The Pact of Necessary Venture is a group from every Stel of the Principality who intend to replace the princepts with a five-part representative council. They are a sort of neoliberal secret faction, in contrast to the monarchic and traditional Curtain.
Though they trace their lineage back to an exploratory committee founded in the late 14th century of the Perfect Millenium, the Pact was not made in earnest until five years before the start of PARTIZAN: 1418 PM, soon after hostilities began between Kesh and Apostolos.
Its original leadership committee, Plumeria, Gallica, Myosotis, Rye, and Hyacinth determined that to ensure the future stability of the Principality, the Pact would establish a power base in the Scutum–Centaurus arm and amass a vast fleet using the unexploited resources there, in order to remove the princepts and establish themselves as a council in their place.