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 === Lord Inquisitor Barborasa ===
+''"Those who play with the Ruinous Powers' toys will be brought by degrees to wield their swords. Only by being fastidious in our own desmesne may we execute the Emperor's Will."''
+- Lord Inquisitor Barborosa, ''Lessons in Defending His Spiritual Realm''
+A venerated Inquisitor of the Eternum conclave, Lord Inquisitor Barborosa inherited his mentor [[Lord Inquisitor Charlemagne's]] position upon his demise. A fervant puritan, Barborosa has worked tirelessly to thwart the plans of Nurgle and his daemons, an effort which has kept Eternum safe save a rare failure of his massive intelligence apparatus. A core defender of The [[Tideshifter]], the Lord Inquisitor and his strike force the Hammer of Judgement, can be running multiple operations to keep the sector functioning, frequently fighting the worst of the Rotbelchers and their daemons. Excelling at exorcism and banishing daemons, his skills would be needed more than ever with the coming of the Second Poxwar.
 A particular long lived Ordo Malleus and psychic Inquisitor, Barborasa has built a sizable retinue and personal army to assist his missions across Eternum. Inquisitor Barborasa's flagship is the grand cruiser ''Library of Judgment,'' though the Conclave contains several other ships of varying classes including cruisers, light cruisers, and escorts, with only the ''Library of Judgment'' and the other Lord Inquisitor flagships allowed to carry cyclonic torpedoes. These ships are capable of dealing with most standard enemies the conclave will face, but any serious engagement will be accompanied by requisitioned Imperial Navy forces from [[Battlefleet Eternum]]. Barborasa has worked closely with [[Justicar Tycho Ectar]] in recent years, himself feeling the psychic shockwave the Bubonic Rift emanates.
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 Inquisitor Graffolk, an Ordo Hereticus member, focuses her efforts on rooting out apostates and heretics on Bellapheron and the shrine worlds of the sector, though she has also attempted to police Filimars to strong protests from the Forge World.
-[[Inquisitor Argyll Dompert]] of the Ordo Hereticus represents the Ordo Hereticus forces more aligned with Barborasa, and works closely with the [[Order of the Purple Communion]] (although the Order works with all Heriticus conclave members, Dompart is trusted most by them and thus will certainly take his side in any dispute). Dompert works closely in the Caligulas subsector, rooting out any plagues or cultist conspiracy that threatens the Aural gate and its supporting worlds.
+[[Inquisitor Argyll Dompert]] of the Ordo Hereticus represents the Ordo Hereticus forces more aligned with Barborasa, and works closely with the [[Order of the Last Candle]] (although the Order works with all Heriticus conclave members, Dompart is trusted most by them and thus will certainly take his side in any dispute). Dompert works closely in the Caligulas subsector, rooting out any plagues or cultist conspiracy that threatens the Aural gate and its supporting worlds.
 The newest member of the conclave, [[Lord Inquisitor Alisabeth Baccarin]] of the Ordo Xenos, was posthumously recommended by her conclave predecessor, Ordo Xenos Lord Inquisitor Pyotr Yakarov who was believed to be killed by xenos during an investigation into odd augar readings in Richmon. Though no body was found, the disappearance left a void in the council she filled according to his death-writ. Hailing from outside sector Eternum and making her career hunting xenos in Segmentum Ultima, she nonetheless was a welcome addition owing to the resurgence of the ork threat and increased Eldar activity, and suspicions that even more xenos activity was to come. A more moderate Inquisitor, Baccarin has used and still uses xeno weaponry and devices, leading to suspicion among some of the conclave. Still, her political connections outside of Eternum ensure she's left alone, and she is currently investigating Inquisitor Rico's reports of an impending tyranid invasion, while at the same time looking into odd activities on the world Riker.
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 His retinue includes lower ranked inquisitors and interrogators, as well the Grey Knight Justicar Tycho Ectar whose normally kept in the shadows, but if a particularly powerful enemy daemon manifests the Knight can be seen in the field and covers his true nature by the Inquisitor claiming he is detached from a minor space marine chapter. Inquisitorial stormtroopers are led by [[Colonel Agrippa]].
-As befitting a regiment of an Inquisitor, the Judgement has an extensive armory and possesses some of the best crafted items in the sector and the Judgement is rarely seen without a fleet of Taurox Primes, Valkyries, or Vendettas. Each vehicle is marked with their respective cohort and squad's letter and number (ex. Alpha Cohort First Squad's Taurox has a A and 1 on it). The force is split into two sections, the strike force (which is deployed on missions, accompanies the Lord Inquisitor and his subordinates in the field, and is the more elite and experienced section), and the security detachment (who guard the Inquisitor's outposts, facilities and ships). New recruits (after training) are sent to the security detachment until the unit's commanders believe them ready for more intense combat. Although they're expected to see less combat in their role, they share the loadout of the strike force although special weapons are regulated to one per squad and there is a vastly different organization. Not all facilities are secret, and thus the security forces can expect to deal with the occasional jumped up greedy noble paid mercenaries and cultist raids, although more rarely heretic astartes or xenos may try to claim the facility's possessions or research for their own. The strike force as a whole, while effective, is nonetheless not a proper army and is designed for surgical strikes and missions or defense of Inquisitorial assets. Any large scale engagement would be accompanied by requisitioned Guard elements, the Purple Communion, or space marine allies while the strike force focuses on critical zones where their expertise would offer the most help or where the Inquisitor's interests lie.
+As befitting a regiment of an Inquisitor, the Judgement has an extensive armory and possesses some of the best crafted items in the sector and the Judgement is rarely seen without a fleet of Taurox Primes, Valkyries, or Vendettas. Each vehicle is marked with their respective cohort and squad's letter and number (ex. Alpha Cohort First Squad's Taurox has a A and 1 on it). The force is split into two sections, the strike force (which is deployed on missions, accompanies the Lord Inquisitor and his subordinates in the field, and is the more elite and experienced section), and the security detachment (who guard the Inquisitor's outposts, facilities and ships). New recruits (after training) are sent to the security detachment until the unit's commanders believe them ready for more intense combat. Although they're expected to see less combat in their role, they share the loadout of the strike force although special weapons are regulated to one per squad and there is a vastly different organization. Not all facilities are secret, and thus the security forces can expect to deal with the occasional jumped up greedy noble paid mercenaries and cultist raids, although more rarely heretic astartes or xenos may try to claim the facility's possessions or research for their own. The strike force as a whole, while effective, is nonetheless not a proper army and is designed for surgical strikes and missions or defense of Inquisitorial assets. Any large scale engagement would be accompanied by requisitioned Guard elements, the Last Candle, or space marine allies while the strike force focuses on critical zones where their expertise would offer the most help or where the Inquisitor's interests lie.
 ==== Cohorts ====
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 ===== Beta Cohort =====
-Identified by their grey-white stripe and red symbol, Beta Cohort is led by Tempestor Prime Grundle Thackery and composed of Tempestus Scions.
+Identified by their grey-white stripe and red symbol, Beta Cohort is led by Tempestor Prime Grundle Thackery and composed of Tempestus Scions. Thackery has an obsessive interest in relic weaponry and has amassed quite the collection over his many years of service, including xenos weapons he keeps hidden in vaults for 'containment'. When the opportunity presents itself, he is not above deviating slightly to acquire more for his collection, and has occasionally granted one of his relics to a scion or stormtrooper that has impressed him.
 ===== Gamma Cohort =====
+Identified by their black stripe and white symbol, Gamma Cohort is led by Captain Elrec Sturn and composed of Stormtroopers. Sturn was hit by a malfunctioning flamer's flame in a prior battle and suffered effectively total loss of his face and portions of his frontal lobes, requiring him to permanently wear an integrated bionic facial mask. His unbridled fury has suited Gamma cohorts disposition well, and their reputation for brutality and collateral damage has only grown under his leadership. Although he may too trigger happy for Barborasa's liking, his tactical acumen is too critical to lose. A hobby he had before his accident, he has continued his collection of mounted heads of particularly nasty enemies he has bested in battle, but has expanded to mounting human heads as well to gloat over beating them, from traitor warband leaders to an Imperial noble who stood in his way, Sturn has amassed quite the showroom of heads and wounds.
+Cursed by a particularly nasty chaos cultist warlock at the culmination of a long campaign by a dark magic that resists Imperial science,  Sturn's many facial scars open up and begin to bleed when he is near psykers, friend or foe. While he doesn't actually seem to lose blood, the same pain is present causing him to abhor psykers even more than the average Inquisitor - making it incredibly difficult to work alongside Fubles. Although Barborasa and many of his subordinate Inquisitors have some psychic gift, they are of a skill level to neutralize the effect of their Prescence on Sturn, avoiding the animosity that plague all others. On the other end, as this is a warp based malady, nulls and blanks end the effect completely in his presence, as such (at Sturn's and Agrippa's request) the Lord Inquisitor has assigned one of his few blanks to accompany Sturn-although the blank is too valuable to risk in battle, they do allow Sturn some measure of normality outside of combat. Besides his lack of social grace, Sturn is also subject to the rumor mill that his excessive hate of his enemies, his extreme reaction to psykers, and his morbid collection of decapitated heads mean he is not as loyal as thought and may even be a follower of Khorne. Even though he has suffered through many trials and tests to confirm his loyalty, the rumor persists.
 ===== Delta Cohort =====
+Identified by their red stripe and black symbol, Delta Cohort is led by Tempestor Prime Mercurial Daerun.
+==== Barborasa's Naval Forces ====
+Barborasa's utilizes fleets of sleek destroyers and frigates, with a few light cruisers to augment his larger actions. Any larger scale naval engagement would be handled by a proper Battlefleet, but the Hammer of Judgement can protect its own during his missions and investigations.
+The Lord Inquisitor frequently requests dedicated armsmen for naval actions and investigations, and Battlefleet Eternum's Lord of Purgation's elite breacher teams, specifically 2nd Squad, 1st Platoon of the cruiser's breacher 2nd Company, "The Scuttlers"", named for their excellence in breaching difficult entries. As a boarding action or ship battle progresses, it is somewhat common for Inquisitorial armsmen to join the naval armsmen breacher squad once the initial action is complete and a foothold established. This serves a dual purpose, first to act as the primary Inquisitor's eyes in the field (although the armsmen do frequently work with the conclave, they do not have the training nor the same level of hands on experience with the inquisitor to focus on the more relevant parts of his missions and goals), and second to reinforce and add more firepower to the naval armsmen.
+Unfortunately, they are not quite as effective and lack the more specialized training and advanced equipment of the armsmen which regulates them to a more general close combat infantry role. Additionally, they lack the more sophisticated void armor of the navy and are instead equipped with more general hardened void suits from the conclave's armory. Although the conclave prefers trained naval breacher armsmen for ship actions and space hulk expeditions, they will make use of their own armsmen for longer campaigns or sensitive missions where the armsmen tactical naval skill doesn't outweigh the stormtrooper's training. Inquisitor Crucibald's strike destroyer The Symphony of Faith accompanies him during his investigations, and he often makes use of The Symphony's armsmen to supplement naval breachers. His most experienced armsmen squad, Skyer Squad, is a frequent site whenever he conducts void operations, and even sometimes on the ground or where stormtroopers are also being deployed, such is his trust in them.
+The Library of Judgment also makes use of armsmen to defend herself, but Barborasa is less likely to deploy them - both in preference of his stormtroopers who have more overall training, and due to the Judgement not having a large complement of armsmen (due to both secrecy and Barborasa's preference for servitors (regular and combat/murder servitors) and automated defenses. Still, the Judgement's armsmen squad the "Paragons" is occasionally called on to accompany the Inquisitor on void operations.
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