"Have A Little Slaver In You?"
The House of Hashu, or more commonly known as the Hashu Family is a minor nobility family centered around the system of Safizon. Publicly known almost solely from their premiere Slaver Hound breeding program and Kennels, they have won several awards for Slaver Hound training and bloodlines. Underneath however the family has a radically different face.
The House of Hashu traces its bloodline back over 3000 years to the ancient wars on Athra. Family lore claims that an individual named Oveur the Shrew won a strategic battle but when he was to be decorated the Emperor misheard the last part of his name and proclaimed him Oveur Hashu.
Roughly six generations after Oveur Hashu founded House Hashu and twelve years into the reclaiming, a major incident forever changed the face of the Hashu Family. Lady Raven Sorain Hashu dies in childbirth leaving Lord Valin Hashu heartbroken and becomes reclusive. After several years of mourning Valin is brought out of his reclusion by an affair with one of his Khanid bodyguards, Sarin Hamar. Through Sarin the first secondary branch of the Hashu family, the Hamar Family, and the first elements of Khanid blood were introduced into the family. It is also during this time period that the family first becomes active in the intelligence and espionage fields, through careful planning by Valin and Sarin, the foundations of one of the most elite special operations organizations is laid as the House of Hashu continues to server the emperor.
Since the days of Valin and Raven, the House of Hashu continued to expand establishing several splinter branches throughout the various Amarrian Royal families. Today's Family includes over a dozen sub-branches including members from most bloodlines withing the empire either through marriage or adoption. The main branch which continued through Lord Valin's son who Lady Raven died giving birth to, survived and is based from Safizon VII. The Hamar family with the prestige of being the second longest surviving branch has also thrived serving as bodyguards and generally playing important Leadership roles in the family's military force, the Hounds.
Today's House Hashu thrives in the internal politics of the Amarrian Empire. They are brokers of information and are actively involved not only in espionage against external threats to the empire but also internal actions of all the Major Houses. While constantly striving to serve the empire, family members have consistently displayed a clear loyalty to their family first and the empire a distant second. With one of the most highly trained military organization in the Empire, the "Hounds," the family can potential wield a considerable amount of power both in politics and the Amarrian underworld. They have chosen however to generally not actively interfere in internal struggles of the Empire unless it is deemed a great destablizing threat and focus instead on external threats such as the Blood Raiders who they view as perhaps the greatest enemy to the purity of the empire and the various Minmatar terrorist elements. With that said, when the Hounds do get involved, Amarrians in the know are generally inclined to let them do as they will.
