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...// Segmentum Ultima \\...
...// Planet Arterium \\...
-- Designation: Agri World
-- Hive Cities: 1 'Babellum'
-- Main Export: Sanguinalla Extract
-- Strategic Priority: Low
-- Status: Stable (Marked for Inquisitorial audit)


"It is easy to overlook such a quiet, beautiful world when rooting out corruption and heresy. To the untrained eye, a world such as Arterium plays no part in the greater schemes of the galaxy. Much to their surprise, these worlds are the most at risk of incursion from the alien, the mutant, and the heretic. While the rest of the galaxy turns a blind eye, I watch through a magnifying glass. These are the worlds that decide the fates of entire sectors. There is corruption here. I can smell its wretched stench hidden among the lovely flowers. I can taste it in the sweet air. It does not want to be found, but I will find it all the same."
Inquisitor Arthur Trask
Ordo Hereticus
991.M41

"Arbitrators! Atten-tion!

... Right, listen in, everyone. Some excitement just landed on our doorstep. I'm sure you're all tired of corralling the common rabble to and from the flower fields and arresting petty criminals. Seems our quiet little world is up for an audit by the Holy Inquisition, and the inquisitor, who should be planetside in a matter of weeks mind you, is requesting a local escort from Babellum's Adeptus Arbites. That's right, that means half a dozen of you get to tour an Inquisitor around and show him all the pretty sights. Arterium is peaceful enough, so I don't expect he'll come across any real issues. That said, in case something arises, I want you to report it back to me immediately so we can take care of the problem in house before things get too out of hand. I'll be passing down a list of names for the Inquisitor's escort party in a few hours.

Ahem... Arbitators! Dis-missed!"

Thaddeus Blesse
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991.M41




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Harstein Thrace

AGE - 29

GENDER
Male

RANK & ROLE
Rank: Regulator
Role: Planetary Enforcer

HOMEWORLD - Arterium
Few Arbites ever serve on their homeworld, with those that do being immensely privileged. Harstein Thrace is one such person, but not simply because of lucky, but because of station. As one of the few Sons of the Planetary Governor he was allowed to pick which field he wished to join much like his older brothers had been. Aside from the PDF or the Guard, or even one of the more Administrative positions he could have picked, he chose the Arbites.

Because he knew that is was something he could do to benefit his home, to help his people, and to show them that he and his family cared about them enough to fight for their safety at home. Many citizens extol the virtues of the Guard, yet forget the people who secure the peace at home and he would not be one of them. He would become one of his Divine Emperor's Enforcers of Law. He would uphold the word of law, under the gaze of the Emperor, and protect all citizens from those that would debase it. He would become the Law, and Judge those who dare think themselves above the Emperor's Judgement.

PERSONALITY
Harstein is an immensely devoted man, being the third son of the Governor he was guaranteed nothing in succession aside from wealth and safety. He needed for nothing, and nothing could be asked of him by others, and that sat ill with him. He watched as a young boy as the men and women of the Arbites fought the crime that had begun infesting the Hive City of his home. He saw the depravities of Babellum rising to the top, like sewage polluting the waters of a lake and it sickened him.

He watched as day by day, more and more of his home descended to anarchy and violence. How could we, as the Emperor's own people, allow this sort of injustice and disobedience to his Golden Eminence stand. It was then that Harstein promised to be hard, and uncompromising as the law dictated, as his Emperor would have done so himself. He would become the Hammer and Anvil upon which the Sinner and the Traitor would break, for what else could one be in defiance to the Sacred Law? As his Holiness Commands, Burn the Mutant, Kill the Alien, and Punish the Traitor. True Happiness stems from Duty, and there could be no greater Duty than Service to the Emperor's Imperium.

BACKGROUND

Harstein is the third son of the Planetary Governor of Arterium, with his older brothers serving their roles in the service of the Star System his family held stewardship over. He was slated for no defining role within the System that he could not find himself, and as his family has always believed, a Man can be worth nothing until he proves he is worth something. Each Son is required to serve the Imperium in some manner, be it Administratively or Militaristically, they must contribute to their chosen role.

His Eldest brother will become lord of Arterium and Master of the sector, and Harstein has no issue with that. His brother is talented and dedicated, and shall make an excellent heir for their father. Harstein however has always felt a strong sense of duty, even as a child. He watched the men and women in uniform, those Lawkeepers of the Imperium go about their hard duty with a sense of longing. He to wished to serve, to be a beacon of hope for another small child much like himself. To inspire and encourage one to service, and to one day prove to both his Father and his Great Emperor that he had not chosen poorly when the Thrace Family was put in charge of this world all those many centuries ago.

Harstein enjoys few vices, but he does enjoy drinks with those he would call friends as well as the sight of the Moonlight reflecting off the Sanguinalla flowers on the night of the full moon. The radiance they give in the sunlight is breathtaking yes, but the serenity of the Moonlight on the red petals drowns him in fields of silvery blood. He sometimes thinks he can see it, the great battle where the heroes of the Sanguine Hands fought to the last against the forces of the Great Traitor. He can hear the roar of battle, the sound of gunfire and even smell the fresh blood spilled in the name of the Emperor. The dreamy illusion shatters quickly enough though and he is filled with a sense of Duty Renewed each time.

EQUIPMENT
Synford Pattern Lockshield
Adeptus Arbites Carapace Armour
Power Maul
Vox Legi-Pattern Arbites Combat Shotgun
Takara Palatine Compact Laspistol

MISCELLANEOUS
Harstein is a simple man, and tends to be blunt. He will be straight forward with you and you can be assured that he does not lie, it is a trait he picked up from his position. He finds Lying, and those that do so to him, worth less than the air they just wasted. He does not give trust back to those who have broken his, and he will never trust a liar. He will forgive mistakes, but never an outright lie. He finds betrayal to be the most heinous of sins, but understands that there are some that do not do so purposely and he does differentiate. However he will not allow ignorance to pardon a crime, and will execute the law to the fullest based on the situation. He will simply not hate you for it as he would for those who do it despite knowing better.

He is single, and has not been slated by the Orders Famulous for a marriage yet. He has an immense respect and admiration for Sisters of Battle and Astartes, in particular any son of The Angel. He finds those men and women to be the height of service and duty, with their stalwart justice and faith being a shining example of what humanity can achieve with a sense of Duty and purity of purpose.
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Alarika Hreiff

AGE
29

GENDER
Female

RANK & ROLE
Arbites Chaplain

HOMEWORLD
She doesn't know, truth be told, where she was born. But she spent her adolescence and youth in the Schola Progenium on an orbital facility spinning around a quaint gas giant called Pericles III.

PERSONALITY
Alarika is a person of immense faith that lead her to be selected for work in the Ministorum whilst she was still within the Schola Progenium. She is always certain in the rightness of the Imperial cause, in the wisdom of the God Emperor, of his vision and of its future. But, she was born with a questioning nature, which while never applying to matters of the faith, applied to others and herself. Even when meeting or surpassing demanded standards, she is always questioning herself and striving to exorcise failings imagined and real alike. It is for this reason that she has somewhat of a mixed reputation among the Arbites that are her charge. Those that might appreciate the socratic method of sorts she applies to any spiritual and mental problems they might have in resolving their issues will speak of her as the greatest spiritual councillor they could have asked for. Yet those that might be too reclusive or untrusting for her constant prodding and inquests when speaking to them will oft be driven to speak poorly of her.

BACKGROUND
Though scrubbed from any record, Hreiff's parents were faithful servants to an Inquisitor until possession forced their termination. Not seeing possession as treachery for the will of the poor henchmen was irrelevant, the Inquisitor rewarded their service with the removal of their damnation and a secure position for their sole offspring.

Placed in a quiet little facility of the Schola Progenium, Alarika was given a rather typical experience. Different Drill Abbotts would temper each other's kindness and sternness respectively to similarly temper the pupils. After all had mastered the foundational knowledge and physical ability, Alarika found herself slowly losing friends and indeed people she considered siblings in the schola as one by one they were picked off for service in the various offices that were groomed for them from Administratum Clerks to Inquisitors to Tempestus Scions.

Yet as the herd ever thinned, she found herself quite fearful for the future seeing herself not having been selected for any career even as she turned into an adult. She was happy to take as many punches in the training cages as fellow orphans much larger than her, yet in the end always spilled many more confessions of suffered pain. She knew the arithmetic that might be demanded of a clerical role, but ultimately cared not for it in a manner that was a liability for such. Great was her faith, and indeed she was noted for almost ceaselessly asking questions oft to the annoyance of Drill Abbotts. This intersection of physical and mental aptitude almost marked her for an Inquisitorial role in her own right, but there was one thing that prevented such: doubt. Constant queries whether she had failed or not, uncertainty about her and her "siblings'" course ultimately crossed her out of a position in the Inquisition. It was thus that an unceremonious but still respectable one was seen to be a good fit: a Chaplain of the Arbites. Taking advantage of all her skills and to some degree weaponizing what many saw as failings made all including Hreiff herself agree this would be a good life for the woman.

Her first posting to a pleasure world was very, very brief. Not yet used to the etiquettes and other facts of life outside of the orphanage she had spent her life in, she ran her mouth far too much in a tale that had happened trillions of times in the Imperium and human civilization before it: annoyed superiors as a method of punishment transferred her to a backwater as a sort of banishment and exile.

Arriving on Arterium, Alarika truth be told had only inklings about why she was brought to the world, and perhaps for the better as she did not see the beautiful world of scarlet hues to be a punishment of any sort. Still she had gathered enough from her prior posting to exorcise a little more tact among fellow Arbites and thus - though still somewhat of an alien even among the many fellow offworlder Arbites - she has slowly started to call Arterium home.

EQUIPMENT
Ministorum jumpsuit (a modified take upon Priestly robes that could be sealed for the void), eviscerator, autogun, rosarius, psalter, dataslate.

MISCELLANEOUS
Injuries sustained largely in infancy have left her with non-negligible cybernetics. A large part of her vocal chords have been rendered inoperable and thus her speech is a strange assembly of natural and mechanical noises. Her right eye is synthetic as well. The pixellation and microsecond delay of the vision it feeds is a nuisance, but it can work as a light too.

Also looking through pinterest for "scarred woman" really didnt turn up a lot of good results :/
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Quick question - Are there any wargear/equipment that's not allowed? Nothing Astartes-Pattern I'm sure but I'm thinking about a Sniper Rifle/Long-Las
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Quick question - Are there any wargear/equipment that's not allowed? Nothing Astartes-Pattern I'm sure but I'm thinking about a Sniper Rifle/Long-Las


Log-Las would be fine! Makes sense for what is essentially the police to have snipers.
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ANNOUNCEMENT

So, for a bit of transparency for everyone. I am actively serving in the Canadian Army, and it sometimes likes to drop, very suddenly, tasks that take me away from home for extended periods of time. Unfortunately for this RP, I have just been informed today that I'll be deploying out to the field for a month-long training exercise in the first week of November, which means that I will not be able to support and run this RP while I am out there living in austere conditions.

So what does this mean?

I am placing this RP on indefinite hiatus until I manage to find the time to pick it back up again. Until today, I was totally of the mind that I was going to be home all the way to Christmas leave and well into the new year. Sorry for those who were really looking forward to this one. When I get home in early December, I'll send out a probe to everyone to see if we're all still willing to start this one up.
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Good luck with your service!
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Good luck with your service!


Thanks lol. I'm not the target training audience for this one. Myself and a handful of guys from my unit were picked to go be OpFor for the trainees. So we basically get to hunt them down and make their lives a living hell for the whole month.
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