Eternum Conclave Sector Headquarters

Overview

Located in the Excrutio system and Headquarters of the Eternum Inquisitorial Conclave guarded by the Inquisitorial fortress Sepulcher, Eternum's Conclave was officially convened millenia ago in a former Naval headquarters, created to safeguard Eternum and the greater Segmentum Tempestus from the threat of the Bubonic rift.

Operations and History

Access to this Headquarters is strictly regulated, with the elaborate security of the Sepulchur protecting the countless secrets kept within it and Remiticulum. Over the millenia, the headquarters has been shaped through expansion to resemble a 5 pointed star, each wing representing either the Ordo Malleus (smallest), Ordo Xenos (second smallest), the collected Ordo Minoris (third smallest), the Ordo Hereticus (second largest), and the largest wing holding the assorted soldiers and adepts seconded to the Inquisition. The Conclave strategizes among their peers here, and monitors the situation in Eternum at large while also collaborating (sometimes at least) in researching closing the Bubonic Rift.

While its general area is listed on Imperial maps as a reminder of the power of the Inquisition, warp routes to headquarters are forbidden knowledge for those without Inquisitorial authorization, and there are no visitors save other Inquisitorial elements or incredibly rare and closely monitored invitations of the absolute elite of the sector, like those amongst the Crimson Bulwark. For anyone else who is not affiliated with the Inquisition, being brought to Conclave Headquarters either means they've been forcibly recruited from their previous life, or they about to undergo brutally efficient torture designed to rip as much information as possible out. No prisoners ever leave this system, with their fate set as either execution, or for those whose crimes are not severe and who show a possibility of repentance (like guardsmen or servants who were tricked into serving the aims of a traitor), they will spend the rest of their lives either as indentured prisoners assisting Remiticulum's archivist adepts (with processing the world's work, archiving data, or forming Archival Custodian Squads to hunt down more dangerous records that got loose) - rarely being formed into Inquisitorial penal squads, both as a cheap way for Inquisitors to garner political favors with sector Militarum command, and for a readily and easily disposable force when extra bodies are needed.