How do the Blood Angels get away with it?

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Lynata wrote:
ElectricPaladin wrote:The Inquisition can't afford to piss the Astartes off that much. They need the Blood Angels. They also need the Ultramarines, Iron Hands, Crimson and Imperial Fists, and all the others. If the Inquisition started meddling in the affairs of chapters that are still basically fighting for the Imperium, they might catch some trouble from the other chapters, either out of loyalty or fear of what the Inquisition will find if it digs in their closets.
That's a bit far-fetched, now. The Inquisition has been offing entire Chapters left and right if it felt the need to do so, and since they are arguably more closer to the Imperium (indeed, acting with the Emperor's own authority) than the Astartes, any Chapter that would feel bound to help their condemned brethren would invariably find itself drawn into a civil war with an entity they've sworn to protect, and in a conflict they have no chance at actually winning. I'm pretty sure any Chapter Master would think twice about this.

Here's a small example of Inquisitorial backstabbing: http://web.archive.org/web/20070202084000/http://www.armageddon3.com/English/Campaign/Troops/clions.html

What is keeping the Blood Angels somewhat save is, indeed, their loyalty. They are a big asset to the Imperium and have proven themselves reliable and, at times, crucial in the past. They are somewhat scary to be around, but all in all their track record grants them quite a bit of leeway from both the High Lords as well as the Inquisition. It's like some sort of balance of how weird you are vs how much the Imperium values you.

The only "odd man out" really is just the Space Wolves, who can apparently get away with anything they want and have a squabble with about every single Imperial Adeptus in existence with next to no repercussions whatsoever, which makes them even more special compared to any other Space Marine Chapter out there than they already are by virtue of their exceptional culture and abilities alone.

-Loki- wrote:Hell, the Space Wolves have gotten away with straight up murdering an Inquisitor because Grimnar didn't like what he was being told.
That just happened in some BL novel, though, didn't it?
Huge difference between murdering a bunch of priests and murdering an Inquisitor. I would hope that GW fluff isn't so far gone that even the SW would get away with the latter just like that. Then again, the SW can apparently beat back the forces of an entire Segmentum, so who knows.

Logan Grimnar literally slaughtered both a Grey Knights grandmaster and an Inquisitor Lord shortly after that, in The Emperor's Gift. It had to do with the Inquisition's attempt to kill all of the Guardsmen who had fought on Armageddon due to their exposure to Angron and his daemons. The Speyce Wulves were trying to protect the Guardsmen ships from Grey Knight/Inquisition ships, who were destroying them, which brought the Inquisitorial hammer down on the Wulves, which in turn brought the Wulves' hammer down on the Inquisition.

The story ends with Logan Grimnar cutting off an Inquisitor Lord's head and the Inquisition taking its force and running away with its tail behind its legs.

I think that while the Inquisition has no trouble screwing around with minor chapters, trying to purge a 1st founding legion is a different story. Other chapters will jump to the Blood Angel's defense, out of loyalty or fear or an oath or something, and while the Inquisiton has the manpower in the SoB, IG and IN to put them down, who wants to expend that much resources when you have Abaddon crawling up your ass on one side of the Galaxy and the Tyranids attempting to thrust their chitin into your mouth on the other side? The Inquisition isn't stupid.