It is not clear whether there was a correlation of any sort between Colonial Phalanxes and the units known as Household Phalanxes, which seem to have been associated with the Ruling Families; given the interest of the Families in Chiss frontier systems, it is possible that some or all colony worlds were essentially controlled by them as autonomous domains, and on such worlds, it would be understandable if the Colonial Phalanxes were Ruling Family militias.