Ok, this is my next scenario to post for my dear fellow Inquisitors.

You are investigating a mysterious outbreak of civil war on a previously peaceful, productive and Emperor-fearing world, where many different sects, factions and political groups are tearing society appart in their struggle for dominance after the previous rulers have been massacred. During your work to find the source, you track down a group of troublemakers and engage them in a furious battle with many casulties on both sides. Yet as you search the bodies of the fallen you find Inquisitorial pendants on every one of them. Shortly thereafter you are contacted by another Inquisitor who claims you are interfering in her operations. She promises that if you pull back and leave her to her work she will do a major favor for you in the future.

What do you do?

Leave a well-stocked, well manned, undercover network of spies, charged with observing the development on the planet. Then you leave the planet to your colleague's devices, earning a favour, while still keeping taps on her. Then you investigate said female inquisitor, checking if she is of a modus and mindset you care to be seen dealing with, and investigate her power-base and what she is capable of granting.

You wait, you bide your time, you scheme, and when the time is right, you claim your favour, ensuring that said favour will leave a gap in her defenses long enough for you to slip a silent, unseen hand around her throat.

You now have a potential stranglehold on her, and she does not even know it. If she grows in power, so do you, as your spies and operatives infest her secret networks. Everything she does, you will secretly have a hand in. If you need anything of her, play the favour game and keep your hand hidden, until such a time that she has outlived her usefulness to the Emperor. At that time, her assets serve mankind better under your direct control anyway.

Cheers.

-Nearyn

Since the bedlam on the planet was brought to my attention, I can't just pretend it never happened and turn a blind eye: it would reflect badly on my reputation within the organization.

So, I would suggest a counter-offer:

1. The inquisitor in question will share her plans: what she tries to accomplish by plunging a world into civil war and just how far she plans to push things? For all I know, it could be anything - from Recongregator's quest for "better tomorrow" to inquisitorial war opening moves. I would refrain from any official background checks at this stage: it would draw unecessary attention from superiors and we're all entitled to our little secrets.

2. Depending on the answer, I would provide what assistance is necessary. At the very least, as inquisitor apparently assigned to investage the whole affair, I'll be able to obscure the truth behind it, making a convenient scapegoat out of some third party. Granted, the inquisitor would be able to pull that on her own, but the help of a colleague would smooth things over.

3. Further assistance - if necessary - will depend upon the nature of the enterprise: if it's social change for its own sake, then my colleague would need someone to help her steering things. It would all be easier if involved players are prodded by two sticks at a time and besides, someone has to watch her back to warn of Amalathians' presence. These freaks are bound to appear sooner or later and if inquisitor was careless enough to let her agents be caught red-handed once…

4. If the anarchy is just means to an end (ie, if my colleague is trying to procure something from the planet or lure some puritan fool onto it), I want a cut of the deal: let the colleague have what she wants, but I'll help myself to the planet as well. As the saying goes, "big fish can be caught in a murky pool".

I have two different opinions (my inquistorial and my Greenskin) I'll try to answer in both.

As an Inquistior I would:

Clearly if the other inquisitor cannot outright come and tell me the reason of why she is here and orchestrating this civil war, then her methods are suspect and must be dealt with accordingly. Imperial lives are precious and as such (given if I have enough clout) I would turn my focus to gaining the support of one of the more humanitarian Astres chapters (Wolves,Salamanders,etc) to gain their support and I would put an end to the rebellion in force. If at this point I could dictate whether the other inquisitors motives are driven by a xenos or warp related matter I would further call in the Deathwatch or Grey knights as required.

The action dictated here is that of raw force and might. Nobody, besides him on earth, is above the might of the inquisition and anyone who would needlessly sacrifice Imperial lives will suffer the fate of the traitor. Men have fought too hard and too long to have the meager means they have now, and I will be damned eternally if I will sit by and watch a madwoman sacrifice the lives of these hard working individual for her own blasphemous muse and suspicion.

The mind of Dakboom:

Conflict is life, and only the strong survive. If the Imperium wants strength, it should have a civil war on every planet. Weed out the week, dull witted, and the lame that's what I say! If she's successful, congratulations on making the Imperium a better place! If not may the fires of that war consume her like the rest of the weak minded humans on that planet. My suspicion though is that she will fail, given her ineptitude in selecting agents already (after all, if they were of any value I'd already be dead)

So I sit idly by and wait…. either to collect on her favor, or to ride my chariot down to claim the world from her miserable failure. I will offer the leaders of the various factions gilded thoughts of power and when the last man is standing upon his fallen enemies I will give him his just rewards: I will leave him his war torn world, and assure him that should his regime ever loose control again I will not be able to hold back the exterminatus that will purge their taint of weakness from the Imperium. That they may rest soundly knowing that as I, as the eyes of the emperor, will be ever watching.