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The Inquisition

According to several changes the story will be mostly rewritten. Please be patient.

Background:
The Inquisition was formed after the nomad wars began in the year 800. The rich businessman Wilhelm von Hasburg, the owner of a prosperous trading company in rheinland was the founder of the organisation.

The war against the nomads spread across the Sirius sector and did not spare rheinland. One of the first waves hit the Munich system, which was the headquarter of the Hasburg trading company. At this time Wilhelm was on his way to the capitol in New Berlin to a meeting with the heads of the other rheinland organisations to support the government against the alien aggressors.

The nomad ships came out of nowhere and attacked the Hasburg outpost near planet Nuernberg. The station had only little defences and was damaged very badly. More than 400 people were killed during the attack on the outpost. The aliens were finally defeated by the rheinland military forces and driven back into the Sigmar 17 system.

The search for survivors began immediately and Wilhelm von Hasburg was informed about the tragedy. The investigation teams boarded the remains of the station and searched everywhere but no life signs where found. While recovering the data of the stations main servers by an investigation team it was noticed that a few survivors had left the station with the escape pods and tried to reach planet Nuernberg. Wilhelms wife and his two children were among them. Wilhelm had hope to see them again and headed back to the Munich system as fast as possible.

As he reached the near orbit around planet Nuernberg he saw his destroyed station drifting in space, he started to cry. All this good humans died and didnt stand a chance against the alien invaders. Wilhelm was desperate and ordered his captain to land on Nuernberg at once to search for his family. The armoured transport entered the atmosphere of the planet and set down on the landing beacon. Wilhelm searched for the survivors in the emergency camp on the spaceport. There were only very few people there. He could not find his wife and kids. He asked one of the officers were they could be found. The officer told him that this few people are the only ones who reached the planets surface. There were rumours that the other escape pods where taken by the alien aggressors.

As he heard that Wilhelms heart broke

For half a year Wilhelm lived reclusive in his mansion on planet Nuernberg. The thought that his family was in the claws of the nomad aggressors drove him mad. He had to do something about it, he had to get clearness of the fate of his family. Still one of the wealthiest men in rheinland he contacted the Order. He received information that they were specialist and fought the nomads with relentless force. Some of the Order leaders invited Wilhelm to a secret meeting in the outer border worlds.

At this time Wilhelm declared the destruction of the nomad life form to meaning of his life

Wilhelm presented the leaders of the Order a concept to destroy all alien life forms in the rheinland territory. The Order agreed with his plan, they needed all the help they could get at this time. Wilhelm returned to planet Nuernberg and began to set up an organisation codename Inquisition. His mansion there for was converted into a headquarter with long range scanners and an interstellar communication array. He contacted his former employees which survived the attack, also the families of the victims who died on Hasberg outpost. He offered them a chance for revenge, a chance to pay back all the pain they had suffered. Most of them agreed and joined Wilhelm in his quest. These were the first members of the Inquisition.

On a second meeting with the Order, Wilhelm was granted to purchase a light carrier which should be the base of the Inquisitions operations from now on. The members of the Inquisition went aboard the carrier. There were freighter pilots and technicians, medical personal and communication engineers. They were taught by the Order how to use and control the ship. After the training, the ship left of the Order system and returned to Munich. Wilhelm decided to name it after an ancient code used by the witch hunters in middle ages. It was named Hexenhammer.

The Hexenhammer reached its position in Munich far away from the civil trade lanes. The MND knew about the organisation and had concerns if it could be a threat to the local authorities. Wilhelm organised a meeting with the heads of the rheinland government. He explained the intensions of the Inquisition to them and insured them that the only goal was to destroy the nomad threat once and for all. The meeting brought no real result, the Inquisition was treated as a neutral organisation for now.

Just after Wilhelm von Hasberg returned to the Hexenhammer the nomad attack on mankind was defeated by the Order. But Wilhelm knew that it was only the victory of one battle, the war was just about to start. In the following years Wilhelm lead several explorations deep into the galaxy in order to find out what happened to the missing survivors. Unfortunately the missions brought no result, Wilhelm grew more and more mad every day. The crew of the Hexenhammer had several contacts with nomads on their missions. The Geb turned out to be a capable fortress for the Inquisition. It withstood the attacks and was able to erase the attacking nomads with superior firepower.

After five years of search without result the Hexenhammer set course back home to the Munich system. After hearing of a raising count of nomad sightings there he decided to protect rheinland for the next time. But Wilhelm could not protect every corner with the Hexenhammer, so he had to get new ships and personal. He reopened the headquarters on Nuernberg again and searched for new members. Wilhelm did not care about the origin of the applicants. They all came for one reason, revenge for the loss of their loved humans which lives were taken by the nomads.

After the reopening a flood of applications came in. Wilhelm was stunned about all these men willing to join his quest. Wilhelm purchased some more ships of the smaller classes from the order to suit his men. Outfitted with new ships and men he expanded his organisation more and more. Also a research wing was formed, a more civil part of the Inquisition that would collect more information of the nomads and their helpers.

In 816 the rheinland government discovered a connection between the liberty house and the nomads. There was evidence that the libertonians experimented with the aliens. The Inquisition took their consequences and declared the liberty government to an enemy. At this point Wilhelm had made the Inquisition to a tightly organised group with churchly marks. Their members were focused on the goal to destroy the alien once and for all times.


Ranks:

Main fleet:

Gross-Inquisitor
Currently the Gross-Inquisitor is represented by Wilhelm von Hasburg commander of the -][-Hexenhammer. He is leading the inquisition. He is supported by several Inquisitors who lead the missions in the field. Currently he is away with his falgship to search for his lost family.
Inquisitor
Currently there are three Inquisitors which serve in the Inquisition. Inquisitor Heinrich Kramer, Inquisitor ArChanum and Inquisitor Konrad von Marburg. Heinrich Kramer is the substitute for Wilhelm von Hasburg while he is on his mission in the unknown parts of the galaxy.
Patriarch
These ranks can be seen as teamleaders to the Kleriker. They boost their moral while facing the enemy in the field.
Kleriker
The rank of of the Kleriker are the most seen ranks in the Inquisition. These brave man serve with endless effort to errase the alien threat form historys books.
Novize
The recruits of the Inquisition are named Novize, they signed up latly and are eager to prove their worth to the faction.

Research wing:

Most research vessels are manned with a doctor which leads the investigations of the vessels. Also some assitants are on board the ships to support the doctors in their missions.


Ship list:
The inquisition is using multiple ship types, one half are ships from the order and the other half are ships from the border world series. According to your rank in the inquisition church you are allowed to fly one of these vessels (required rank in brackets behind the ship).

Main fleet:

The main fleets ships are under discussion and maybe change

Order light carrier Geb (Gross-Inquisitor) || currently far away to search for Wilhelms family ||
Order Reconnaissance Cruiser "Resheph" (Inquisitor)
Order Gunboat "Hathor" (Patriarch)
019A Order Bomber "Sekhmet" (Kleriker)
042A Order Very Heavy Fighter "Bastet" (Kleriker/Novize)
015A Order Very Heavy Fighter "Nephthys" (Kleriker/Novize)

The higher ranked members of the inquisition can freely choose to fly ships of the lower ranks.

Research wing:

All vessels which are named in the researcher id are available. Notice that when the kusari explorer is used it may not have gunboatturrets.

Equipment:
Inquisition ships weaponry:
All plasma beam weapons
All non beam weapons can be used freely
Codename weapons which are allowed:
-Ironhammer
(No nomad equipment is allowed!)

All ships carrying nomad equipment, artefacts, liquid cardamine, nomad remains are treats as contaminated and will be shot.

Naming Conventions:
All ships of the inquisitorial fleet (the main fleet and the research wing) are tagged with the -][- Symbol. The ships must get their own name, dont name them after the person who is flying it.

Main fleet:
Vessels of the main fleet (such as the fighters, gunboats etc.) shall be named in an archaic way which reminds the reader of the inquisition theme. They have Order Guard ID but no tag (no tag at all).
Examples for the naming of main fleet vessels:
-][-Hexenfeuer
-][-Scheiterhaufen
-][-Folterqual
(Please contact the high inquisitor to take a lot at the name before naming a character)

Research wing:
The naming for the research wing is mostly free, it recommended to use a less aggressive name for this ships. They have a Researcher ID without any tag.
Examples for the naming of the research wing vessels:
-][-Yomadansen
-][-Yoshimitsu
-][-Zoamelgustar
(Please contact the high inquisitor to take a lot at the name before naming a character)

Headquarters:
Munich system
Eltmann outpost

Diplomatic Relationships:
||||||||| ||||||||| Order
||||||||| ||||||||| Bundschuh
||||||||| ||||||||| Hogosha
||||||||| ||||||||| Corsairs
||||||||| ||||||||| Hessians
||||||||| ||||||||| Unioners
||||||||| ||||||||| LWB
||||||||| ||||||||| everybody else (GMG, BHG, Zoner)
||||||||| ||||||||| Rheinland civil factions
||||||||| ||||||||| Rheinland authorities
||||||||| ||||||||| House Liberty
||||||||| ||||||||| Outcast
||||||||| ||||||||| Das Wilde
||||||||| ||||||||| Nomads

Every vessel that assists a nomad, das wilde or a ship carrying items listed in the equipment point will be treated as hostile.

How to join the Inquisition?
At the moment the Inquisition is not recruiting.

Current members:
3

Inquisitor chars:

-][-Hexenhammer (main fleet)
-][-Hexenfeuer (main fleet)
-][-Folterqual (main fleet)
-][-Fegefeuer (main fleet)
-][-Yomadansen (research wing)
-][-Yoshimitsu (research wing)
-][-Zoamelgustar (research wing)