Salvar Chem Dogs. Can they keep space marine equipment

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**Bronzefists42**

SomeRandomEvilGuy wrote:
Iron_Captain wrote:
Maybe, but plenty of Inquisitors have 'disappeared' after pissing of the wrong people. If a Guard commander does not wish to obey an Inquisitor's orders and just gets rid of him, who is going to find out? They could not do that with a high-profile, popular Inquisitor, he would be missed. But the Inquisition is a huge organisation, and most Inquisitors are nobodies. The Inquisition has better things to do than investigating every single Inquisitor that gets lost in action. An Inquisitor is nothing without powerful connections.

Inquisitors can wield incredible power, but they do not do so by default. It all depends on how smart they are in dealing with other powerful people.

A commander of an Imperial Guard regiment would not get away with taking out an Inquisitor unless they were incredibly subtle and skilled. Inquisitors have various people working for them (as well as other Inquisitors keeping tabs on them) who'd try to find out what happened. All Inquisitors are very powerful individuals; they are compared to Chapter Masters, Rogue Traders and very high ranking officers. Even if one goes a bit overboard and gets silenced for it the Inquisition as a body has a vested interest in stamping down on the perpetrators to ensure proper respect for the Rosette.

Also; I don't think "plenty" of Inquisitors have been disappeared by loyal Imperialists. Other than the one the Dark Angels are implied to have taken out who else is there? I imagine a lot of the time it does happen either their acolytes or another Inquisitor works out what happened to them anyway. Worst comes to worst they could easily just make an example of the whole group of suspects to cement Inquisitorial authority.

An IG commander has a ridiculous amount of tools at his disposal.

A clever one could supply the Inquisitor with "faulty" equipment, "accidently" order an artillery bombardment on their position, just killing the Inquisitor and his retinue and then manipulating their administratum contacts into knocking the group off their records, as though they never existed at all.

Inquisitors are a secretive and reclusive lot and expanded background makes it clear that many of the smaller or low profile ones keep to themselves, avoiding partnerships with their peers or actively covering their tracks. Some inquisitors might actually be fine with the elimination of certain members of the Inquisition.

**LumenPraebeo**

I disagree with everyone. Some bolters might be relics, most won't. Space Marines have an enormous logistics system in place, either they or the nearest Martian Priesthood facility probably produce several hundred bolters and tens of thousands of bolt rounds a day. You need to, in order to keep up with the war time demands of a group of 1000 Astartes. The way I see it, if an Imperial Guard picks up a bolter from a dead space marine, the chances are, that its not a relic. Small chance it might be, most likely not.

**Spetulhu**

Stealing equipment from the dead is certainly not seen as a good thing, but as long as it can't be proven (ie the chemdogs steal from other guardsmen that have similar kit) it's not really either a problem or dangerous for them. A lasgun is a lasgun, a ration pach is a ration pack.

Space Marine gear, on the other hand, is easily recognized and also for the most part unusable. Even a Savlar Commander would probably make some effort to have his men turn in "recovered" marine gear so it could be given back to the Chapter they belonged to - for some sort of finder's fee, ofc. No reason to have men burdened by gear they can't use that you also can't really sell through any channels that won't get you Inquisitorial heat. After all, who else but a renegade (or Traitor) marine would really have a need for space marine gear in bulk?

**Ashiraya**

Space Marine gear is also fairly consistently described as too big and heavy for mortal humans to use, which is a factor to consider.