Tetragon Facility

Aside from it “public” face in the form of the Tricorn Palace on Scintilla and its fortresses on other worlds,
the Inquisition has numerous other holdings whose
names and natures are secret even to its own. The
Tetragon Facility is one such locale. An echoing cold
space station whose origin and original purpose are
lost to silent history, it now serves the Tyrantine Cabal.
Empty and dead save when it is in use, the
Tetragon is comprised of data-looms and stack
archives, forensic bays and sensor auguries, it has
staterooms for scores and barracks for a thousand
and cells for thousands more. Its function is to go
wherever it is needed, towed into position by the
leviathan-power of Mechanicus Highliners to serve
as a forward base to observe the aftermath of Komus’s
visitations and mark the passage of the Tyrant Star.
Once all that can be learned has been learned, the
concentrated data is rendered down and transferred
to the Bastion Serpentis, the Tetragon is purged and
falls silent once more until it is needed again. Rumors
persist though that other shadowy forces within the
Ordos still use the Tetragon in the long, cold dark
between visitations for purposes of their own, for
inquiries, for trials and experiments perhaps, things
they cannot afford even their brethren to know…