Beast House - Calixian Conflict with the Adeptus Arbites: Only in the last few standard years have the Adeptus Arbites made the chilling realisation that their prosecution of the Beast House in the Calixis Sector is far from the success they had thought. Full-scale Arbitrator assaults have broken the Beast House's operations with two major raids on Malfi and a string of successes across the Adrantis Nebula sub-sector, but Detective-Intelligencers at the Great Precinct level are now piecing together clues that imply that the Beast House is not reeling from these setbacks, or even ignoring them, but actively benefiting from them by using such prosecutions to prune their less-capable cells. The syndicate's backbone operations and leaders, as far as the Detectives can tell, have remained entirely quarantined from the Arbites' efforts.The response to this was a second wave of rigorously-planned raids on the Beast House's walls of secrecy, conducted by task forces of surveillors and personators organised across the Pendulum and Stave High Precincts of Malfi with astonishingly little of the usual politicking and territorial feuds. The operations were catastrophic failures, with entire teams of field detectives vanishing with no intelligence to show for it, and traps and ambushes being laid for the Arbitrator squads who attempted to scour their sites of operations for clues or bodies. Since then the Beast House investigators have been on notice that Detective-Commander Doyenko is taking a particular interest in their progress, and are feverishly working to vindicate themselves.With infiltration proving such a costly and fruitless approach, the Arbites are switching tacks and exploiting a defining weakness of the Beast House: its constant need for exotic and vicious animals. The thinking is simple: force the Beast House into visibility by choking the trade in combat creatures down to so small a fraction of itself that no hunting and transportation operations can escape scrutiny.Arbites ships are staging rolling interdictions of Fedrid and its cousin Death Worlds, seeding the system with spy stations. Quarantine edicts at space docks across the Calixis Sector are being tightened, and ships whose routes have even brushed a Death World, or one noted for dangerous fauna, are liable to be scoured by teams of Verispex Adepts. A small detachment of the bravest and most capable cyber-mastiff handlers is currently in special training at the sector capital world of Scintilla, working with customised dogs whose sensory arrays have been built specifically to hunt down the Beast House's cages.The backlash against the operation has already begun. The beast trade is small, but its market is elite, and the sector's bluebloods have been listening to the complaints of their procurers and passing them on with interest to their Imperial governors. The backbone of the operation, the fleet interdiction, needs far more ships than the Adeptus Arbites Precinct fleet can afford to give it and despite its best efforts its coverage is patchy.The task force has had to resort to placing Chartist vessels under Adeptus Arbites commissions to assist with the interdiction, much to their chagrin. The Arbitrator detectives are trying to make a virtue of this necessity by setting careful watches on these privateers, watching for evidence of Beast House collusion or infiltration.