Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Rogue Traders (section)

====Rogue Trader Dynastic House Arins====
There is no other House of Rogue Traders that raises the ire of the other Traders and Free Captains of the Cloudburst region like House Arins.  The dynastic House Arins is barely more than a fleet of state-sanctioned buccaneers, with all of the trends towards robbery and pillaging that that implies.

House Arins is the youngest of the houses unofficially considered Dynastic by the Sector Administratum, although that is really an informal term used only for convenience.  The Arins fleet is a motley hodgepodge of custom-built ships, salvaged wrecks, ships prized from Space Hulks, pirate loot, and even xeno vessels.  The current Warrant holder, Giuseppe Arins, is a skillful and insightful man, but his total disinterest in politics and crude demeanor do little do smooth over the effects of his fleet’s behavior.

Of course, if his fleet ever did resort to outright piracy against Imperial targets, things would go poorly for him very quickly.  Lord Admiral Maynard loathes Giuseppe Arins, and would very much like to see the man hang.  However, the Arins fleet has successfully taken battle to the endemic Ork pirates of the Oldlight Exo-zone who so often spring forth to menace Battlefleet Rampart and the Drumnos Sector Fleet.  Thus, so long as he toes the line and never dips into true criminality, the Inquisition is unlikely to take any actions against him.

Some Inquisitors of the Ordo Hereticus have even whispered, in the halls of the Palace of Maskos, that it may not be the worst idea to turn the Arins fleet loose on the FCC and see who wins, given that the Navy is in no shape to handle it at present.  Others take issue with this, pointing out that if Arins defeats Langdon Reith and takes Zlodziei, they will have essentially created an independent satrap of the House Arins with little to no Imperial oversight and a massive fleet.  If there were anything that could tip the violent and unpredictable Arins into open conflict with the Imperium, it would surely be a world of his own and an unaccountable fleet.

Giuseppe Arins is not like the Atongwës or the Walshes.  He has no element of piety to him past the bare essentials.  All that matters to him is results.  His entire family line is such; they have no concern for the possible collateral damage of their actions so long as they succeed.  There are many such hotheads in the war-making history of the Imperium of Man, but few as successful as the Arins family.

Part of the reason for this success is their enormous ground force.  The Arins family employs a huge force of mercenaries, with airplanes, tanks, ornithopters, artillery, and even submarines.  The family pays them well and lets them plunder non-Imperial worlds, although they hold no truck with Chaos-tech.  The mercenaries are moved about their wars in several large transport ships that Arins has stolen from various pirate fleets or Space Hulks over the years, and are inserted into warzones with a combination of Cetacean transports, Aquila shuttles, and typical Navy transports.

When the Arins family takes a prize, they usually distribute any hard cash and simple treasures among the men, keeping them well-motivated.  For larger prizes, however, like ships or unique archaeotech, the Arins family has arranged with several hundred dissatisfied Techpriests of the Forge Worlds in the Drumnos and Cloudburst Sectors to work for them in exchange for first crack at any good loot.  The Arins family owns a void platform called the Hand of Time that they purchased from the Grand Anchor, and use it to cache their treasures that are too valuable to store on Celeste.

The Arins family and the other, wealthier Rogue Trader Houses in the Sector have arrangements to keep each other at arms’ length while in the Sector proper, but in the Circuit and Exo-zone, all bets are off.  The Arins family has assaulted other Rogue Trader ships outright for getting to a prize before they could.  Although it will likely never be proven, the Arins family is the most likely suspect for sinking the Battlefleet Rampart Cobra destroyer Golden Aquila.  The House’s enormous buccaneer army travels from world to world in the Circuit, serving as mercenaries as much as a collective army, and pillaging non-Imperial worlds or ancient xeno strongholds.