It encompasses what was once the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, the Faroe Isles and Ireland as well as the former sea floor lying between. This most ancient of the Skotii's fiefs palatine is on Holy Terra herself. Her conquests on the fringes of the Ophidium Gulf became the Skotus Sector of which she was the first governor. Skotia Skota-Macaran led the 202 nd Expeditionary Fleet into the aptly named Segmentum Tempestus.
Sons and daughters of House Skota continued to lead their highlanders during the Great Crusade, serving in Fleets commanded by Primarch Rogal Dorn, Lion El'Jonson, Ferrus Manus and Leman Russ, but the most famous of them was Lady Commander of her own fleet. Alastor's son, Jock leSkotus, at the head of an army of Albyon Highlanders conquered the Centauri Republic, a Human splinter government who made the mistake of resisting the nascent Imperium, and was granted the entire system as a fief palatine. While House Skota claims great antiquity the founder of the modern House Palatine was a Terran Warlord know as Alastor le Scot, ruler of Alba Nordis, who allied with the Emperor to defeat his southern neighbor the infamous Uilleam the Red who claimed rule over all Albyon.
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