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I could see the inquisition having a neutral field office on every planet. Not run by an inquisitor, just a few minor clerks and bureaucrats, maybe a few security personnel (the dream cushy retirement job for a guardsman who saw too much), keeping tabs on local news and events they can feed back to sector or segmentum or whoever. Just a little, nondescript office that is entirely unconnected to any imperial organisation, noble house, trading company or otherwise. Someone with a standard po box you can contact for basic info and resources if you don't want to make your arrival known to anybody in power and know the appropriate passcodes.
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On the other hand, if it's truly that simple and straightforward, why is it worth including in the game at all as opposed to just brushing it aside as an aide running up with a list of candidates? If it is worth including, I'd think it should be because something interesting is going on with it.
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The Administratum has just delivered an exhaustive list of people of unusual potential, candidates for a mission of the gravest importance. That mission was twenty years ago. But nobody knows who took part. Or who ordered it. Or what happened. Or what the mission was about. It turns out no one actually knows anything about the mission, other than that it was probably important. Time to investigate those candidates, see if they took part in the mission or know anything about it. If they're still worth recruiting, also great. Making it a hundred year old report would be even more 40K, and it'd mean the clerk who finished and delivered the report probably doesn't know why they were filling out the list, either. It was a grand quest to recover the archaeotechnology known as databases
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The thing about a 'neutral' office is that inquisitors are pretty much as paranoid and suspicious of each other as anyone else, and probably with better reasons. If you set up some sort of inquisitorial field office it would probably only be a matter of days before different factions were trying to use it to bait, deceive, spy on, and entrap each other. Inquisitors also have wildly different modes of operations depending on their cabal and their personality, ranging from people who do everything personally with a hand-picked group of retainers to those that employ thousands of agents and contacts and operate at extreme range and through many layers of influence. I think you could pretty much make up any situation you wanted for a particular cabal or Inquisitor. They could bankroll elite mercenary/security groups in different planets/sectors with the idea that they can call on them at need; they could rely on organizations like the Imperial Guard or the Administratum (useful in that they are basically everywhere the Imperium is) or they could prefer to lean on more elite forces like the Arbites. They could even foster relations with any number of criminal syndicates, relying on those to pull in local knowledge or fighting force when they need it. Many of them probably operate webs of informants whose job is partly to keep track of local resources so they can tap people to form a team on short notice, if needed, without even really knowing that they work for an inquisitor at all.
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There are "neutral" inquisitorial fortresses in most sectors, which usually boils down to being the feifdom of the most experienced and powerful Inquisitor in residence, since that's who the rest if the inquisitors will let run the Ordos in their area.
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Ashcans posted:The thing about a 'neutral' office is that inquisitors are pretty much as paranoid and suspicious of each other as anyone else, and probably with better reasons. If you set up some sort of inquisitorial field office it would probably only be a matter of days before different factions were trying to use it to bait, deceive, spy on, and entrap each other. It wasn't the campaign I had in mind, but now I might make one that's "The Man Who Was Thursday but they are literally just spying on each other."
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Rockopolis posted:Time to investigate those candidates, see if they took part in the mission or know anything about it. If they're still
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MaliciousOnion posted:
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Ashcans posted:The thing about a 'neutral' office is that inquisitors are pretty much as paranoid and suspicious of each other as anyone else, and probably with better reasons. If you set up some sort of inquisitorial field office it would probably only be a matter of days before different factions were trying to use it to bait, deceive, spy on, and entrap each other. Inquisitors also have wildly different modes of operations depending on their cabal and their personality, ranging from people who do everything personally with a hand-picked group of retainers to those that employ thousands of agents and contacts and operate at extreme range and through many layers of influence. Yeah, this is essentially my view on it too. Each Inquisitor does things so differently that I don't think there would be some central recruiting office. If the Inquisitor wants to recruit from central casting, he or she will create their own. For every Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor who has an army of deniable assets or Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with Rogue Traders on the payroll looking for Cold Trade Artifacts there is another Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor who pals around with Sororitas or an Ordo Malleus who shows up with the Grey Knights every time Daemons invade a planet.
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MizPiz posted:What I'm wondering is if there's an Ordo or other group that would put together dossiers of potential recruits. I know most acolytes are conscripted by inquisitors when they decide they want the person in their retinue, but who would they turn to if they needed a few specialists but were too far away from where ever they could recruit them? I don't know if there is specifically an Imperial Order, but if you care to trawl through the DH sourcebooks, there are several character packages detailing various kinds of black networks specialized in producing the right kind of acolytes.
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any database in an inquisitorial office would contain the following three things: names of the heretics, their crimes and method of execution. said list would be lovingly maintained by acolytes, with prayer, and several servo-skulls using the dustbuster attachment.
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I may or may not be watching the Friday the 13th movies for inspiration on how to roleplay an Eversor.
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SardonicTyrant posted:I may or may not be watching the Friday the 13th movies for inspiration on how to roleplay an Eversor. Eversor is Hardcore Henry, tho?!
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SardonicTyrant posted:I may or may not be watching the Friday the 13th movies for inspiration on how to roleplay an Eversor. You pray to the God-Emperor that you be released from your sarcophagus to kill. Once it opens, you emit a loud SKREEEEEEE and don’t stop until you either die or everyone else does. Also, watch Jason X. That whole movie is pretty eversor-y, in retrospect.
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Preechr posted:Also, watch Jason X. That whole movie is pretty eversor-y, in retrospect. Such a good bad movie
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JcDent posted:Eversor is Hardcore Henry, tho?!
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So there's a man of iron in Blackstone fortress
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The OTHER robot villians. No, no, not that one the OTHER ones.
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Waroduce posted:So there's a man of iron in Blackstone fortress There can be more than one type: man of iron was just an easy way to go "evil robots with minds!" - any artificial intelligence system is considered to be a man of iron now.
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Ronwayne posted:The OTHER robot villians. No, no, not that one the OTHER ones. What makes you think it was the Robots that were the villains? 
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Did GW ever get around to explaining the men of Gold tidbits?
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Ashcans posted:Did GW ever get around to explaining the men of Gold tidbits? No, and hopefully they never will. I'm not even sure if they and the men of stone have been mentioned in years though.
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Ashcans posted:The thing about a 'neutral' office is that inquisitors are pretty much as paranoid and suspicious of each other as anyone else, and probably with better reasons. If you set up some sort of inquisitorial field office it would probably only be a matter of days before different factions were trying to use it to bait, deceive, spy on, and entrap each other. Inquisitors also have wildly different modes of operations depending on their cabal and their personality, ranging from people who do everything personally with a hand-picked group of retainers to those that employ thousands of agents and contacts and operate at extreme range and through many layers of influence. This can also lead to different inquisitors investigating the same cabal of heretics and sending in agents to infiltrate this groups. Ending up with every member of the cabal being an Inquisitorial agent who is trying to prove they are the most heretical so not to draw suspicion that they are a spy. Once everyones cover is blown the Inquisitors are then suspitous of all the others because this could of been their cabal of heretics and they are just claiming that they were investigating to bring it down.
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Waroduce posted:So there's a man of iron in Blackstone fortress Got a link to any details on that?
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goatface posted:Should have left them as undefined bogeymen of the past. It's an individual Man of Iron who has altered his appearance. They're still undefined, all this changes is that we have confirmation that at least one survives.
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It's not like anyone in the Imperium could reasonably tell. It's not exactly blaring this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y63i2NR9-LE
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Bring back the Emperors kids...the Sensei right? Is Cubile 7 going to do a 40k rpg that isn't Wrath and Glory's Not Dark Hersey
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The sensei were an eldar trick all along. Sorry for the bad news.
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moths posted:The sensei were an eldar trick all along. Oh yeah, an inquisitor said so so it must be true. Open your eyes sheeple! Watch Jaq Draco YouTube to find the real truth!
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I remember the days when Alexios Jonus would wonder the hive and harass arbites by accusing them of being genestealers
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Haven't been following 40k lore since they make the Necron's use Warp like everyone else and I'm reading the Tau don't even have lightspeed anymore?
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NutritiousSnack posted:Haven't been following 40k lore since they make the Necron's use Warp like everyone else and I'm reading the Tau don't even have lightspeed anymore? I think they "skip" in short jumps like humans did before we developed the Navis Nobilite?
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The Tau were basically done, as they reached the limits of what their short jump technology could hold as an empire, on account of the limits of their space being surrounded by orks and 'nids and all sorts of terrible things. So they took some captured Imperial tech and developed actual Warp travel engines. They did not, however, develop competent anti-Warp shielding....so the first expedition they sent out using it was decimated, punched a hole in the Warp to another section of space, and the survivors went batshit crazy and genocidal to non-Tau. Oh, and as a bonus this new hole in the Warp takes them deeper into "Parts of space people actually care about" territory, so now they are coming up against things like the Blood Angels and getting their poo poo packed in, and the Death Guard are assaulting the hole en masse, so if they lose the fight to defend it Chaos will be streaming through directly on top of their homeworlds. And the orks and the 'nids and the Necrons never stopped being on the edge of their space. And they have pretty much nothing new on their side, so they've just upped the threats against them and gained zero advantages. gently caress you animes, welcome to 40k finally.
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Mulva posted:The Tau were basically done, as they reached the limits of what their short jump technology could hold as an empire, on account of the limits of their space being surrounded by orks and 'nids and all sorts of terrible things. So they took some captured Imperial tech and developed actual Warp travel engines. They did not, however, develop competent anti-Warp shielding....so the first expedition they sent out using it was decimated, punched a hole in the Warp to another section of space, and the survivors went batshit crazy and genocidal to non-Tau. Did they literally cause the great rift? I loving knew they would be the death of the universe back in  when they first got shat out, I took one look at them and said: "No sir, I don't like these at all!".Except for Kroot. Kroot deserve a better empire to be opressed by. Vespids could be cool too but the models were horrible IIRC?
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Schadenboner posted:Did they literally cause the great rift? The models and rules were terrible.
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