CASE CONTEXT: Ruin of Xandi III

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CASE CONTEXT: RUIN OF XANDI III
ASTROPOLITICAL ABSTRACT: Xandi III is an ecclesiastic world of average gravity and atmosphere, as far as habitable planets go, in them middle of the DANTAN SUBSECTOR in SECTOR HERACLES,  SEGMENTUM TEMPESTUS. The planet is the traditional Seat for the Cardinal Palatine of Sector Heracles. Historically, Xandi III was instrumental in reclaiming the Sector after the Horus Heresy. The planet survives on the donations of the Emperor's faithful and the profits of pilgrimage. Since the planet was settled for it's spiritual significance, instead of economic significance, it has become dependant on the Sector Community to allow it to continue to thrive.
LINEAGE OF CARDINALS PALATINE OF XANDI



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        -M40.803 Spatian Greer
        -M41.003 Simon Racutan 
        -M41.103 Yutini Wassex
        -M41.326 Ergus Nomador
        -M41.487 Algan Nomador
        -M41.491 Bergerius Shrike
        -M41.562 -VACANT-
        -M41.732 Gedor Velleran
        -M41.818 Gellox Phrax
        -M41.933 Tonnatas Barnerby
        -M42.016 Magsumas Prater 
        -M42.019 -VACANT- (Claimed by the False Cardinal Rafael)

        -M42.026 Diadus Vorn (Appointed by the Ecclisiarch of Terra, yet to consolidate Power)
                                                 Cardinal Palatine Vorn has yet to make planetfall on Xandi III to                                                            confirm his ascension to the Seat of Xandi.

RECENT HISTORY: THE MEMORANDUM originally did not affect Xandi much, since their connection to the rest of the Imperium is chiefly spiritual rather than political, a dangerously shortsighted opinion. Yet, the sector's economic downturn at the beginning of M42, sparked in large part because of the economic downturn put a great deal of strain on Xandi's income. To compensate, and because he disagreed with  paying Terra's Token to a Sector High Governess, Cardinal Palatine Magsumas Prater refused to submit to the sector's authority.  The Adeptus Arbites refused to prosecute for two years, claiming a lack of law to govern the peculiarity of the ditiation and a lack of any legal precedent. While the legators of the Adeptus Arbites searched through their emmense archives for a legal stance of the matter, Inquisitor Dellana of the Ordo Hereticus ordered that the Cardinal submit to the Sector Governess and pay the tithe, in addition to any money owed from previous failures to pay.
Cardinal Magsumas Prater tried to comply, but the planetary recession spiraled into a severe depression. Popular resentment against the Sector government stewed, allowing demagogues to rise in the street. Riots eventually saw the collapse of the planet's systems. Finally the Adeptus Arbites concluded they had grounds to prosecute Cardinal Prater for tithe evasion and executed him. The minimal detatchment present to keep order on the planet was insufficient because they misjudged the magnitude of the response and was overrun and themselves killed by the mob.  M42.018 Madness, riots and poverty consumed the planet. Millions die from hunger and violence.
Warlords and Demagogues struggled with one another for the power to control the starving population. Eventually, a preacher named Rafael gains control of the capital city and claims the title of Cardinal and claims all the trappings of the high Cardinal. It takes another year for him to consolidate power, but through the power of his own personality and conviction, and the weariness of conflict in the denizens of Xandi, he gained legitimacy in the eyes of the people on that planet.

The False Cardinal Rafael traveling through the ruined streets of Xandi III surrounded by faithful bodyguards. - Image Captured by a Loyal Imperial Subject, all contact with this individual has been lost.
Preoccupied with an insurrection on a strategically important mining world, the Sector lacks the forces to control Xandi.  The False Cardinal Rafael begins his campaign to bring the emperor's misguided flock into his fold across the Sector.  M42.020 Inquisitor Dellana names Rafael Hereticus Extremis.

Bio: Inquisitor Ignatius Ligatus

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INQUISITOR IGNATIUS LIGATUS

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ALIAS & HONORARIUMS: Margus Kempt, Solovus Drite,

AFFILIATIONS: Ordo Xenos,

PHILOSOPHY: Amalathian, 

Bio Brief: Possessing mild Psychic talents, the Black Ships took him and after receiving an Psionic assignment of THETA, he received training and employment within the Holy Ordos. Initially, he worked at a planetary office, using his abilities to detect any hint of malevolence, when dealing with ancient Xenos artifacts. 

Displaying promise, Inquisitor Lefeaux elevated him to the station of interrogator. He served with distinction, most notably on Meria's Mercy where he uncovered a radical splinter cell of a Nurgle cult that sought to summon a demon to the "Bread Basket" of Sector Heracles. 

Shortly after his display of insight, courage and resolve on Meria's Mercy, Iganatius Ligatus was elevated to Inquisitor. For his first assignment he was to monitor all out of sector shipping for illicit Xenos Trade.  During this time his mentor, Inquisitor Lefeaux famously went missing. 

After uncovering troubling records on two ceased cargo ships, he began his search for, "Victor the Heretech." His investigation has brought him to Druforus IV. 

He considers himself a field inquisitor, paying little attention to the troubles of Sector Politics. The only change the Memorandum has had on his operations are to make them more numerous.  He has promised to protect the people of the emperor from the alien, and he will do that regardless of the squabbles of interplanetary courts. This aloofness has made him unfavorable with other powerful Inquisitors in the Sector, like Dorn and Dellana, who believe he may have something to hide.

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INQUISITORIAL CENSURE FOREWORD: This is a selection of illicit text. Despite that, these passages seem to be relatively inert and  are an effective tool as a cautionary tale from a man of high station, brought low by his own digressions and indiscipline. Very often, we cannot analyse the mind of the heretic, in many cases because there is not much of a mind left, either psychologically or physically. Yet, the subject matter and author of this text possessed enough presence of mind to describe his descent into corruption and the price of accepting the vile in search for the beauty of truth. As with all censured texts, you must remain on guard, "Vigilant always!"

BODY (Selected): Sometimes, for our own sake, we should simply accept we have looked deep enough into the chasm of tumult. Unless, of course, it festers. It ebbs at the sanity of your subconscious, planting small spores which blossom into questioning fungi. Read through pages of the proscribed texts again, then again, to find the deeper meaning. You know there must be more, there are tantalizing gaps that you lust to have filled. Yet as you reflect in the dark of your inner mind's eye, the lust goes unrequited, as though it spurns you for being unworthy, for not being mad enough.

So, you adopt the cloak of insanity, only for a time, to disguise yourself and gain your entrance into the court of shrouds. Then, when you have had your fill, and for good measure and odd pleasure you over consume. You realize it is time to take the cloak off,  but now, when you try to remove it you will cry out in pain! You tug at it but it feels as though you are ripping at your own flesh, and you no longer can tell where the trappings of insanity ends, and the old self, naive yet uncorrupted, begins.

Then you weep alone in the alleyways of that strange city at the bottom of the pit, where the grotesque denizens pay you no more heed than a false holy-man does a beggar after a sermon. You see two roads, equially grim, diverging into a bloody and dark wood. Either painfully remove that which has become your skin and be scarred forever, or embrace your new home, where you may blissfully forget what you lost, except in dreaded and terrible cold sweats in the night where you scream stabbed with the memory that you were once a creature of the light. ///END TEXT SELECTION///