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Crossposting my 2 cents on the Inquisitorial psyker from Reddit:

Can I say how much I adore the competence of the Inquisitorial psyker? He managed to get in, eavesdrop on the Warp spheres' psychic comms, and notified the Retributor Command to withdraw their squad ASAP. He was found out and hit with a possession, but his last dying act was to kill/banish the Warp sphere-creature holding the Astarte squad captive and teleport the Astartes away to (relative) safety and intact.

(The inky back mist that suddenly banished the Warp sphere-creature was the psyker's; you can tell, because the same inky black mists was drifting off his body during his psychic eavesdropping.)

Shame he got possessed and promptly ate an Astarte fist of ceramite and several bolter rounds, but he sure went out with a bang. Respect. You did your duty to the God-Emperor unto the very end.
 
IncognitoTBT said:
Crossposting my 2 cents on the Inquisitorial psyker from Reddit:

Can I say how much I adore the competence of the Inquisitorial psyker? He managed to get in, eavesdrop on the Warp spheres' psychic comms, and notified the Retributor Command to withdraw their squad ASAP. He was found out and hit with a possession, but his last dying act was to kill/banish the Warp sphere-creature holding the Astarte squad captive and teleport the Astartes away to (relative) safety and intact.

(The inky back mist that suddenly banished the Warp sphere-creature was the psyker's; you can tell, because the same inky black mists was drifting off his body during his psychic eavesdropping.)

Shame he got possessed and promptly ate an Astarte fist of ceramite and several bolter rounds, but he sure went out with a bang. Respect. You did your duty to the God-Emperor unto the very end.
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My admiration for him is predicated on all of this not being some idiotic plan by the inquisition to try and use or weaponize something they barely understand, a horrifyingly common occurrence among the organization.
 
IncognitoTBT said:
Crossposting my 2 cents on the Inquisitorial psyker from Reddit:

Can I say how much I adore the competence of the Inquisitorial psyker? He managed to get in, eavesdrop on the Warp spheres' psychic comms, and notified the Retributor Command to withdraw their squad ASAP. He was found out and hit with a possession, but his last dying act was to kill/banish the Warp sphere-creature holding the Astarte squad captive and teleport the Astartes away to (relative) safety and intact.

(The inky back mist that suddenly banished the Warp sphere-creature was the psyker's; you can tell, because the same inky black mists was drifting off his body during his psychic eavesdropping.)

Shame he got possessed and promptly ate an Astarte fist of ceramite and several bolter rounds, but he sure went out with a bang. Respect. You did your duty to the God-Emperor unto the very end.
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This is uh... probably not what happened? :V
 
Baron Ouroboros said:
My money would be on the Umbra. The idea of a surviving Old One is pretty nice, and could have interesting implications on the mausoleum canyon at the end.
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yeah an umbra sounds pretty damn dead on by description, but they astartes leader also seems to have a subdued one
 
So the Chapters at the end, I recognized the Angels Sanguine and the Black Dragons(one of my favs) but not sure about the last one fighting what seemed to be Dark Eldar.
 
Okay, so everyone presuming that the techpriest was an inquisitor (and therefore deserved to have his head punched off) got me looking at this thing on a spess mehrine's hand in Ep 1:




And this thing on a beaky-helmeted spess mehrine's helmet from Ep 5:




The symbol on the high-ranking Astartes' helmet could just be a roman numeral representing "First Company Veteran" or something, but the symbol on that Astarte's hand along with the Imperium of Man insignia looks a lot like the Inquisition rosette.
 
Mechasaurian said:
And this thing on a beaky-helmeted spess mehrine's helmet from Ep 5:




The symbol on the high-ranking Astartes' helmet could just be a roman numeral representing "First Company Veteran" or something, but the symbol on that Astarte's hand along with the Imperium of Man insignia looks a lot like the Inquisition rosette.
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It's a First Company emblem; Codex-spec Veteran Company insignia, in fact. The numeral in the centre is normally which squad of the Veteran Company they're from.
 
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My money's on that thing being a C'tan shard for a couple of reasons. Most notably, the giant skelebois at the end are clearly meant to be Necrontyr statues, so it's something Necron-adjacent, and C'tan makes the most sense out of Necron-adjacent things.
 
Septentrion said:
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The sigils are identical.
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What I meant is more along the lines of "this person may have worked as with an Inquisitor as their retinue." Not to say this isn't an Inquisitor, it could be, but I just don't think an Inquisitor would plug themselves to an eldritch orb of death unless they're really damn sure they would survive.
 
I mean lets all admire the fact that despite being punched in the head by a guy that can bench-press cars, the inquisitor was also shot point blank range by what is in all essence a miniaturized rocket launcher that fires in full auto.

You have to admire that sort of dedication.
 
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Hykal94 said:
What I meant is more along the lines of "this person may have worked as with an Inquisitor as their retinue." Not to say this isn't an Inquisitor, it could be, but I just don't think an Inquisitor would plug themselves to an eldritch orb of death unless they're really damn sure they would survive.
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I dunno, Inquisitors do stupid and suicidal things all the time, especially if they're Radicals. This fellow might have thought that they just took all the necessary precautions to deal with a big whispery ball. I mean, look at all the prayer paper in the hall and all the chains in the room! Seems legit to me.
 
I really loved this. The rest of the series did a great job of setting up the Astartes as the ridiculous demigods of war that they are so giving them an enemy that goes beyond the physical like that is great because introducing a physical threat to them would have been silly IMO.
 
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