Administratum story spoilers

[WarheroJango]

I like to consider myself somewhat seasoned in 40k lore but

I didn't think a Rogue Trade could get away with threatening a crowd of petitioners by randomly shooting into the crowd, I take it you only get away with it since you're so cut off from the rest of the Imperium?

[LegoMyRobo]

That or the add-on that being the Rogue Trader especially a newly anointed one. Such how the governor is already demonstrating rebellious behavior towards us in protest or "testing" what we do in response. So no one really knows how to react other than submissive.

[Shahadem]

Why not?

If you can get away with murdering another Rogue Trader, murdering nobles, killing hundreds to thousands to millions of your subjects on that same planet then why wouldn't you be able to randomly fire on those same subjects?

[Azure]

They prob filed a compliant and in 3-500 years the House will get censured

[WarheroJango]

I suppose I don't really understand the level of authority Rogue Traders have, I would've thought that they would still have to put up with Inquistors and what not.

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by WarheroJango:

I suppose I don't really understand the level of authority Rogue Traders have, I would've thought that they would still have to put up with Inquistors and what not.

The key to expanded works written by many different people is that there are few if any hard and fast rules which are shared by the expanded works as a whole.

The setting may be the only thing which is common to them all.

[WarheroJango]

I suppose the only explanation is that the Kornus Expanse isn't considered high enough priority for the Imperium to clamp down hard on.

Despite there being evidence of Nids, Chaos Cults and other Xeno misfits though I understand for RP reasons why the full wrath of the Imperium hasn't decended on the sector, being something like a Heretic would be much more hazardous to your characters heath.

[anaris]

Originally posted by WarheroJango:

I suppose I don't really understand the level of authority Rogue Traders have, I would've thought that they would still have to put up with Inquistors and what not.

broadly speaking, an inquisitor is higher ranked than a rogue trader, but RTs are outside the usual heirarchy of the imperium; an inquisitor has very little ability to do anything to a rogue trader except through declaring them heretic and starting a war against the dynasty, which is kind of an extreme sanction that is not deployed casually for someone so important. The charter contains a lot of specific permissions and exceptions for the RT (because the whole purpose of a Rogue Trader is to do some crimes and heresies that other people can't be allowed to) but also most of them are operating on the fringes of society, where the displeasure of the inquisition is weak and the need for regular food shipments is strong.