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Newcomer 42 said:
They would make the Necrontyr black pharaohs, totally.
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Considering how nasty their sun was that would unironically fit, though.
Newcomer 42 said:
Sounds interesting, considering that the arbites' solution to crime is to shoot first, shoot again, then imprison someone for life last. Oh, and send the killer robo-dogo to catch perps.
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99% of the crime in the Imperium is handled by local planetary authorities. The Arbites only get involved when internal security issues threaten the greater Imperium as a whole (like say, a governor not coughing up his planet's tithe properly), and most places will only have a single, tiny precinct house with a couple of judges bored out of their minds, if that.

On the other hand, if you're someplace that's a vital lynchpin of the Imperium due to industrial, political, or military reasons like say, Hydraphur, expect just about everything to fall under their authority.
 
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Snekposter said:
99% of the crime in the Imperium is handled by local planetary authorities. The Arbites only get involved when internal security issues threaten the greater Imperium as a whole (like say, a governor not coughing up his planet's tithe properly), and most places will only have a single, tiny precinct house with a couple of judges bored out of their minds, if that.

On the other hand, if you're someplace that's a vital lynchpin of the Imperium due to industrial, political, or military reasons like say, Hydraphur, expect just about everything to fall under their authority.
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Indeed. Arbites are more like the imperium's version of the FBI more than anything else. They'll even end up embedded with guard units, work with inquisitors, sometimes work with space marines, etc. Not every imperial planet(even some of the more strategic ones) have a permanent arbites presence.

And the local planetary authorities can take on all sorts of forms. Guard or local PDF acting as military police, regional cops and constables, planetary marshal services, village guard, whatever since the imperium doesn't really give a shit how order is imposed so long as things are operating as expected. If the arbites actually need to be involved in something, you've fucked up, and they can but don't just go around shooting everyone like Judge Dredd either, because then no one would be willing to work with them.

edit: If anyone wants a recent book with a decent example of one, Tomb World(yes, the one with the admech poop train). Basically as everything on the world starts going to shit, the planetary governor of the guard mustering world calls in some arbites to properly investigate things, and without spoiling anything the marshall leading the squad that shows up investigates some industrial accidents/murders/etc. type stuff and eventually ends up acting as a halfassed commissar at one point before eventually attaching herself to the Deathwatch unit that she calls as backup(and then gets killed because it's a necron book with necrons on the cover). She does a lot of threatening with her authority, but doesn't really end up just going full psycho cop mode.
 
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Snekposter said:
Considering how nasty their sun was that would unironically fit, though.
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It would be amusing to see the 'Tyrs as Black Pharaos We Wuz Kangs being ridiculed by energy beings that look suspiciously white and blonde, but we won't get even that. Morever considering this would involve blacks getting a bad time, and we can't see that anymore in works, especially nigressess, who can be used to stop bullets with no consequences due to their ridiculous plot-armor.

Snekposter said:
99% of the crime in the Imperium is handled by local planetary authorities. The Arbites only get involved when internal security issues threaten the greater Imperium as a whole (like say, a governor not coughing up his planet's tithe properly), and most places will only have a single, tiny precinct house with a couple of judges bored out of their minds, if that.
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Most works will have Arbites work as regular cops. Few good arbites will walk away from a crime in progress.

p1138 said:
. If the arbites actually need to be involved in something, you've fucked up, and they can but don't just go around shooting everyone like Judge Dredd either, because then no one would be willing to work with them.
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They haven been shown to be trigger happy Judge Dredd-stand ins and get away with that.
 
winderson_silva said:
It is so jarring that in Ahriman you got the Eldar pulling a WiH weapon stash, which bypasses necron phasing and outright deletes their ships from reality, and them in Archmagos the eldar are using the exact same weapons as in M42.

GW has no writer who could do justice to the WiH even if they tried.
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Everytime I hear Necron posting, I feel sad we'll never see the Pariah return, nor will we see the Empire of the Severed further expanded upon.
 
Newcomer 42 said:
They haven been shown to be trigger happy Judge Dredd-stand ins and get away with that.
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Of course they can get away with that, but it's fucking stupid if you're in the middle of conducting an investigation and trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, rather than dealing with something in progress.
 
p1138 said:
Of course they can get away with that, but it's fucking stupid if you're in the middle of conducting an investigation and trying to get to the bottom of a mystery, rather than dealing with something in progress.
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As I understand things, one of the last thing planetary law enforcement wants is for the Arbites to start paying attention. They're close to being as bad as the Inquisition when it comes to them fucking your planet's shit up.
 
Cheb Dagness said:
They're close to being as bad as the Inquisition when it comes to them fucking your planet's shit up.
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To back up this point:

If the governor is late in the payment of tithes, is less than thorough in enforcing the population's proper worship of the Emperor, or is tempted to decline sending troops to the aid of an embattled neighbour, the Arbites will be watching. In times of crisis and conflict, it is possible that a planetary governor may be assassinated, deposed, incapacitated, or even implicated in one of the Arbites' investigations. If this should happen, then the highest ranking member of the Adeptus Arbites available has the authority to temporarily take over rulership of the world, until a suitable replacement can be put in place. This duty generally falls to a Judge or a Marshal, but where an isolated world has only a token Imperial presence, even the lowest ranked Arbitrators have, on rare occasion, stepped in to fill the breach.
Dark Heresy: Book of Judgement Page 8
 
Cheb Dagness said:
As I understand things, one of the last thing planetary law enforcement wants is for the Arbites to start paying attention. They're close to being as bad as the Inquisition when it comes to them fucking your planet's shit up.
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Hence why I said they're more like the imperium's equivalent of the FBI. The idea that they simply go around acting like robocop in the drug lab scene or judge dredd at all times is meme bullshit. Just the same as encountering an inquisitor isn't automatically a death sentence, the bigger problem with the inquisition and arbites is you're likely to get fucked up by whatever problem it was that got their attention in the first place as collateral damage.
 
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Best Inquisitor I'm not a simp, shut up
 
It’s always a unique experience meeting Warhammer fans in non-hobby spaces.

Like I’m doing laundry the other day and a guy compliments my book (Fulgrim), we talk Warhammer and imagine my fucking shock that this cheery black guy is a son of Vulkan.

At the rate the Salamanders are going, GW should consider giving them the DA, SW, BA, UM, BT treatment for unique shit.

Anyway, met up later and he gave me some old CSM transfers in exchange for the all the HH Salamander transfers I’ve acquired. He’s alright.
 
Humble Architect said:
It’s always a unique experience meeting Warhammer fans in non-hobby spaces.

Like I’m doing laundry the other day and a guy compliments my book (Fulgrim), we talk Warhammer and imagine my fucking shock that this cheery black guy is a son of Vulkan.

At the rate the Salamanders are going, GW should consider giving them the DA, SW, BA, UM, BT treatment for unique shit.

Anyway, met up later and he gave me some old CSM transfers in exchange for the all the HH Salamander transfers I’ve acquired. He’s alright.
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Wholesome interaction.

I was talking with a mate about chapter compliant marines and that they should be given unique units to make them different from UM. Heavy Intercessors with breachers shields for IF is always my start but Salamanders are right there to do some cool flamer shit with.

Dragon Tank. Stick a bunch of flamers (and only flamers) on it and give them a detachment that buffs flamers. Salamander players would be frothing to play all flamers in their detachment, even if its not Gladius.
 
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