Prospect

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"Votann set us amidst the heavens. The Ancestors mastered the void. The darkness between the stars holds no terror for us, for we are as much at home in the vacuum of space as we are with our boots firm upon planetary bedrock."

– Grimnyr Yôtunn before the departure of tarvemm's prospect.

"There's gold in them thar hills"

– Ancient terran proverb

A Prospect is a militarised exploratory & commercial fleet owned by the Squats. Various of these prospecting companies exist across the Imperium and to a lesser extent the Tau Empire. These expeditions seek out new mineral and energy deposits, trade routes and other lucrative opportunities for the Kin.

Notable Prospects

• Ironhead Squat Prospectors- The Ironheads were invited to Necromunda around M31 in a deal where the squats would receive priviliged mining rights in exchange for their service in repairing the wartorn world. The name of each Chartermaster is added to their clans copy of the charter detailing this contract.

• Demiurg - The "Demiurg" were a prospect wrongly registered as xenos by both the Imperium and the T'au Empire. They formed an alliance of convenience with the T'au and were their first providers of Ion Weapons even so they kept the most advanced of these weapons for their own. Their mindset and physiology is rumored to be alien to that of their old kin they have diverged further from their roots than humans under tau rule. To most kin this is abhorrent but to others the demiurg are an opportunity to profit from trade with a naive species.

• Gnostari - The Gnostari are an obscure Prospect fleet that was erroneously identified by the Imperium as a xenos species unrelated to the kin. They are known by the galaxy at large for raiding vessels in the middle of wars.

• Grome - Grome is a vulgar name for the Kin of the Leagues of Votann that has been used by many spacefaring peoples.

• Kreg - The "Kreg" are a Prospect fleet of the Leagues of Votann that is hostile to Imperials and Craftworld Eldar their relation to the kin is unknown to many and as such they are wrongly classified as xenos.

• Squats of Vordine - The Imperial planet Vordine has a large population of Kin descended from a Prospect they are called Squats by Imperial authority. They have lived on the planet ever since the start of Imperial records on that world.