The Imperial Palace on Kaitain housed the Emperor, his immediate relatives of House Corrino, their servants, bodyguards, and slaves, the emperor's slave-harem with its adjacent nursery for the offspring of the stave-concubines, and, on a higher level, quarters for the generally ignored-but-tolerated string of aristocratic visitors with suits, petitions, diplomatic errands, and the like. This article needs , and may require formatting and copyediting.