Prima Cajalax

Prima Cajalax Maxia (also Prima Cajalax) is an Imperial Knight world, found in 397.M41 during the Macharian Crusade. It took some time before the agreement of alliance between the Imperium and Cajalax Prima was reached, mainly because of the splintered nations and numerous headstrong rulers on world. Alliance was formally formed after a devastating war between the Knightly houses on world had ended in favor of House Cajanus who supported the Imperial vassalship.

Orbital charasteristics
Prima Cajalax orbits its young, sizable orange dwarf star Cajalax from the mean radius of approximately 157500000 kilometers. Its aphelion goes as far as 161205000 kms and perihelion 150058000 km. Planet's average orbital speed is around 97024 km/h which makes its year as long as 1.15 Terran years (420 Terran days or 10000 Terran hours). Cajalaxian year is 328 Cajalaxian days, 14 hours and 28 minutes, making every other year a leap year, leap day being at the end of the calender.

Planet's axial tilt is 18.4 degrees from its orbital plane causing seasonal changes on Prima Cajalax.

Prima Cajalax has two natural satellites, moons. The first moon, known by the locals as "the Moon", orbits its host planet from approximately 400 thousand kilometers and is tidally locked. The second moon bears many names, but is most commonly known as the "Red Dwarf". Red Dwarf orbits its host planet from approximately 900 thousand kilometers in an orbit that is tilted 15 degrees of its host planet's plane. Red Dwarf is covered by iron dust and basalt plains and has peculiar reddish color, even if it is only visible in clear weather and at nights because of its very dark surface. Red Dwarf orbits around its host in 78.4 Terran days, when the Moon orbits in just over 30 Terran days. When the two moons align, they'll cause massive tidal waters which has forced the coastal settlements on high hills and cliffs.

Physical charasteristics
Prima Cajalax has rotational period of 1.3 Terran days making one Cajalaxian day 30 Terran hours, 41 minutes and 15 seconds. Cajalaxian people have adapted to these slightly longer days over the millennia.

Planet's surface is covered with one ocean, planet's only continent cutting it in half. Within the continent there is also a large area of brackish water, which is known as the North Sea. The major ocean is also cut from north to equator by a long, wide shallow waters that have extensive amount of corals and rich variety of species. The area is so shallow, that some points become islands during the Talltide, when the two moons are aligned.

Planet's surface is relatively flat as the tectonic activity on planet is relatively weak for a world of that size. Prima Cajalax is a little bit larger than Terra and has similar gravity levels. All in all, world is very hospitable to human life.

Pre-Imperial time
The Imperial historians and adepts assume that the settlers on Prima Cajalax were splintered very early in the colonisation process, thus effectively negating the pros of Throne Mechanicums' colony-guarding influences. Instead of protecting one big colony, numerous knights began to guard their people from other houses and factions jealously like cocks guard their flocks.

This fragmentation within the colony had, supposedly, led to a rapid decline in technological level as no group was strong enough to acquire required amounts of components for their own standard template constructs' (STC) construction. The Knights, while effectively eternal and indestructible, soon had to give up their ranged weaponries due to the lack of munitions. This might be the reason for extraordinary amount of melee-focused lances hailing from Prima Cajalax.

The STCs were soon disregarded and only the very simplest of them were used, only to keep the Knights going, because their importance on the surviving groups was more than anythin else. They guarded the settlers not only of the other settlers and bandits but also from the feral wildlife on planet.

Macharian Crusade
Prima Cajalax was splintered into nations and factions and its surface into geopolitical areas one more important than the other. The inbuilt mechanism within the Knights' Throne Mechanicums were not corrupted but had influenced the Knightly houses with an obsession to personal honor and dedication for their counties and provinces.

Knightly Houses

 * Cajanus