I play in a game where our gm is stingy with our pay. its realism in the game. how does our employer pay us when were light years apart. or on a world with only one vox and no astropaths. we have only received pay like maybe twice since we started. granted we only asked a few times. but we've been playing over a year. we only see our =I= contacts rarely. But he does give us opportunity to loot a bit. alot of our gear we picked up along the way. My char now has a Hellgun that is his main weap that he picked up from a baddie on a mission. (bone knife and robe in a cell) and we also "requisition' alot of gear form the arbites, my char is an arbiter. that helps alot. and picking up ammo from fallen warriors during missions is essential if you find yourself in a long fire fight. point is looting is a viable way to keep a group temporarily equipped till they can come across thier hard earned Thrones. But like someone said earlier, if they dont think of it u shouldnt have to hand feed it to them every time. but it is nice to get some help once in a while. ok i need to stop writing...

from france

you can't alwways loot. depending on the seting people reaction if they are people wil goes from indiference to hostiles. witness can understand that you take munition to continue the fight the won't always understant that you take the golden wtch of your fallen enemy. for the material aspect even this universe is violent the novel from the trilogies eseinhorn et ravenor have clearly shows that groups are interested in finding their opponents.

exemple? cultist who have been shot down probably have friends who want to know who is after them. local police force sometimes for the same reasons than the arbites, if a gun has been use in a serie of violent crime it is probably recorded. now think about it the killer has benne shot down by the pc's before the arbites even figure who he is. and then a pc use it for the arbites the're no previous killer the pc is the killer.

a very bad idea then especially if you are working under cover and cannot show the big =I= rosette. so looting is not alaways a godd idea in an environements where science is use. on primitive feral and feudal planete is still possible to a point psyker can folow a weapon. i don't think that the sorcerer of chaos will apreciate the death of his favorite lieutenante and the lost of his sword.

so loot if ypou want but with caution and turn everything th the big =I= they can erease the trace, caged curse item, exchange ...

as for the the official borrowing of items it depends or not again if you are undercover or not.

not undercover: good for you it means that nothing available can be refuse. unfortunately it 's a good signe for your ennemies that you are here and welle equiped.

undercover: that means forgery this means if you are caught you are on your own unless you choose to call upon the big =I= and screw your undercovert aspect.

for the financial aspect in most word where at the exeption of the most backward of feral and feudal sowrd inquisition has a presence even a token one, even a simply banck account (or the equivalent). so seeing the boss is not at all a nessary. remenber on scintilla there is a local inquisition and they work with the inquisition. for iocanthos well you have the sister of batle and the arbites who work often for the inquisition so they can help you with a minimum of discretion.