Category:Senators of House Peleps

The Great House of Peleps has the single largest contingent of Senators sitting in the Greater Chamber of the Realm's Deliberative Senate, their numbers buoyed in centuries past with the dissolution of House Iselsi and kept at such a level through a steady stream of appointees, drawn from the numerous Peleps scions who ascend the ranks of the Thousand Scales and Imperial Navy. However, due to the nature of this caucus, this number of votes rarely translates into a bloc which casts in favour of House Peleps interests.

House Peleps interests have themselves long been fractured, various powerful households seeking to push competing agendas, and the Deliberative caucus plays this out in concentrated form between the fifty Dragonblooded seated on the Peleps benches. There is no caucus chair, nor a whip as seen in the lockstep caucus of House Mnemon, to keep Senators in line, and in any given vote there is likely to be at least one Peleps Senator standing in support of each side, with extremists such as Ragara Pol or Cynis Tenezar oft able to secure votes for their mad ideas from a Peleps senator or two who simply wishes to cast a vote opposed to some rival within their own caucus.

Caucus unity is not helped by the fact many younger Peleps Dynasts see engineering appointment to the Deliberative as securing a powerbase for themselves and their fledgling households, so that they might engineer a rise to supplant the established lines, and by the fact many believe the Scarlet Empress used appointment to the Chamber to remove Peleps bureaucrats before they could secure control of their ministries, to prevent excessive Peleps control in the Thousand Scales... sitting Senators can never be Ministers, but retaining connections and proximity they can still exert their power against their rivals still ascending the bureaucracy.

The sole thing which seems able to draw the caucus together is an intense, shared hatred of House V'neef, forged when the Imperial Merchant Marine and Imperial Merchant Navy were transferred from Peleps to that young House. While there was great disagreement in House Peleps over how excess funds gained from those organizations ought be used (and on how the House ought use the Imperial Navy in general), their loss has meant the costs of the Imperial Navy are borne by House members directly, cutting into the personal fortunes each scion reserved for their own interests. Passionate and furious at the best of times, the Peleps bloc is roused to new heights of rage end energy when faced with V'neef attempts to push their agenda. And yet even here, it is not every Peleps vote cast forever against every proposal by a V'neef Senator, for while none could be considered allies of the youngest House there have been certain pieces of legislation where Peleps Senators have found some common cause with counterparts on the V'neef benches.

Negotiations behind the scenes within the caucus are as caustic as those on the floor, but in recent years the name Peleps Staemos has emerged within the back rooms of House Peleps as a fixer, building common ground and political alliance between the disparate agendas of the Senators under the Peleps aegis.