Warhammer: In the Name of Ashes.

Chapter 210 Gathering Potential, Waiting for Explosion

"Next, all the members of the trial court will vote to determine the rotation order of each branch; and the internal members of the branch will vote in groups to determine the representative seat..."

The voice of the high-ranking lord judge of the Order of the Holy Hammer, Rudolph Kance, continued, and discussions about other content in the venue continued.

But the biggest change has been settled, and the members who are only qualified to attend in the branch venue can't wait to start their own discussions.

"You guys have changed?"

Brandon, the high-ranking judge of the Rebellion Order, asked his colleagues around him.

His red robe representing the Order of Rebellion is also embellished with the parish mark of golden lilies. It seems that this man has other complicated identities in his jurisdiction.

What he was asking was a high-ranking judge who belonged to the Order of the Holy Hammer—Fedros, a high-ranking judge of the Demon Tribunal.

They belong to the same star sector, and they occasionally overlap in their daily work, and after more than a hundred years of getting along with each other, they can also have limited communication with each other on some insensitive issues.

But today this issue is obviously too sensitive, so that the former is not ready to get a definite answer.

"Compared to what you say, I prefer to call it a restoration."

Phaedros responded cleanly and precisely, which befitted his usual military style.

Different from the specialization of government affairs and religious theology of the Rebellious Order, the Order of the Hammer, as the original order of the Inquisition, holds great military power.

As a position that has the opportunity to fight with the Astartes and more violent organizations all year round, every high-level member who stands out from the low-level demon judges is full of martial arts.

It is not uncommon for them to cross the border to serve as temporary commanders in the event of the death of all combat unit chiefs.

Years of military career have made these judges stingy with words, but good at doing things.

But this kind of answer obviously couldn't satisfy the curiosity of Brandon and other colleagues around him:
It is obviously not that simple for the Gray Knights to take over the Order of the Hammer, because it is a systemic issue.

Since they claim to take over the vacancies of high-level positions, the promotion of low-level mortals is bound to be affected;

And compared to this problem that can be delayed, another problem is even more urgent - what should people who have been promoted to senior members do?
Phaedros is obviously aware of this issue. Before the formal purge of the Holy Hammer Order, the Gray Knights had already given a relevant solution in internal discussions - a dual-track system.

In the next few hundred years, retired members of the Gray Knights will gradually take over various positions in the Order of the Hammer.

And before they are completely replaced, mortal judges still need to exist.

They will still complete the training in the Inquisition Chamber's internal academy, and then go to various positions.

Given the extremely high casualty rate for this position, most cadets will remain permanently in the lower ranks. (Either died in battle, or disappeared.)
Only a few members can be promoted to the middle level, and these middle levels, the Gray Knights have enough ability to distinguish.

After they are identified, they will complete life extension surgery and genetic modification in Titan II's Intermediate Academy.

The best of them will have the honor of being newly born Gray Knights, while the lesser will also have Astartes-like physical fitness.

This structure is to be paralleled by a steady flow of personnel from the Gray Knights Chapter until all middle ranks have been replaced by retired members.

During this phase, the authority of high-ranking members of the Inquisition will not change.

They will be responsible for the administrative authority of these middle-level personnel until their end of life or death in battle.

These complex system changes and changes in the personnel selection mechanism are too complicated to be explained in one or two sentences.

And Phaedros himself didn't want to reveal it. He smiled slightly as he had dealt with Brandon's question, and then continued to fall into his own thoughts:

The gray knight paid a huge price for the reform of the Holy Hammer this time.

It was the representative of the Gray Knight Grand Mentor Council, under the multi-party lobbying of the Tribunal Terra Council, that this unprecedented meeting was held.

As the price for the Gray Knights to start dominating the Order of the Hammer, they surrendered a full four permanent seats in the original council to the other two branches of the Tribunal dominated by mortals - the Order of Rebellion and the Order of Foreign Resistance.

And it was the official transfer of these four permanent seats that allowed the two newly born religious orders to be officially confirmed in the trial court.

Yes, although these two religious orders have been established for more than a thousand years, they still have no official status within the Inquisition Chamber.

There are only 12 seats in the recognized original parliament, and all of them are in the hands of the Holy Hammer Order.

Although this institution has not been in official operation for thousands of years due to various reasons, as long as there is no such seat for a day, the two large religious orders are at risk of being banned at any time in terms of legal principles.

The seat transfer this time was a compromise of the Holy Hammer Order in exchange for the support of the majority in the Tribunal;
It is a reasonable transfer to adapt to the current environment of the empire, and to have an official recognition of the rest of the church.

This is also a win-win attempt.In the future Tribunal, the Order of the Holy Hammer will still occupy a dominant position with its four seats.

As long as they have the support of the other two seats, they still firmly hold an absolute majority.

The Gray Knights did not suffer either, the absolute majority of 8 seats was meaningless within the Order of the Hammer.

With the four seats removed, their dominance within the Holy Hammer Order is still half.

And with the new recruits in place, the veterans began to turn to the inside of the congregation, and their leadership over the congregation would only become stronger, not weaker.

The Rebellion Order and the Anti-Foreign Order did not suffer either.

Although the income is not much, the acquisition of the official seat itself is a recognition of status;
From today onwards, they have officially shared honor and disgrace with the entire Inquisition Chamber, and are no longer ambiguous existences.

They have never been cleaned once again, completely negating the risks of the entire organization.

The remaining eleven small religious orders should be the biggest beneficiaries of this meeting.

In the process of reorganizing their rights, they successfully washed their hands and went ashore, becoming a group of rights officially recognized by the Inquisition Chamber.

This means that their organizational program and spirit have been widely recognized by their internal colleagues, and they no longer have to recruit new members secretly like cultists.

(There are those who are recognized, and there are naturally those who are not. Those people are also within the scope of the initial notification of this meeting, but under the unprecedented unity of forces within the Tribunal, these people will probably never arrive in Thailand alive. Here's the chance.)
And in the future work, they will not only be able to use the power of their own congregation.

Under eligible conditions, the Inquisition's external public forces, such as the recruitment authority of the Astartes Chapter, will also be limited to them.

All of the above are the conclusions drawn from the vision and tactics of Phaedros as a high-ranking person in charge of life and death in several star regions;
But what he fails to see at a higher level is:

Starting today, the situation where the Tribunal does not belong to each other will never return;
In the context of the resumption of the operation of the Supreme Primordial Council, the Tribunal, a behemoth that has penetrated into every corner of the empire, will truly reappear in the political arena of the empire as a whole.

And this happened to be another throne no less than the Primarch itself that the veterans of the Gray Knights Grand Mentor Council carefully prepared for Calvin.

　One more, please vote.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)