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The Ordo Malleus on Banish (Exorcists Homeworld) what experiments are they conducting? Are they Radical Inquisitors?

I don't particularly see purists being envolved with a Chapter that uses dark chants in their battle cries and were possessed, and Is it possible that a purist could Brand them as Traitors and declare an effective crusade on them.

The Exorcists are artificially created nulls.
They are the spiritual descendents to the GK.
They are utterly loyal.
Any Ordo Malleus presence on Banish is either gathering support, or figuring out new ways to fight daemons.

The Exorcists aren't nulls/blanks/etc.

They are formerly possessed, and having repelled possession, they are extremely resistant to it happening again, and in fact somewhat hard for daemons to spot.

But not immune or even resistant to psychic power.

I heard nulls...
Ah well.

There's actually rules for something similar in Dark Heresy supplements (I think the Radical's Handbook, if I'm not mistaken).

The rules for Blanks are separate from that (Blanks are completely immune to all psychic powers-- sure you could use telekinesis to drop a rock on their head, but you could not use telekinesis to choke them).

Seems like being a blank kinda has its ups and downs...

Better than being able to be chocked and crushed by telekinesis.

So instead get crushed by rocks?
Not much of a +...

At least rocks you can dodge. You can't dodge a psyker pulling a Darth Vader on you...

That's a fair point...

Melissia wrote:At least rocks you can dodge. You can't dodge a psyker pulling a Darth Vader on you...

Lol
Would be kinda hard to do.

Melissia wrote:At least rocks you can dodge. You can't dodge a psyker pulling a Darth Vader on you...

Does the psychic immunity of a Blank extend to the grenades they're carrying?

No and I'm also imagining them entering a room and suddenly pins everywhere.

However, a psyker could not pull the pins off the grenades the Blank is carrying, like they could with non-Blanks.

I thought Nulls project a zone of Psychic nullness and a Null is someone who can't be affected by Psychic powers. Just him and his body.

Just using psychic powers near a null is difficult. Even moreso if the target is near the null-- and impossible if the target IS the null.

Ah k, I just thought they themselves were immune and didn't project a null zone around them.

Anyway, what are they doing in the Laboratories on Banish and are they Radical Inquisitors that are there?

Purists abhorring daemons for any use and the Exorcists have been manifested by a Daemon.

InquisitorVaron wrote:Anyway, what are they doing in the Laboratories on Banish and are they Radical Inquisitors that are there?

Purists abhorring daemons for any use and the Exorcists have been manifested by a Daemon.

It's more like Purists would despise the way they create the Exorcists but they cannot deny the effectiveness of the Exorcists themselves...
The laborotories are probably doing various Inquisitorial experiments on Inquisitorial test subjects done by Inquiring Inquisitors...

Exorcist Initiates, IIRC, are forcibly posessed by a daemon. the Daemon is then exorcised. Survivors are conducted into the chapter and are highly resistant to the power of the warp.

InquisitorVaron wrote:Anyway, what are they doing in the Laboratories on Banish and are they Radical Inquisitors that are there?

Purists abhorring daemons for any use and the Exorcists have been manifested by a Daemon.

Seeing as the Grey Knights are on good terms with the Exorcists it is very unlikely they are thought of as radical.

As to what the Exorcists are they are classed as a type of illuminati (in that they share the same event, not that they follow or know about the group), they have all created a defence against possession, they however do not have a defence against the Warp itself.

Nulls have a defense against the Warp as they have no connection to it and actively repel it's energies (this would also mean that they are immune to possession). A person is born a Null and cannot be made one in current fluff.

What, exactly, constitutes a Radical is very, very much depending on who you're asking. Are the members of the Ordo Malleus on Banish Radical Inquisitors? Possibly. I might even say "probably".

That the GKs support them is utterly meaningless, as they would be considered "Radical" by a very sizable portion of the Inquisition. That the GKs also now seem to be using daemonhosts and warp-craft, in addition to their reliance on psychic weapons, makes them Radical in the eyes of many already. Remember, though, that there's really nothing wrong with being a Radical... so long as your aims and goals are proper.

I would hasten to disagree from the line in the Savage scar novel from Lucian the Rogue Trader.

Accusing Grand as a Radical with Sarik then going to kill him. I know his aims were unjust but he was called Radical. So that means they're two different meanings to one word.

One who's crossed the line and has effectively been corrupted by chaos.

And someone who uses Chaotic artifacts or knowledge for the Imperium.

Indeed.... Radical, in the universe, is a term that bears meaning that varies on whom you're asking.

From an "omniscient observer" standpoint, though, Radicals aren't all Champions of Chaos or Xeno sympathizers/spies or anything of the sort, they're just the sorts of people who believe in fighting fire with fire, or who follow the adage of "Know thy enemy" perhaps a bit too closely.