>be an Inquisitor in W40k
>delve into questionable heretical knowledge
>a puritan inquisitor tells you to stop
>you don't
>he excommunicates you
>you excommunicate him
What even happens at this point?
>>44546674
You both do your very best trying to kill each other. Surviving party (if any) is considered to be in the right.
>>44546674
Might makes right
>>44546700
That kind of it. You both sort it out amongst yourselves with subversion, sabotage, and general dickery forever until one of you is killed by who or whatever and the survivor, if there is any, is generally considered the guy who was in the right.
You're unlikely to ever reconcile your difference because you're Inquisitors, not pussies, and they'd sooner see you flayed alive than make peace. It's more cutthroat than a high school clique.
>>44546821
don't all the inquisitors go to school together no terra
What happens every time there's a conflict in 40k. You stab each other until one party is alive, and then declares himself to be righteous.
40k is not a complex universe.
This was the basis for a large war in the Congo actually. President tries to arrest head of police, who in turn says that actually the president is under arrest. After a heated phone conversation they agreed, in a gentlemanly fashion, to rally their forces and the first one to die clearly did not have jurisdiction to arrest the other.
Normally I'd say the higher-ranking Inquisitor is right, but this is 40K and ranks are probably heresy. So yeah, going with everyone else on this one.
>>44546674
I don't know how canonical you consider BL stuff, but at least in one of the Cain books, you get a tribunal of Inquisitors from all three of the big Ordos to condemn one Inquisitor Killian, a complete loon, instead of the individual inquisitor sent after him doing it on her own authority.
Well, inquisitors don't just excommunicate eachother, that would be dumb. They go through courts, systems, etc etc, all just in general to say 'This guy is most certainly a bigger dick than I am, and moderatly more heretical".
Like, in one story, there was a radical inquisitor that used xenos weapons, who caught the ire of a puritan. The puritan decided she needed to go, so tracked her down and figured out where her next hunt for artifacts would be. It turned out to be a hive world, and out of spite for previous defeats by her, he just exterminatused it.
In the end, he got excommunicated, then killed, because he blew up a valuable hive world, with untold billions on it out of spite.
>>44546856
No, Inquisitors are trained by other Inquisitors, usually those hand-picked from Schola but also otherwise promising individuals they run into and psykers cherry picked from passing Inquisition Black Ships.
>>44547194
Wait did he actually kill her? The way you phrased the story was unclear (and much funnier if she wasn't even on planet and he blew up a hive world just to deny one artifact hunt).
>>44547559
Oh no, she was offworld at the time. Sorry for being unclear.
Excommunication happens through an inquisitorial synod, it has to have at least one grand inquisitor and enough others to form a quorum. The accuser presents a case, the defendant does the same, there's a vote, appeal, counter, etc. All while sinister intrigue and back room politics about who votes what way for what artifacts, future votes, information and all kinds of bullshit happens.
Being an inquisitor is a lot of paper work. There's gun fights and stuff, but lots of paper work.
>>44547594
kek. Do you have a link to this story?
>>44546997
Well? Who won?
>>44547194
>In the end, he got excommunicated, then killed, because he blew up a valuable hive world, with untold billions on it out of spite.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the only case in the entirety of 40k lore when Inquisitor was made accountable for his actions.
>>44550154
No one.
>>44547636
>Being an inquisitor is a lot of paper work. There's gun fights and stuff, but lots of paper work.
Same goes for being a ship captain, or an Arbites enforcer, or really anyone in authority who isn't an Astartes
>>44550181
Because another inquisitor was annoyed about it.
>>44550126
Unfortunately no, and it seems I did get a few details wrong here. Apparently the guy did escape imperial authorities, but is firmly labeled a traitor.
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Emil_Darkhammer
>>44546674
Inquisitors can't excommunicate each other.
They have to accuse the other and call him/her before an Inquisitorial Conclave, and that only happens when the evidence is overwhelming and damning. (You don't go crying wolf when it inconveniences thirty plus =][= members.)
Before that, threats or accusations may fly between the two, and a war of subterfuge, attempted assassination, and attempted framing may be quietly executed (hehe) in the background as one attempts to build up evidence on the other and the other attempts to tell the first to fuck off m8.
>>44546674
You both have to try to "prove" that you're right, while sending agent after agent at one another to try and kill one another, so you can win the argument.
>>44550154
Looking at Congo today I'd say the entire country lost.
>>44547471
Inquisitor academy should be a short story about some psyker guy who is being bullied by the other Inquisitor students and decides to 'shoot up the school' with his powers after being corrupted by chaos.
Already writing a book about two guardsmen from different worlds talking for hours, anybody up for this one?
>>44546856
Inquisitors can literally be anyone deemed competent enough for another Inquisitor to take as an apprentice.
>>44550181
There's also Kryptmann who gets excommunicated for blowing up a ton of planets
>>44546674
Bigger army diplomacy eventually decides who's right between the two. That or they just get really catty and try to undermine the other at any chance they get.
>>44555522
Is that the school where a female, straight-shooter puritan apprentice is falling in love with a dark, brooding ex-ganger apprentice? Plot twist - the ex-ganger is smuggling in xeno artefacts to solve the murder of their mutual friend. Can puritan and radical resolve their differences, spark a relationship and catch the dastardly murderer all whilst passing their exams? Throw in a tsundere and a couple of bakas and we've got a cheesy high-school anime.
>>44550424
Astartes have serfs who do the paperwork for them
>>44546674
Conflict that may escalate into a full blown Inquisition War. See Emil Darkhammer and Helynna Valeria.
>>44553315
>Apparently the guy did escape imperial authorities, but is firmly labeled a traitor.
By Valeria.
He has friends of his own.
>>44557024
>>44555522
man the Schola Progenium would made tons of good story
it's like 40k High school/college
>>44550424
>Be Space Marine
>Blow up Hive with meltabombs and bombardment
>Bitchy Imperial Governor tries to chews you out, screams about paperwork.
>Grab paperwork, set it on fire on him
>"You're next bitch"
>Governor doesn't think you're serious
>BLAM
>Install new governor, just say the old one was chaos 'n shit
Damn it feels good to be a Space Marine.
>>44546997
Inquisitors kind of have ranks. "Inquisitor Lord" is a title that is used for influential Inquisitors who have the political and personal support of lots of other Inquisitors.
>>44560714
Hi. I'm an Inquisitor. I'm here to investigate reports of your chapter murdering Imperial Governors and, more seriously, usurping the Administratum's right to appoint a replacement.
Wow. That is a very nice Bolt Pistol, but before you use it, I should tell you that if I don't report back, my colleagues in to the Ordo Astartes are likely to escalate things...
>>44546856
Inquisition high school anime when?
>>44560804
Only if all the inquisitors are female and it has a lot of /ll/
>>44560714
He thinks Space Marines of all things are above the Inquisition
>>44560684
Not if it's the one I recall from the Militarum Tempestus codex.
>>44561888
The Inquisition knows its usually best to treat SM with respect.
>>44561888
Space Marines nominally answer to the Inquisition but they too present a grey area. Most are all too happy to aid Inquisitors, seeing as the kind of missions Inquisitors need them for are the kind of missions Space Marines excel at and they're generally high importance. Some moreso, some much less so (awoo). But above all, Space Marines are independent, and are VERY attached to that independence. Even the Grey Knights sometimes don't like it when the Inquisition tries to treat them like their bitch boys, which they kind of legitimately are.
If you look through the fiction and the mythos you can see the SM's telling the inquisition to check themselves before they wreck themselves, frequently. As both organizations serve the Emperor directly, and both are incredibly high value, real politik dictates a showdown between the two seldom ends well despite the Inquisitions official, nominal authority over them.
A good example is all the 'Leandros was Wrong' threads we had after the Space Marine game came out. Not because Leandros reported his Captain, Titus, oh no. But because he reported him to the INQUISITION instead of the company CHAPLAIN, thus completely subverting the chain of command and making the Ultramarine Command look like nonces. He probably got some time in the pain glove for that - UM's are as straight as they come, but they're still Space Marines. They have their pride and their independence and their own way of doing things.
>>44546674
Whoever's ability went on the stack first resolves and the second person's ability now can't happen.
>>44550181
Quixus was too.
> tfw no paradise world on steroids to live in
