Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170825172841

Arbitrators are judges within the Imperial legal system they are also rather respect and yet feared individuals within the Empire this is due to them being both judge, jury, and executioner being absolute in every decision and only answering to the Provost Judges and the Emperor themselves.

Arbitrators exist due to the myriad of issues, disputes, and conflicts the Empire encounters on a daily basis (They are a massive Empire after all, :P) they solve this issues in both a swift and brutal manner with any accusations on bias, unfairness, or cruelty being answered with a shock maul. Generally Arbitrators are actually fair in their decisions, but this is due to all Arbitrators serving far from their home worlds and being indoctrinated in the strict codes of the Vigilistum.

Arbitrators are rather heavily armed and armored seeing as they may need to settle disputes within war zones, contested areas, or in crime ridden areas. Generally they are also followed by heavily armored guards who tend to shoot first and ask questions later.

Arbitrators come in many different varieties seeing as expecting a single Arbitrator to solve economic, military, civil, and religious disputes is absurd and general miss management thus specific classes of Arbitrators exist to solve these over arching disputes.

The most common Arbitrators are those that solve the more 'violent' disputes within the Empire. For example murder, family disputes, and other related issues. They tend to either kill who ever is the most guilty and tell the other to shape up or if it's dealing with a street gang they tend to just eradicate the entire gang to deal with the issue at hand and eliminate other issues from happening.

The common Arbitrator seen outside the Empire are really semi-sanctioned vigilantes known as Accusers or Vindicators who 'right wrongs' or 'get revenge' generally targeting military personal, pirates, and anyone else that has harmed the Empire or the Vindicators personally. 