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Fabrication Adept
Career: Tech Priest
Home World: Forge World
Cost: 100xp
The vast forges of the Mechanicum produce everything, from ancient archeotech designs to simple utilitarian products. The work done by servitors and helots makes it possible to keep the production lines working and the goods going from one workstation to another, but above them stand their Mechanicus overlords, the fabrication adepts which oversee every moment of the holy creation process. Theirs is the duty to know every litany sung during the moulding of the carapace breastplates, every prayer uttered when assembling a holopict-recorder and every ritual used to install an engine in a Chimera APC. It is a sacred duty and they almost never leave their assigned posts, mastering their knowledge about the holy and blessed gifts of the Omnissiah.
Most Inquisitors ignore the fabricators while searching for adepts among the Mechanicum, after all they are rarely able to fight effectively and their zealous pursuit of creation rarely brings anything to a acolyte cell (save for some new equipment). But from time to time an Inquisitor needs someone with the knowledge of creation that surpasses the normal Tech-Priest, someone who knows every step and every move by rote and repetition.
This is when a fabricator shines above all, as he explains little details that others would find incomprehensible.
Characteristics: WS -5, BS -5
Skills: Trade (Wright), Trade (Armourer), Common Lore (Tech), Common Lore (Machine Cult), Forbidden Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus), Scholastic Lore (Chymistry), Secret Tongue (Tech) +10
Lechistani Regiment
Career: Guardsman
Home World: Imperial World
Cost: 200xp
The Lechistani regiments are renowned in the Segmentum Obscurus for their highly mobile approach to warfare. Many of their units consist of joint mechanized infantry units and rough riders. This allows them to outflank their opponents and defeat foes that would otherwise crush the lightly armored Lechistani Guardsmen. Often the last thing the enemy will see is the characteristic brown of the
Lechistani uniforms coming at him from every direction.
As with every other IG regiment the Inquisition is always interested in able soldiers to serve as the martial component of an acolyte cell. The Lechistani talent for mobility, makes them a bit more likely to be chosen by inquisitors looking to assemble a cell bound for a long range mission, requiring the very skill all Lechistani guardsmen have.
Characteristics: Increase Ag +5
Skills: Wrangling
Equipment: Exchange the Sword for a Sabre (IH98).
Glitter Gang Enforcer
Career: Scum
Home World: Hive
Cost: 100xp
The Tephaine hives, bathed in deep darkness and bright light are renowned as a place for people looking for gemstones in their crude and worked state. Millions of skilled workers work with those precious stones to provide decorations for the Ministorum Cathedrals and Administratum Offices, for the needs of the wealthy few. But every hive society has it’s dark side. On tephaine it’s the Glitter Gangs, brutal thugs apt in stealing and smuggling gemstones for all those who desire them. Many a craftsman is forced to pay protection money to the cruel gang Enforcers who know no mercy and no emotion save greed. They are not above beating a worker to death if he dares to defy them. To distinguish themselves from the masses the enforcers wear Glittervests, made out of durable cloth and many small gemstones that catch and reflect light even in the depths of the underhive.
The inquisition rarely bothers with criminal scum, but among the dirty and downtrodden mass of opportunists the enforcers stand out. Brutal and merciless they often prove a to be a blessing to cells sent into the deepest pits where only the strong survive. With their talents they can turn the tables on those who can think that others are easily frightened and cowed.
Skills: Intimidate
Talents: Jaded, Street Fighting
Corruption points: You begin the game with 1d5 corruption points.
Equipment: Gain a common quality Glittervest.
Glittervest Wt: 0,5 Cost: 15 Thrones Availability: Scarce on Tephaine/Very Rare elsewhere