Chapter 210: Gathering Strength and Waiting for the Outbreak

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

The voice of Rudolf Cons, the High Lord Inquisitor of the Holy Hammer Order, continued, and the discussion about other contents in the venue continued.

But the biggest change has been settled, and the members who only have the right to attend the branch venue can't wait to start their own discussions.

"What has changed for you?"

The High Inquisitor of the Rebellion Order Brandon asked his colleagues around him.

His red robe representing the Rebellion Order was also decorated with the parish mark of the golden lily. I think this person has other complicated identities in his jurisdiction.

He asked a high-level inquisitor who belonged to the Holy Hammer Order beside him - the High Inquisitor of the Demon Tribunal Fedros.

They belonged to the same star zone and occasionally had intersections in their daily work. After more than a hundred years of getting along, they could also communicate with each other on some insensitive issues.

But today's question was obviously too sensitive, so the former was not prepared to get a definite response.

"Compared to what you said, I prefer to call it restoration."

Feidros responded cleanly and accurately, which was very consistent with his usual military style.

Unlike the Rebellion Order's expertise in government affairs and religious theology, the Holy Hammer Order, as the original order of the Inquisition, has great military power.

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

In the case of the death of all combat unit leaders, it is common for them to cross the line and temporarily serve as commanders.

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

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

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

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

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

Feidros obviously also understands this problem. Before the official purge of the Holy Hammer Order, the Grey Knights had already given a relevant solution plan in internal discussions-a dual-track system.

In the next few hundred years, retired members of the Grey Knights will gradually take over various positions in the Holy Hammer Order.

And before they are completely replaced, mortal inquisitors still need to exist.

They will still complete training in the internal academy of the Tribunal and then go to various positions.

Considering the extremely high casualty rate of this position, most students will remain at the stage of low-level members forever. (Either die in battle or go missing.)

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

After being identified, they will complete life extension surgery and genetic modification in the intermediate academy of Titan II.

The best among them will be lucky enough to become new Grey Knights, while the lesser ones will also have the physical qualities of Astartes.

This structure will run parallel to the stable personnel supply of the Grey Knights Chapter until all the middle-level members are replaced by retired members.

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

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

These complex changes in the system and personnel selection mechanism are too complicated to be explained in one or two sentences.

And Fedros himself did not want to disclose it. He smiled slightly and dealt with Brandon's question, and then continued to fall into his own thoughts:

The Grey Knights paid a huge price for the reform of the Holy Hammer this time.

It was the representatives of the Grey Knights Grand Master Council who, under the lobbying of the Inquisition Terra Council, held this unprecedented meeting.

As the price for the Grey Knights Chapter to begin to dominate the Holy Hammer Order, they handed over a full four permanent seats of the Original Council to the other two branches of the Inquisition dominated by mortals - the Order of the Rebellion and the Order of the Foreigner.

It was the formal transfer of these four permanent seats that allowed the two new 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 official status in the Inquisition.

There are only 12 seats in the recognized original parliament, and all of them are in the hands of the Holy Hammer Order.

Although this institution has not been officially operated for thousands of years for various reasons, as long as there is no seat, the two large orders are at risk of being banned at any time in legal terms.

This seat transfer is a compromise of the Holy Hammer Order in exchange for the support of the majority in the Inquisition;

It is also a reasonable concession to adapt to the current environment of the empire and to officially recognize the remaining orders.

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

As long as there are two other seats to support them, they will still firmly hold the absolute majority.

The Grey Knights did not suffer any loss either, and the absolute majority of 8 seats is meaningless in the Holy Hammer Order.

Even if four seats are removed, their dominance within the Order of the Holy Hammer is still half.

And with the arrival of new soldiers, the veterans began to turn to the inner part of the order, and their dominance over the order would only become stronger, not weaker.

The order that fights rebellion and the order that resists foreign invasions did not suffer any loss.

Although the gains were not much, the acquisition of a formal seat itself was a recognition of status;

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

They no longer have the risk of being purged overnight and completely denying the existence of the entire organization.

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

They successfully cleaned themselves up in the process of this power reorganization and became the power organization officially recognized by the Tribunal.

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

(There are those who are recognized, and there are those who are not recognized. Those people were also within the scope of the initial notification of this meeting, but with the unprecedented unity of the internal forces of the Tribunal, these people will probably never have the opportunity to arrive at Terra alive.)

And in the subsequent work, they can not only use the power of their own order.

Under the conditions that meet the requirements, the public power of the Inquisition, such as the right to recruit the Astartes, will also be open to them to a limited extent.

All of the above are the conclusions drawn by Fedros as a high-ranking person who holds the power of life and death in several star regions with his vision and strategy;

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

From today on, the situation of the Inquisition being independent of each other and a mess will never return;

Against the background of the resumption of the operation of the Supreme Primordial Council, the Inquisition, a behemoth that has penetrated every corner of the Empire, will truly reappear on the political stage of the Empire as a whole.

And this is exactly the other throne that the veterans of the Grey Knights Grand Master Council have carefully prepared for Calvin, which is no less than the Primarch himself.

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