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{{Spoiler block|spoiling=the COUNTER/Weight finale|text=The people that eventually became the Principality arrived in the Golden Branch through an explosion of "a half dozen stellar combustors" that launched them and [[Rigour]] across the galaxy, somewhere between 15,000 and 40,000 years before the events of <i>COUNTER/Weight</i>. They rallied under Chess Kesh, and used bits of Rigour itself for their technology, which then became the remarkably advanced tech of the Rapid Evening. However, with the passage of time and their unification as the Principality under someone only known as the Prince, they forgot about these cultural origins.|theme=cw}}The Principality was kept a secret until the [[September Incident]], when they emerged under the leadership of [[Addax Dawn]] and the Rapid Evening. They opened communications with every other major faction in the [[Golden Branch]] to agree on the Kesh Accord, which prevented use of [[Rigour]]-derived technology unsupervised by the Principality, using the Rapid Evening to enforce those rules through "direct and aggressive intervention"<ref>[[Twilight Mirage 63: Guaranteed Events, Or: An Accounting of the Time When We Built the Machine|Twilight Mirage 63: Guaranteed Events, Or: An Accounting of the Time When We Built The Machine]]</ref>. The Accord also returned the planets [[Garden]] and [[Sage]] to the [[Golden Demarchy]].<ref>[[COUNTER/Weight 41: A Splintered Branch, A Ringing Bell Pt. 1]]</ref>

At the time, the Principality only had control of the planets Kesh and [[Ziishe]], though they are said to have built the city of Megalopolis alongside the Golden Demarchy in the planet [[Torru]]. It is later renamed Whitestar<sup><ref group="note">Assumed to be the origin of minor house Whitestar in Stel Kesh.</ref></sup> by Maxine Ming in honor of [[Cassander Timaeus Berenice|Cassander]], and the house they remembered sharing in the [[September Institute]].<ref>[[COUNTER/Weight 43: A Splintered Branch, A Ringing Bell Pt. 3]]</ref>