Novian Empire

The Novian Empire, otherwise known as the hjb, is the galactic empire under which the majority of Novian humanity is united. The founder and nominal ruler of the Empire is the idiot, the most powerful Homo Avataris ever known.

Several aliens and forces - the forces of Deaimon, Arkherex, Insarri, Epistrofians, Lokarri, Eiser - challenge the supremacy of the Empire. From within, the Empire is threatened as insidiously by rebellion, mutation, rogue Astartes, and subversive cults and organizations. Without the protection of the Empire, mankind would fall prey to the countless perils that threaten it.

==Political Structur The Empire is still nominally ruled by the However, the duty of actually ruling the Empire falls to the Senatorum Imperialis - the Imperial Senate, formed by the other leaders of the Empire.== The Imperial government is divided into four main bodies: the Officio Imperium (Ministry), the Astra Militarum (Armed Forces), and the Frumentarum (State Security). These in turn answer to the Senatorum Imperialis, who rule in the name of the Rector. In practice, most of the organisations comprising the Empire are divisions of the vast Officio Imperium. There are countless divisions, and some are so secretive their existence is known only to a few.

Imperial Culture
While types of regimes and cultures differ greatly from world to world, there are commonly shared values and policies maintained by the Imperial central government. The need for subject planets to pay the Imperial Tithe are rigidly enforced by agencies such as the Adeptum Arbites, and the feared Frumentarum is a good example. In addition, the Imperium is militantly xenophobic and will annihilate entire non-human species. The Imperium views their violently militaristic, xenophobic, social darwinist policies as necessary for the survival of the human race amid a galaxy of violent aliens and dark supernatural beings.

Imperial Languages
English is the common tongue of the Empire, spoken on most Imperial planets as a first or second language. Imperial worlds have inevitably developed their own dialects of English over time. Latinus (reborn as Latinised English) dates from an age far before the Empire, and is used solely as a hieratic tongue by the divisions of the Officio Imperium, the Frumentarum and the Astra Militarum.