So it's good to know when to just let things go.Ĭlick to expand.I pretty much headcanon that the Sisters of Battle throw on cosmetic signifiers of femininity for legal purposes. Meanwhile if they don't comply and the Admech continues trying to force the issue it disrupts all their treaties and relationships and it looks like they are interfering with civil matters by trying to dictate policy to the regular Imperium on matters of justice In general I'd imagine that the Mechanicum could make a huge fuss about it but it then becomes a matter of who is prepared to blink first: if the superiors of these priests want the Arbitrators punished they need the Arbitrators in charge to hand them over and if they won't do that they need to go to the next level up and it all depends on whether the planetary or subsector or sector government will step in and whether the senior Arbiters in the region will comply with an order or not, and the higher this goes the more people will be punished for disobedience if they don't comply. Of course you don't know if I can survive the mediation with my assets intact either.Ĭlick to expand.That would be my thinking: although I would imagine that in cases like the enginseers with the Guard or Navy I would think they'd need to have some kind of terms of service that put them under the command of the ranking officer and liable for punishment if they break those rules.
I'm going to call the Arbites to mediate this dispute-you can either settle now, and look like you might have something to hide, at the same time showing your other rivals that this is a threat you can't handle or you can go ahead and risk them finding out what you actually are hiding. Maybe it's a kind of game of chicken between great houses: Maybe the people likely to being them into it would be the ones who were in the weaker bargaining position or who had less to lose. I also figured that since they are meant to be incorruptible, if you wanted a fair and fast ruling you would go to them rather than running it up the chain to get stuck on some administrators shelf for the next forty years. I also figure that on any given planet the Arbites are a faction in their own right and senior judges would probably want to apply the law in a way that would help preserve the social order of their planet rather than creating problematic power vacuums. In my next couple of post i am going to take the Dreadnought further and look at the various load outs chapters employ to their Dreadnoughts and how they fit in with the Codex and the various chapters methods, as well as venerable dreadnoughts.I just got the impression that if the Arbites really went around shooting everyone who disobeyed the unforgiving letter of the Emperor's law there wouldn't be many aristocrats left. It should be noted that although these two dreadnoughts have very similar weaponry dreadnoughts can be outfitted with all sorts of members ranging from heavy flamers to laser cannons, extra armor and the list goes on. The bottom picture is a Dreadnought holding of a group of Tyranids with an Auto Cannon and a Claw. The above picture depicts a Dreadnought from the Black Templar Space Marine Chapter tearing apart a Chaos Space Marine and holding the rest back with its Auto Cannon. When Dreadnoughts are not needed in battle or for other duties such as advising its chapter on issues related to its expertise, Dreadnoughts are typically left to sleep away the years, decades or even centuries until they are needed again.
The space marine literally becomes one with Dreadnought The interred Space Marine is housed within what is known as the Sarcophagus within the Dreadnought, which is basically a giant life support system keeping what is left (it might not be much) of that Space Marine functional and connected to the rest of the machine.
This is considered a great honor and Dreadnoughts are feared and respected for the extensive combat experience and expertise they can provide to the chapter, having honed their skills through both life and death. Generally if a Space Marine has provided exceptional service to his chapter and is seriously wounded the chapter may elect to bestow upon that Space Marine the honor of continuing to serve the chapter in the form of a Dreadnought.