Verum Sectatores

The Verum Sectatores are a group of Adeptus Custodes who wished to break their eternal commitment to the Emperor's protection because they did not spend tens of thousands of years defending the Emperor so he could create a failing and corrupt Imperium that only brings suffering to it's citizens. These Custodes wished to do something more noble with their immortal warrior lives by helping those who dodged the Imperial Guard draft, those whose bodies rejected the Primarch's gene-seed and those who wanted to right their past heretical wrongdoings without fear of death.

The Custodes of the neutral organization known as Verum Sectatores have brought many worlds and systems under their protection, claiming these worlds as sanctuary worlds and allow anyone of any race into their sanctuary worlds as long as they promise to bring no harm to the Sectatores dream known as True Sanctuary, the ideal of a safe escape for the weak and a chance to fight for something noble for the strong.

The Sectatores have been known to bring in deserted Imperial Guardsmen, former Chaos cultists and even veteran Astartes, heretic or those who are tired of constant war. The people who live on sanctuary worlds work together to achieve a utopia away from the perils of war. The Custodians of the Sectatores facilitate this by eliminating threats before the civilians can even perceive them. From power struggles on the worlds themselves to Xenos invasions, the Custodes of the Sectatores will remove any threat immediately.

As their ideals are quite similar, there has been multiple attempts by the T'au to convert sanctuary worlds to their cause. However the Sectatores know that this will only lead to war and have been hostile in turn to the T'au Empire's inquiries. The Sectatores maintain as cordial as possible a relationship with the Imperium of Man. However, with the Sectatores harbouring many deserted Guardsmen, former heretics and Astartes who have abandoned their chapters, it is difficult. Due to this, the Sectatores deal with regular incursions into their systems by the Imperial Guard forces and Astartes chapters.

Sectatores have also dealt with Alpha Legionnaires infiltrating their systems and launching surprise attacks in an attempt to send Sectatores systems into disarray. As a result of this, the Sectatores have developed a solid defensive border of "shield systems" consisting of extremely heavy orbital defenses.

The Sectatores also have an alliance with the T'au Farsight Enclaves and the two have constant trade between their systems and bear no ill will towards one another. However the more the military might of the Sectatores grows, (within the confines of their few shield systems) the less the newest members understand the intricate relationships between allied factions, leading to small skirmishes between members of the Sectatores and allied systems.

Being comfortable with the current number of systems they hold, the Sectatores have stopped their expansion due to the great amount of resources it would take to sustain more worlds. However, the Sectatores still have enough systems to support anyone who wishes to join them.