Editing Arturia Eld (Hektor Heresy) (section)

==The Coming of the Imperium==

For five years Arturia settled into rebuilding her shattered world. New farms and mines were opened to replace the ones lost, towns were rebuilt, culls of the Great Beasts which had multiplied during the years of strife were organised and the chaos was finally settling down. The Knights, once of many Households were now all one, and any enmity and bad blood between them was met on the duelling ground and not the battlefield. She proved herself no less skilled in matters of peace as in war, though even then her distance and aloofness could be seen as a potential flaw. But before that could be realized, the ancient orbital scanners, relics of the old times that had watched the empty skies for centuries skies suddenly burst into life. The skies were full of hundreds of ships. There was panic among the peasantry and consternation among the Knights. There was always a fear that foes would come from the stars, a fear borne of the last few memories of the down of the Age of Strife. The King mobilised the entire Household and made ready for any invasion. But what came was not a mighty fleet of landers but a single golden hulled dropship which landed before the great keep of the Knights of Accolon, and from the Dropship came a mortal god made flesh and one of his Demigod sons.

The reason why the Emperor Himself, who was still prosecuting the Great Crusade would deliberately seek out and land upon an obscure Knight World far from the most vital war zones of the time are known only to three beings, and none of them can speak anymore. Even at the time there were many theories, with even Hektor Himself known to have asked his Father about it. Some Magos of the Mechanicum believed that among the many relics of the Dark Age of Technology on Cattegirn were some that the Emperor wished to obtain first, to their dismay. Several proto-remembracers who were present there speculated that even then he saw the potential in the young King of Cattegirn and wanted her in his armies. The truth will likely never be known, but what is known is that the King of Cattegirn and the Emperor of Mankind met and spoke in private for some hours, and when they both emerged the King bowed before the Emperor and announced that from that day forth she and all her subjects would be servants of the Emperor, riding and fighting at His command for the unity of all men lost in the veil of night and for all time.

Her first meeting with [[Aubrey The Grey]], who at the time was accompanying his Father was less pleasant. She called him the Emperor's Squire, and Aubrey angrily challenged her to a duel. She came mounted in Caliburn while he wore his Mechanicum-forged armour and his new Jetpack. For an hour they clashed, he swooping and diving like a hawk while she turned his blade aside again and again. Finally she landed a hit of his Jetpack, disabling it, while he managed to hit the leg-servos on her Knight, briefly crippling it. The duel was declared a draw, and she gifted him the Sword she had wielded as a Squire and an Archeotech Crown belonging to one of the Kings she had dethroned.

A week later she would leave Cattegirn along with over half her Knights, joining the Emperor’s own 1st Expeditionary Fleet as the first Questoris Household from Cattegirn, even before the official Imperial Warrant had been issued for the Household.

For a full decade the Knights of Accolon would fight alongside the Custodians and the chosen warriors of the Imperial Army in the first fleet, before leaving and beginning a long period of service moving from priority warzone to priority warzone, often serving alongside many of the Astartes Legions, gaining accolades and battle honours by the dozen.