Why is the Inquisitor using a petty Sword-class Frigate?

[Lithium]

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

[Rinny]

You caring about lore seems silly to me

[Vorebait]

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

Well, Inquisitors sometimes operate relatively incognito. It could be possible an imperial navy ship is more suspicious than a Rogue Trader's vessel. And from what I can tell, Tertium, and Atoma Prime at large, aren't at the point of time where such a presence is needed.

[cxiv]

A ship is a ship.

[Red_Theory]

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

They could well be a lower rank Inquisitor that doesn't have the pull for that. Also consider what's happening on the planet and I'd say this seems a reasonable response from the Imperium. Vital hub world is far from totally lost, they want to keep it, and it's just a bunch of cultists vs. plenty of Guard already planet side. So small is the scale of this problem, not even Space Marines are called on to be present.

[Nothson]

Originally posted by Cid Caldensfey:

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

Well, Inquisitors sometimes operate relatively incognito. It could be possible an imperial navy ship is more suspicious than a Rogue Trader's vessel.

I like the idea that the inquisitor is actually in the ♥♥♥♥ house with the inquisition due to giving heretics a second chance, and thus they shaft them when it comes to gear and authority in hopes they fail.

[Minuette]

Times are tough for the Imperium.

[Vorebait]

Originally posted by Nothson:

Originally posted by Cid Caldensfey:

Well, Inquisitors sometimes operate relatively incognito. It could be possible an imperial navy ship is more suspicious than a Rogue Trader's vessel.

I like the idea that the inquisitor is actually in the ♥♥♥♥ house with the inquisition due to giving heretics a second chance, and thus they shaft them when it comes to gear and authority in hopes they fail.

I was wondering that about too. But really, the Imperium -does- offer second chances in a lot of different forms. Even the worst of heretics can be useful to the Imperium.

[Voodoo]

Surprisingly a frigate is more than most systems in imperium have available, its a massively powerful asset.

As for inquisitor, they cannot have even frigate, not for extended periods of time, theres simply too much risk that such inquisotr would turn out traitor.
You only get as much forces as you can justify is necessary for particular case before other inquisitors start looking into you.

For this specific case, there doesnt appear to be any capital ships on heretics side, all you require is a ship to transport troops and goods and despite being "just a frigate" it got crew in 20-30 thousand along with capacity for transporting more.

[Aethrys]

It's pretty clear that in the grand scheme of things Atoma Prime is not of significant concern to the wider imperium. Hence why they're throwing highly expendable prisoners at it instead of even a proper guard force. Segmentum command may not even be aware there's a problem yet, possibly at the Inquisitor's wishes out of a greater desire to keep word of the ruinous powers spreading than to save the planet.

The Imperium always has bigger fires that need putting out and this is likely the equivalent of a smouldering waste basket.

[Rhawkas]

Originally posted by Minuette:

Times are tough for the Imperium.

Man, the recession lasted well into the 41st millennium. T_T

[Voodoo]

Originally posted by Minuette:

Times are tough for the Imperium.

well, intro says its 41st millenium, cadia no longer exists and characters talk about indomitus crusade so ill assume its already middle of m42.
Imperium is strongest its been since great crusade.

[CH13F]

because she aint gonna orbital bombard the dam planet. what she gonna do with a cruiser and 100k crew.

[Governor Worm]

I'd say that dan abnett and gw know more about the lore than u bud 🤓

[SpiceMorine]

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

My dude they literally had Dan Abnet on this, the guy IS warhammer lore and books.

[zastcat]

Originally posted by SlurpyDurpy:

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

My dude they literally had Dan Abnet on this, the guy IS warhammer lore and books. :lunar2019crylaughingpig:

eh, don't get me wrong abnett is probably the best writer black library has but saying he's the definitive person on 40k lore is basically just saying "well he's the 1 I like so I'm ignoring everything that disagrees"

40k is the kind of setting where they throw in everything and try to avoid actually drawing attention when different writers and ideas contradict eachother

that said

Originally posted by Lithium:

Every book and game that I know of they are on Space Marine Battle Barges or Imperial Navy Cruisers to Battleships, but a little frigate? With all those penal troops and equipment? Seems silly to me.

the person in charge of keeping this in line with lore is abnett, abnett has written 2 major inquisitors as buying rides on rogue traders' ships (and discounted those rogue traders as just having a ship and money instead of a full writ of trade) and in gaunt's ghosts has had some minor inquisitors catching rides on troop transports being used for imperial guard

even frigates in 40k can accomodate hundreds to thousands of people depending on the source and as much as sheer scale means that even the "rare and venerable" battleships are plentiful if you count the whole setting that doesn't mean every single person with an inquisitorial "I do what I want" pass gets 1