Inquisitorial Factions: Now with an Inquisitorial Census

[Senseilord Ashahara]

First to update previous submition : Inquisitor Lord O'Dorihan, Ordo Hereticus, Mondominant.

Second:

 

"How many Monodominant players are actually of the Monodominant strain...."

 

Brother Inquisitor, the term 'Mondominant' is one coined by those Inquisitors for whom the lure of Politics is more intresting than their Emperor-Ordained task.

Be us Malleus, Hereticus, Xenos or other, it is our mission to root out the enemies of Mankind..

The emphasis is there for it is of great importance. Our Galaxy is the Galaxy of The Throne. The Imperium is the Imperium of the Emperor for Mankind.The Xenos races are an unclean taint in His holy domain. They shall be purged by the Ordo so concerned.

The Daemon and those Traitors most unclean are of obvious and aweful danger to His holy domain and must be erradicated with Blessed Promethium by the Ordo so concerned.

I am Hereticus. My remit is to purge the Enemy within. It's face is many.

The Depraved, The Apostate, The Deviant from The Creed; sure we can all agree that those aught to be cleansed but does that go far enough brothers? No it does not.

The Witch, wether tame or feral, is a mortal danger to His domain. The witch hears the whispers of the Ruinous Powers at all times. Even those so vetted and sanctioned by the Adeptus Astra Telepathica and the Scholums fall to their promises. Non can predict when their so lauded willpower will falter, but when it does,for even a second, worlds burn and the Legions of the Enemy pour into His galaxy.

The risk is too great.

The Mutant's courruption is obvious to all who care to look. Does not the twisted and squat frame of the Ratling evidence it's lack of charactor and Devotion to The Throne? Is not the puny mind and oafish frame of the Ogryn testement to it's brutish nature?

What of the 'noble' Navigator houses? Inbred, twisted three-eyed beasts that look apon the Warp? That duel with their Ether Sight?!

Such beings are not of our species! They are no better than the Aliens the Ordo Xenos obliterates in His Name! Should we tolerate the Alien within ? Terra no!

And finally what of the Astartes?

The much vaunted and saintly defenders of Mankind.

The geno-warped, seven foot tall, acid spiting Astartes. Dual-hearted, tri-lunged chirgo-altered mongrals.

Do they submit themselves unto His Holy Ecclesiarchy or Millitorum Command? They do not

Do they recognise they Emperor as the Divine saviour he is? No they do not.

They practice outlandish corpse devotion and venerate Icons that draw Worship away from The Throne.

Is it any suprise that it is they who nigh destroyed that which the Emperor put into motion and they who nigh murdered He who is Most Holy?

It is not.

The Space Marine is a dangerous force in the very heart of His Domain and one that must be watched with unending vigilance lest they challange Him again.

[Grand Master Tyrak]

I see what it meant in Codex: Witch Hunters that "The ultra-puritans . . . come full circle to become a dark mirror of the ultra-Radicals."

 

I will add you to the list.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

That's what you get for raising Confessors to the Inquisition.

[Inquisitor Fox]

Which is why the rest of us in the Ordo Hereticus watch said Confessors <_< The opportunity to work closely with the Ecclesiarchy's records of Living Saints and knowledge of thier exploits is a mere welcome coincidence.

 

One wonders about the Ultra-Puritanical viewpoint of the Emperor himself.. the most powerful psyker humanity has ever known, or the blood of psykers that keeps him alive.

 

Edit: I must add, very well written ;) Were it not for my skeptical Inquisitorial mind I might almost fall for it *grins*

[Senseilord Ashahara]

With regard to the Most Holy Emperor himself; it is the central tenant of our Creed that He is above suspicion. It is self evident. He is a psyker but he is the most powerful and Pure of Gods, thus we worship him.

The common Witch is but a pale reflection of Him and holds not the merest fraction of His power. To even suggest more is foolish at best.

 

<Slips deeply at his bell of Amsac and draws upon a Lho stick. Inquisitor O'Dorihan may hate the Witch in all it's forms but he loves a good 40K cliche.

[- 7eAL -]

7eAL: Recongregator

- Inquisitor Lord Siegfried Schtauffen: Ordo Sepulturum : Recongregationist

- Inquisitor Xu (deceased): Ordo Hereticus : Amalathian

 

- Interrogator Unseel (later Inquisitor): Ordo Malleus : Recongregationist

- Interrogator Ritz Malheur (later Inquisitor): Ordo Xenos : Xanthite

- Interrogator Leon Kennedy (later Inquisitor): Ordo Sepulturum : Recongregationist

 

(Anyone who can name all the sources for these character names gets one Internet. Anyone who further requests the names of the other non-Inquisitor characters in this warband and can name all the sources for the additional character names gets an additional d6 Internets.)

 

 

Brother Inquisitor, the term 'Mondominant' is one coined by those Inquisitors for whom the lure of Politics is more intresting than their Emperor-Ordained task.

 

Be us Malleus, Hereticus, Xenos or other, it is our mission to root out the enemies of Mankind.. The emphasis is there for it is of great importance. Our Galaxy is the Galaxy of The Throne. The Imperium is the Imperium of the Emperor for Mankind.The Xenos races are an unclean taint in His holy domain. They shall be purged by the Ordo so concerned.

And why expend resources, my fellows, to amputate that which can be cured?

 

Those who fall to Heresy and to the wayside fall not always of incorrigible circumstances. Who was it that swayed Horus but those ambitious and accursed tongues of the Word Bearers Legion? Who corrupted the Traitor Legions but Horus himself? By what strength rose Vandire but on the backs of they who elevated him, who showed him a power that he did not deserve? What led Huron to forever disgrace the Astral Claws but debt and fear? Where are the Malcadors? Where are the Russes? Where are the Garros and Qruzes and Kendels of our own history who stand fast in the face of depravity? Had those hated figures remembered the glory and the grace of out Lord Emperor, would they not remember too that His strength is the life-blood of all our kind, that His glory shines the light of our future?

 

Those who fall do not understand as we do the greatness of the Emperor's cause - who are we to blame them for ignorance, when we do not teach them ourselves and we cannot show to them the full meaning and significance of His history? The young mutant, the foolish psyker, the violent alien, all these attack us because they fear and do not understand us. They do not believe they can serve the good of the Imperium, for they do not believe they have a place in it. They do not believe in the unity of humanity, because they are shunned and forgotten.

 

Remember that the Emperor raised Terra from a hell, and made it a heaven. Remember that when He came, He cured the mutants, He brought us out of the Dark Age of Technology. He led the Marines and the armies across the galaxy in expansion, He allied the Adeptus Mechanicus of Mars and the Assassinorum and the Navis Nobilite and the Silent Sisterhood, He brought peace to planets and worlds at war with their own. He united all men, women and children beneath a single banner not for some ambition or for some glory but for our happiness, for our security and for our future. He did not care that the Ogryn abhumans were lumbering and stupid. He did not care that the Navigators are accursed with the Warp Eye. He did not care that the Ratling races were shrunken and cowardly. He did not care that the Nightsiders are pale as dust and blind as bats. He did not care even that the Beastmen races were intermingled with the inferior blood of common animals. He promised that he would give each a place in the Imperium, and that he would restore their human forms. Where you would purge, He would cure! And you dare say that you follow the teachings of the Emperor, that you take him to be your idol?

 

Remember that the Emperor reached out to the Alien and passed peace to them. He bore peace upon the peaceful races of the Eldar, for we have no quarrel with them that cannot be solved through reason. The Eldar, He treated as equals of our kind, as a race that is wise and fair and just. They spoke to us then not with guns and swords but with trades and with knowledge! Look what ruin we have brought upon our two races, sacrificing worlds to our petty squabbles when we face threats and common enemies so much greater. He would have reached out to the Tau too, for their Greater Good is our good too; that our races might have peace and prosperity rather than this endless war! The Tau have technologies that we have so long lost and lusted after since the Dark Age of Technology, and yet we refuse to acknowledge that they have learned what we have forgotten. Look what our ruthless hatred has brought us - world after world, legion after legion, they expand ruthlessly and resist our military efforts! The Emperor understood too the Orks, for they are a simple race that knows only strength and war. Had the Emperor offered to deliver them to war, he could have delivered them on our behalf and saved thousands of human lives for great human gain. The Orks can be made to fight the Necrons, can be made to fight the Tyranid, can be pitted against our mortal enemies of Chaos - why do we waste the efforts of fighting them when a few words will turn their guns and blades against better enemies?

 

It is with medicines and technologies of Peace that the Emperor united humanity! Those who go carelessly mongering War do not provide for our future, but ruin the efforts of times past!

 

 

Alas for ten thousand years since the Heresy, we have known nothing but War!

 

Your Ratlings, your Ogryns, your mutants, your abhuman tribes are not evidence of any deficit of their own but they are rather evidence of deficit amongst us, for we have failed to uphold the agreements and promises and actions of our Lord Emperor! It is the Imperium, that has failed to continue His work. In ten thousand years since they were welcomed into our fold and promised their turn to be cured of their weaknesses, they have decayed, warped further by millenia War and Strife unbroken by the blessed touch and wisdom of our Emperor. They have not "fallen" from grace - they have been the same suffering people for ten thousand years, and they have waited ten thousand years and more for a saviour. When that saviour came, He fell before He could even look upon them, and in ten thousand years hence they have been utterly neglected.

 

In ten thousand years what have we done in the Imperium but fight amongst our own? In ten thousand years what have we seen but decay in the Imperium? Even when a single great man, a man like the Lord Solar Macharius, a man like Sebastian Thor, arises to lead the people into a great age of advancement and prosperity, that wave of glory ends too quickly as the Imperium itself grinds them down and mires them in its corrupted machinations and its political infighting. The organizations of the Imperium itself have destroyed our hopes for revival!

 

 

So tell us what is to blame, Brother Inquisitor, but the dying organizations of the Imperium itself?

We cannot amputate the body that is the People, for the Head will die. We have forgotten the Heart that is the Emperor, and it beats so weakly. We have corroded the Arteries that is the Ecclesiarchy, and it flows with disease, not life. It is the Head that is the Administratum, that must be cured from within and from without! We are the Inquisition, and we have watched and waited long enough, while the Imperium rots under our very noses. Wake up, Inquisitor, and smell the decay that we have ignored for ten thousand years!

 

- Inquisitor Siegfried Schtauffen

 

Date: M41.008-11-22-02-46

Location: ++Classified++

Thought: The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. - Unknown. M1.8XX.

[Grand Master Tyrak]

Senseilord Ashahara Posted Today, 01:31 AM

With regard to the Most Holy Emperor himself; it is the central tenant of our Creed that He is above suspicion. It is self evident. He is a psyker but he is the most powerful and Pure of Gods, thus we worship him.

The common Witch is but a pale reflection of Him and holds not the merest fraction of His power. To even suggest more is foolish at best.

 

I do hope the "above suspicion" category includes the Grey Knights, otherwise you may end up of the wrong end of my Nemesis Force Sword . . .

 

- 7eAL - Do you want me to put the Interrogators in the list as Inquisitors?

 

*Begins arguing in character*

 

But we are not the Emperor, brother. Too few among us have His healing touch, and none among the Inquisition itself. We have not the power to eradicate disease through cure, so we must eradicate it through fire and expulsion, like the ancient tribes of Terra did when they sent their brethren, afflicted by a disease they could not cure, outside the city walls so as to not infect the rest. We cannot afford to show mercy and regrets without certainty of healing, however much we may feel it inside. To cure is better than to purge, yes, but we do not have the power to cure, so we must purge.

 

These lumbering, bloated organisations that make up the Imperium are all that defend it from the enemies without, and are all that preserve the Emperor himself from destruction at the hands of renegades and aliens. They must be preserved and defended, not for their own sake, but for the sake of the Emperor, for without him we are all lost, no matter our high ideals and expectations. What is an Emperor without an empire to rule? The clock is ticking, slowly but surely, each successive line of defence being broken down over many years as our enemies press into the Imperium, as the flow of water over time will split the rock over which it flows. We cannot remove the lines of defence from behind our defenders' backs, for when a breach is created our enemies will pour through, and instead of being blocked by another line of defence will find a great hollow of uncoordinated, disestablished worlds. We have not the respite to change the Imperium. Time marches on, and there is no way to set the clock back to a better Imperium. Better as diseased state than no state at all, for without an Imperium, Humanity will again descend into darkness and infighting, and be overrun by aliens and monsters. Even the Tau, one of the xenos you admire so much, recognise the importance of this, fearing the return of their Mont'au, the Terror.

 

You talk of bringing peace to the alien. When have you tried to plead terms with the Tyranid, with the Ork, with the Dark Eldar raider? They will not listen. Even the Eldar and Tau, most sophisticated of the Xeno races, will betray us the moment our aims conflict with theirs. Be thankful they will cooperate at all. The Eldar, in particular, will at times rival The Great Manipulator itself in cunning, playing us off against a greater enemy, as happened at Armageddon. The time of talk and peace is beyond our power to restore, and I will not see the Imperium gambled away for a utopian ideal lost long ago.

 

Inquisitor Tyrak, signing off.

 

*End arguing in character*

[benmothershaw]

Argue in character

what is healing touch/Cure, if you know of such aims of sophisticated xeno? I''ll tell you, the emperor is only of such great power and knowledge, that the enemies of the imperium would rather cowar in fear than suffer his wrath.

Although you talk of such despair in communications with Xeno's Inquisitor Tyrak, nothing is beyond what faith the emperor can back us with.

Follow the teachings of the emperor? The creed of the imperium is the only path, the Emperor is a meer guide within our galaxy not an Idol. The talk you speak inquisitor xu suggests the imperium to be herectus in nature, for this is not true.

Your Ratlings, your Ogryns, your mutants, your abhuman tribes, all defecits of the Imperium you say? They are the ones that chose the path away from the Imperial creed, isolating themselves away becoming themselves diseased.

[deepstrike]

Inquisitor Absalom Renu, Ordo Malleus, Monodominant

[GhostLegion]

++Adding to the in-characterness of random posts++

Inquisitor Siegfried Schtauffen

 

Date: M41.008-11-22-02-46

Location: ++Classified++

Thought: The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature. - Unknown. M1.8XX.

 

After reading the referenced material above, I humbly submit the following to the record, perhaps to shed light on recent activities within the Ixaniad Sector.

 

As always I remain,

Inquisitor Lord Helbrecht van Naertens, Ordo Obsoletus, Hazeroth Sub-sector

 

FILE TO: INQ/BC-013665-OD

SUBJECT: Additional thoughts from last meeting.

CROSSFILE TO: Personal Files, van Naertens

 

My fellows,

 

Long have we argued over the different perspectives each of us bring to the pursuit of our goals. We each have our specific tasks and vectors of inquiry, but we continue to remain ignorant of the nature of our foe and the tools at his disposal.

 

Mankind is a creature of conscience and consciousness, of emotion and apathy, of logic and circumstance. It is by circumstance that the Emperor was able to accomplish his rise to power, and it was by circumstance that He could not bring Himself to end the Horusian coup against His rule. Still, mankind did learn something from the experience of the great Heresy, we learned that there are more tools available to us than those born of artifice and science. Indeed, it could be argued that the very adaptations that make the Imperium possible are due to forward thinking individuals willing to take risks in the hopes of building the base of knowledge and experience mankind has available to it. By approaching the future from a base of knowledge, mankind has nothing of the unknown to fear, merely to be aware of the dangers and the possible actions or machinations that can be utilized to avoid potentially fatal results.

 

It is because of this that understanding our shared past becomes the key to determining the future course of the Imperium in general, and mankind in particular. Certainly, the careful balance of form and function between the different bodies of the Imperium must be maintained, but this does not mean they should remain entirely separate. In fact, it is through the very auspices of the High Lords that the bounds and boundaries of the occult workings of each Imperial agency must be maintained. It is not the place of the Adeptus Terra to define the internal workings of the Adeptus Mechanicus, nor for either to dictate the workings of the Adeptus Astartes. Quite certainly each must maintain his own house to encourage the growth of the village.

 

What then is the role of the Inquisition and its disparate Orders? We become the engineers of the Imperium. Much as the tech-priests of Mars minister to their machines, we minister to the sections and segments of the human race. We work to ensure the cogs are greased, the workings are smoothed, and each agency knows its place. If this means we must step in to hammer down a loose nail, so be it. It may also mean that we must step in to pull a nail or replace a cog when the machine is not working the way it should. Thus, any individual, group, faction, or agency that stands to disrupt the workings of the Imperium, or that may serve to destabilize the fragile balances of power that binds mankind together, all of this must be dealt with…harshly, thoroughly, and completely. This does not mean we should be acting blindly, striking out at any and everything that we individually see as problematic, that invites error and foolishness. In every action, we inquisitors must remain aware of the surrounding actions, activities and circumstances we find ourselves in. From this, we may act out of wisdom and intelligence, rather than the blind emotion that finds heresy in every shadow.

 

Of the tools available to us we must always be aware. Conscience and consciousness are tools as much as thought, planning, and foresight are. The bolter, the saber, the cruiser, the lash; all of these are tools with specific uses, purpose, and application. So too can be the power harnessed from the Immaterium. In the correct time and with the right application, the Immaterium becomes a vital resource in the pursuit of the enemies of the Emperor. Without this asset, travel between the far flung worlds of man would be impractical at best, impossible at worst. Without the Navis Nobilitae, whose eyes can see the ebb and flow of the tides of the immaterial, travel within the Immaterium would be prohibitively dangerous. Without the abilities of the psyker, the wytch would be uncontrollable, and the daemon would have its way. Yet we do have these fortunate mutations. We do have blessed weapons, tomes of wisdom, and known devices that allow us the control we need to maintain the careful alliances between inquisitors and the fragile relationships of the offices of the Imperium. We should always seek to find additional esoteric practices, occulted to the past, that allow or facilitate future actions and increase the knowledge base that guides our actions.

 

Do not destroy a thing out of ignorance. Do not destroy a thing out of blind fear. Should the absolute annihilation of a world, a person, a thing, or a group be required, then it must be done, but it must be done from a basis of understanding. Understand the threat before you react blindly to it, if not, even you may become a tool of the enemy.

[- 7eAL -]

- 7eAL - Do you want me to put the Interrogators in the list as Inquisitors?

Sure. They eventually acquire that rank anyway, and I have models for them as Inquisitors as well as Interrogators.

 

+++

 

FILE TO: INQ/PID-152182-1782166-ST75

SUBJECT: The application of force and guile for the achievement of change

CROSSFILE TO: Dissertations, Schtauffen

 

 

To cure or to purge; again the choice lies between crushing our enemies or turning them to fight by our side. The cost and effort of making an enemy into a friend may be astronomical, but I believe the rewards more than speak for themselves. Next you walk into the reeking depths beneath a hive city, tell me, tell us - do those twisted and ugly inhabitants raise their crude guns and point their rusted blades at you, or do they kneel and bow in the grime as you pass on the road to their leaders? How many owe your their lives, willing to repay their debt in blood and pain? What did their allegiance cost me, but the simple cures that they cannot buy for their common ailments? If we could cure the worst of their cancers and their mutations, I dare say they would overthrow the pretentious and ignoble rulers of their hives and offer eternal services to we agents of the Emperor as our ancestors once rose from the surfaces of scattered worlds and offered service to the Emperor who walked amongst men.

 

For what other reason does the Ordo Sepulturum exist but to better the lives of humans? For what other reason do I travel with Magos Biologis Eden and a dozen of her assisting attendants? I assign to them the task of rewriting the human gene, the task of curing mutation, disease and cancer. I bring to them samples of blood and gore, poisons, toxins, and whatever virulent beasts or crippled abhuman subjects we can contain. Day and night they shut themselves in their labs for they understand the desperation of their task, and they understand that what they learn with their slow research is nothing before what our human race once knew before the Dark Age, and what knowledge the Emperor employed to redeem us.

 

You say we need time to change the Imperium; the Primarchs and the Emperor made the Imperium in the brief flash of a mortal man's lifetime, from a scattered and infighting race of mutant men. That was our Terror, our Mont'au, and the Emperor was our Ethereal leader. How did the Imperium rise from a void in such a sudden moment? Because all of humanity made a single effort under a single banner, we created a great and immediate change. The only impediments to our advancement are doubt in improvement, and fear of change, and sedentary satisfaction in what we have. My master Xu, once believed in the satisfaction and the state of the Imperium. He and six of my fellows died in a single moment for that misplaced faith, for he was foolishly satisfied in the worth and trust of our Imperial organizations. It took only one miserable rat in the Administratum, one worm who gave our lives for a promise of personal gain. That man doubted his place in the Imperium and so turned traitor the moment opportunity presented itself in the whispers of a minor sorceror. It is precisely because of individuals like these that we are all dragged into the dust unable to progress.

 

With reverence to fellow Inquisitor Lord van Naertens (INQ/BC-013665-OD), change must be made with surgical precision. Change must be cure and prevention - purgation is not sufficient, no matter how thorough and complete. Recongregation is not a code of change unseeing; it is a code of change deliberate, and for each organ we remove we must install better in its place. Many of the Primarchs rose on their home worlds from places and positions of oppression, and as they grew, freed the common people from the weight of tyrants and the might of overlords to replace those systems of injustice with nobler and wiser government. That is the problem we face in the Imperium now, in an Administratum filled with political misers and sycophants, on planets ruled by petty governors and narcissistic nobles who grow fat on their personal power. Perhaps you my fellows may be more generous but in this day and age I see few in the Imperium who serve the Imperium true and obey the Emperor before themselves, and I see who the Imperium serves justly and fairly as promised to the people.

 

Should any of you put to me, I say that I see heresy lurking within the Imperium. No matter how many great heretics and apostates we purge, there are small heretics who allow sin to pass their lips and slip their fingers each day as they work and labour. The governor who covets only riches as he stands on the backs of his people, the cardinal who preaches not to raise the spirits of his fellows but to hear their praises and feel their eyes upon him, the people who seethe against the Imperium and the Emperor under the belief that we do not relieve their suffering. Worst of all, the Inquisitor who turns a blind eye to all of this corruption, and purges without instituting the tools of correction. Tell me when was the last time you saw a heathen join our fold of the Emperor? Tell me when was the last time you met a heretic fallen from the strongest faith? When did you ever meet a man or woman who knew not what to believe of the Emperor, heart full of doubt and longing for a sign of the Emperor's truth?

 

Tell me why the heretic chooses heresy. Tell me what does Chaos promise to the weak that they cannot gain through the Emperor's grace? Plenty! Tell me what does Chaos whisper to the doubting that sparks fire in their hearts that the Emperor's word does not? I have heard myself! Lie, one day in the sun, bleeding to your death in the dust, and tell me what boundless strength and fighting honour and shining glory the Blood God promises. Cower trapped in a box, one night in the shade, and tell me what magic and sorcery the Lord of Change will give for your allegiance. Writhe in agony, shudder in pain, and tell me what the Prince of Excess will do for your pleasures. Be like me, a living husk with no more than a few working organs and enough scattered bits to make an arm and one and a half legs, and tell me that the Grandfather of Decay does not promise immortality free of pain and disease. Fealty is easily given by those who are weak of mind and lack in virtue, so what weak and dying man would not pledge allegiance for the chance to survive? They dare try to tempt me as they have turned so many away from the Emperor. I have fought too long to give in, but I still shudder to think that even the Primarchs were promised these lies and in their folly, fell.

 

 

On the Alien and the Daemon:

 

Where so many of our fleets clash at the edges of the Tau colonies, I am allowed free and safe passage accompanied and escorted by both my troops and theirs. I am not the only human to travel safely in their space; they are as viciously protective of their allies as they are of their own kind. Where human ships are attacked by pirates and raiders as they pass the territory of Eldar Craftworlds, I am a guest whose presence is not only forseen, but anticipated, expected. More than once I have found myself surrounded in space by a pirate fleet, only to recieve news and greetings rather than a shot across my bow. We ecstatically leap to eliminate them as we would common beasts, but do not stop to imagine what use or aid they may serve for our causes. I know not what they might fear of the Emperor's Wrath if they fear Him at all, but they are not incapable of respect for our race. They are not incapable of understanding that we sweat as they sweat, we bleed as they bleed, we cry as they cry. They decry sin, they praise virtue, they pray for hope, they hold dreams. They, like us, are a people, a society, a culture, and none of our emotions are foreign to them.

 

The Ork, the Necron, the Tyranid and the corrupted spawn of Chaos are our mutual enemies. Were it not for our wasteful predations against civil races like the Tau and Eldar, we would be fighting beside each other rather than against each other!

 

Parlay peace with the Tyranid, with the Necron? We should put not words in each others mouths - what creature can parlay that does not speak with words and languages? What is a Tyranid or a Necron or a Fallen Eldar or a Daemon but an insidious predator? They are not living individuals. They do not understand suffering. They do not feel grief. They do not know pain. They know only destruction. They know only hunger. Unlike the Tau and Eldar, they are less than animals, completely out of touch with our human condition and completely beyond our reason. The Ordo Xenos too often concerns itself unnecessarily with civilized races like Tau and Eldar - often, we need but give them land, trade and knowledge and they shall be satisfied. The Tyranid, the Necron, the Fallen Eldar and the Daemon are by far more insidious and pressing threats, for they will take, and take, and take, beating world after world out of endless avarice and hunger.

 

Even Orks are better, for they understand at least the meaning of strength and authority. Demonstration is the best tool for use upon the Orks. Then, it is my second Interrogator apprentice Ritz Malheur who explains best: "the carrot and stick". Should any of my fellows keep any vicious pets, they will understand how a simple-minded beast is controlled. As long as an animal can be kept happy, it can be led by the nose without question or resistance no matter how sharp its teeth or dangerous its claws or violent its temperament.

 

 

- Inquisitor Seigfried Schtauffen

 

Date: M41.008-11-23-01-46

Location: ++Classified++

Thought: L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers. - Unknown. M1.8XX.

[Elenaria]

Because I don't find the idea of fluffwise running around as an IL something that would happen as often as it seems to do... I call Vandraed simply "Inquisitor", though, in gaming terms, he is certainly counted as an IL. Bah. Rules vs fluff again. If it is more fitting he is called an IL in the list, feel free to do so. Kyrie, however, is most certainly NOT an IL. She starts out as an acolyte and interrogator for Vandraed, until he deems her fit to be considered an Inquisitor in her own right. (Sometimes I use her in his retinue, sometimes she's an Inquisitor, sometimes they're allied... depending on game and what I feel like...).

Regardless, here we go:

 

Elenaria: Inquisitor Damin Vandraed, Ordo Hereticus (earlier, Ordo Malleus), Amalathian

and

Inquisitor Kyrie Urodela, Ordo Hereticus, Thorian

 

 

 

 

Edit: I... I love the discussion above. How about opening a new thread and move the posts there? It'd be awesome to follow.

[Senseilord Ashahara]

I agree with you on the formal title of Inquisitor Lord vrs Inquisitor.

I suspect it's a practical distrinction for the codex. I tend to refer to O'Dorihan only as an Inquisitor and use the Elite slot Inquisitor to represent an Interrorgator style charactor Witch-Finder Vime.

 

Having an in-charactor conclave/debate is also great fun and a top idea. And as my wife has just laughingly pointed out, "Nerdishness of the highest order"

[Grand Master Tyrak]

Elenaria Posted Today, 12:03 PM

Edit: I... I love the discussion above. How about opening a new thread and move the posts there? It'd be awesome to follow.

 

That was actually the original point of this thread, but it changed into the census too.

 

*In character*

 

An aim that "must" be done, yet is impossible to achieve, is not an aim worthy of an Imperial Inquisitor. Humanity no longer has the strength to conquer the stars as it did in the days of the Great Crusade. To take down the walls of our citadel in the hope of rebuilding anew when attackers press at the gates is nothing but folly. No matter how many of us long for the days of a better Imperium, when the Emperor walked among us, those days are gone and will not return until the Emperor himself rises from his throne and walks from the gates of the Imperial Palace. It is a faint, fading hope that this will happen, but it is more possible than to cast down all we have built in the hope that our enemies will grant us enough respite to build it anew. None among us will claim that the Imperium is the height of Mankind's achievements, but it is all that sustains Humanity. Again you say that the Primarchs and the Emperor made the Imperium in the briefest flash of human history. Who among us claims to be a Primarch? Who among the Saints has but the merest fraction of the Emperor's power? Do not think to compare us to the Primarchs, or to the Emperor. We are but dust motes, swirling in the wake of the destiny they have created for humanity. There are few among us, if any, who can change the galaxy in such a short time. Even the Saints, who have taken armies to conquer the darkness, do not gather in sufficient numbers or frequency to threaten the major powers assailing us.

 

You say the technologically advanced races of the Eldar and the Tau are civil, and will fight beside us. That is no more than the same lie we present to them. We, as much as they, will cooperate as far as our aims are the same, but the moment they differ, we will turn on each other. Ask yourself why the Eldar and the Tau have not formed a pact between one another? Both have the sense to use us just as we seek to use them.

 

Finally, I ask this. What right have we to play dice with the future of the Imperium?

 

GhostLegion Posted Today, 05:10 AM

What then is the role of the Inquisition and its disparate Orders? We become the engineers of the Imperium. Much as the tech-priests of Mars minister to their machines, we minister to the sections and segments of the human race. We work to ensure the cogs are greased, the workings are smoothed, and each agency knows its place. If this means we must step in to hammer down a loose nail, so be it. It may also mean that we must step in to pull a nail or replace a cog when the machine is not working the way it should. Thus, any individual, group, faction, or agency that stands to disrupt the workings of the Imperium, or that may serve to destabilize the fragile balances of power that binds mankind together, all of this must be dealt with…harshly, thoroughly, and completely.

 

Brother, I salute you. Strength through Unity!

 

*Ends*

[The Master]

The Master: Inquisitor Tremas, Ordo Malleus, Isstvanians

 

Inquisitor 'Lord' Tremas is a proud operative of the dreaded Alpha Legion, despite his heretical tendencies he remains a true follower of the Isstvanian doctrine. Together with his Alpha Legion Warband, Tremas seeks to strengthen the Imperium through conflict. He is currently in self imposed exile following the attempts of fellow Inquisitors to denounce him as a Traitor.

 

Hydra Dominatus, and 'for the emperor' ;)

[Inquisitor Fox]

*in character*

 

The problem, dear bretheren, is not that strengthening the Imperium of our beloved Emperor is wrong, it is a question of timing and priorities. It is true that our Imperium is under siege by a great many powers and threats and that building in a time of war is an exercise in folly. We cannot rebuild until we are certain that we will not be overrun, one does not rebuild a wall under siege until the attackers are driven from the field of battle.

 

Therefore our first priority must be to secure our present borders and drive out occupation forces within our territory. This must be accomplished by diplomacy or force, depending upon the adversary in question. It is possible that the Eldar and the Tau may be of some use in this effort, however we must not forget that they themselves are adversaries who would love to see our Imperium fall! You cannot trust an enemy, nor should we attempt to turn them into true friends or allies. Friends and allies are not entities that seek to stab you in the back as soon as it becomes convenient. At best they are a shield between our own borders and the forces that seek to attack our Imperium from without. Let there be non hostilities, let there be trade, if you can call giving resources which we have to spare for the acquisition of technology and knowledge to destroy our foes in the future once they return to their cowardly two-faced natures.

 

Once their attention is focused to their own battles with our common enemies, we may have a moment of rebuilding while strengthening our borders. Conscript more regiments of the Imperial Guard, allow the stretched Adeptus Astartes to renew their numbers. Let the armies of the Imperium focus outward, to the hordes of the Orcs and their constant need for warfare, of the Tyranid menace which seeks to destroy everything before it. Indeed, should we be so blessed we may be able to turn those forces against each other! Let the Hammer and Anvil of the Imperial Guard fall upon the sleeping Necrons where ever they may be found, let the drop pods and bolter fire of the Space Marines sound out upon the Tomb Worlds as they are systematically cleansed! Should we find a moments rest upon part of our borders, we may cleanse the rest.

 

We should not make the foolish mistake of believing this cease fire will last! Indeed, we should take the time offered to rebuild our armies, to allow the Forge Worlds time to craft great Titan Legions only to await the day when we will march through the gates of our borders like a great tide to continue conquering the galaxy.

 

Now as we of the Inquisition know, there are more foes than the enemy without, there is also the enemy within. The enemy that cannot be met with armies but rather with the steel will of us, the Inquisition. While great armies patrol our borders, we must be ever vigilant against our true foes. Let us destroy the daemon and the denizen of the warp where ever they may appear. Let us destroy the witch, the mutant, the heretic where their lies and corruption undue our efforts to rebuild and fortify what has been won in years past, least it become lost. Let us watch the alien, particularly those who use the ways of trickery, lies and deceit, the tools that armies are not capable of watching nor unduing.

 

We must continue to be the eyes seeking for that which the rest of the Imperium, in their might and majesty, is not capable of finding. We must not falter in our mission to patrol and safeguard the realms already taken by the Imperium's Armies, to find the hidden enemy. We must work in the shadows to penetrate the darkness that eyes in the light cannot see. We must be ever careful that the knowledge we gain to use against our foes not be tainted with the essence of that which we fight and struggle against on a daily basis. Even the Emperor decreed that tools of Chaos and the warp are not safe for normal hands, that Sorcery and unholy works are forbidden. If it was unsafe for the Emperor and the Primarchs, by what hubris do we have a right to even deign to dream that we have the strength to use it? No, such tools must be carefully recorded, categorized, then destroyed before their taint live on. Knowledge is power, but their is a distinct difference between righteous knowledge, and unholy corruption.

 

The mutant is corrupted in body. Let the cancer be cut out and destroyed least it destroy the body. The heretic spreads lies and doubt within, they must be silenced. The witch, the untrained psyker with power beyond their ability to wield and control must be dampened before they burn their fellows, or call down the uncontrolled daemons of the Warp which are a foe that requires no listing of the reasons to destroy. The aliens have unknown motives, inhuman morals, and their own plans that call for our downfall. While they may be worth not pursuing at the moment, they eventually must be made to understand that humanity and the universe will be led under one banner, that of the Imperium of Man.

[Chengar Qordath]

In-Character:

 

In the ten thousand years since the God-Emperor's ascension to the Golden Throne the Imperium has been without its lord and master. While we can be certain that He watches over us, the God-Emperor is a divine being who must needs concern himself with matters divine, and does not offer guidance in the many minor affair that must be attended to. Yet these necessities of government, while beneath the notice of a god, must still be attended to and while the High Lords of Terra are to be commended for the exemplary services they have rendered unto the Imperium there is a single, incontrovertible fact that ensures they are not sufficient.

 

The Imperium needs a Master.

 

Despite their valiant efforts, the High Lords have repeatedly demonstrated that no committee is capable of giving the Imperium the leadership she deserves. Ever since they assumed day-to-day management of the Imperium the Adeptus Terra has presided over a steady decline in the fortunes of humanity; the Ruinous Powers continue to corrupt untold billions of souls, the Ork and the Tyranid consume whole worlds in violence and madness, the Eldar strike throughout the Imperium with impunity, and the Tau turn entire worlds away from the Emperor's light with their deviant and blasphemous doctrine of "the greater good." To claim that all is well and the Imperium need not change, as the Amalthians do, is the course of madness; a simple reading of the Imperium's history demonstrates that all is not well. If the Imperium continues to stay its course the only question remaining is whether we shall fall to Chaos or be exterminated by the Xenos; radical change is needed if the Imperium is to be preserved.

 

The Imperium needs a Commander.

 

Naturally, the question must arise as to who would be worthy of taking up the Emperor's mantle; after His favored son Horus betrayed him the Emperor offered no insight into who might take up his mantle. The Adeptus Terra was always intended to aid the Emperor, not rule in his stead. The Primarchs are missing, dead, or fallen to Chaos. The Age of Apostasy clearly demonstrated that the Ecclesiarchy is not suited to rule the Imperium. However, we must have faith that in the fullness of the time the Emperor will make clear his will and show us the one whom He wishes to manage the running of the Imperium until such a time as He may once again walk amongst us. The Imperium will at last rest secure under the leadership of the Emperor's Heir, who shall provide strength and unity in the Emperor's name, and preserve the Imperium that He might return to find a realm worthy of a leader such as the God-Emperor.

 

The Imperium needs a Ruler.

 

As for the Ruinous Powers, let us not fear to study Chaos that we might better know how to destroy it. What greater victory is there than to turn the weapons of the enemy to our cause, to use their own knowledge and power against them. The utmost care must be exercised of course, and any corruption destroyed at the first sign, but it is foolish to allow our fear to drive us destroy the very weapon that might destroy our enemies; let us not forget that the Emperor himself was the mightiest psyker Humanity has ever seen. The Xenos are not to be liked or trusted, but some like the Eldar and the Tau can be worked with, used, manipulated, and predicted. If the Eldar or Tau seek alliance against the Tyranid, the Ork, or other threats let us work alongside them; their betrayal is as predictable as it is inevitable, and whenever the Xenos can be manipulated into slaying each other by diplomacy the Imperium scores a double victory. So long as they remain useful to us, let us use them.

[Grand Master Tyrak]

Inquisitor NicolePyykkonen Posted Today, 07:26 PM

We cannot rebuild until we are certain that we will not be overrun, one does not rebuild a wall under siege until the attackers are driven from the field of battle.

 

Yes! We agree on something! I may have to rethink my stance on Thorians a little . . . :D

 

Chengar Qordath Posted Today, 10:32 PM

To claim that all is well and the Imperium need not change, as the Amalthians do,

 

*In character*

 

Beware. To claim that something should not be changed does not mean that it is all well and good. The Imperium is the best we can achieve under these circumstances, but that does not mean it is the best we can ever achieve. Looking at the rule of the Adeptus Terra, it is without doubt the worst form of government, except for all the others currently available to us.

 

What greater victory is there than to turn the weapons of the enemy to our cause, to use their own knowledge and power against them. The utmost care must be exercised of course, and any corruption destroyed at the first sign,

 

Indeed. What greater victory than to use the weapons of the enemy without being corrupted. Let me know if you ever find one.

 

*End in character*

 

This has turned out really well so far, keep it up.

[Chengar Qordath]

Beware. To claim that something should not be changed does not mean that it is all well and good. The Imperium is the best we can achieve under these circumstances, but that does not mean it is the best we can ever achieve. Looking at the rule of the Adeptus Terra, it is without doubt the worst form of government, except for all the others currently available to us.

The rule of Adeptus Terra leads us to doom with far greater certainty than any other course; for the last ten millenia the Adeptus Terra have led Humanity along an unbroken string of defeat and humiliation. Even upstart powers like the Tau sieze human worlds with impunity and spread their doctrine without fear; that is what the Adeptus Terra has created with the Emperor's legacy. The Emperor knows that the Imperium needs strong leadership, and he will provide us with his own chosen heir to take up the reins of government.

 

Indeed. What greater victory than to use the weapons of the enemy without being corrupted. Let me know if you ever find one.

Nobody denies the risks involved with the study and usage of Chaos, but through careful selection the individuals involved as well as contingency planning the risk of corruption can be minimized, and knowledge and power such research brings is invaluable. Of course, some areas of Chaos, such as Daemonic weapons or the Daemonhost, will inevitably corrupt their users far too quickly, and in those cases the risks outweigh the rewards.

[Inquisitor Fox]

*in character*

 

Yes! We agree on something! I may have to rethink my stance on Thorians a little . . . :woot:

The Emperor's Miracles are indeed mighty and mysterious :woot:

 

The rule of Adeptus Terra leads us to doom with far greater certainty than any other course; for the last ten millenia the Adeptus Terra have led Humanity along an unbroken string of defeat and humiliation. Even upstart powers like the Tau sieze human worlds with impunity and spread their doctrine without fear; that is what the Adeptus Terra has created with the Emperor's legacy. The Emperor knows that the Imperium needs strong leadership, and he will provide us with his own chosen heir to take up the reins of government.

An heir of your own chosing perhaps? My brother, a Colonel in the Emperor's own Imperial Guard has a saying I believe is applicable to this situation, "In war, one must either lead, follow, or get out of the way." There can be no question that this is indeed the Imperium of the Emperor, however without him here to lead us the lawful authority is the Adeptus Terra. We must not question their leadership in a time of war. They are leading, we must either follow or get out of the way. Your idea sounds intentionally divisive. Would you then the Imperium fracture itself as each person look for the heir of the Emperor, or declare their own chosen representative the Emperor's heir? I am sure that a true heir of the Emperor would be seen as such by all involved, nay, would be so obvious that there could be no question of their legitimacy. Any heir that would need to be argued as an heir would be only a pale shadow of the legitimate article. To question the authority of the Adeptus Terra is to question the authority of the Imperium itself, an act of highest heresy.

 

Nobody denies the risks involved with the study and usage of Chaos, but through careful selection the individuals involved as well as contingency planning the risk of corruption can be minimized, and knowledge and power such research brings is invaluable. Of course, some areas of Chaos, such as Daemonic weapons or the Daemonhost, will inevitably corrupt their users far too quickly, and in those cases the risks outweigh the rewards.

I would sooner cut off my own hand that had been tainted by Chaos than chose to wield it's weapons. Any contact with Chaos, however minor, will inevitably alter the people involved. Even we, some of the finest representatives of mankind, must procede with the utmost of care least we fall down a slippery slope of corruption. I know I chose to undergo regular purification meditations and use my contacts with the Adeptus Sororitas to reaffirm my faith in the Emperor so it never falters, can the same be said of those who seek to truly understand and even worse, utilize Chaos itself? That smacks of the highest hubris, an echo of the very acts that started the Horus Heresy! Chaos cannot be understood, cannot be allowed to exist uncleansed. By all means record observations so that future generations of the defenders of mankind are not caught unaware, but traces of Chaos when found Must be destroyed.

[The Master]

Quick Question -

 

Is their an Xanthite equalavent in the Ordo Xenos? (ie. using xeno tech against its creators)

 

I ask because I plan on modeling an Inquisitor wearing a tau battle suit.

[Grand Master Tyrak]

The Master Posted Today, 08:44 PM

Quick Question -

 

Is their an Xanthite equalavent in the Ordo Xenos? (ie. using xeno tech against its creators)

 

I ask because I plan on modeling an Inquisitor wearing a tau battle suit.

 

The factions are cross-Ordo, there is no restriction. Also note that the Imperium does employ some Xenotech already *Cough* Callidus Temple *Cough* C'tan Phase Sword *Cough*.

[GhostLegion]

==in character: Inquisitor Lord Helbrecht van Naertens==

 

You all are so short sighted. Are you certain you are qualified to be Inquisitors? Much less, Inquisitor Lords?

 

Come now, certainly we all can see the value in determining the motivations and goals of our enemies. Both internal and external threats have, and maintain, their own motivations and internal justifications for their actions. Even among ourselves we often back-bite, backstab, and outright kill each other if it best serves the purposes we set out to accomplish. No, I am not justifying this, I am merely stating the fact.

 

My dear Lady Kolbe, you clearly are misguided in your pronunciations and postulations. The Imperium most assuredly has a master. The Emperor himself still remains the master of mankind, and even if he were never to walk among us again, he remains the master until such time as he chooses to leave us at last. Further, the Imperium has many commanders, some great and some small. We could argue that through the power we wield over the common man that we too exist as commanders of the Imperium in all but title. I am quite certain, having recently traversed the Ultima Segmentum, that several of the Imperial Commanders I met with would take severe insult at the insinuation the Imperium is without its commanders. Citing the warmaster does you a disservice in this company, and I believe you would do well to better guard your tongue. One of us might accuse you of heresy. I should hate to see you running for your life as the eye of the Inquisition is turned on you and your activities. Most assuredly, this is not the most favorable of conditions to find yourself in. Still, your postulation of the possibilities of working with the Xenos is quite intriguing, though again I would caution your openness in divulging any such active connections, one might accuse you of treason…if only to move himself ahead within the Ordos. Nevertheless, there are times the Xenos can be useful, Kryptman’s Gambit is certainly an exemplary case in point. The problem then becomes guarding yourself so it is not you who is infact being used by the Xenoform…There are many ways to accomplishing one’s goals in this universe, some clean and some fel, we must always be watchful of taint…both within our ordos and among the common citizenry. Further, I think you confuse the Adeptus Terra for the Administratum and the High Lords. Do remember in your generalizations that we ourselves, as agents of the Inquisition, are infact part of the Adeptus Terra you disparage so well. Unfortunately, unless you are directly accusing the High Lords of heresy or treachery, you really must guard your tongue. Free speech is certainly not a right provided and protected by the Emperor’s justice.

 

My Lady Pyykkönen, your zealous indignation is duly noted. None of us would ask you do anything so crass as to yourself use the weapons and ways of the great enemy in the pursuit of its defeat. I am quite certain you have your own directives in the rooting out of heretic and traitor that do not need such dangerous techniques as this. Still, would you not admit that there are times when high risks yield the highest reward? Conversely, these high risks may also result in the greatest tragedy, and thus we must be watchful of those of us taking too keen an interest in the workings of the enemy lest they too should fall.

 

It is becoming obvious to me that we here are circling the beginnings of a new conclave within the Inquisition. This is interesting as it appears there is no one sector in which we all work, and in this I rest assured as the infighting were we in proximity would be quite vicious at this point. Fortunately for me, my current line of interest has me transiting system and sector, making it hard to tie me down or track me to a given place. Perhaps some with their more…pronounced, shall we say?...views are more likely to be tied to a single location. I would caution all of us that any claim made in such an open environment may draw the ire of fellow inquisitors. We all have networks of some kind. I would hate for anything…untoward…happen to any of my peers. Nevertheless, thought begets heresy…

 

==end in character==

 

Heh, from the two in character posts I have, you see why I have a hard time pining down the philosophy of this individual within the neat bounds of the specific philosophies...goes to show what happens when you work on a character for several years...

[Grand Master Tyrak]

*in character*

 

GhostLegion Posted Today, 02:27 AM

You all are so short sighted. Are you certain you are qualified to be Inquisitors? Much less, Inquisitor Lords?

 

We are all qualified Inquisitors here. However, only some of us are qualified heretics. :D

[Elenaria]

IC Damin Vandraed:

 

...fellow Inquisitors.

 

Do we all wish to preserve the Imperium, or do we wish to preserve mankind? Do we wish to preserve both?

 

And without the myriad viewpoints we have, regardless, for now, of the many conflicts it does create... would we not see that which we perceive as threats to what we are fighting for, less well?

 

I wish, for now, to refrain becoming... too deeply immersed in this discussion, and therefore, I am of a mind not to give my own thoughts on the matters mentioned... for now. However, it would be... beneficial, I find, to hear your thoughts on those matters. Thus far, I find the discussion stimulating, if... worrying, at times.

 

*leaning back again*