Fiction:Palthordaus Families

"Family gets you everything in the great golden empire. But when you lose it all what do you do? Well what else; you're either family with other outcasts or you form your own."

- Aldus Vacosus, a contus of the Vacosus family.

The Eldag Palthordaii (Dracid; El-dag pal-vhor-daii; Shadowed Houseless ones) or eldonisii (Dracid: Shadow-dwellers) or simply the Houseless Families are a collective of criminal families originating from the Draconid colonies of the .Originating from houseless individuals who formed into family groups to survive, the families rose to form some of the most pervasive criminal organisations in Andromeda.

Although lacking in a single leader and often in competition with each other, the families have proven an almost impossible entity to dissolve. With connections across the galaxy and an open-arm policy to those freshly made houseless, it is understood by the Imperium's law enforcement forces that so long as the custom of casting individuals into houseless remains.