Timestamp: 7.252.999.M41

Location: Driscol City/Skaltine, Baraspine, Adrantis sub, Calixis sector

Situation: Drawn into the sinister plot to abduct the Governess' daughter

Body: On Baraspine the cadre continues to try and stay hidden while at the same time turning Haxtes' fief into something profitable (not a very easy endeavor given the relative poorness of Baraspine).

At the same time Haxtes is drawn into a sinister plot:

He is contacted by the Governess of Baraspine. As a foreigner he is less biased than her other nobles - and as a Rogue Trader he has resources that she needs. Her only daughter and heir has gone missing, presumably kidnapped. One thing leads to another and soon Haxtes knows a bit more about the upper class than he cares to.

The Governess' daughter was not kidnapped. She ran away. And she is a mutant. And now here head has been filled with heretical propaganda by the First Minister - things like equality, freedom and democracy. Filthy ideas that will cause society to break down. Ideas that caused her to flee from her ordained fate - to become the mutant Governor of Baraspine!

Imposible you say? Perhaps. Yet there are those that would try. The First Minister knows of her condition. He seeks to rule through her, to become both the power befor and behind the throne. The General-Adjutant knows. He seeks to line his own pockets by selling guns to anyone with the money - secure in the knowledge that no-one dare stop him. The Bishop knows. He seeks to improve his own influence by pretending to be pious and claiming he won't bless and salve the Heir. But of course he will if push comes to shove - otherwise he would have exposed her long time ago!

And the Mother? She is desperately weary of it all. She wants to see her bloodline continue. She wants her daughter on the throne and a man between her legs. And the best genetic screening money can buy. A pure child. And then a slow boat to the oceanic paradises of Reth. Something like that anyway.  But now the girl has run away and is (most likely, they can't know for sure) hiding among the outcasts of the underhive.