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Manchu wrote:Yes, they are covered (Arbitrator is a basic class in the core book; Judge is an "Ascended" class in the advanced play book) but the upcoming volume will be devoted to them much in the same way Blood of Martyrs was devoted to the Ecclesiarchy and Sisters.

There's also the Radical Handbook, which introduces the Mortiurge, basically an Arbites lone wolf secret but sanctioned assassin type guy.

Manchu wrote:One thing that I can't make up my mind about is the idea of having "Psy-Judges." The BoLS fandex has them as what seems to me to be a very obvious homage to Cassandra Anderson. On the one hand, I think the idea has potential. One wonders how psykers are dealt with on a more day-to-day basis and I'd guess something that serious would be dealt with by the Adeptus Arbites. So could there be a specialist ant-psyker Arbitrator squad? Would they themselves be psykers? That last notion is tempting, as the BoLS dex makes clear. But it doesn't really fit the universe, where psykers are not only widely loathed but also routinely rounded up and shipped to Terra.

The novel Execution Hour heavily features the Arbites (it's where the Arbites having a fleet of Strike Cruisers was first established I think). In it appears an Arbites psyker, called Truthseeker (though I'd guess that's a local designation).

Manchu wrote:The one I am thinking of has one chapter about a judge meeting with an Imperial governor or something similar and basically being murdered/assassinated in that same chapter.

I think that was in one of the Word Bearers novels. An Arbites Marshall executes the Governor for incompetence shortly before being killed himself (along with the rest of the government) when the throne room is bombed. Something along those lines.

Manchu wrote:
Check out that cybermastiff! Bigger than I envision a possible Citadel redux but fething awesome.

That'd be a Panther Securibot. Thanks for the picture. I had been looking for one that provides a size comparision with 40k.
Another nice alternate model is the D&D Iron Defender, which is about the same size as the Necromunda mastiff (just slightly smaller).

Here's a snapshot of the two cyber doggies along with an Arbitrator