Hey guys, I've got a simple question in my campaign that I can't come up with a good answer for, namely, where do the Adeptus Arbites of the Calixis Sector train? Where is "The Academy" for these guys. It seems the seat of legal apparatus in Calixis is on Solomon (The Chancellary Court), but Scintilla is still the sector capital. On the other hand, wouldn't arbites training be a pretty intense experience, in a pretty isolated location? I understand that many of them are harvested from the Schola Progenium, but not all of them. Besides, where do they get sent after the Scholam? Is there are Arbites space-fortress somewhere in Calixis, or is it a couple of sectors away? Maybe its somewhere in the badlands of Scintilla. I don't know. I'd appreciate any imaginative ideas.

I would have to say that no they dont get their own fortress thing like the guard or inquisition, Arbites in my opinion kinda get jipped on good stuff in the 40k universe they probably learn all of the intelligence things in the schola and are personally trained at where they are stationed no necessarily at a giant training facillity because they would have to get used to where they were stationed very quickly or you would be putting a green horn agains things like mutant thuggers or ripper vines without them being trained.

Isn't there the "Fortress of the Just" on Scintilla?

I just added smaller acadamies through the empire, called 'Forts', short and simple. There Acolytes can get the aid they need and such. There are also precinctual 'forts' in my 40K, where 6-10 arbiters work and/or live. They train at the 'Schola Academia Arbitus' at Scintilla, from there they will be designated to a world, both by deed (grades and such) and by will (they get to have a combat-buddy, if they have one, to accompany them to increase the effectiveness). That's just me, though, but we have like, 90% arbiters in our group (since it's so ******* cool, basically).

My two cents.

Fideru said:

Why, yes, yes there is.

The Arbiters of the Calixis sector are all trained on Scintilla in the Fortress of the Just which sits in the harsh and unforgiving desert a short flight from Hive Tarsus. Outside the massive rockcrete slab of a fortress, there's a deserted ancient town that's used to maneuver and weapons training by the arbiter cadets sent to the Calixis Sector before they're stationed at one of the precinct fortresses that dot the sector.

More information on the Arbitrators of the Calixis Sector, the Fortress of the Just, and Lord Marshal Goreman can be found in DH, pg 311-312

EDIT:

The Chancellery Court of Solomon, IIRC, isn't a court of Imperial Law but one of Solomon Law and is only concerned with the running of Solomon. What little Arbiter Presence is on planet would have their Precinct Fortress (one I imagine from reading that their presence on Solomon is quite low for a planet with such a population) as the court of Imperial Law.

EDIT AGAIN (sorry)

I was wrong about the Chancellery Court. After refreshing my knowledge, it is the edifice on Solomon concerned with Terran Civil Law among other things. Seeing, However, as it's run by the Departmento Munitorium, that would explain the low counts of Arbiters on Solomon. It seems the Administratum is the primary upholders of justice on Solomon... and I can see where that might ruffle the feathers of the Arbiters as well...

Thankyou gentlemen. It makes sense to have a training facility on Scintilla, as it is easy to get to from all over the sector. And it has a cool name. The Fortress of the Just! I must have missed that. I'll go back and find it now. Thanks all...

How many vessels do you think the arbites have in the Calixis sector? I tend to think one frigate-sized vessel, plus maybe Arbites Raider vessel for quick strike-force insertion. NO doubt these would also be docked above Scintilla, probably hive tarsus.

Arbitors operate Strike Cruiser's (cut down Light Cruiser's) for speed, together with escort ships. No idea on the numbers, though I'd think they'd be quite dispersed, with very few over even Scintilla at any one time.

In a hole in the ground lived an Arbite. That hole was in Arbiton.

Arbites never work on the planet they come from. They are always trained and then sent to a different planet, many times a different sector altogether.

Calpurnia ended up in Segmentum Obscuras but came from Ultramar...

Hellebore

Yeah. I know that much. Presumably its to keep the Arbites Incorruptable. They are modeled after the gendarmerie of various French colonies. That said, I don't think its unreasonable to assume that most Arbites in Calixis are from Calixis or a neighboring sector, even if they're not actually from the world that they currently serve on. Shipping Adeptus Arbites all over the cosmos doesn't seem too practical or necesary. I'm sure it happens, but not that often. The Adpetus Arbites on Scintilla, for example, are probably drawn from worlds all over the sector, and troopers born on scintilla are presumably shipped off when their training is complete. Given that sort of federalized structure, however, it seems reasonable to assume that training is undertaken at specific centralized locations, much as with the U.S. Army or Marine Corps in the United States , -or for that matter the gendarmerie training bases in any formerly french dominated African republic (Senegal, for example).

The Arbites use Punisher class strike cruisers. I've not read Execution Hour where they are mentioned though.

I'm not sure where these figures are from but it mentions there are 10 as part of the Calixsis expeditionary force:

http://calixissector.wikia.com/wiki/Calixis_Expeditionary_Force

I imagine that it's these ships that are responsible for taking prisoners to Prison Planets and picking up new recruits as well as targetted missions and Ordo Hereticus work.

Graver said:

The prospect of me being right is wrong on so many levels.