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Hello, Dakkaites, here's some questions that have been nagging my mind these past few days: how do our friends, the Emperor's Pet Psychopats, rule out jurisdiction infringments? For example, let's say an Ordo Hereticus inq finds out the heretical cult he/she is investigating about is trying to summon a demon or is worshipping some xeno entity (genestealers come to mind...), should/would the members of the inquisitorial task force alert their peers of the correct Ordo (if there is time ample time to do so and for the other Ordos to come in, without compromising the situation)? Or would they act on their own? And, if that is the case (I suppose it will depend from the inquisitor), should they debrief the other Ordo and share any important discovery they have eventually made?
IIRC, jurisdiction over prisoners resulted in some bad inter-ordos fighting both in the Inquisitor rulebook and in IA 6-7 (I think... the last parts of the Siege of Vracks trilogy).

Sorry, something weird happened to my pc and it posted half the post on its own... danm Tzeenech...

On a similar subject, let's assume a radical inquisitor is declared Heretic by his peers and is apprehended (or gives them the slip), what would the fate of his acolytes be? Would they be interrogated/investigated (eventually with... invasive methods, like psychic probing or torture) for traces of heresy and, if found innocent, freed or integrated in another inquisitor's warband, or would they be judged corrupted by default and purged (in a not-healty way)? And what of any force (IG, SM or SoB) inducted by the heretic Inquisitor? I know heresy is in the eye of the beholder, where Inq is concerned (meaning a rogue inquisitor could be supported by some of his/her peers anyway), and I remember part of Eisenhorn's retinue being integrated in Ravenor's, but I wanted to know your opinion on this subject...

Last but not least, on a (almost) completely unrelated topic, what is the smallest (both size- and crew-wise) military or civilian IoM warp capable vessel? Both BFG and RT doesn't seem to be particularly clear on this, giving ship almost a km long and a crew in the tens of thousands at least. Anything about a few hundreds of metres long and with a crew in the high hundreds or low thousands?

This is going to sound like a cop-out, but it would depend immensely on the Inquisitor in person. Their personal feelings will matter greatly on what their decisions are, such as whether to interrogate the retinue heavily, or simply kill them for guilt-by-association.

As for ships, there are plenty of small ships in the Imperium. But to be warp-capable, those fellas are generally a lot bigger. I think the smallest I can remember was the Arbites Judgement vessel. Though I imagine the Adeptus Assassinorium might have better, stealthier, smaller ships.

Your first two questions depend largely on circumstance. Every case is going to be different. While some Inquisitors will be happy to hand the work over to another in a different Ordo, some will want to keep their hand in, so to speak, and others will jealously guard it against others who might pull some "juris-my-diction" crap on them. Same goes for the retinue question. It would depend on the degree of corruption of the Inquisitor, the usefulness of the companion in question, and the temperament of the Inquisitors who captured them.

The last question, I have no idea.

Inquisitors deal with whatever they think is a threat. Eisenhorn is Ordo Xenos but seems to spend most of his time dealing with Chaos stuff.

As for the acolytes. Yes, all of the above. Any result you can think of can and has happened.

Eisenhorn had such a ship. Smaller than that actually.

For the second question IIRC in the first grey knight book they had a one man warp capable ship so it stand to reason that they would have ships in the range.

Eisenhorn had such a ship. Smaller than that actually.

Redshade wrote:For the second question IIRC in the first grey knight book they had a one man warp capable ship so it stand to reason that they would have ships in the range.

Unlikely. At the very least you'd need a Navigator, not to mention crew-members to keep the gellar field running.

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Redshade wrote:For the second question IIRC in the first grey knight book they had a one man warp capable ship so it stand to reason that they would have ships in the range.

Unlikely. At the very least you'd need a Navigator, not to mention crew-members to keep the gellar field running.

It was an Interrogator, a Navigator and an Astropath IIRC, very small ship, and effectively one-man.


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LastCameTheRaven wrote:

Eisenhorn had such a ship. Smaller than that actually.

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You mean the gun cutter? Or Maxilla's ship? I think that last one was effectively not that big, althought mainly crewed by servitors. Do you have any figure how big it was? I don't seem to remember... As for the gun cutter, was it warp capable?