993.M42 [b]Primary Ecchlesiarcical Court[/b]- Palace of the High Prelate - Savaven [b]Accession 1322997[/b] - After Action Interrogation - Session 121 Convened under authority of Grand General Amadeo Priscus [b]Attendance:[/b] Ophelia Sands - Inquisitorial Legate, Prodogus Kamand - Interrogator, Mordin Riel - Interrogator, Bodkin Obain - Interrogator, Subject 122-K-A6 - Sanctioned Psyker [b]Subject:[/b] Emmaline Grimelhausen Teobaldina von Morganstern - Adept Delta, Accession above. Transcript begins. Obain: Miss von Morganstern, can you confirm for the court that you are connected to a A-26 Verity Assayer unit for the purposes of this interview. Subject: Yes. Obain: You realize the purpose of this unit is to determine via psychic and physiological traces that you are speaking the truth? Subject: Yes. Obain: Are you aware of anyway to defeat such an instrument. Subject: Yes. Obain: Are you employing such a technique? Subject: No. Obain: Would you tell us if you were? Subject: Yes. Remarks from Inquisitorial Legate removed from transcript Obain: Let us proceed. Members of the inquiry have reviewed your report on the destruction of the Even Chance and the events leading up to it. Is there anything in the reports that is counterfactual? Subject: No. Obain: Was anything omitted from the reports which would be of relevance to you personally or professionally? Subject: No. Obain: And you maintain that you have surrendered all materials and documents captured aboard the Even Chance? Subject: Yes. Mordin : Are you aware that your single word answers might be considered obstructive. Subject: Yes Interrogator. Obain: Are you pursuing an inappropriate relationship with Inquisitor Hadrian Drakos? Subject: No. Legate: Tell us again from the beginning how... ___ We spent nearly a year on Savaven. Most people assume the life of an Inquisitor is all running around purging heretics at the point of a bolt gun. That is part of it of course, more glamorous and terrifying than months spent working through documents, prosecuting lower level members of cults, evaluating institutions, and trying to repair the damage done by more kinetic investigations. There was a lot to do. Osteen Von Mandlebrot was installed as High Prelate and Hadrian began an exhaustive review of the Church Hierarchy. The Ecclesiarchy was reluctant to allow this and fought the process at every step short of violence. We were able to recover the scrolls of compulsion and against my advice Hadrian had them destroyed. The destruction the Even Chance had wrought in the orbital anchorage would take years to repair, though the new High Prelate promised that the cathedral city would rise higher and grander than ever it had before. The bodies of those killed in the holocaust were gathered and their bones laid in great ossuary temples. Von Mandlebrot declared them the Ten Thousand Matyrs and initiated a pilgrimage program across the subsector. Doubtlessly the people felt this to be spiritually uplifting rather than dismissing it as a cynical scheme to pay for reconstruction. Of Vorn's motives and purposes we found little. All records indicated he had been an exemplary Inquisitor, very highly regarded in certain circles. Every account of him we could find clashed violently with our own experience of his activity. A few months into our stay the Office of the Internal Prosecutions took over the case and sequestered everything we had gathered on him. I continued to pull at some of the threads but they seemed to have all been wound up. Needless to say Hadrian was suspicious but there seemed to be no avenues to continue the investigation. It sat very ill with me that despite everything so many questions remained. What had Vorn been trying to accomplish. How had he gotten in touch with the Traitor Legions? Why had they supported him? What role had the Aldarei warrior played in their scheme? All of these seemed destined to remain unanswered. I was interrogated several times about my role in the affair. I'm not sure whether this was a result of reports Hadrian had submitted, or merely the suspicion that Internal Prosecutions inevitably holds for the unsanctioned. I gave them nothing. It is possible they knew I was concealing information but they were unable to prove it. I began an extensive survey of the libraries of Savaven, mostly pious hagiography, though there were some excellent historical works also. I made certain to vary my searches to as not to present an obvious pattern to anyone who might be looking. It was something of a strain. Whenever an Inquisitor is revealed to have crossed a line it forces the Ordos to confront he ugly truth that those who fight Chaos are at the greatest risk of contamination by it. Internal Prosecutions had no reason to suspect Hadrian, he was a hero for exposing Vorn, but they did tend to try to bolt the door now that the grox had well and truly bolted. There was definite relief when in early 993, a few weeks after Candlemas, Hadrian declared that matters had been resolved to his satisfaction and all further work was to be devolved onto local Arbites and Ecclesiarical authority. After nearly three years chasing Vorn, we were going home.