The only House to have left the Homeworld en masse and defied every protocol of the ruling Houses just for the sake of it. In the years leading up to the War, it was the Faction which saw the “vulgarity” of the future and began embracing the biological curiosities of the lesser species: in a time when the Houses still thought of themselves as immortal and immutable, the Faction brought them the idea of death, almost in the form of a perverse carnival. The first House to recruit members from the lower human orders -the epitome of bad taste - it's now partly a criminal-terrorist organisation and partly a deliberate irritation. While the ruling Houses fight their enemy in the open, the Faction embarks on a campaign of gleeful subterfuge, presumably hoping that the larger powers will just wipe each other out. — The Book of the War

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