God Emperor’s Angel of Death

927.M41, Holy Terra, Imperium Palace

At dawn, the air here seems to be smoke.

In preparation for the Elder's Council meeting in Japan and China, the slave workers have lit up the incense burners in the upper corridor and entrance hall, as well as those in the niches next to the Heroes Trail.

The huge lead windows in those niches have miraculously survived the billowing shelling of Tyra’s siege. They have been gazing at the majestic courtyard behind the Eternal Gate for a hundred centuries. .

The incense burner floats with camphor, scepter wood, and rose ash smoke clouds. This is the sacred incense of the state religion. It is said that it smells exactly the same as the immortal and holy smell of God Emperor's eternal body.

Cleopatra Res could not testify to this point. Although he is expensive as a representative of the trial court, he can apply for it, and may even be allowed to go to the Golden Throne to participate in the state church ceremony, but He never worried about it.

He is not interested in honor, even sacred honor.

What he is interested in, what fascinates him is how to make the heretics more painful to destroy, and the opportunities provided by the demise of the heretics.

But as a radical mentor here, he has to deal with all the things he is not interested in.

Since the Horus rebellion ended and the God Emperor entered the eternal throne, the power of the Imperium of Man has been transferred to the high-lord council composed of high lords, that is, the Imperium Elder's Council.

Elder's Council is the highest authority of Imperium. Its members are composed of the twelve most powerful people of the human race. This organization coordinates and manages various political decisions within Imperium in the name of the God Emperor. The duty is to interpret and execute the will of the God Emperor, especially after the God Emperor can no longer directly rule his Imperium.

But the territory of the Imperium of Man is too large, and the High Lords Council is impossible, but their decisions still determine the fate of the galactic coefficient trillions of humans.

Since the era of apostasy, the seats of the Imperium Elder's Council have remained basically unchanged. Except for personnel fluctuations in certain crises, there are 12 stable seats in other situations.

Each seat is assigned to a powerful expert or leader of an Imperium organization. Tradition, trickery, flattering and fawning, retaliation and common interests are intertwined to determine who will govern Who will lose the election, and the status of certain agencies is too important, the voice of their absence in the Elder's Council is unreasonable. These are the nine permanent seats.

among which is included, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Pope of the State Pope, the forging general, the minister of the Ministry of Justice, the ambassador of the navigator, the courtyard master of the star torch, the grand tutor of the assassin court, the abbot of the star language court, the representative of the trial court .

The nine seats are sacred and inviolable. In Imperium history, there are few vacancies. Usually, a successor can be selected soon after the death of the previous one.

However, some seats are more special. For example, the navigator ambassador is open to any member of the navigator family in power. In order to ensure the balance of power, the seat usually has a weaker family member as the ambassador for this seat. This is to ensure that the powerful family of navigators will not monopolize their special political struggle system and form a power monopoly.

In addition to the nine seats, there are three non-permanent seats, selected from the powerful leaders of the various Imperium factions. They include:

The Sun Lord, Astra Militarum Command, Imperium High Admiral, State Church Terra Church bishop, female cultivator female cultivator, Commander of the Forbidden Army, Imperium Archives Minister, Charter Captain Spokesperson (Representative of Trader Ronin).

The strange thing is that the important military power of the Imperium, the Astarte Order, has almost never had a place in the High Lords Council, except for the first Imperial Regent Killiman himself and the current Imperial Fist's Chapter Chief.

There is also a cold knowledge involved-because the original body Kiliman served as the regent, the speaker of the High Lords Council will also be named "Robert Kiliman", although it is In order to commemorate the original body that recreated Imperium, but sometimes it makes people feel laughable.

Astart’s absence from Imperium’s supreme power seems to be Kiliman’s intention, because as Imperium’s elite military force, although outside the parliament, when Imperium is in a critical juncture, others will have to seek With the help of the leaders of Space Marine, some people believe that Space Marine was turned away to implement the idea of ​​the Terra Council, distinguishing the original War Council from excluding Astarte.

Gilliman himself also believes that, as stated in the "Astarte", Space Marine is to serve mankind, not to rule mankind.

Cleopatra Rhys, as the Magistrate, also agrees with this point very much.

The representative of the Trial Chamber is the voice of the Trial Chamber in the High Lords Council of Imperium. Although this position does not bring additional powers over Magistrate, it is because this position is at the highest level of power. The influence brought about by layers, this is indeed a strong support to maintain their own Supreme power.

The trial court representatives are nominated by the Magistrate of the various court divisions located in Terra, and the trial Magistrate who has fulfilled this responsibility will be designated as the Terran Grand Trial Magistrate.

In addition, it is not uncommon for multiple Terran Magistrates to share the positions of representatives of the Trial Chamber at the same time, and it is not uncommon for a Terran Magistrate to serve in the High Lords Council for a maximum term of Five years, after which he must step down.

Cleopatra Res has been in this position for 4 years, and his term is about to expire. In the future, he has a grand plan to hunt down heretics.

But now, he still has to deal with these annoying trivial matters.

In the morning when the first rays of sunshine emerged, he entered the inner palace through Saiemon Gate, and then followed the corridor behind the high garden and the wall of dawn to the chapel behind the cloister, where he made a sink A short prayer.

Cleopatra is not a person of good face, he is a person of faith, but this is not the reason why he prays every day.

He went to pray because he knew, or at least he knew quite well, that at least a dozen agents from other organizations or camps were staring at him day and night.

Ensure that he is seen doing what he should do is much easier than wasting manpower to clean up those agents, eyes and ears every day.

This is the daily life of Holy Terra.

Let his opponents go busy, it’s not a major event to play something.

Cleopatra has always done this throughout his life.

So he is doing what others want him to do. As a Magistrate, he should attend all meetings, whether formal or informal.

He should be humble and decent, he should not express any cruel or bloodthirsty desires, and his opponents often assume that the representatives of the trial court must have these in their hearts.

Since the assassin court ransacked thousands of years ago, the high lords often think that the trial court may be the second organization to be ransacked by Tyra.

Especially at the end of the 41st millennium when the conflict was deepening.