Since its establishment, the Inquisition has built a large number of secret strongholds in many worlds of the Empire. Some are prisons containing mysterious technology, just to imprison some extremely powerful and dangerous beings, and some contain powerful seals, just to seal them away.
Some of the terrifying subspace creations and demonic instruments are libraries buried deep underground, used to hide the history and past that cannot be mentioned unless absolutely necessary, and some are simply bases of operations to protect people from danger.
Inquisitors of regional activities provide a place for repair and communication with each other.
But without exception, there are very few strongholds that provide operational assistance to the three branches of the Inquisition at the same time. Because of the mutual estrangement and hostility, it is difficult for Inquisitors from different factions to work together in one place.
The same is true for this secret shelter underground in Serenity 2. It has existed for more than ten centuries since it was built. It was originally used as a secret archives and library to preserve the information about the maelstrom collected over the years.
There is a lot of information, intelligence, and even ancient legends about this mysterious area.
But as time goes by, its original function is gradually forgotten, just like it is buried in the basement of a huge library with countless books and documents.
After the Age of Apostasy, it was renamed the Eye of Endymion and became known as the stronghold of the Order of the Hammer. There's a reason for this - after all, it's right next to the center of the Maelstrom, which means if anything comes from the Maelstrom,
The trial center will become an early warning post.
It has been used as a military base for the Gray Knights more than once and as an outpost to launch attacks on Chaos. When the Huron Rebellion broke out in the Badab War, it also became a very critical forward stronghold of the Inquisition and received great support.
However, its ownership also triggered a turmoil within the Inquisition, because the Order of the Foreigners claimed that the sanctuary was first established by them, but it was stolen by the Order of the Holy Hammer and demanded its return, while the Holy Hammer Order
The Hammer Order refuted that what they originally got was a ruined archive and there was no stronghold at all. It was the Foreign Order that abandoned it.
After a lot of talk, this problem has not been resolved. It is now managed by a more neutral sect, but the Inquisitors rarely come here unless necessary, because several Inquisition factions have broken out several times of bloodshed around this place.
conflict.
But today, a large number of judges from different sects have gathered here.
It was unusual for members of so many different factions of the Inquisition to be in the same place, and Marcus could hardly imagine them sitting in the same room.
Because of this, managers also dispatch a special team of attendants to prepare for the meeting before it begins.
After the busy squad of cleansing servants left, a group of cloaked psykers were dispatched around the hall, where they knelt and began to chant a continuous prayer of purification.
Within minutes, the hall was filled with the loud, harsh voices of psykers and the thick, soothing smoke of incense.
There are three huge arches in the hall. The huge arches cut into the steel structure on each side of the triangular hall. On the stone in the center of each arch is carved the symbol of a branch of the Imperial Tribunal. The carving is tiny and fine.
It is almost undetectable to onlookers.
In the center of the domed ceiling of the triangular hall, there is a huge relief sculpture of the Imperial Tribunal logo, which occupies the entire roof of the room. Outside the arch, there are three antechambers with the same structure, and there are three identical doors at the entrance.
At the same moment, the three entrances opened at the same time, and the inquisitor's followers walked into the front hall in small steps, taking a stand around the circular wall and ensuring the safety of the internal space.
In principle, only the Inquisitors themselves can enter the main hall through the arch, and their entourage must wait in the antechamber. However, anyone who has been cheating on each other in the Inquisition for decades will not be naive enough not to first prepare for every possible contingency.
They all made plans and appeared in front of the other servants of the Emperor.
This triangular room is the most common hall structure in the Tribunal, and is modeled after the Holy Hall of the Tribunal in Terra's headquarters, because it provides exactly equal space and location for each branch, making it a flexible building.
It is a masterpiece, and the exquisite arch is covered with various alarm devices and sensors known to the empire, all disguised as decorations or tributes to pay tribute to the adults who may pass through it.
Readings from various sensors can be read from monitors in the three antechambers - thus, each Inquisitor's followers can keep tabs on the others.
The only problem with this design is timing: if any minion enters before the others, a stealthy and lightweight Assassin or Death Cult could theoretically slip through the arch and hide himself in the main hall, while
Other people's followers cannot be seen from the monitor.
Therefore, according to the past practice of joint meetings of the Tribunal, all entourages must enter the front hall at the same time, thus solving this problem together. If the practice is broken, the party whose interests are harmed will have indisputable reasons to cancel the meeting.
The psykers on both sides of the main hall were specially selected and each underwent a cycle of malicious hypnosis. Their thoughts were carefully selected by interrogators and observers in an effort to maintain the psionic powers of the psykers.
Still powerful, but their creativity and urge to use psychic powers have been eradicated.
When they were allowed into the conference hall, they were nothing more than humble spiritual servants, creating a continuous atmosphere of purity and calm, effectively blocking the powerful psychic power of some Inquisitors.
Inquisitor Marcus stood at the door of the circular antechamber of the Rebellion Order, watching his pitifully few followers spread out against the wall with skilled efficiency, while the other Inquisitors' followers kept looking at them with distrust.
Watching them, they were twenty or thirty meters apart.
Marcus shook his head slightly frustrated, once again disappointed by the apparent distrust between his colleagues.
The Inquisition was a large and complex institution, and it was certainly not monolithic, but it saddened him that even on such occasions there was such strong distrust among the Emperor's agents.
After gathering himself, he strode through the arch, not paying attention to the beeping and flashing alarm device on the wall.
Alarms and sensors are really pointless: if the alarm goes off, the threat is too cumbersome to worry about, and if the alarm doesn't go off, it's all over.
For a moment, he wondered whether his colleagues from the Order of the Foreign and the Order of the Hammer were actually reassured by the presence of the alarm system.
He suspected they didn't. This chapter has been completed!