Editing House Accolon (section)

===Kings and Emperors===
Barely five years later in 900 M30, as rebuilding was still underway, mining operations were expanding and King Arturia was still healing the wounds of Cattegirn’s long wars, the old scanners that still watched the empty skies suddenly found hundreds of signals coming from the stars. The King mobilised her Knights and made ready in case of a challenge from the heavens. But what came was a golden hulled dropship, landing before the assembled host of Knights, and what emerged was a living god clad in gold, and beside him a scale-clad demigod.

The Emperor Himself had come to Cattegirn, along with his son, the lord of the XVI Legion, [[Aubrey The Grey]].

To this day questions are asked as to why the Emperor Himself, at this time still prosecuting the Great Crusade alongside his Sons and heading back to Terra to take charge of Imperial forces opposing the Ruavu Grun, would deliberately seek out and land upon an obscure Knight World far from the most vital war zones of the time. Some say that Cattegirn’s Archeotech haul included relics of the Dark Age of Technology that the Emperor wished to obtain first rather than the Mechanicum, others 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, and when they were done the King 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, not just those of Cattegirn. 

In a somewhat-friendly honour duel she fought with Aubrey after calling him the Emperor's Squire, and became the first human mortal to fight him to a standstill. After the fight she bestowed one of her swords and a crown to the Lord of the Sixteenth and swore friendship with him. A week later she would leave Cattegirn along with over half her Knights, joining the Emperor’s own 1st Expeditionary Fleet where for five years she would fight alongside the Custodians and the chosen warriors of the Imperial Army, before leaving and beginning a long period of service alongside many of the Astartes Legions starting with the Eternal Zealots before moving on, gaining battle honours by the dozen as they sought out the harshest warzones to test their mettle against the worst of mankind's opponents.

One by one Questoris detachments of Knights would leave Cattegirn to serve in the Great Crusade, until a bare skeleton force was left behind to train future Knights. But as battle honours and trophies began to filter back, all of the people of Cattegirn began to celebrate the exploits of their chosen warriors as they fought at the bleeding edge of the Emperor’s war of unity, just as they had fought in their King’s war for unity. Regular shipments of Knight Armours from several Forgeworlds periodically came in as part of the Emperor’s own promises to the King of Cattegirn, which allowed the world to remain independent of the wider Mechanicum to the distaste of many within the Order of Mars.

The Knights of Accolon fought at the forefront of many battles, fighting with honour and fury and gaining many accolades from the forces they fought alongside. The close ties between the King and [[Aubrey The Grey]] were well known during the decade they fought alongside one another, but he was far from alone. No less a person then Primarch [[Arelex]] praised the charge of Thegn Yvain during the Vogsphere Compliance, while a banner of House Accolon is known to have hung in the victory chamber of the Resolve, the Flagship of the [[Void Angels Legion]]. Though that banner represented a less then noble victory, when over a tenth of the Household including disastrously Uktar himself was destroyed during the Igwen Compliance due to the foolish bravery of one of the most famed Knights in the Household, the outsider Abdul Al-Sherar, known as "The White Knight". His exile would prove to be fateful, not only for the Househoild but also for the Void Angels in the years to come.

The fame of House Accolon brought them many enemies though, and other Knight Households routinely commented negatively on the fact that the head of House Accolon was a female in defiance of most knightly traditions, which led to much ill feeling between them and occasional bouts of violence.