A school for the cursed: A Psyker Quest. Warhammer 40k quest.

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[] "I like the 'Admiral Spire' on the left.":

This is REALLY useful for potentially the rest of the game, 1st impressions for everyone we meet will be 'Noble Heroic look'

[] Kill him:

don't muck about just get it over with
 
Well, one good thing to come out of all of this is that we can be a lot more confident about the lost records not being tainted, if they were buried at the behest of a nutjob Inquisitor.
 
Actions have consequences. If the Inquisition wishes to treat Occam as a disposable pawn to spit in the Adeptus Astra Telepathica's eye, then in turn they accept that their agents may be treated in kind.

[] Sapient servitorization:

Killing the inquisitorial acolyte instead of making him into a message is not pragmatic, it creates the optics that Occam's merciful and soft. Weak. Given this agent just attempted to assassinate him, that's not a message we want to send.
 
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Hunter531 said:
Which admittedly is a bit of a double-edged sword, seeing as our students are likely to be intimidated by said look, making teaching more difficult.
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ehh, there will also be those who are comforted that just because they're a hideous psyker doesn't mean they have to be physically hideous, they may yet get to be 'HEROES OF THE IMPERIUM!'
 
This is one of the rare cases where servitorization isn't an horrible fate worse than death, since the agent already suffered a memory wipe reprograming his brain towards a new goal is a lot less creepy.
 
Ah good ol'40k mindlocks where you don't even get the satisfaction of killing a bigot, because their personality was only even there as a result of a partial lobotomy.
 
Dark Abstraction said:
[] Sapient servitorization:

Killing the inquisitorial acolyte instead of making him into a message is not pragmatic, it creates the optics that Occam's merciful and soft. Weak. Given this agent just attempted to assassinate him, that's not a message we want to send.
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Call me eccentric, but I'd rather not advertise how an inquisitorial acolyte tried to kill us, so we subjected him to a horrific fate in return. Being targeted by the Inquisition simply isn't a good look.

I really don't want to do so in a way that leaves the possibility of said Inquisitor being able to retrieve the Servitor and obtain the knowledge he has undoubtedly gained through his time in the Sapphire Keep. Plus, said ex-servitor would make excellent evidence if he wants to go public with what we did. Violating the unwritten rules like that would be less-than-wise, but fanatics are by definition pretty irrational.

QuarkBeast said:
ehh, there will also be those who are comforted that just because they're a hideous psyker doesn't mean they have to be physically hideous, they may yet get to be 'HEROES OF THE IMPERIUM!'
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Seeing as we're going to be rolling out the cosmetic improvement program to our students sooner or later, they will be getting comforted with or without the Spire look. If anything, said individuals might find us less relatable until they undergo the same procedure.
 
Hunter531 said:
Call me eccentric, but I'd rather not advertise how an inquisitorial acolyte tried to kill us, so we subjected him to a horrific fate in return. Being targeted by the Inquisition simply isn't a good look.
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It doesn't need to be advertised, being targeted by the Inquisition has already happened. There's no getting around that, an Inquisitor inserted an acolyte specifically for the purpose of assassinating a member of the Telepathica (us, in this instance). This is determining the optics of the response and reprisal - and there was always going to be a reprisal, the institutions of the Imperium do not easily turn the other cheek for each other.

I really don't want to do so in a way that leaves the possibility of said Inquisitor being able to retrieve the Servitor and obtain the knowledge he has undoubtedly gained through his time in the Sapphire Keep.
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Then you should be thrilled to know this is not possible. Servitorization involves mindscrubbing in the first place, and the organization of psykers being the ones to oversee it means there will be no useful information left in his mind. He'll either be brain-dead as a regular servitor, or sapient but hollowed out of everything except his personhood.

Plus, said ex-servitor would make excellent evidence if he wants to go public with what we did. Violating the unwritten rules like that would be less-than-wise, but fanatics are by definition pretty irrational.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "go public", because the institutional response the Telepathica is instating right now is to murder any Inquisitorial agents in the sector that aren't quick enough to declare themselves to be one when encountered. This is already as public as spats between secretive Imperial institutions can be.
 
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Dark Abstraction said:
It doesn't need to be advertised, being targeted by the Inquisition has already happened. There's no getting around that, an Inquisitor inserted an acolyte specifically for the purpose of assassinating a member of the Telepathica (us, in this instance). This is determining the optics of the response and reprisal - and there was always going to be a reprisal, the institutions of the Imperium do not easily turn the other cheek for each other.
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We've been targeted by the Inquisition, but the only folks who know about that are our people and the Inquisitor's. We don't need to intimidate the former, and I doubt we can do so to the latter. Not enough to make a serious difference anyways.
Dark Abstraction said:
Then you should be thrilled to know this is not possible. Servitorization involves mindscrubbing in the first place, and the organization of psykers being the ones to oversee it means there will be no useful information left in his mind. He'll either be brain-dead as a regular servitor, or sapient but hollowed out of everything except his personhood.
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The information he'd be able to gather after his sapient transformation into a Servitor would be damaging enough. Plus, I wouldn't be surprised if the need to maintain sapience will require a less thorough , one .
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I'm not sure what you mean by "go public", because the institutional response the Telepathica is instating right now is to murder any Inquisitorial agents in the sector that aren't quick enough to declare themselves to be one when encountered. This is already as public as spats between secretive Imperial institutions can be.
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I'm pretty certain that you are massively overestimating the amount of retaliation occurring here. The Lord Prefect only instructed us to kill Inquisitorial agents in the context of confronting infiltrators, as that is the stated context which prevents this from being heresy*. We don't even know what if anything is being done in retaliation on this planet, nevermind throughout the Sector.

*It could theoretically be extended to anyone committing crimes against the Telepathica, but that's it. It's nowhere near solid enough to allow the Telepathica to kill Inquisitorial agents on sight.
 
I like the idea of becoming a living breathing propaganda poster, and honestly sapient servitorization is a hell of a statement for anyone who tries to fuck with us...

[X]Plan: Clear Message (Poster Boy Version)
-[X] "I like the 'Admiral Spire' on the left."
-[X] Sapient servitorization:
 
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