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Hijack a shuttle. You will return to orbit with the press gangs and, once aboard the Navy ships, be in a position to demand answers in person. This is the most direct course, but potentially the most risky as well.
*bass boosted dies irae as the cardinal zooms for orbit*
Nah nah I think this is definitely way more in character, I mean either of the options is in character by definition, but this gels a lot more with Ignatius's instinctive, reflexive, "no fuck
you". Which I'm a huge huge fan of as I've said I think. Plus there's just a viscerally pleasing element to a gunship docking with the flagship and an angry glowing Cardinal kicking down the door so hard it flies across the room and dents a bulkhead. Surrounded by heavily armed Sisters of Battle and saying he needs to speak to your manager.
It's worth it for the reactions of Navy personnel if nothing else.
Edit: Oh lol there were a lot of replies while I was working on this post, one sec
but I doubt the Navy is going to be solved by just showing up with a battle squad, unless someone can convince me.
It's worth noting, I think, that the Navy, for all it's independence from the Ecclesiarchy, is still made up of fighting men and women and they're naturally pretty prone to faith. Faith is what keeps you alive in the Void, Faith is what keeps you alive in the Immaterium, and Faith is what warms you in the cold, dark, endless hallways of the Imperium's capital ships. A Cardinal annointed by the Emperor bursting onto the scene is going to...well it's gonna cause a fucking
scene.
Which is the real meat of the vote I think, since this is basically us choosing how we're going to confront our first major external obstacle (even the Inquisitor was here with Church backing and was a Malleus) and how low-key we're going to play the Solar thing.
I think it's important to remember too, circling back to an earlier point, that quite a few of the enlisted men are also conscripts or otherwise pressganged into the ships. They've just accepted it, internalized it, because there was no hope of salvation and no real hope for an alternative. It was just the way the world works (or worked, I should say) and so they adapted to it to survive.
Iiiiiiit's pretty possible we could trigger massive internal unrest among the lunar base just by making a sufficiently impressive Entrance.