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Psienesis wrote:Yes, but the Inquisition can pull out some awfully large guns...

Yes, they blow up planets.

Grakmar wrote:This is 40k. The only rules and laws are the ones that can be enforced at gunpoint.

Anyone can do whatever they want, as long as they're willing to kill everyone who wants to stop them.

Although, with Space Marines, it can be kinda hard.

purplefood wrote: Angry mahogany.

I wish this existed.

To answer the O.P.'s question. Pretty much what's been said.

An Inquisitor can recruit anyone they like into their party. Usually these people are professionals who are hired though, rather than just someone the Inquisitor bumped into on his travels and coerced into indefinite servitude, although this is possible too. For example if an inquisitor came across an unsanctioned psyker whose gift was undeveloped but potentially useful, and wasn't a heretic, they could offer them a place in their retinue instead of turning them over to the Black Ships. Of course, depending on the character of the Inq. in question, they could play this as 'saving' the unfortunate psyker from the wrath of the authorities, or as 'You'd better do my bidding or I'll make your life difficult'

Space Marines can end up in Inquisitorial parties, although I find it hard to conceive of a circumstance where this wouldn't be temporary. If in the heat of battle, if an Inquisitor called for help from a nearby squad of Marines in the same conflict, they would almost certainly come to his aid, & while he wouldn't be able to 'make' them do something, they would likely carry out his requests within reason, as it pertained to the immediate battle. More likely, if an Inquisitor was pursuing an investigation and found there to be a serious enough daemonic or xenos presence he might request in writing the assistance of the Deathwatch or the Grey Knights, who would despatch a team to his aid if they deemed the request worthy of their attention. Once business was concluded, the Marines & the Inq would go their separate ways.

Simple answer to the second question is yes.

It is within an Inquisitor's remit to requisition pretty much any resource he requires, inclusive of vehicles. Simple in terms of him Comandeering a Chimera that happened to be there to ferry him & his retinue to the local IG headquarters. Not so simple in terms of say, a battleship. While an Inquisitor could 'technically' get away with just turning up, demanding the use of the ship and throwing his weight around unless his demands are met immediately, in practice, few Inquisitors would do this, at least in so blunt a manner. Its all to do with the politics of Imperial high command. Technically, the Inquisitor outranks the people who have the power to control fleet elements, and they *have* to obey him. But unless he asks nicely or at least through the correct channels, they'll drag their feet & make it a difficult & drawn out process.

All this stuff is covered in depth in the Eisenhorn & Ravenor books.

As above... Some few famous Inquisitors may have such a reputation that no one thinks to deny them anything, simply because they're always right (or the price of disobedience is always too high). Most less-known ones will use their power with care - after all, one important thing with having power is that you should know when to use it and when not to. Commandeering something that is vital for keeping Imperial holdings safe may well be more costly for the IoM than your mission. An Inquisitor is a servant of the Emperor just as the people he's asking for help - he has to make sure his own actions don't work against the IoM. And while stomping all over the local Imperial Commander might be fast, you'll have made an enemy who perhaps has contacts...

So any sensible Inquisitor will offer a short explanation for his need and ask, politely or not, that he be given help and for how long he'll be needing that help.

Psienesis wrote:Ordo Xenos, especially, will often find itself in open warfare with

Not as often as people make it out to be though.

There are a LOT of subversive sneaky aliens trying to infiltrate the Imperium.

If the need was dire then the inquisition can take command of anyone from common soldier to planetary governer, with Astartes its harder due to their pride and past dealings with the inquisition

"The inquisitor has at his disposal a host of the most talented individual the Imperium can provide =I=

Yarrick petition Helbricht (Black Templars) to go after Big ole Green. No demanding, one sidedness, no "or else".

Yarrick isn't an Inquisitor.

Jihadin wrote:Yarrick petition Helbricht (Black Templars) to go after Big ole Green. No demanding, one sidedness, no "or else".

Yarrick is not an inquisitor, the obvious reasons that the Black Templars ageed to help was that they like crusades and that Yarrick is one of the most respected military men in the IoM.

BluntmanDC wrote:

Jihadin wrote:Yarrick petition Helbricht (Black Templars) to go after Big ole Green. No demanding, one sidedness, no "or else".

Yarrick is not an inquisitor, the obvious reasons that the Black Templars ageed to help was that they like crusades and that Yarrick is one of the most respected military men in the IoM.

And, much like the BT, he is weirdly harcore.

Speculatively, in terms of Imperial law, if the Inquisition's authority derives from the High Lords of Terra (as older background suggests, but which the Horus Heresy novels may subsequently contradict) then those individuals or institutions which draw theirs from the Emperor himself (the Space Marine chapters who are the inheritors of the first founding Legions, the Adeptus Mechanicus, Rogue Traders whose charters were signed by 'Him on Earth') would have the right in principle to refuse their demands - at least if they considered those demands to contradict their rights and duties as outlined by the Emperor.

As previous posters have pointed out, however, unless the Inquisitor's demands are outrageously rudely-expressed, tread upon well-established rights or conflict with their duties as they see them, even these powerful and privileged individuals would, in practice, consider themselves wise to co-operate.

The Inquisition's authority derives directly from an edict of the Emperor, however.

Coolyo294 wrote:Yarrick isn't an Inquisitor.

He still gets what he wants.

Leonus Cohol wrote:

Coolyo294 wrote:Yarrick isn't an Inquisitor.

He still gets what he wants.

If he was an Inquisitor, he'd get even more, as he'd have personal authority combined with legal authority even greater than a lord commissar.