[Bullshit Detector] Alright, so here's the thing: this is a show, [i]but you're not the audience.[/i]

So who is it a show for?

It's the servo-skull that tips you off - the subtle one, hovering back and behind you, in the corner above the doorway. You only know to look, Ramona, because you know full well that's where the really good killers and spies tend to hide. And you also know what that =I= means - and who it's likely in service to. Only one name fits the profile: Inquisitor Perrier.

There are Inquisitors in the sector who are subtle creatures, manipulating networks of shadowy agents and severing Heresy with isolated bolt rounds in the dark. And then there is Inquisitor Perrier, the kind of Inquisitor who earned her Rosette by leading the planetary invasion that recaptured it from the hands of the Archenemy. An officer of the Guard, a battle pilgrim of the Ecclesiarchy, and an absolute lunatic by all accounts, Perrier is one of the few figures of importance in the sector who would look at this robotic torture display and think 'Very good, carry on'.

That's the bullshit. Passivity-SEA does not believe in this Ministorum torture ceremony and is happy to put on a show to impress the Inquisitor when she arrives. But the sincerity? Well, you don't become personal friends with an Inquisitor like Perrier without being a doctrinaire asshole yourself. Passivity is [i]dead [/i]serious when she says she hated Archmagos Toros, she genuinely believes her accusations of tech-heresy, and she's intent on calling Inquisitor Perrier into this situation because she believes that the purity of faith will spare her the coming conflagration. She's dialed into the Ministorum dialect like it's a second language and you can see her cogitators glowing golden whenever she needs to cite the appropriate scripture.

Maybe she did it, and this is her way to cover her tracks and finish the job. Maybe she didn't do it and this is how she's looking to deflect suspicion from her apparently very public feud with the Archmagos. You can't tell from this alone, but she sure as shit has a clear idea of how things are going to go down next. 

It goes without saying that Inquisitor Perrier carrying out a purge of the Isohedron would be a catastrophic failure as far as the Dynasty is concerned.

*

"Precision is one of the gifts of the Omnissiah," said Passivity-SEA with total sincerity. "And luck is how the credulous misinterpret the Emperor's miracles." That part was bullshit. "Perhaps one of the Archmagos' own Skitarii guards decided to execute her for her crimes, and the Master of Mankind guided their shot. Thought For The Day: Question Not How His Will Is Done, Only That It Is Done."

To Virgid, "I shall not speak of the horrors contained within those profaned devices," and she's serious about that. She considers the information somewhere between offensive and dangerous -

[Cop Talk] Oh, but she got that rant in her, aye? She's got that [i]sermon [/i]brewing, can't you just feel it? You don't get that out of her by asking, you get that out of her by spittin' on the same ghost she's spittin' on. Kindred spirits in hate and that. [One point spend of Cop Talk to get her to talk about what she saw there]

"As to their absence, I read the Skitarii Marshal's report over the noosphere," said Passivity-SEA. "There is a full quarantine and search of this facility to find the devices being conducted by the Tech Guard. I, of course, will fully co-operate with their investigation. I have nothing to hide."