Following your long time rival Dakboom the Weird (a renoun ork Weird boy of the Evil Sunz known not only to move fast, but F'ink Fast too) You tail him to a known planet under inquisitorial quarantine due to strange warp phenomena planet side. You and your entourage finally pin the Weirdboy inside of an ancient xenos ruins known to have particularly pronounce warp phenomena. After you and your nemesis wage a bloody battle through the various floors of the ruins you and your best acolyte and long time friend corner Dak in the ante chamber of the ruins.

Realizing he hasn't much of a chance against both you and your right hand, Dak "f'inks fast" and unleashes his crazed wierdboy powers in the form of a bolt, which flies through the room and is visibly modified by the strange icons and symbols in the room. The bolt flashes toward you only to be intercepted by your long time friend, it wasn't the first time they'd done this for you but this time you're not sure they will get up from it, and they fall lifelessly to the floor. Across the room Dak lay in an unconscious heap as well.

As you inspect your acolyte they regain consciousness with a look of surprise and then looking around nod toward Dak. You ready your bolt pistol and go in to finish Dak and as you cross the threshold your acolyte goes to cover the entrance while dusting themselves off from the startling event. Mere steps away Dak regains consciousness and looks up at you puzzled. You say the emperor's grace and prepare to give the foul Ork the judgement of the emperor when you are startled by the ork. In the barely tangible way an ork can speak gothic, Dak calls out to you a code in your cell-speak and clearly in the tone of voice of your acolyte. Your moment's hesitation allows them the chance to further clarify that they are clearly your acolyte and as your eyes dart to the person you saw get up before they have already left the room. Dak was indeed f'ink'n fast and used his powers to make a switch with your acolyte and now has gotten away, in a precious human body!

You're acolyte (in the ork body) informs you of their new found sensations within the orkoid body (feeling the call of waagh, the psyic building up, and the feeling of indestructibility) In many ways an Orkhost.

Your mission becomes more clear... you must destroy Dakboom now more than ever, but, what of your long time friend and acolyte? What fate do you as an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos have in store for them?

Give my Acolyte the Emperor's grace and then a bolt through the head. He gav his life for me and deserves better than to live on as a Xenos! Then I'm after Dak to end his worthless life and sacrilage of the blessed human form.

If you didn't know it baby, I'm a Puritan.

A more radical answer might be to use your Acolyte as an Infiltrator into the Orcish Horde! You would have to test your Acolyte for corruption on a regular basis but when his death came (And it would, Given Ork society!)it would be in service to the Emperor!

Being the creative sort that Inquisitors usually are, I would suggest to send the Acolyte and his powerful new body after Dak. No time to lose, letting Dak get away in such a good disguise would be worse than postponing any possible purgation of the Acolyte. Figure out the next bit once Dak has been either secured or destroyed.

Maybe the Inquisitor knows a radical Mechanicus who could help transfer the Acolytes mind (or brain) into a more suitable host.

It pretty much comes down to wether the =I= is a Puritan or Radical. If the former, then Gurkhal has it exactly right. If the latter, then Radwraith and Zakalwe have the right (albeit heretical) idea...

Now why waste a perfect tool the Fate put into your hands?

Everything in this life happens by the Emperor's Will. If He saw it fit to allow your acolyte's sould to be swapped with that of the ork's, then it's clearly destiny. Also, consider that psychic gift is ultimately a mutation, which means your new ORKalyte is not a mere Boy, but a Weirdboy. Let the imbecile Dak get lost among the stars; without orkish biochemistry to bolster his mind he is just a mediocre rogue psyker - let the Ordo Hereticus handle it, that's their job.

Instead put every effort to help your budding weirdboy rise in the ork society to a position of the warboss. Then, while his psyche is at least partially his own, make him to wage a Waaargh! against the Imperium. You will predict it, earning prestige among the ranks of Ordo Xenos, and then - decapitate the ork horde in one brilliant strike, preferrably on the eve of major Imperial counterattack. You will be celebrated as the hero of the Imperium and secure respect and (if you play it right) gratitude and even active support of the Imperial Guard and Navy. You might even be able to reach some kind of understanding with the Deathwatch...

And, what's better, your pet warboss doesn't even need to die. If he would retain some sanity by now, he could be used again... and again... and again to replay the scenario, bringing yet more wealth and prestige to his master

Erborn said:

And so speaks the Apostate! And I though I was being radical!!

Erborn said:

That's...pretty radical, and I thought Zakalwe and Radwraith were borderline heretics. Now I've got a pyre waiting with your name on it so if you would please follow me.

Hmmmm, Zakalwe maintains he is a puritan.

Eborn, the deaths of thousands if not millions for your own glory? Do you call yourself a faithful Servant of The Emperor? We will rack you and break you, we shall see that for the sin of the most sinister of thought-crimes and disloyalty to our beloved Emperor that you suffer one thousand deaths, that your plaintave cries will infuse the warp with dread, and that your suffering shall so scar the place you are finally put to death that psykers shall fear to tread there.

In the name of The Emperor of Man, I name thee 'Heretic' and pass judgement upon thee.

:-)

Clearly there is no prophet in one's own lands

Consider the things in perspective, my puritan friends. The Waaargh! will happen anyway; the orks are meant to wage it from time to time. But this time(s) it will be a controlled thing and thus much less devastating to the Imperium than the naturally occured one. And what is the harm in millions dying anyway? Remember two great axioms of Imperial Truth: "Men must die so that Man endures" and "Violence solves everything".

Consider the (lamentable) loss of human lives an inevitable evil and find solace in the knowledge that their deaths will be your ascension, and by dying they're making an ultimate sacrifice for the good of all Mankind. Besides... who will die? Imperial Guard? Don't make me laugh; that's their destiny anyway. Civilian populace? But as the saying goes, "there are no civilians in the battle for survival"

Zakalwe said:

Oh, sorry. I'm just a little itchy when you can never know who the heretic is. An enviromental damage from the work, you know.

Erborn said:

You memory seems to fail you for you have forgotten "Burn the Heretic" and Suffer not the Alien to live"!

You want to put the Imperium to the torch for you love of power and in your hybris you think that the subjects of the Emperor exists for your glory! The Imperial Guard's lives are to be spent for Him on Terra and the endurance of Mankind, not your dreams of power. You twist things like a serpent and spit your poison for the unwary, but you will not fool us! To think that one such as you, a foul xenophile, would allow or even encourage, the Alien to make war upon the realm of the God-Emperor sickens me. And to that you add that you would allow a greenskin to walk in and violate the sacred form of man, while you let your own Acolyte live on as a xenos! This makes you nothing more than a traitor, a heretic and a xenophile! Thrice damned by your own words!

In short, heretic, I have heard enough of you! We shall bring judgment upon you, we shall cast you down, grind your works to dust and hunt down ever one of your sellgun, lickspittle and associate and find out what part they have played in this scheme and bring the Emperor's justice to them.

Ah, you boys make me smile. Playing "burn the Heretic" in the yard, getting all your friends out to play "Guard and Xenos" with plastic lasguns and whatnot.

Ahhh, kids! Such carefree exuberance!

Erborn said:

It's always creepy when this kind of logic starts to make sense to me x_X

Erborn said:

Then we agree! If it is for the good of the Imperium I support your stance and applaud it. So long as it's not for your own glory (it is okay if glory is a by-product though). So, we are therefore both 'puritans' my friend, just like good-old Eisenhorn always said he was a puritan too.

1. Capture "Ork". Study.

2. Capture "Acolyte". Study.

3. Act on the findings.

Zakalwe said:

Looks like I'll be needing two pyres to solve this then.

Gurkhal said:

@ Gurkhal: I don't know! When convene the conclave of sanction there two of them, one of you and I'm the closest thing you got to a swing vote!

Radwraith said:

I know. That's the part that leaves me depressed.

If this was a story and not a roleplaying session I'd say the Inquisitor will attempt to mercifully put him down, but in his moments hesitation the acolyte loses control and escapes - leaving the severly injured Inquisitor full of regrets and self loathing deserving of the grim world. Previously they outnumbered the weirdboy 2 to 1, now he is alone to not just kill Dakboom but to destroy the body and free the soul of his loyal subject.

Ok, so the real quest here is:

Once a Rogue Trader finds out about this plot by a Heretical/Radical Inquistior to control the orkish attacks on the Imperium, how does he/she profit from it?

If the Orkolyte now feels that he's a psyker, it stands to reason that the Weirdboy, now human, is no longer psychic, and no longer has the Waaagh running through him.

He might be clever, but he'd be easy to kill.

Kill both. It's not like the Ork human could hide, since his speech would give him away.

bluntpencil2001 said:

Its good to see another faithful soul devoted tot he Emperor's work.