Okay, I'm going to use an Ordo Xenos radical inquisitor in my Deathwatch campaign and need some ideas... The basic concept is that the Inquisitor in question is not particularly religious and views most bans on xeno/daemon/heretic technology as pure bull. She cares only about results, not about how the results are delivered so she is more than willing to use any and all tools available. I'm not talking about fanatic Xanthite or Oblationist, actually not a fanatic at all... more like ultimate pragmatic who has lost all faith on anything and everything. So far I've figured out a few ways of how this shows:

- Her ship has xenotech parts... lots of them, in fact

- Her Stormtroopers are telepathically mind-controlled

- One of her retinue is actually a condemned tekheretic with a death sentence "suspended untill further notice"

- She uses xenotech combat drugs, like Dark Eldar issue hyperadrenaline, to boost her retinue

- She uses captured and bought xenotech weapons (jokaero digital weapons, eldar witchblade...)

- She maintains a collection of Dark Eldar soul traps that are used to trap the souls of various xenos for further investigation and use

Now the question is: What else could she do? I want more ideas on how to abuse the "God Emperors Permission to Do Anything You Like"... Also, do you feel the examples gives so far are radical enough or too radical for what I described. Now, one thing to take into account is the fact that she needs to work together with Deathwatch, so craziest stuff is something that she must keep under tight wraps...

Sounds good so far. Besides, most Xanthites are not fanatics either but more opportunists in the same vein as you mentioned (i.e. the end justifies the matter).

Ship with xeno-tech parts is sort of radical, but far from too radical. Mind-controlled Stormtroopers is totally ok and not radical at all. Heretek in retinue is ok and only mildly radical (not puritanical either). Xeno-tech combat drugs are a little radical, but it depends what kind of drugs they are, how they are made and what their effect is. Xeno-tech weapons are only mildly radical; Jokaero digital weapons are almost common with the high and mighty (and the Grey Knights it seems…), whereas an Eldar Witchblade is a little more radical maybe, but one has to keep in mind that even the Officio Assassinorum uses xeno-weapons. Dark Eldar soul traps is the only thing which I think is only really used by a radical and could cause an Inquisitor to become an outcast within his/her order. Still, it is absolutely not “too radical” for a radical Inquisitor in my view.

How about more real Xenos as allies? An Eldar advisor (Seer or Pathfinder), Kroot bodyguards or Genestealers as kill-teams sound fitting as would some Ork Freebooters, Hrud warships and/or a Dark Eldar Cabal as mercenaries.

Luthor Harkon said:

Xenos allies is a great idea, but I will have to consider them carefully:

- Kroot and Genestealers are right out. The Inquisitor in question regularly operates against Tau and Tyranid forces and is simply too paranoid to have them around.

- Ork Freebooters would work, but only when used in space where their spores can't contaminate an uncontaminated planet or against Tyranids or other Orks where it matters little.

- Eldar and Dark Eldar both sound plausible... I would assume Dark Eldar are easier to recruit than their Craftworld cousins as they seem more like "mercenary types" to begin with?