Chapter 76: Under the Antarctic, a meeting on the other side.
"I still have something else to do..."
The cardinal of the state religion was the first to react and followed the representatives of the tribunal out of the venue.
The representative of the Assassin's Court disappeared without knowing when.
"But their battleships haven't been revealed yet..."
The navy marshal is still indignant. This is a major event involving his own faction, and it is not in his plan to end it so easily.
"No need."
Prime Minister Melo shook his head at him, signaling him to stop making meaningless accusations.
Now that the Inquisition has come forward to challenge the largest source of authority, the subsequent investigation of this fleet is of little significance.
What a pity.
Mero thought so in his heart.
This motion is by no means a temporary one. As for the incidents of these war groups, it is just a pretext for him.
If the initial bill goes as he wishes, the deliberate guidance of the policies at all levels will be a powerful purge of those parts of the existing war group that do not listen to orders and are accustomed to walking alone.
It's a pity that the direction of events is not as expected.
Obviously before the meeting started, he had asked for the opinions of most people and got their support. Even the Imperial Fist, who was a temporary member, was deliberately absent to cooperate with his actions, but the final result was still an accident. p>
The betrayal of the Inquisition was something he had not expected.
Because since the establishment of this organization, monitoring and purging the Astartes has always been one of their main responsibilities.
Melo never thought that the biggest obstacle would come from here, nor did he expect that this targeting of several ordinary battle groups would actually cause a reshuffle of the entire Tribunal's internal forces.
Yes, this is a naked internal reshuffle.
He didn't need any intelligence evidence, it was enough to confirm the news from the representative who pretended to be relaxed but actually left in a panic.
The parliamentary representatives of the Inquisition do not hold important positions within them.
This can be seen from the fact that the tenure of this position can be as short as five years or as long as a hundred years.
This seat is never fixed to one person, and sometimes it can even be occupied by ten people at the same time.
Since when does a position that is just a mouthpiece require a temporary motion to be elected?
What kind of situation would allow an unknown ordinary member to be directly promoted to a high-ranking lord from a remote village far outside Terra, and directly sit on the seat of a parliamentary representative?
And all this process happened in just ten days?
What exactly do they want to express? What is happening there at this time?
Merlot was sitting in his official residence, looking through the window of the huge Gothic building to the distant south.
It was not only the headquarters of the Inquisition built by the Emperor's personal order, but also the source of power that caused the storm to be unexpectedly stopped today.
The fact is just as he expected, in the huge Tribunal complex under the surface of Terra's Antarctic, a meeting concerning the fate of countless people is underway, and has been going on for a full 140 hours.
"The meeting is not over yet?"
Junior Inquisitor Galsworthy asked the guard in a low voice outside the door of an underground palace.
The letter with the urgent mark has been stuck in his hand for three days. This letter involves the fate of dozens of worlds in the Extreme Star Territory.
If it could no longer be delivered to his boss, he could not imagine the consequences.
"No, I think you can activate the emergency plan and decide the problem at hand by yourself."
He was obviously not the only one waiting nearby, at least a dozen low-level judges were waiting for their superior.
Another colleague who was closest to him couldn't see his anxious look, so he reminded him.
"But I don't have this right!"
He couldn't help but slightly increase the volume, and then quickly retracted it under the gaze of everyone.
"Then start the plan."
"Then my authority is not enough!"
"Then start a new plan..."
Haha...what a damn empire joke!
A burst of deep laughter sounded from the crowd. It was obvious that this was not the first time these people had seen this situation.
In the past 140 hours, I don’t know how much extremely important information has been transmitted from far away, but without exception, it has been blocked outside this cold door.
"What on earth are they discussing?"
The unimaginable Gowers couldn't bear it anymore.
He knew he shouldn't, but he still asked the question.
This is a rare meeting.
No, this may be the meeting with the largest number of people since the establishment of the Tribunal.
The total number of representatives from the three major religious orders and several small religious orders exceeds thousands.
After a certain signal was sent, they quietly returned to Terra from all over the empire.
After sneaking around the empire's sight and arriving at the Tribunal through secret channels, they quietly and tacitly began to flow to their respective venues under an ancient agreement.
A very small number of them, the absolute core members of less than 300 people, will have the right to enter the main venue directly to participate in this important discussion;
The remaining high-level members can only be guided into the secondary venue and witness their fate under the transfer of video signals.
The boss of the low-level judge Gowers is the one responsible for listening.
Yes, they can only witness or listen. They only have this right.
But even this is an honor that is hard to replace.
This is an almost unimaginable scene within the Tribunal, which has the core spirit of "anti-authority and doubting everything".
But given that the procedure for launching this conference is so old, it was never thought that it would be launched one day when it was first established.
All members who are informed and are lucky enough to attend the meeting are willing to temporarily put aside their past professionalism and participate in this meeting wholeheartedly.
"I announce! The break is over."
In the ancient bronze-toned hall, High Lord Inquisitor Rudolf Kons, the interim chairman of the Terra Council of Tribunal, lowered his head, tapped the microphone three times, and then said.
The seats at the venue were mostly full at this time. High-ranking judges from all over the empire had different expressions, but they all looked at his figure indifferently.
The resume of each of these people is legendary, and any one of them can easily cause a bloody storm in a certain province of the empire.
At this moment, they were all sitting quietly under the rostrum, witnessing the launch of a certain agreement regarding the establishment of the Tribunal.
Facing these sword-like gazes, Rudolf Kons subconsciously licked his lips, and then looked at the Gray Knight Supreme Master Walden at the end of the rostrum.
The latter also responded firmly after feeling his gaze.
"I declare that the twelve seats of the original parliament of the Tribunal have officially resumed operations!
Led by the Holy Hammer Order, the three major orders serve as permanent seats! The seat ratio is 4:3:3, and the remaining two seats are non-permanent seats, rotated by 11 small orders!
In addition, the Holy Hammer Order officially announced its reorganization!
The Gray Knights Chapter will officially take over the seat within the Inquisition.
And as planned, retired Gray Knight members will be provided year by year to supplement the vacancy of high-ranking inquisitors in the order!"
(Before it was split into the three major orders, only the Holy Hammer Order had an initial seating capacity of twelve in the Inquisition.
Theoretically, the Gray Knights occupy eight seats, and the Inquisition Mortal Inquisitors occupy four seats.
There were initially four mortal judges, two died in battle and two defected.
This meeting paid for half of the permanent seats in order to successfully restore the Gray Knights' dominance in the Holy Hammer Order.)