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Olis, LySiMachus, Conn Eremon and Aquilanus looked at the sigil. Their faces showed concern.

"Bugger", Aquilanus sighed with an odd echo, as if he spoke with more than one voice...
"Less of that", Olis retorted. "They have no authority here. You know that."
"Yeah, but you try telling them that..."
"In any case, I think we can let them know that their...sojourn will be restricted to certain areas." Conn continued. "We don't want them wandering off into certain parts of the Liber, now do we?"
"Aye."
"Aye."
"Aye."
The four of them remembered the last time they visited. Their initial panic was due to them finding certain things. The Moderati were more concerned now about having to explain to the Administratum on their whereabouts if they...disappeared.

"Still, I don't understand that phrase..." Aquilanus said puzzled.

"And what's that, Brother?"

"Why doesn't anybody expect them? You'd think that if you're a Heretic, then it'd be the foremost thing on ones' mind.

"And of course, we've been expecting them for four months now..."

The others just shook their heads.

"Brother," Olis emphasised the word, more to remind himself of the fact, lest he do something the Many Man would regret. "Make them feel welcome. And by welcome, I don't mean, send them to the dungeons on a tour of the torture equipment."

"Oh." Aquilanus looked rather down at that.

"They can look at that tomorrow. You know Ace is in the middle of repairing it all..."



Welcome to the FOURTH Liber Challenge! happy.png

This month centres on the Agents of the Imperium!

Previous Challenges are available to view here

So, we hope to read of Inquisitors, Adeptus Arbites, Adeptus Custodes and Imperial Assassins!

The format will be a little different this month, because, as you'd understand, Inquisitors wouldn't have a "Founding date", although a history that explains when they rose to the ranks is expected instead.

So the format will be:

Name

Planet of origin (if applicable)

Theatres of War engaged in (if applicable)

Notable characters engaged with (if applicable)

To enter, all you have to do is make this vow:

I, [insert name], vow to create [inquisitor/retinue/Assassin/Adeptus Arbites unit/Adeptus Custodes], by the 17th July 2015 at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or will be eternally damned by Him on Earth!

The rewards:







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Good luck to every one who enter! thumbsup.gif
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Challengers:

Ace Debonair - Inquisitor Ivan Ping

Aias -

Airinhere - Inquisitor Brighton

Aquilanus - Elene Amigos COMPLETE!

Brother SP (Super Ultra Vow! msn-wink.gif ) - Order of the risen saint

Captain Baranov -

Chaplian Belphoron - Lord Inquisitor Mikhail Astrov

Erasus - Lord Viktor Hatinel COMPLETE!

Grand Master Belial - Erudon Yannick and Levi

Lord Thørn - Inquisitor Selene Antonis

Lysimachus - Inquisitor Zebulun Ryk and Retinue

Mehman -

Micius - Inquisitor Elias Storth

Olis - Aldebert Hyronis Profus Bosch COMPLETE!

paulJam - Nastelli Assassins COMPLETE! Second VOW! Domen Rathari

Tdf - The Kenyamin Ripper

Teetengee - Inquisitor Zorn COMPLETE!

The Psycho -

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I, Grand Master Belial, vow to create Inquisitor Levi, by the 17th July 2015 at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or will be eternally damned by Him on Earth!

 

If anyone remembers my fan fic Fallen, then they know who Levi is and how he came to be an Inquisitor.

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I, Olis, vow to create Inquisitor Aldebert Hyronis Profus Bosch, by the 17th July 2015 at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or will suffer the ministrations of Bosch's own interrogator! Emperor preserve me!

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By the all the powers of this Ancient Liber I invoke thee, o' great Lord of Failed Deadlines!  From the Deepest Darkest Depths of the Liber I summon thee!  By all those that have gone and failed before me I call thee!

 

I, Brother SP, once known as Silver Phoenix and former haunter of these hallowed halls do hereby vow to complete as a mighty act of Penance an article on:

 

1 - An Order of the Adepta Sororitas

2 - A Noble Knight Household

3 - A Regiment of the Imperium's Finest Guardsmen

4 - A feared Inquisitor of the Ordo Malleus

5 - An even slightly more feared Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus

 

This and more I vow to complete before the 18th July - 03:00 AEST (or 17th July - 18:00 GMT)

 

I shall complete this oath or forever bear the Mantle of Oathbreaker... or at least until I get bored of wearing it....

 

EDIT: BURN THE TYPO! CLEANSE IT WITH PURIFYING FLAME!!!!!!

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I, Mehman, Regimental Priest of the B&C, vow to create a pair of Inquisitors, with shared Retinue, by the 17th July 2015, at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or be damned to preside over the latrine, blessing guardsmen on what they believe to be their last moments.

 

Furthermore, I would have provided everyone with a sweet treat but, given my last batch of muffins and their horrendous casualty rate, I have been ordered to stay out of the mess hall's kitchen till further notice.

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I am going to behave thoroughly out of character for this Liber Challenge. Instead of behaving like the 'King of Cram' as I did in the previous Challenges, I'm getting my entry in absurdly early this time. tongue.png

C&C welcome, although I'd like to know if I'm missing out anything primarily.

Dramatis Personae

Inquisitor Aldebert Hyronis Profus Bosch - The boss.

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Orphaned at an early age on Arganda Sextus, Aldebert Bosch was the son of servants of the Imperium murdered by hive gangers. Sent to a Schola Progenium mission at Hive Aken, Bosch was subject to arbitrary punishment, regardless of guilt, at the hands of the sisters that run Arganda's mission. Earmarked early on as a potential Stormtrooper, young Aldebert frequently clashed with other progena. Having suffered bullying under numerous tutors and older students, the experiences served to harden the boy. By the time the Arganda mission released the young man into the service of the Imperium, he was flinty-hearted and unsympathetic to any and all the hardships of Imperial citizenry.

During his deployment attached to the venerable Lady Inquisitrix Zeselas in a storm trooper company, Bosch served faithfully and obediently despite his unit suffering attrition at the hands of all manner of scum and villainy. Seeing promise and a mind developing its own scepticism in the then corporal, Zeselas offered a new career choice to Bosch - to become her charge and deliver the Emperor's justice to His enemies within and without. To this, Bosch readily agreed. In his eyes, she was his stepping stone, a useful tool to accrue ways and means outside of his influence to smite his foes. With the Argandan mission's teachings and dogma still strong in his mind, Bosch envisioned himself as a literal hammer of the Emperor, taking a pair of power hammers as his personal arms, alongside the Inferno pistol gifted to him by his mentor.

For twenty years Bosch served under Zeselas, hunting out heretics in the name of the Ordo Hereticus. As an Interrogator, he cared little how he came by information, taking to heart the old adage "The end justifies the means." As an Inquisitor in his own right, promoted to a full fledged bearer of the =][= after the successful dismantling of a global cult hegemony on Mannis IV, he cared even less. He was an avowed puritan, despising radical ideologies though virtue of being progenium raised.

Given to displays of strength, both subtle and obvious, it is not unusual to see the Inquisitor bestride a mount of any stripe when going about his duties. As a matter of course, Bosch will choose not the finest specimens to ride but the strongest. To him this is simply a projection of power. To others that know his history, namely Auto-Savant Sonne and a vanishingly small number of Bosch's peers, it seems that he is compensating for his childhood and his lack of control at the time.

Still bearing his hammers - thrice blessed on Ophelia VII itself - Bosch has since replaced the gifted Inferno pistol, lost during operations, with a Volike Blaster. Taken from the dead hands of the Magos-Heretek Sung, Bosch entrusts it's maintenance with Auto-Savant Sonne and no-one else. In these years of late, Bosch has taken to wearing power armour, having been rudely reminded of his mortality by a Night Lord called Caro.

Interrogator Hybart Solos - The muscle.

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(Note: He was going to be called 'Basilas Grimm' but the name sounded oddly familiar...)

Once an arbites stationed on the feudal world of Khasden, Interrogator Solos was not an overly taxed man when it came to problem solving in the muck and mire of the 'Imperium's proudest world'. Born and raised in similar circumstances to his master, Solos avoided much of the problems Bosch experienced through applying his mind. Careful not to be too questioning of the dogma taught in his own Schola, Solos was chosen to be an Arbites through his strong sense of justice and his methodical forensic attitude.

Requisitioned by Inquisitor Bosch during his visit to Khasden, Solos immediately replaced Bosch's old Interrogator who valiantly - and foolishly, according to Bosch - saved members of the local royalty from assassination. Bodily placing oneself in the way of a frag grenade does wonders for ones skin. Suffice it to say, with his predecessor dead and Bosch impressed with Solos' cognitive abilites, Solos easily filled the dead man's shoes.

With his background in the arbites, Solos maintained a level of fitness that Bosch once had as a youth. Training has become a favoured past time for the Interrogator, from personal arms and melee to driving and piloting, Solos soaks up learning as if he was destined to be a savant himself. Preferring the flexibility of a mesh combat suit and a body glove, the Interrogator enjoys disguising himself as much as he loves questioning 'persons of import' as he likes to call them. Solos is often found bearing a silenced autopistol and a mono-blade.

Auto-Savant Kappa Quartus Sonne - The brains.

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Seconded to Bosch by the Mechanicus of Ossianth, Lexmechanic Primus Kappa Quartus Sonne has lived long enough that a great proportion of his body and its fluids are now artificial. Walking in a stilted manner, Auto-Savant Sonne analyses everything he sees. With a data-stack physically incorporated to his body, the Lexmechanic compiles and sorts petabytes of information daily. Given his hunched form, owed thanks in part to the aforementioned data-stack, Sonne comes across as an oddly Gothic lab assistant.

Robed in the traditional crimson of the Adeptus Mechanicus, Sonne is host to the usual accoutrements such as mechadendrites, implanted weapons and various Machine-God blessings. Fluent in several hundred varieties of machine languages - some as old as machinery itself - Sonne can easily converse in Hexadecimal, Octal, Binary, Lingua Technis and so on and so on. As a literal walking cogitator, Sonne delights (or would if he still experienced emotions) in cracking cyphers.

The one activity that Sonne abides doing that does not involve the gathering of information, is the crafting and maintenance of the team's weaponry. He willingly sits for hours on end fine tuning the internal delicates of Bosch's Blaster, or acid etching Solos' latest acquisition. Although the lexmechanic can turn his hand to heavier items such as vehicles, he honestly does not deem himself worthy enough to bother the machine spirits that reside in such technology.

Medicae Thilip ap Malik - The doc.

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Skilled at treating exotic wounds, 'Docter' Ap Malik was directly sequestered from a Rowlian regiment fighting a border war with foul xenos creatures called the Hrud. Having seen his fair share of the horrors of war, when he entered service to Inquisitor Bosch he believed he was serving a higher power. With the mistreatment Bosch has aimed at the softly spoken medic on a regular basis, Ap Malik has learned that he has traded the privations of war for indentured servitude to megalomaniac.

Often accompanying Solos on missions, at first Ap Malik thought he knew how to handle himself. His early inelegance, bred into him by Rowlian parade sergeants, had to be overwritten with long periods of training with Solos in the hold of the teams transport - The Conjurer. Although not as skilled at infiltration as the Interrogator, Ap Malik provides ample back up for Solos when the time comes with his Lasburst twin lasgun.

Ap Malik is a gambler, plain and simple. At times when he can indulge in his vice, he will readily squander thousands of credits for entertainment lasting minutes at best. He favours card and dice games, especially 'Hearts and Titans' and 'Liar's Dice'. Of course, this habit tends to entice the medic into seedier parts of the Imperium's underbelly, places of ill repute where life is cheaper than usual. One spectacularly unfortunate incident required the assistance of Bosch himself as both Solos and Ap Malik were detained by a local underlord. This did not endear the Medicae to his master.

Theatre of Operation

Although the Inquisitor himself hails from Arganda, nestled in the far north-eastern reaches of the Imperium, the team he leads operates in the Segmentum Solar, nearing the border with the Ultima Segmentum, currently on the blighted world of Hawk Vult. Far from aid and long since abandoned to zombie plague, Bosch and his men seek to unravel the cause behind Hawk Vult's withering. Once a strategic reserve for front line Imperial efforts, the planet has no shortage of demi-hives, supply depots and zombies.

Notable Adversaries

Caro, Night Lord, The Sharpest Claw

Responsible for the nigh mortal injuries Inquisitor Bosch suffered twelve years ago, Caro took savage pleasure at ravaging the Inquisitor with his cruelly barbed power claws, sparing him "for later sport". Bosch himself had chased Caro down to the frontier world of Flasterveld, dispatching the Night Lord's mortal lackeys and even felling one of Caro's own men. Caro, ever the theatric, delighted in first burning Bosch's escorting guardsmen while bellowing poetry of Old Earth and then attacking Bosch himself.

To Bosch's dismay, despite swearing to Him almighty that Caro would suffer long and hard for his temerity, the Night Lord was slain in void battle at length by Imperial astartes.

Baron Vice, Underlord of Hive Iscariot and Purveyor of Flesh

The very man responsible for capturing two of Bosch's men, Baron Vice was practically a caricature of a mob boss. A fat man with sticky fingers, he had manipulated and forced his grip on power, ousting his rivals and dominating the black markets in his home hive. Under his control was every vice available; drink and drugs, pit fights and prostitution. He had a veritable army at his beck and call, one that he ruthlessly used to rid himself of potential rivals and misbehaving underlings.

During the rescue attempt by Bosch and several hired guns, the truth cam to light - the Baron had bargained with dark powers to amass the wealth and power he held. Bearing the sign of the Prince of Excess, Baron Vice knew the Inquisitor must die. Bosch, however, had other plans. With his mercenaries holding back the Baron's army, Bosch reunited with his team before pressing on to execute the Baron. Tricky as it was with Vice surrounded by daemonettes, Bosch and the team put them to the torch with a final blow made by the Inquisitor's own power hammer to Baron Vice's soot blackened head.

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I, Aias, Agent of the Hydra, do hereby vow to create and detail Inquisitor Wiel* by 17 July at 1800 GMT. This I vow, or be lost to the vagaries of the warp for all eternity.

 

*Quite possibly a temporary name; need to flesh him out more in my head before I settle.

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I, Lysimachus, vow to create an Inquisitor and retinue, by the 17th July 2015 at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or will be eternally damned by Him on Earth!
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Eh, why not.

 

As Ace carefully aligned the last of the wiring on the Malignatum - an ancient device used for the extraction of information by the Legio in it's early history, his helmet's vox crackled into life.

 

"Where is it?"

 

Ace yelped, dropped the precision 5mm Boltorus-Adjustorum (imported from Mars itself, assembled over seven years by a series of increasingly high-ranking Magos), and ducked rapidly before the Malignatum snapped shut like a bear-trap on his head.

He recognised the voice, of course. It was Aquilanus of the Moderati, and by his tone, he wasn't in the mood for making pleasantries.

 

 

"Where's what, Moderati?"

 

"The dataslate with the information about Inquisitor Ping. The one you said you'd delivered to the Scribes in Hall Six."

 

"It's in Hall Si-"

 

"No, it's not. What we've got here, Ace, is a repair manual for a M37 Konut-pattern Predator Lascannon sponson. Written in binary." Aquilanus said, testily.

 

"Oh."

 

"Oh indeed. You'd better stop whatever you're doing and find that dataslate. Now." The vox crackled again and fell silent.

 

Ace swore, colourfully and at length, about the sorry state of disrepair in the Liber's workshops.

Then he went in search of the dataslate, before the Moderati decided to shoot him with something.

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Please excuse the double post, but I'm in a writing mood. laugh.png

-= Inquisitor Ivan Ping =-

Born on the ashen world of Nova Carthan in Segmentum Obscurus, Ivan Ping made a name for himself even in his youth with his impassioned, fervent belief in The God-Emperor. Though it was expected of Ivan to join the ecclesiarchy sooner or later in some fashion, Ivan always claimed it wasn't his calling.

When his home city's newly-constructed church became the site of a turf war between local gangs, it was a teenage Ivan Ping who took up a sword and pistol and drove them away from the holy place. His actions were witnessed by one Aldur Ness, a stormtrooper serving in the retinue of Inquisitor Dylan Wainwright.

Within a week, the young Ivan Ping found himself visited by the Inquisition, but not for the fearful reasons most people assumed - instead Inquisitor Wainwright took the young Ping on as a scribe, and gave him some formal training in combat disciplines, since every member of Wainwright's retinue was expected to hold their own if required.

Wainwright was very much a traveller, moving from system to system, segmentum to segmentum in order to relay intelligence from one Imperial faction to another, stopping only briefly in places to administer the Emperor's Will where required. Ping first proved instrumental to Wainwright's work when he helped solve the mystery of how the Tecca Cult were meeting secretly on the world of Bhando. Wainwright, who was getting old, increasingly came to rely on Ping's judgment and advice until his mortal wounding at the hands of a heretic on the world of Nyma VI. Wainwright survived just long enough to name Ping his successor, in front of fellow Inquisitor Ethan Garr, who formally inducted Ping into the ranks of the Inquisition.

Ping's first act as Inquisitor was to call in one of Wainwright's favours, with a Chapter of Space Marines called the Red Lords. Famous for their obsession with purity, they launched a brutal retribution on the heresy-infested world, purging it's cities down to the bedrock and gathering the few survivors for evlauation. Inquisitor Ping and his retinue were tasked with evaluating the survivors, all of whom were very quick to dedicate themselves to the Emperor praise His mercy for sparing them.

Inquisitor Ping carried on largely from where Wainwright left off. He travelled the galaxy, trading information for favours with all manner of Imperial organisations. Knight Households, Orders of the Adepta Sororitas, Forgeworlds, Imperial Guard regiments, Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes... Ping gradually built a reputation for having lots of friends in unlikely places, all across the Imperium.

According to popular rumour, Inquisitor Ping even has influence as far-reaching as the Liber Cluster, having supposedly traded information to the Liber Council in exchange for materials and the promise of aid when called upon. The fact that his retinue are armed with what appear to be custom-made Saneslau-Mechanicus issue laspistols perhaps indicates a grain of truth in this rumour.

-= Notable battles =-

Inquisitor Ping has a storied history of going to war alongside Space Marines. Whether intentional or not, history teaches that getting on Ivan Ping's bad side often tends to result in a brief, deadly encounter with the Adeptus Astartes.

Besides the Purge of Nyma VI, Inquisitor Ping implored a Wandering Company of the Infinity Knights Chapter to join the battle on the rebel-held world of Kalphos. Ping's timely arrival at the head of these Space Marines famously turned the tide of the ground war being waged by no less than six regiments of Imperial Guard and Knights of both House Blackstorm and House Incendius, leading to Kalphos falling back under Imperial rule, and Ping earning favours from all regiments and Houses involved.

Inquisitor Ping also took up arms alongside the Second Company of the Stonebound Chapter to ward off an ork rampage at a desolate place called Zharke's Wall, on the world of Khelek, in Segmentum Pacificus. It's rumoured the Stonebound had keeps buried deep under the Wall, and desperately sought to conceal their hidden treasure from the Inquisition by putting Ping in harm's way; Inquisitor Ping has never commented on the issue.

In his later years, Inquisitor Ping took up a more permanent residence, of a sort, near the Glastheim Rift, a wapstorm-wracked area of space plagued by corsair and heretic activity. Content to leave questing far afield to younger, more able Inquisitors, Ping found himself working closely with the Circle of Iron, a group of six Chapters of Space Marines founded in ages past to contain the ceaseless attacks on the Glastheim Rift.

Even in his older age, however Inquisitor Ping's influence has had far-reaching consequences.

When Lord Inquisitor Tybalt Maltire, Ordo Malleus Representative of the Conclave of Thorns, reached out to Ping for aid in reclaiming the grave-world of Canaria, it was Inquisitor Ivan Ping who tasked the White Hawks' First Company with travelling to the Lauss Rift.

-= Notable Figures engaged with =-

Over a near-lifelong career in the Inquisition, Inquisitor Ping has traded favours and information with figures of note all over the galaxy; listing them all would be quite impossible.

His apparent affinity for working with Space Marines has seen him working with over two dozen Chapters in his time, either through negotiation or by fighting alongside them. Ping also has ties to at least six Knight Houses, over forty Regiments of the Imperial Guard, twenty fleets of the Imperial Navy, and is thought highly enough of by the Eccelsiarchy that Inquisitor Ping has been able to call for aid amongst the Adepta Sororitas on three different occasions.

In short, Ivan Ping is living proof of both that the power of the Inquisition is in it's deeds, and that a small favour can go a long way.

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Oh, another carthaginian fan ! (My DIY Imperial Knight house is called House Barcca, as in Hannibal Barca ^^)

Well spotted, that man! biggrin.png

I do like to drop the occasional nod to times and places long gone, and I couldn't remember anyone else using the name, so.... laugh.png

Likewise, Ping's tendency to use Space Marines to do the heavy lifting is a very-broad-strokes analogy to Carthage's historical tendency to employ mercenaries in their armies. happy.png

EDIT:

House Barcca - fantastic stuff!

Wish I'd thought of that myself, now. laugh.png

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Oh, another carthaginian fan ! (My DIY Imperial Knight house is called House Barcca, as in Hannibal Barca ^^)

Well spotted, that man! biggrin.png

I do like to drop the occasional nod to times and places long gone, and I couldn't remember anyone else using the name, so.... laugh.png

Likewise, Ping's tendency to use Space Marines to do the heavy lifting is a very-broad-strokes analogy to Carthage's historical tendency to employ mercenaries in their armies. happy.png

EDIT:

House Barcca - fantastic stuff!

Wish I'd thought of that myself, now. laugh.png

Hey, no copyright, feel free to roll with it if you so wish.

I have got very little fluff for mine so far : I know their armour is gold, that their crest is an elephant holding lightning in its trunk, and they have fought alongside the Dread Lords (one of my DIY marine chapters) many times. Their home planet (Karthagan) has been overrun by a Xenos race known as the Phryx, so House Barcca has taken up residence on their Vassals (of House Maher) on Karthagan Novus

But anyway, that's off topic for this challenge, no doubt it will come in use for the next Liber Challenge cool.png

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I, paulJam, vow to create the Nasteli Assassins, agents of the Eversor Temple, by the 17th July 2015 at 18:00 (GMT). This I vow or will be eternally damned by Him on Earth!
 
 
hope this fits in sufficiently with the brief.

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