Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161204032017

"Just as Iron willed and brutal as the Commissars with only one difference. While the Commissars are tied to the military the Intercessors are not, they are the Emperor's eyes and ears. Watching over all, is that not you Intercessor?"

- High Bishop Antanus Vito addressing the Intercessor before being accused of heresy.

Intercessors are the rough equivalent to the KGB or the SS and keep the moral of the empire intact and the words of heresy silenced and the mouths that speak it destroyed. They are everywhere they being the individuals the Inquisition fears, so do the judges, and even the Fleet admirals and Primus's.

They patrol the empire's highest ranks making sure corruption is kept at a low and political dissidents silenced. No branch of the Imperium is safe from their eyes and their wrath.

They make sure to accompany every major development within the empire with every single attack fleet and legion having it's own Intercessor who works through the Commissars to keep the emperor's message intact.

Now they serve the emperor directly and thus are allowed to wear the Three headed eagle upon their person. They also bear Imperium (The power over life and death) they also bear Imperial Seals commissioned by the emperor himself and allows free travel for Intercessor's throughout the empire and the ability to draft necessary resources.

Most Intercessors are Praetorians that have been selected for personal devotion and loyalty. Individuals from other branches of the Empire can be recruited if deemed either necessary or the individual better fits Intercessor duty.

They are trained at the Schola Politicus which is taught by retired commissars and always watched by a Praetorian officer.

The Intercessor's themselves are watched over by the Emperor himself with the Grand Judge being the only individual that is allowed to assert his opinion on them (Not command)

Normally when they declare a individual a threat to the empire and in need of removal they delegate local vigils or soldiers to do it for them but some do it themselves shwoing up in opulat armor and bearing a golden power maul with the three headed eagle upon it. They strike a chill within anyone's spine.

For the most part they remain only in the empire but some (Around 30,000) are delegated to view over the many imperial cells and assets outside the empire's borders. They normally have a double role (For example Councillor upon the Galactic council or head Diplomat with the Krell) 