emperor and a greater purpose than mere wealth. His fortunes as a Rogue Trader have been poor in any case, with numerous ventures of his small fleet into the near Koronus Expanse ended by disappointment and loss. Umboldt believes himself under a penance of ill luck sent by the saints to guide him to enlightenment.Tanak Valcetti - Tanak Valcetti presents himself as a man of refinement for whom the vicissitudes of expeditions into the dangerous Koronus Expanse are something one simply does not speak of. A noble must show himself uncaring of danger, possessed of a scholar's knowledge, and be far above the crude urges that beset lesser individuals. This, at least, is the philosophy of the lineage of House Valcetti. To date it is has served them well: centuries of cultured, arms-length politeness and a mildly acknowledged respect for the endeavours of others have ensured that Tanak Valcetti has few enemies. Behind the mask of noble courtesy is a courageous, capable man with a genuine love for the finer things in life, and one who expects the best from his retainers. The wealth of the Valcetti dynasty is presently maintained through the steady exploitation of the worlds within the Koronus Expanse and large investments in the trade between the Scarus and Calixis Sectors. Tanak Valcetti and his sons depart into the Koronus Expanse for standard years at a time, leaving his seneschal to manage his armoured estate and investments upon Port Wander.