House Draconis - A Time of Recovery: While victory on Donatos Primus was secured, the Donatos War had greatly depleted Adrastapol's military capacity. Of the more than two hundred Loyalist Knights who landed on Donatos Primus, only eight ended the war still battle-ready. However, several of the priceless Thrones Mechanicum of downed Knights had been saved from destruction and an equal number of Nobles now awaited new Knight armours to ride to battle again.The Donatos War left House Draconis the uncontested ruler of Adrastapol, for both Houses Minotos and Pegasson had been virtually annihilated. The Adrastapolians rejoiced when they discovered that Marchioness Lauret of House Pegasson had in fact survived the disastrous First Attack on the Valle Electrum and would continue to lead her House.Even before returning to Adrastapol, High King Danial declared House Chimaeros and House Wyvorn reductum hereticum extremis and ordered the confiscation of all their property, assets and riches. Where desirable, these holdings were reconsecrated to another House, and the rest destroyed.Yet the corruption that had festered on Adrastapol could not be kept secret and warranted sanction. High King Danial and the members of his Exalted Court were ordered to await the arrival of an envoy of the Inquisition -- Inquisitor Massata -- who would determine Adrastapol's fate, but although they waited for long solar months and even Terran years for the inquisitorial delegation to arrive, the visit never came.As the newly crowned high king gazed out upon the world he would now rule, he found it woefully undermanned. Having just survived one of the most horrific campaigns fought by any Adrastapolian, the Knights of Houses Draconis, Minotos and Pegasson were few in numbers.Should any enemy attack Adrastapol, the Knight World was sure to fall. Unable to hasten the recovery of the Knightly Households, High King Danial therefore sought to defend Adrastapol through other means by granting the Knight's subjects more rights and additional missions.Through a series of decrees collectively referred to as the "Adrastapolian Defence Decrees," the high king ordered vast changes. Having witnessed the effectiveness of aircraft first hand during the Donatos War, each of the Knightly Houses was ordered to transform portions of its household army into an air force.To reach this goal, the high king negotiated a new trade alliance with the Adeptus Mechanicus domains of Korphos to produce the fighters, bombers and heavy landers needed in exchange for a portion of Adrastapol's natural resources.At the same time, the household armies of the three remaining Houses were also vastly expanded as they were tasked with new roles such as the manning of several dozen new fortresses and planetary defence batteries to be constructed all over Adrastapol.In all but name, Adrastapol now had a Planetary Defence Force, a step that many Nobles saw as an affront to their knightly honor since it implied that the Knights of Adrastapol were not able to defend their planet without the help of the commoners.In order to equip all these new formations and construct the fortifications desired by their ruler, the Sacristans of House Draconis also undertook a massive industrialisation program to build the power production facilities required to supoport the new orbital Lance batteries and missile silos.The first step towards this industrial autonomy was the planning and construction of a great dam destined to harness the power of the Valatane River. Called the Imperatus Dam, its construction was finished just before tragedy yet again befell Adrastapol.