Warhammer: Empire Reboot

The accounts hidden beneath the symbols and scriptures are being uncovered by the foundational sequence.

Within a few days, the Seal Keeper's Office announced the first batch of key investigation lists.

Several of the cardinals were implicated in embezzling relief funds, transferring church property, and covering up civilian deaths.

The archbishops were brought out looking pale.

Before the investigation into the state religion was even complete, the Seal Keeper's Office released two more investigation results.

The court lord, Adamara Lassilo, and the previously suspended Chief of Justice of the Ministry of Justice.

The cases of both individuals were simultaneously brought to the final hearing.

The outcome was more serious than many people had anticipated.

The Ministry of Justice was supposed to directly enforce the Imperial Law and oversee the planetary governors, noble groups, and imperial institutions in fulfilling their obligations to Terra.

The Ministry of Justice should have been keeping an eye on those who had the ability to silence local governments.

However, over the past few thousand years, Terra's legal system has developed numerous networks of vested interests.

The chief police officer himself interfered in major cases through his cronies over a long period of time.

When nobles commit crimes, the case files are inexplicably delayed.

If a large chamber of commerce is involved in the embezzlement of military supplies, the investigators will be transferred.

If the local governor's family is willing to pay a sufficiently large "judicial cooperation fee," a case that should have been sent to Terra for trial may ultimately only result in a conclusion of insufficient evidence.

The most serious instance involved the embezzlement of tithes from three star systems.

For seventeen consecutive years, the local government had under-commissioned resources to Terra. The legal officer in charge of the investigation had already found the accounts, but just as the investigation team was about to make arrests, an order came down from above and the case was sealed.

Three legal officers were transferred to the front lines; two of them later died, and the remaining one survived.

When the Seal Master's Mansion found him, he had already been guarding a reservoir in a marginal world for over eighty years.

Once the complete testimony and the original backup case file were handed over, the police chief could no longer explain himself.

Andrei continued his investigation up the chain of cases that had been suppressed.

Within the Ministry of Justice, who altered personnel files, who signed suspension orders, who tipped off the nobility, and who was responsible for accepting money delivered through more than a dozen layers of connections?

One line after another was pulled out.

On the other hand, Lacillo's case is even more complicated.

She possessed much more than what is considered ordinary corruption.

The Tribunal has immense power; it has the authority to mobilize the military, access classified information, blockade the world, declare an organization heretical, and, under special circumstances, even burn a planet to glass.

With a snap of the fingers, the fate of billions of people can be decided!

If such power is used to protect one's own political interests, the consequences will be far greater than those of a few chambers of commerce.

Klaus's investigation records were restored.

Nafradaran provided evidence held by the Imperial Guard.

With the information unearthed from the trade chains of Danda, Frank, and the Dark Eldar, the complete picture of what Rashilo had done over the past few years was finally pieced together.

Currently, more than 90,000 court officials have been confirmed to have directly participated in cover-ups, bribery, illegal interrogations, destruction of evidence, and framing investigators.

The number of officials involved in the case is even higher, currently reaching 170,000.

Three days later, the two Supreme Court rulings were released simultaneously.

Adamara Lassilo, death penalty.

Chief of the Ministry of Justice's Chief of Police, sentenced to death.

The charges range from abuse of high-ranking power, harboring major criminals, and interference with the Imperial judiciary, to involvement in unauthorized alien transactions, systematic sabotage of investigations, and causing significant deaths.

All evidence was made public to the highest extent permitted by law.

The parts involving Chaos, Alien secrets, and special operations of the Inquisition were jointly sealed by the Seal Keeper's Office, the Imperial Guard, and a newly formed review team within the Inquisition.

On the day of the execution.

Terra was once again packed with people watching the public trial.

This time, it wasn't just the two top officials who were brought in.

There was a long line of people behind them.

Senior officials in the Ministry of Justice, senior judges, department heads, file managers, operations managers, and their long-time private staff and henchmen who handle their dirty work.

Those with the most conclusive evidence, those directly responsible for mass deaths, those involved in the murder of witnesses, and those covering up treason were among the first to be sentenced to death.

The gallows were lined up, the verdict was announced, and the noose was lowered.

The police chief and Lassilo were hanged at the same time.

The first batch of core henchmen who followed them were also sent to the gallows one by one.

By this point, four of the twelve High Lords had died in the purges that occurred after Lawson entered Terra.

The day after the execution, Andrei officially took over as Chief of the Ministry of Justice's Chief of Police.

His first order after taking office was to open up the catalog of major cases that had long been suppressed by local connections.

Article Two requires that all cases involving sector governors, hereditary nobles, intersectoral chambers of commerce, military supply systems, and imperial agencies must be backed up simultaneously to the judicial node of the Sealholder's Office.

The changes to the court were even more significant, with Lawson directly transferring Judge Jia 44, the Judge of Judgments, to serve as the new Chief Judge of the Central Court.

At the same time, the entire Bi'an battle group was incorporated into the direct forces of the Trial Court Center.

This appointment caused a brief stir within the courtroom.

But Klaus immediately expressed his support.

A group of judges who had experienced the Lassilo incident and were already dissatisfied with the old system also chose to accept it.

What makes A44 so special is that he doesn't have the personal connections that the Terra Inquisition had in the past, nor does he need any high lord to back him up.

The only person he needs to be responsible for is his boss.

The biggest change after the Bi'an Battle Group entered the Trial Court was not the addition of a capable fighting force.

What's truly terrifying is intelligence integration.

What does the Department of Justice possess? Records of illegal activities by local governors, crimes committed by nobles, cases involving chambers of commerce, tax irregularities, judicial information in starports and interstellar sectors, the enforcement of Imperial Law, and so on.

What does the Tribunal possess? Heretics, chaos, gene stealers, alien infiltration, secret cults, rebel organizations, unusual activities of high-ranking officials, and a vast amount of black files that are never open to the general administrative system.

In the past, the data from both sides were long separated.

A nobleman might only be suspected of embezzling military funds in the Ministry of Justice's files.

When they arrived at the courthouse, they found that he had been in contact with a certain heretical sect.

If the two sets of documents never come together, he can continue to live a good life.

Not anymore.

Andrei and Jia Sisi connected the two systems to the swarm judicial node.

For the first time, information began to cross over on a large scale.

After the results came out, even Lawson thought these people were incredibly bold.

A noble merchant was found to be smuggling prohibited psionic materials.

By checking the Ministry of Justice's shipping records, the court discovered that he had been supplying materials to a secret cult for the past thirty years.

Further investigation revealed that the sect was backed by a high-ranking member of the state religion.

Arrest them! Death penalty!

An administrator had been helping several nobles falsify population data for a long time, seemingly just to pay less tithes.

A review of the records by the court revealed that a significant portion of the "disappeared" population had been sent to underground cults.

Arrest him! Death penalty!

A chamber of commerce was secretly transporting a large number of corpses. The Ministry of Justice initially suspected it was an illegal biological materials trade. However, after the court retrieved the heretical files, it was discovered that the buyer had been monitored for more than 20 years.

The operation concluded that same day, and both the buyer and seller were executed.

Things that used to require several departments to send letters to each other, wait for each other, and conceal things from each other can now be laid out directly on one table by the swarm.

Thus began Terra's second major purge, this time covering a wider scope than simply auditing accounts.

Officials, businessmen, nobles, clergy, legal officers, court personnel, and even military logistics and Starport management.

If a name appears on a confirmed case chain, the person should be detained, their communications cut off, and then a review and investigation conducted.

People were taken away in batches from estates, offices, churches, military camps, and private clubs.

For most people, the chain of evidence is already largely complete before they are formally arrested.

The result terrified many people in Terra.

If you arrest ten people, you can find problems in nine and a half of them directly.

Many people initially thought they had only signed a document for a friend, but the swarm continued to investigate the document, uncovering the money, relationships, deceased individuals, and old cases behind it all.

Terra's gallows were once again filled with corpses, hanging from dawn till night.

The upper echelons of Terra were decimated by the killings.

Many ancient families have begun to voluntarily hand over their archives.

Some parishes have proactively reported their former superiors.

Businessmen are vying to provide the accounts of their past business partners.

Within the Ministry of Justice, a group of veteran legal officers have emerged who have resubmitted case files that were suppressed by their superiors decades or even centuries ago.

The more they investigated, the more leads they found.

The more they kill, the faster they bring up old grievances.

Terra is once again engulfed in bloodshed.

This time, however, the ones who bled the most were no longer the ordinary people who went down to the nest and couldn't even leave their names behind.

Three months have passed in the blink of an eye.