Chapter 280: Uncontrolled Power
It is well known that the Inquisition's authority is above all imperial institutions, and they are accountable to the Emperor and the Son in the past.
Theoretically, a single Inquisitor has the right to accuse the entire planetary government and to requisition an entire Astral Army to influence the fate of all civilians on a given planet.
On a practical level, however, this is often difficult to do.
Relationships between different institutions are often full of gunpowder and conflict, and even within the same institution, civil wars may even break out for power, such as the territorial disputes between planetary governors, and this kind of political conflict cannot be avoided even by the Inquisition.
While this rarely happens after Sivir takes control of the Empire and takes control of the Inquisition, it can sometimes be a hassle for an Inquisitor to enforce his rights.
For example, when an Inquisitor acts against a very influential heresy, the conflict is exacerbated by the incident and he becomes the target of the opposite attack.
Or the Inquisitor who cleanses a planet without the consent of his colleagues, only to find himself ostracized by everyone and unable to get help from his colleagues when they need it.
These millions of practical factors limit the judges from exercising those legal powers in practice.
However, the fact that the inquisitors are extremely high does not change from this.
It can even be said that nominally, apart from the emperor, within the empire only the inquisitors can deal with the inquisitors.
As for the others, not enough.
Again, the Inquisitors are accountable only to the Emperor.
Although the Council of High Lords used to nominally run the empire on behalf of the emperor, they rarely interfered in the affairs of the Inquisitors, who were usually handled within the Inquisition.
However, there is no strict hierarchy or formal structure within the courtroom, and each judge is essentially equal. As a result, much of the work within the Court is dependent on committees or peer organizations.
For traitors, heretics, and radicals, the Inquisition Tribunal also relied on secret meetings to deal with them privately, and the process began with impeachment, and the trial of colleagues led to acquittal, expulsion, or execution.
But there are still a lot of problems here.
First of all, there are many branches and factions within the Inquisition, and their ideas are very different.
Inquisition branches such as the Demon Inquisition, the Alien Inquisition, the Inquisition of Heresy, and many smaller Inquisitions, some of which may or may not be part of any of them.
There are two main factions within the Imperial Inquisition: purism and radicalism.
Ideological sects have nothing to do with subordinate orders, and the members of the Purity Demon Inquisition are just as responsible for fighting demons as the radical Demon Inquisition, except that while the radicals may use demons against demons, the purity may only use a pure hammer.
So, what some judges consider innocent, others may consider intolerable sins. Even if they work under the same trial court branch.
Secondly, as said before, every judge is essentially equal, and if you impeach me, then I will impeach you too! You think I'm a heretic, and I think you're a traitor.
Because of their broad powers and loose organization, the Inquisitor has no direct authority to interrogate another Inquisitor for heresy, since theoretically all Inquisitors are of the same rank.
A series of complex procedures such as evidence collection, trial, and arrest make it very difficult for the trial court to punish a judge.
Finally, if they could, all the inquisitors would try not to go so far, because the result of issuing an impeachment was likely to backfire and strain relations between the different secret councils.
Inquisition wars are on the verge of breaking out when certain factions or those they support are expelled by opposing factions, or outright refuse to submit to the authority of fellow Inquisitors.
At first, these differences will be nipped in the bud through careful negotiations, small-scale assassinations, and sumptuous executions. However, in rare cases, when the parties do not react in a timely manner or when the contradictions have intensified to a critical point, things will begin to slide towards the abyss.
This will be the worst possible outcome.
In summary, we can see that an Inquisitor has great power, and that there is little to no one to question or judge his actions unless the evidence is conclusive that the Inquisitor has betrayed the Empire.
The power is enormous, and no one is restrained.
All of this makes the interior of the Inquisition a time when the real human stars shine. Amazing ideas abound, and many inquisitors use their amazing power to make it a reality.
Some people were even so crazy that the Chaos Evil God had to exclaim and worship when they saw it.
When Sivir took the helm of the empire and controlled the Inquisition in his own hands, he was shocked when faced with the "branches" grown by the Inquisition that had been unmanaged for thousands of years and grew wildly.
For example, the Torrists, who belong to the conservative faction, will study in detail the connection between consciousness and energy and subspace, and believe that if they can manipulate these energies correctly, they will be able to channel the emperor's consciousness into a suitable vehicle and truly regenerate the Lord of Humanity.
The Horusians, who belong to the radical faction, want to use the chaotic energy to provide energy for the process of creating the divine incarnation, or to realize the process of transferring the emperor's soul or will from the golden throne to a new body, just as Horus gathered chaos energy to become a chaos incarnation.
The Libra Legalists will often use violent means, including mass murder and even extermination orders, to cleanse the empire of corruption, maintain the order set by the emperor, and reject all changes.
The Libra faction is not so much a cohesive faction as a coalition of like-minded fanatics and extremely hard-line counter-reformers whose sole goal is to maintain the status quo of the empire at all costs.
However, the "re-unity" believes that the current imperial society has reached a dead end of stagnation and decay, and that humanity has lost the means and will to continue to survive in a universe full of dangers.
They believe that there is only one solution to such a crisis: to dismantle the calcified stones of imperial power and make them new as a new regime that can sustain the human race. The empire must be changed.
The Sacrificial Sect believes that the use of subspace and alien weapons is indeed a capital offense, and that those who use these weapons deserve death. However, the Zansi faction advocates the use of subspace weapons, such as demonic weapons, demonic hosts, etc., in short, the use of chaos to fight chaos.
So many contradictory factions coexist in the Inquisition, but it's not the craziest ones that can spread in the Inquisition.
Some of the most extreme factions were so extreme that the other Inquisitors felt that they were extreme, and all members were beaten as excommunicated rebels and hunted down and tried by the other Inquisitors.
There are also factions that attempt to kill the Emperor on the throne, believing that in order to resurrect him, and thus be ruthlessly wiped out by the forbidden army that has been informed of it.
Before Sivir led the Empire, the Inquisitors in these courts had no one to govern, and each one worked for the Empire according to his own ideas, and there were constant conflicts with each other.
This forced Sivir to declare that the Inquisition would henceforth be under his direct jurisdiction, and then proceed to clean up the various branches and factions of the Inquisition.
The ideas of some factions were promoted by Siwell, some crazy factions were completely banned, and some factions were used as sharp knives in Sivir's hands to clean up the "abscesses" and "lesions" in the empire at that time.
There are also inquisitors, whose ideas are dangerous, but which coincide with some of Siwell's ideas.
For this part of the faction, just like some research institutes that study alien technology, they can only be carried out reasonably and legally with the approval of the Empire, otherwise, it will be against the sacred laws of the Empire.
One of them was the Zansi faction, which advocated the use of the power of chaos to resist Chaos, and was originally one of the largest factions in the Inquisition.
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The Zansi felt that rather than surrendering to Chaos or hiding in fear, they should take the initiative to manage and control it, just as the Empire had harnessed subspace energy for interstellar travel, navigation, and psionic powers, and recognized the psionics' contributions to humanity.
But arrogantly tampering with forces that mortals cannot fully comprehend is walking on the edge of a precipice, and if the Zansi are not careful, it can have disastrous consequences.
As the other Inquisitors began to ponder the deeds of the members of the Zansi faction, and the dark knowledge and insane secrets associated with them. They see an enemy a thousand times more dangerous than any twisted mutant, depraved heretic, or crazed wizard, and usually they are basically right.
Therefore, after Sivir has rectified the Inquisition, any Inquisitor of the Zansi faction, nay, it should be said that any Inquisitor who tries to use the power of control and enslavement of Chaos, must obtain permission from the Empire to carry out their own research and experiments.
Otherwise, what awaits them will be investigation and punishment from the Empire.
Nearly every Inquisitor of the Demon Inquisition understands the ideas of the Zansi sect at their roots, even if they don't quite agree with them.
However, there is a limit to this tolerance, once the Inquisitors of the Zanzi or other factions have strayed from their goal of understanding and dominating the subspace and have voluntarily or unintentionally become pawns of the forces of destruction, or bend their knees to the Dark God in exchange for the temptation of power and the promise of immortality.
The Demon Inquisition will vent its pent-up anger on these heretics. The Zansi Inquisitors, who remain in their original position, will be at the forefront of this purge, mercilessly eliminating their rebellious former colleagues.
Only these masters, who also possess powerful dark arts, can stand up to these members of the Zansi faction who have fallen into chaos.
"To kill a Zanzia, you must first become its ......" – the Demon Inquisition motto
They will engage in a battle that looks like a chaotic civil war, but with Imperial loyalists destroying the traitors of the Empire.
The act of embracing darkness like the Zansi sees others as a complete depravity into a monster, but for others, it is a willingness to risk their lives to defend the noble sacrifice of the Empire.
Hypocrisy, meanness, and dirty people are unable to look directly at those who have a noble character.
That's exactly what Onell thought, and he looked at Debra, the living saint who had restrained himself in front of him, and a sudden wave of anger suddenly appeared in his heart.
He knew that the person in front of him was the embodiment of the emperor's will, but why couldn't she understand her distress?
Lacking strength and troops, how can he help other imperial worlds? What's more, the empire beyond the galaxy is also facing the threat of Tyrann, and the empire is in dire need of strength.
He also never contacted the Empire, how could he get permission from the Empire.
Looking at Oonell with a distorted expression in front of him, the living saint Debra did not speak, and her golden hole revealed unquestionable justice, so that the anger in the heart of Oonel, who was looking at him, instantly dissipated.
These eyes, this kind of look...... O'Neill felt familiar.
When? Which place?
O'Neil recalls in his own mind...... That's right! It was the day I became the judge.
When O'Neil looked in the mirror and looked at the high-spirited and righteous teenager in front of him, the blood in his heart made him feel boiling.
He had seen countless evil people brought to justice with those righteous eyes, but after witnessing too much evil, those eyes were no longer clear, mixed with some other things.
Now, am I being watched by these eyes?
Is it her who is noble, and who is hypocritical and vile, and who is filthy in heart?
O'Neill froze in place, his mind full of thoughts.
In Livingston's galaxy at this time, there is no other inquisitor who can judge O'Neill, but Debra, as a living saint and the embodiment of the emperor's will, is undoubtedly qualified to investigate and punish O'Neel's actions.
O'Neil took out his sword and firearm and prepared to hand them over to the living saint to obey his orders. But when O'Neil took out his weapon and stepped forward, he wanted to make the living saint cleanse himself of his sins and inflict the punishment he deserved.
He suddenly sensed that something was wrong.
In the body of a Space Marine behind the Living Saint, he felt the aura of chaos. As a judge of the Demon Inquisition, O'Neil is confident that he will never make a mistake.
The aura of chaos and the aura of the emperor were intertwined, making Oonel, who felt this, suddenly change his mind.
Once again, he looked back at the living saint in front of him,
How holy, how powerful.
But so hypocritical!
In the course of his duties, O'Neill had seen the evil that dwelt deep in the realm of Chaos. And this living saint is undoubtedly their kind. Her sudden appearance, the aura projected around her, she uses her strength and compassion to confuse others.
This so-called saint is by no means as people see, and she is by no means an envoy sent by the emperor. O'Neill knew that his eyes were as sharp and clear as the Emperor's Eyes because of his loyalty.
O'Neil tightened his grip on the weapon.
Even if she is so powerful, Oonell's loyal heart to the empire has not wavered in the slightest, and he will tear off the disguise of this so-called saint and banish her forever!
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