Chapter 77: Gathering momentum, waiting to flourish
"Next, all members of the Tribunal will vote to determine the rotation order of each branch religious order; and internal members of the branch religious groups will vote in groups to determine the candidates for the representative seats..."
The voice of Rudolf Kangs, the high-ranking lord of the Holy Hammer Order, continued, and discussions on other matters in the venue also continued.
But the biggest change has been settled, and the members in the branch meeting who are only qualified to attend can’t wait to start their own discussions.
"Have you changed your mind?"
Branden, the senior judge of the Rebellion Order, asked his colleagues around him.
His red robe, which represents the Rebellion Order, is also embellished with the parish mark of the golden lily. It seems that this man has other complicated identities in his jurisdiction.
What he was asking about was a high-ranking judge who belonged to the Order of the Holy Hammer - High-ranking Judge Phaedrus of the Demonic Tribunal.
They belong to the same star sector and occasionally cross paths in their daily work. After more than a hundred years of getting along, they can also have limited communication with each other on some insensitive issues.
But today this issue is obviously too sensitive, so that the former is not ready to receive a precise response.
"Compared to what you said, I prefer to call it restoration."
Phaedrus responded cleanly and accurately, which was very consistent with his usual military style.
Unlike the Order of the Rebellion, which specializes in government affairs and religious theology, the Order of the Hammer, as the original order of the Tribunal, controls great military power.
As a position that has the opportunity to jointly fight with the Astartes and more violent organizations all year round, every high-level member who stands out from the low-level demon judges is full of martial virtue.
When the commander of any combat unit is killed in action, it is common for them to cross the border and act as temporary commanders.
Long-term military careers have made these judges stingy with words but good at practical work.
But this answer obviously cannot satisfy the curiosity of Branden and other colleagues around him:
The Gray Knights' takeover of the Holy Hammer Order is obviously not that simple, because this is a systemic problem.
Since they claim to take over the vacancies in high-level positions, the promotion of low-level mortals is bound to be affected;
Compared with this problem that can be delayed, another problem is even more urgent - what should people who have been promoted to high-level members do?
Phaedrus obviously also understands this problem. Before the official purge of the Holy Hammer Order, the Gray Knights had already put forward a relevant handling plan in internal discussions - a dual-track system.
In the next hundreds of years, retired members of the Gray Knights will gradually take over various positions in the Order of the Hammer.
Before being completely replaced, mortal judges still have a need to exist.
They will still complete training in the internal academy of the Inquisition and then go to various positions.
Considering that the casualty rate of this position is extremely high, most students will remain in the low-level member stage forever. (either killed in battle or missing.)
Only a few members can be promoted to the middle level, and the Gray Knights have enough ability to identify these middle levels.
After being identified, they will complete life extension surgery and genetic modification in the intermediate academy on Titan 2.
The best among them will be lucky enough to become the new Gray Knights, while the weaker ones will also have Astartes-like physical fitness.
This structure will be paralleled by a steady flow of personnel into the Gray Knights Chapter until all middle ranks have been replaced by retired members.
During this stage, the authority of senior members of the Tribunal will not change.
They will be responsible for the management authority of these middle-level personnel until they die or die in battle.
These complex system changes and personnel selection mechanism changes are too complicated and cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.
And Phaedrus himself had no intention of leaking it. He smiled slightly to deal with Branden's problem, and then continued to fall into his own thoughts:
The Gray Knights paid a huge price for this restructuring of the Holy Hammer.
It was the representatives of the Gray Knight Grand Master Council and the lobbying of the Inquisition Terra Council that led to this unprecedented meeting.
As a price for the Gray Knights Chapter to begin to dominate the Order of the Hammer, they transferred a full 4 permanent seats on the original council to the other two branches of the Inquisition dominated by mortals - the Order of Rebellion and the Order of Foreigners.<
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It was the formal transfer of these four permanent seats that allowed these two new religious orders to be officially confirmed in the Tribunal.
Yes, although these two orders have been established for more than a thousand years, they still have no formal status within the Inquisition.
There are only 12 recognized seats in the Original Council, and all of them are in the hands of the Order of the Holy Hammer.
Although this organization has not been officially operating for thousands of years due to various reasons, as long as there is no such seat for one day, the two large religious orders are legally at risk of being banned at any time.
This transfer of seats is a compromise by the Holy Hammer Order in exchange for the support of the majority of people in the Tribunal;
It is a reasonable transfer to adapt to the current environment of the empire, and has an official recognition of the remaining religious orders.
This is also a win-win attempt for all parties. In the future Inquisition, the Holy Hammer Order will still dominate with its four seats.
As long as they have the support of the other two seats, they still firmly hold an absolute majority.
The Gray Knights Chapter did not suffer a loss either. The absolute majority of 8 seats was meaningless within the Holy Hammer Order.
Excluding the four seats, their dominance within the Holy Hammer Order is still half.
And with the new recruits in place, the veterans began to turn within the Order, and their dominance over the Order will only become stronger, not weaker.
Even if we fight against the monastery and fight against foreign monasteries, we will not suffer any loss.
Although the income is not much, obtaining a formal seat is itself a kind of status recognition;
From today on, they will officially share weal and woe with the entire Tribunal, and no longer have an ambiguous existence.
They are no longer being purged in one fell swoop, completely negating the risks of the entire organization.
The remaining eleven small religious orders should be the biggest beneficiaries of this meeting.
In the process of this rights reorganization, they successfully laundered their rights and became a rights group officially recognized by the tribunal.
This means that their organizational program and spirit have been widely recognized by their internal colleagues, and they no longer have to secretly recruit new members like cultists.
(There are those who are recognized, and naturally there are those who are not. Those people are also within the scope of the initial notification of this meeting, but with the unprecedented unity of forces within the Tribunal, these people will probably never arrive in Thailand alive.
It’s a chance to pull.)
And in the subsequent work, they will not only be able to use the power of their own order.
Under certain conditions, the Inquisition's external public forces, such as the recruitment authority of the Astartes Chapter, will also be opened to them to a limited extent.
All of the above are conclusions drawn from Phaedrus’s vision and scheming as a high-ranking person in charge of life and death in several star regions;
But what he failed to see at a higher level was:
From today on, the situation where the tribunals are not unified and independent of each other will be gone forever;
In the context of the resumption of operation of the Supreme Primordial Council, the Inquisition, a behemoth that has penetrated into every corner of the empire, will truly reappear on the political stage of the empire as a whole.
And this happened to be another throne that was carefully prepared for Calvin by the veterans of the Gray Knight Grand Master Council, which was no less than the Primarch itself.