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I do like the fact that the Arbites' courthouses are more like Fortresses...

Kanluwen wrote:

do you hear the voices to wrote:The arbites are on a much smaller scale than the other branches and I consider them to be more like regular people than even guardsmen. I can guarantee that arbites have gone traitor, every time a planet falls to chaos, you can bet your last dollar that some of the arbites stationed there went with it.

No you can't. Every time a planet has fallen to Chaos, GW has made it fairly clear that the members of the Adeptus Arbites went out like champs rather than chumps. Their fortresses are the last bastions of Imperial loyalty, and they do not die easy.

The planet's "local police force"? Yeah, maybe they went over to Chaos. But not the Arbites.

Kanluwen has it right. Whenever Adeptus Arbites are mentioned in insurrections on Imperial Worlds, it's usually that they were the last areas to fall. That's not to say no Adeptus Arbite has ever been corrupted or fallen in some way, but they are on a much better standing in that area than the local police force (which are also referred to as Arbites in some sources, hence the confusion).