Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170914001451

The Oeconomica is one of the many Adeptas of the Imperial Bureaucracy it's mission is the collection of taxes, tithes, and other resources and then their storage, management, and distribution. Within it's ranks are trillions of laborers that make the goods upon the Agri and Forge worlds (They are co-owned by the Administration as the Oeconomica is a splinter of the Administration), trillions of scribes and slaves used to manage and catalogue the materials, and the many thousands of lords and overseers plus the many body guards and enforcers necessary for such work. Think of the Oeconomica partly as the errand boy of the other Adeptus collecting resources and bringing them to where they need to go or stockpiles. The Oeconomica is split into five main branches:

- the Officio Granum deals with the collection and distribution of the food supplies need to keep both the Empire running and the 'Bread and Circus' programs running. This Officio has almost direct control of the Agri-worlds, controls the massive 'Grain-Ships' that carry trillions of tons of food stuff to the 'Granary Worlds' which store them, and have entire departments for management, distribution, and record keeping.

- the Officio Praeclusio deals with the obtaining/collection and storage of tithes plus the cataloging and records need to keep semi-accurate track of all the materials the State has at it's disposal. This Officio is built around the 'Tithe Ships' that visit every world on a regular basis on scheduled dates to collect tithes and other materials (laborers) which are then brought to planets dedicated to sorting, cataloging, and storing all the materials.

- the Officio Operarius deals with the processing and delivering of the 'Imperial Laborers' either impressed or enslaved by the state to work in it's many titanic projects and factories. They control smaller ships under the Officio Praeclusio that follow that Officio around collecting the Laborers where ever the other stops.

- the Officio Moneta deals with the more 'monetary' matters of the state running both the 'Imperial Bank' and it's credit unions, but also running and maintaining it's vast 'Treasure Halls' filled to the brim with all sorts of rather expensive goods both monetary, technological, and of religious significance.

- the Officio Praedium deals with the 'Imperial Estate' which deals with the land and buildings directly owned by the Imperial Bureaucracy and the management and maintenance needed to keep these building running. The Lords of this Officio are at times vast land owners able to pick out some of the best estates from themselves under the nose of the state.

The main part of the Oeconomica work takes place upon the Stock-Worlds, Storage-Worlds, or Vault-Worlds which are planets of (generally poor nature) turned into massive complex after complex of storage yards, vaults, libraries, and many other functions. Within these worlds toil the usually hereditary slaves, state scribes, and plenty of servitors as well as overseers, curators, and other more 'specialized roles'.

The lords of the Oeconomica tend own vast estates from finances 'lost' by the state they also tend to acquire massive collections of antiques they have collected, or well their workers have, across the vast stretches of the Empire.

The Lords also have armies of slaves and scribes to both attend to themselves and their vast estates and collections. These slaves tend to be bought from across the Empire and of the more 'exotic' nature.

On top of this all the Oeconomica has a massive private army under it's control that is either directly recruited, impressed, or 'created' from slaves or engineered beings. They are used to guard the massive installations of the Oeconomica as well as server as pretty much the Empire's version of the IRS save with riot gear and big guns. 