5/30/2023 0 Comments Gideon the ninth gideonSkeleton Motif: Cohort starships are covered in real, human bones.Not even sci-fi swords, just regular steel. Schizo Tech: The Cohort gets around aboard spacecraft capable of orbital bombardment and then lands troops who fight with swords.This may be related to the fact that the Nine Houses makes mass death their starting priority during any invasion, to give their necromancers thanergy to work with theirs or the enemy's, it doesn't really matter. This goes double if you serve directly on God's flagship, leading to behavior that Mercymorn and even John himself find exasperating. Martyrdom Culture: To die in service and have your remains interred aboard the Mithraeum is considered possibly the highest honor one can receive.The Second takes them even younger, though into the "Junior Cohort Territorials" at first. Isaac and Jeannmary were turned aside as too young at eleven, then for having mumps the next year, meaning they could have got in as twelve-year-olds. Some Houses seem to prefer fighters seek Cohort placement in their late teens or so but the Second and the Fourth take them very young. The military arm of the Empire, a vast galaxy spannning armed force that draws from the Nine Houses.
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