Inquisitor 2.0? - An update and call for contribtions

[Ulgavitch]

Just a quick one:

If you burn a heretic, you send them to unending damnation. If you burn an innocent, they will have salvation in the here-after. So burn them all, and let the Emperor claim his own!
Inquisitor K'fan during the storm of Alexandrai Hive.

[Magos Exarratus]

Thought for the Day:
Better to die the thousand deaths of a coward then to fail in the Emperor's service.

Attributed to an Imperial Archivist later found dead under mysterious circumstances.

[Wifstrand]

The good old one:

Dead men may tell no tales, but burning heretics sure do scream a lot.

[Aurelius 12]

A particular favourite of mine, and classic Imperial hymn;
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound,
Cleanse the Sinners, Torch the ground.

[DapperAnarchist]

"Among my brethren, most seem to think Humanity worth saving. I would ask them too look again at who resides in their prisons, who is strapped to the table in their interrogation chambers, and who burns at the stake. Mankind is a failure"

Anonymous Inquisitor believed to be the author of Humanity Nihil

[Ulgavitch]

"Where's your unit? Oh. All of my associates are dead too. Good you survived the battle. You're with me now. If you don't get killed, you might go far."

The moment of elevation for Lord Inquisitor Hallstein, later dubbed Inquisitoral Defender and Scourge of Harpers Rest.     

"Hope? Where do I see hope, in this time now called 'the End Times'? Within the jaws of the Great Devourer? In the pernicious corsairs, endless orks, cultists, heretics and daemons? Do I see it in the endless cackling of the Ruinous Powers as they capture soul after soul from the Emperor's grasp?

No, I see it in humanity. Every time a Guardsman stands his ground and sells his life dearly, I see us holding our place in the stars. Every time the Astartes fight, every time a psycher shrugs off temptation, every time we august company pursue our aims, we hold on on to this galaxy we have built.

Inquisitors, every time a human dies bravely, we show the galaxy the true meaning of hope."

Sage Inquisitor Vexrin, addressing the Grand Conclave of Cypra Mundi on the alleged "Time of Ending"

[Alta]

"Fight battles that are small enough to win, but large enough to matter"

"If at first you don't suceed, you fail."

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I'd be happy to provide sketches (i'm not so good at full coloured pieces). DeviantArt gallery: http://splinterfleetalta.deviantart.com/gallery/
Also if you wanted me to do anything about Tyranids or Stealer cults I'd be happy to provide that.

Are you having all the rules in one book and separate books for characters?
I think that would be better. Maybe have the info from here and here in the rulebook, but have seperate books/files (almost like codexes) for differnet factions. Eg - Space Marines, Mercenaries, Xenos, Tyranids, etc...

[precinctomega]

There are thee main sections to Inq2: the Core Rules, the Armoury and the Dark Millennium.

The last includes characters (broken into four much-broader archetypes, with several examples of each), the GM's section and a sample scenario. Inq2 does not include rules for Space Marines, which will be covered in a later expansion.

R.

[BrotherLudovic]

I would love to help out with the art, though I'll most probably do sketches than full-blown colour art (though I could try).

Ludovic

[Inquisitor Octavian Lars]

I will be willing to help write colour text and quotes, or small stories if needed and will actively take part in the project. not very good at pictures, but could supply for the moddeling section

[mcjomar]

"Heretics are like cockroaches - annoying to find, and even more annoying to kill." - unattrib.

"A traitor can be forgiven through death - a heretic is damned for all eternity. Or is it the other way around? Oh to the warp with it, kill them all and have done with it. They're all scum." - Inquisitor Morden, before torching a hidden rebel base.

"Traitors, heretics, mutants, witches, xenos, they all have one thing in common - they make funny sounds when they get shot in the head." Judge Holly Tenebeth of the Adeptus Arbites, in the service of an unnamed inquisitor.


"While big guns and even bigger tanks may win a battle, intelligence, stealth, and a knife in the back will win the wars. Just don't tell the Imperial Guard I said that." - unattrib

"Orks? Who gives a grox's nether bits for orks? Tyranids are the real threat. Don't believe me? Go see for yourself. Maybe you'll do us a favour and take a few with you when you die." - Ex-Guardsman seconded to inquisitorial service.


The Order of the Emperor's Holy Hammers are a small sub-group of the ecclesiarchy based within the Tolina sub-sector, spread across several of the systems therein. They are, of course, strongest on the capital world, where they maintain a shrine to the Imperial Fists, specifically Sergeant Donalus of the 5th company, who slew the last ork Warboss on the spot where it stands. They pray to the God-Emperor in this place, and once a year, on the anniversary of Donalus' triumph (which is also the name of the street that the shrine sits on) they hold a mass, giving thanks to the Emperor for sending his holy Angels of Death to save their world.
Or so they say....

[Inquisitor Octavian Lars]

"In this world full of taint, and dispair, strands of chaos linger. Who will stand, to lead us from the darkness..." last words of redemptionist priest (annon) before being havked to ribbons by fevourous Slanneshi cultists

[Ulgavitch]

'Oh, for the sake of the Emperor. Another day, another cult, another year of chasing shadows and ghosts through dirty cities. Damn it all, I've got better things to do ... just destroy the planet, will you? They're probably all tainted anyway.'
Inquisitor Jex Rostan, shortly before the revocation of his Inquisitorial mandate.

Ferier's Weeping

The Jenixus Conglomerate was discovered in M.39 and studied by the Ordos Xeno for many years. They were a peaceful agreement of Xenos races who existed within a star cluster in the Ordarus sub-sector, mutually supporting each other. Their technology was superior to the Imperium's, but they demonstrated no desire to expand into Imperial space. The radical Inquisitor Ferier studied them for close to a century, carefully opening trade links and diplomatic relations. This allowed these aliens to supply the Imperium with their powerful asteroid cracking energy beams.  These were then converted into weapons, and were instrumental in the defeat of the Maelstrom incursion led by Revus the Carrion-Kin.

But having now drawn attention to their existence, other Inquisitors now disagreed with Feriers careful approach. In what is still known as 'Ferier's Weeping' the noted mono-dominant Inquisitor Blusteen led a purge crusade against the Jenixus Conglomerate. Ferier was forced to raise an Xenos army to help defend their worlds, eventually leading the aliens into battle against the Imperial Guardsman.

Eventually captured, Ferier claimed that his treachery had been for the Imperium's greater good, to protect the Xeno's and their technology would have been to humanities advantage. He was, naturally, executed for this heresy by Blusteen himself. The worlds of the Conglomerate were purged with fire and then colonised, the previous owners slaughtered. Their technology was lost forever in this holocaust. 

'Ferier's Weeping' shows how the good intentions of one Inquisitor irrevocable led him to the path of damnation and treachery, eventually forsaking even his own race. It stands as a warning to all those within the Ordos Xeno as to the seductive dangers of contact with Xenos.


The Human and the Harbinger

Inquisitor Gorvon was recorded to be a careful woman, a loyal servant of the Ordos Malleus who hunted witches and the forsaken with the righteousness of the God-Emperor. But she was still just a human, and her weaknesses were exploited by the being known as the Harbinger.

Seduced by the beautiful form this creature exhibited to her, she fell into support of it, as it carefully manipulated her over the course of decades. The Harbingers quiet words whispered in her ears, and the creatures became part of her retinue, a close ally who demonstrated it's worth to her other followers. Gorvon played the game of Inquisitorial politics brilliantly, working her way to the top of the hierarchy.

Eventually, when Gorvon became Inquisitorial Mistress of the Corino Sub-sector, the Harbinger began to operate it's plan. It manipulated the Inquisition, bewitching the agents as it had bewitched Gorvon. Eventually discovered, it took a Crusade army of over a million men and three sectors worth of Inquisitors to root out Gorvon and her corruption. The creature known as the Harbinger managed to escape, but Gorvon and her fallen inquisitors were killed to a man.

In this affair, the Inquisition showed it's greatest flaw - this Holy Organisation is only as powerful as its weakest urge of it's members.     


     

   

[Jamas Orian]

Ask me after may / june sort of time, when my Dissertation will be finished, and I'll certainly be willing to lend a hand. I'm quite a jack-of-all-trades creatively - I can do fiction, technical-fiction, artwork and (should the need ever arise) music, both modern and more classical - although I stay humble and will state that I don't profess to be an expert in any particular area.

My artwork is best when making technical drawings or drawing artificial backdrops. I can draw figures and people well enough, but it's not my strongest area.

[Inquisitor Goldeneye]

"He has a mind like a steel trap; brutal, unsubtle and incapable of holding on to more than one thing at a time."

Anon. (supposedly of Wich-hunter Tyrus).