Agents of the Inquisition 3

Inquisitor Huron of the Ordo Malleus.  He is a versatile player of the games that go on within the Conclave of Kelestor and it's subordinate Ordos missions.  When he learned of the Conclave of Dinterra Minor sending fully a third of it's Inquisitors on one task, he volunteered to be the Ordo Malleus representative.

He has been disappointed with 72AG's High Command, but has a more favourable view of Commanders at Corps level, improving at Divisional level and generally positive view of the men on the ground.

His own psychic powers centre around the detection of warp anomalies, from the eddies in the warp currents to actual warp spawn.  In truth, it's a sensitivity rather than an ability to detect.  however when in person to entity contact, this insight has sometimes given him some form of instinct as to motives, intentions and strengths and/or weaknesses. 

He is not, on this occasion, been accompanied by a detachment of Grey Knights.  Instead, he is accompanied by a body of beetle armoured Askari from his homeworld. 

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Agents of the Inquisition 2

Whatcha gonna do ?
Whatcha gonna do ?
Whatcha gonna do when they come for you ?

Bob Marley, Bad Boys

Officially an Adeptus Arbities SWAT team, these are Inquisitorial Storm Troopers re-badged to be less threatening, less official looking and/or less high profile than full on Kasarkin.  They are Kasarkin, just dressed down for low key, more clandestine employment. 

Those are Elysian pattern MK9 pressure helmets.  These guys carry a lot of concussion grenades. 

 Their weapon sights include the bio-signature recognition fail safe to stop them from shooting someone the Inquisitor does not want them to shoot.  Their weapons are all small calibre, high velocity CPR guns with high cyclical rates of fire.  Their intention is not to stop, but rather to shred.

These men are masters of both quiet intrusion and brutal forced entry, they can establish an effective cordon or funnel suspects into designated areas using both covert and overt means.  Their extensive kit allows them to gain entry, access and modify things like elevators and buses.  They can defuse bombs. 

People do not get away once they have been designated a suspect.

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Agents of the Inquisition 1

Some people might have wondered what Solomon Lok did before he was eaten by 'Nids.  He was a member of the Conclave of Dinterra Minor.  His membership is signified by the black hood he wears.  Although formally an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos, rather than the Ordo Hereticus, the Conclave deputised him to the Devos IV war effort as there had been reports of perfidious Eldar in system.

Inquisitor Lok's faithful Ad Mech servitor.  Most of this would actually survive digestion on Beta Anphellion, but would never be recovered once Red Scorpions delivered their report to the sub sector governors. 

Lok's savant, Jorge.  Jorge knows a lot about systems, the Noosphere, the Ad Mech, technology in general and xenotech in particular.  In combination with the servitor, they represent a formidable intelligence gathering asset for Inquisitor Lok.  

For those less familiar with Inquistitor Lok; he is a Puritan.  Which makes him useful in the field, hunting down those things which his Ordos Xenos masters want hunting down.

But that Puritianic dogma which means he can be relied upon to rid the galaxy of influences his masters want rid of also means he sometimes destroys things which they would like to examine for themselves.

Which is why his own master will eventually feed him to the 'Nids, along with some high value Imperial Guard and Inquisitorial assets, not to mention the ire of the Red Scorpions.  But all that is far in the future.  For now, he is hunting Eldar...

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Dineh Nolly Chee has a reputation as a dangerous character, a ferocious fighter in the bandlands. He is a large and physically impressive.  He is fast and experienced.  Life out here is harsh and he knows well the price of wavering, hesitating or displaying weakness.

One of the things which annoys him as a hired fighter is the assumption that he can track quarry across the wastes.  He's not better than anyone else at such things.  What he can do is use his plethora of blades to excellent effect.  He's also well practiced at being intimidating; out in the wastes, ammunition is short, medical supplies are hard to come by and therefore convincing an opponent to back down rather than fight is a winning strategy. 

Dineh has a deep, sonorous singing voice and great knowledge of songs of Devos IV; the religious songs from the pilgrims visiting the shrine cities and the traditional songs of the Olong tribes of the grasslands and the wasteland clans around the San Cantor ruins.  Moreover, he understands where the music comes from and how it might be interrelated.

He is following the traditional route of the chieftain elect of his clan; that they work away from the clan as a hired gun to enrich the tribe until their predecessor ceases to chief.  At which time they take up the mantle and the next in line takes up the challenge of bringing in whatever the clan needs but cannot make, find or hunt itself. 

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Hisphurtiup of Bell is a direct male line descendant of the last hereditary ruler of San Cantor hive, hence the remains of the red robes of office, of which Hissy is perhaps unduly proud.  He can recite the names of the 14 generations of his ancestors back to the last days of the hive.  However, as a fifteenth generation wastelander, he has no idea of what happened to the hive, just that it was destroyed in a war with Orks.

He is a fair hired gun, but nothing special, although his mere presence does add a sort of melancholy righteousness to events he is involved in, owing to his false modesty and refusal to talk about his notable heritage ("Oh, if you insist..."). 

For all of his regal and upper class pretensions, Hissy is actually a vacuous, two dimensional fellow.  He's not bad, not nasty.  He's not especially clever, but not an idiot. Having said that, whilst he knows when you're talking about abstract ideas, he has no real understanding, much less any point of interest or opinion.

And those ancient ceremonial robes ?  they're only a few years older than he is, just stolen curtains from a southern grox ranch. 

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Xi is an enigmatic wander of the northern badlands.  Xi speaks through the electronic box of tricks included as a part of that re-breather unit.  The net result of this is that everyone assumes that Xi is male.  No one every remembers seeing Xi without the mask on.

Xi is dab hand with the shotgun, often holding the trigger down and working the action.  Pretty good with the sword too.  As far as such things go, Xi is fairly well sought after as a wasteland hired gun.  Xi can be contacted via Fon.

 

Xi takes payment in paper, writing implements, printed material and medical supplies. If these things are not available, then Xi won't take the job. 

As part of a team, Xi will not do the cooking, but will stand a double watch without flagging.  No gang with Xi in it has ever been surprised in the badlands. 

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This is Fon.  He is mute.  By which I mean he cannot speak, not that he is a dyslexic mutie.  He's actually plenty clever, as they say in the arid badlands north of the San Cantor ruins. 

Using that oft repaired data terminal on his back, he read and write in at least eight languages.  He has a good ear for foreign sounds and a fine mind for making those important connections.  As a polyglot mute he is a bit of rare thing.

Fon trades his facility to mediate between folks for water and hot sauce.  He's not too fond of insects and the hot sauce certainly helps when most of the food in the badlands is a little light on quality grox.

Of course, life in harshest inhabited parts of Devos IV is not without risk, as attested by his las gun and large calibre auto pistol.