Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes

"Next, all the members of the Tribunal will vote to determine the rotation order of each branch religious order; and the internal members of the branch religious group will vote in groups to decide on the candidates for the representative seats..."

The voice of Rudolf Kangs, the high-ranking lord of the Holy Hammer Order, continued, and the discussion about other content in the venue also continued.

But the biggest change has been settled, and the members in the branch room who are only qualified to attend can't wait to start their own discussions.

"Have you changed your mind?"

Branden, the senior judge of the Rebellion Order, asked his colleagues around him.

His red robe, which represents the Rebellion Order, is also embellished with the parish mark of the golden lily. It seems that this man has other complicated identities in his jurisdiction.

What he was asking about was a high-ranking judge who belonged to the Order of the Holy Hammer - High-ranking Judge Phaedros of the Demonic Tribunal.

They belong to the same star sector and occasionally cross paths in daily work. After more than a hundred years of getting along with each other, they can also have limited communication with each other on some insensitive issues.

But today this issue is obviously too sensitive, so that the former is not ready to receive a precise response.

"I'd rather call it a restoration than what you're saying."

Phaedrus responded cleanly and precisely, befitting his usual military demeanor.

Unlike the Order of the Rebellion, which specializes in government affairs and religious theology, the Order of the Hammer, as the original order of the Inquisition, controls great military power.

As a position that has the opportunity to jointly fight with the Astartes and more violent organizations all year round, every high-level member who stands out from the low-level Demon Judges is full of martial virtue.

It is also common for them to cross the border and act as temporary commanders when the commander of any combat unit is killed.

Long-term military careers have made these judges stingy with words but good at practical work.

But this answer obviously cannot satisfy the curiosity of Branden and other colleagues around him:

The Gray Knights' takeover of the Holy Hammer Order is obviously not that simple, because this is a systemic problem.

Since they claim to take over the vacancies in high-level positions, the promotion of lower-level mortals is bound to be affected;

Compared with this problem that can still be delayed, another problem is even more urgent - what should people who have been promoted to high-level members do?

Phaedrus obviously also understood this problem. Before the official purge of the Holy Hammer Order, the Gray Knights had already put forward a relevant handling plan in internal discussions - a dual-track system.

Over the next hundreds of years, retired members of the Gray Knights will gradually take over various positions in the Order of the Hammer.

But before they are completely replaced, it is still necessary for mortal judges to exist.

They will still complete their training in the Inquisition's internal academy and then go to various positions.

Given the extremely high casualty rate for this position, most trainees will remain permanently in the lower ranks. (Either died in battle or disappeared.)

Only a few members can be promoted to the middle level, and the Gray Knights have enough ability to identify these middle levels.

After being identified, they will undergo life-extending surgery and genetic modification in the intermediate academy on Titan II.

The best among them will be lucky enough to become the new Gray Knights, while the weaker ones will also have Astartes-like physical fitness.

This structure will be paralleled by a steady flow of personnel into the Gray Knights Chapter until all mid-levels have been replaced by retired members.

During this stage, the authority of senior members of the Inquisition will not change.

They will be responsible for the management authority of these middle-level personnel until they die or die in battle.

These complex system changes and personnel selection mechanism changes are too complicated and cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.

And Phaedrus himself had no intention of leaking it. He smiled slightly to deal with Branden's question, and then continued to fall into his own thoughts:

The Gray Knights paid a huge price for this transformation of the Holy Hammer.

It was the representatives of the Grand Master Council of the Gray Knights and the lobbying of the Terran Council of the Inquisition that led to this unprecedented meeting.

As the price for the Gray Knights Chapter to begin to dominate the Order of the Hammer, they transferred a full 4 permanent seats of the original council to the other two branches of the Inquisition dominated by mortals-the Order of Rebellion and the Order of Anti-foreigners.

It was the formal transfer of these four permanent seats that allowed these two new religious orders to be officially confirmed in the Inquisition.

Yes, although these two orders have been established for more than a thousand years, they still have no formal status within the Inquisition.

There are only 12 recognized seats in the Original Council, and all of them are in the hands of the Order of the Hammer.

Although this organization has not been officially operating for thousands of years due to various reasons, as long as there is no such seat, the two large religious orders are at risk of being banned at any time legally.

This transfer of seats is a compromise by the Holy Hammer Order in exchange for the support of the majority of people in the Tribunal;

It is a reasonable transfer to adapt to the current environment of the empire, and has an official recognition of the remaining religious orders.

This is also a win-win attempt for all parties. In the future Inquisition, the Holy Hammer Order will still dominate with its four seats.

As long as they have the support of the other two seats, they still firmly hold an absolute majority.

The Gray Knights Chapter did not suffer a loss either. The absolute majority of 8 seats was meaningless within the Holy Hammer Order.

Excluding the four seats, their dominance within the Holy Hammer Order is still half.

And with the new recruits in place, the veterans began to turn to the inside of the Order, and their dominance over the Order would only become stronger, not weaker.

The monastic orders against the rebels and the foreign monasteries did not suffer either.

Although the income is not much, obtaining a formal seat is itself a kind of status recognition;

From today on, they officially share the honor and disgrace with the entire Tribunal, and no longer have an ambiguous existence.

They no longer have the risk of being purged in one fell swoop, completely negating the existence of the entire organization.

The remaining eleven small religious orders should be the biggest beneficiaries of this meeting.

During this rights reorganization process, they successfully laundered their rights and became a rights group officially recognized by the tribunal.

This means that their organizational program and spirit have been widely recognized by their internal colleagues, and they no longer have to develop new members in secret like cultists.

(There are those who are recognized, and naturally there are those who are not recognized. Those people are also within the scope of the initial notification of this meeting, but with the unprecedented unity of forces within the Tribunal, these people will probably never arrive in Taipei alive. The opportunity to pull.)

And in the subsequent work, they will not only be able to use the power of their own order.

Under certain conditions, the Inquisition's external public forces, such as the recruitment authority of the Astartes Chapter, will also be opened to them to a limited extent.

All of the above are conclusions drawn from Phaedrus’s vision and scheming as a high-ranking person in charge of life and death in several star sectors;

But what he failed to see at a higher level was:

From today on, the situation where the Inquisition is divided into fragments and not affiliated with each other will be gone forever;

In the context of the resumption of operation of the Supreme Primordial Council, the Inquisition, a behemoth that has penetrated into every corner of the empire, will truly reappear on the political stage of the empire as a whole.

And this happened to be another throne that was carefully prepared for Calvin by the veterans of the Gray Knight Grand Master Council, which was no less than the Primarch itself.

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