123 Families

The 123 Families are prominent hereditary noble families mainly composed of humans. They were at one time the rulers of various nations and city-states on Galactic Primus, and later formed the upper house of the Landsraad during the time of the planetary regime that ruled Galactic Primus under the Corrino planetary Emperors. House Corrino and House Hawkwood historically were the two most prominent of the 123 Families.

With the formation of the Imperial Republic, 78 of the 123 Families gained seats in the Imperial Parliament, while the 45 families that failed to gain representation in Parliament had mostly become part of the Archon noble class within the Kingdom of Albion. A handful of families by the time of the formation of the Republic in Year 23,786 had been absorbed into the Corrino or Hawkwood families.

Over the centuires and the millennia, the 123 Families were reduced further in number so that by the present day (Year 45,099), only 33 of the original families still existed as hereditary nobles within the Imperial Parliament. ? Most of the rest had been absorbed into the Corrino, Hawkwood or Logan (see Logan dynasty and dual monarchy) families.