Inquisitor Alexius stood back, watching the others who had followed in their fleets enter and watch the Emperor lay out the transmission and his thoughts on the matter. He silently steepled his fingers and paced over to the window to peer out at the embattled Forge-World. After arranging his thoughts and seeing that Amastov had finished reading the data slate Lord Corbec had handed him, he gave his views on the matter.

"[color=00a651]The Magos Dominus must think we're fools, or his age and augmentations have removed something of his practical senses if he thinks only ten armed men are an adequate escort for an Emperor in the heart of a Forge-Moon, no disrespect to the abilities of our forces, but not even the best tactician among us would disagree that serving up the majority of our commanders and leaders up, basically on a platter just begging for us to be taken captive is a ridiculous notion. 

He desires leverage, assurances that we are not here to harm him and his machines, but most of all that we're not here to take the power and authority he and his people have away. If he cannot obtain it through negotiation, he will obtain it with hostages.

I do not believe it wise to have the Emperor himself at risk to becoming a hostage, unless his Imperial Majesty is adamant about going. But I wouldn't, not until our forces have established a beach head and would be ready to move in the event of treachery. Last I checked, his forces were the ones on the verge of losing their world, we come to assist them, if they did not see that by the fact we haven't already begun bombarding the Moon and blew their attackers' fleet into scrap, then something must be up with their logic engines.

Just my thoughts on the matter, in any case I volunteer to be the fifth candidate, since they made no mention of a representative of the Imperial Inquisition among the delegation.[/color]"