The Culture explores 40K II: Now With 100% more Fanfiction

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The most useful Inquisitors for The Culture to contact would be:

-Ordo Xenos
-Radical overall
-Moderate Recongregator
-Conservative or Moderate Xenos Hybris

Remember... the lines between these factions are quite blurred. Some of them started as conspiracies, some are still conspiracies, and many are just generic labels that Inquisitors attach to philosophical tendencies amongst the Inquisition in general, for internal (Inquisition) use. So you can definitely follow more than one of these!


A concerted effort to profile Inquisitors in general for purposes of contacting the right ones, would be helpful in targeting specific contact and diplomatic efforts. Do remember though that these are the most secretive professional paranoid sociopaths and psychopaths in human space...


Also, most ANY Inquisitor --Puritan or Radical!-- would respond to that contact with fury at the realization that they entered Sol. And also paranoia that The Culture infiltrated them.


Also, Inquisitors do work together, for big things. Even those with extreme philosophical disagreements in methods. And these events would definitely qualify as 'big'. The bigger the threat, the more likely they are to not be divided (overall) by the various cliques and conspiracies amongst them.


Also, if you haven't read the two anthologies, they are Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium and Ciaphas Cain: Defender of the Imperium. Trust me, if you spend a few days reading those things straight through, you'll have the writing style entrenched in your head close enough to get enough of the patterns right...


Also, Inquisitors, regardless of their faction, do tend to be 'human first', in that no matter what, they want humans to be the safely dominant force in the galaxy. Even the Xenos Hybris (which is supposedly in the Calixis Sector only, and probably still at the level of 'conspiracy' rather than 'philosophy' at this point), who believe in some level of cooperation with Xenos, still want the Imperium and Humanity to be dominant in general. I would presume that there are other conspiracies within the Ordo Xenos that have identical goals to the Xenos Hybris, but are in different sectors and have different names, and don't necessarily know of their Calixian counterparts...