Alice hallowette

Alice owns and runs the Commodore's Vestures where you can trade Aquilas for fashionable items. (micro-transaction shop)

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Lowenna Melrose

Commodore Alice Hallowette is the purser for The Mourningstar and Shipmistress Brahms. She plays host to Inquisitor Grendyl's warband. A cavalier individual with a keen eye for opportunity, she regularly fleeces rejects of all their Imperial Aquilas.

*There's no doubt that she's got a smug, self-satisfied grin beneath that mask.. always.*

Not directly related, but an apt description of Alice is "It might have been legal - equally it might not - but the previous owner embraced their business with gusto." (Privateer Trousers). Rogue Trader. Pirate. It's all the same thing. (Gloriana Privateer's Finery).

## Responsibilities

**Hallowette** is a middleman with many connections, finding and acquiring anything Zola and the warband's needs, for a fee of course. And if she can't find something immediately she probably 'knows a guy'. She sometimes assists in training rejects, when paid to do so by Zola and the Inquisition.

She accommodates whatever Grendyl's retinue needs, from Calvan brandy for Zola to special issue gear for the warband, gifts, bribes, and various contraband circulating amongst the ship's crew. It goes without saying that **Lady Alice** is shady and a scammer, fencing poorly-made replicas of many legendary pieces of gear.

At Commodore's Vestures It is safe to assume that much of the gear and weapons sold are either cheap replicas or acquired through underhanded means. The shop is finely tuned to ravage a reject's wallet until nothing is left, like an *immense, aquatic beast* of Terran myth.

## Speculative History

There is no doubt that Alice is a representative of the underhanded smuggler. It is possible that she has traded with Xenos, a special privilege of freedom Rogue Traders have.

Little is known about her, but her primary character traits of hedonism, greed, and underhandedness lead many to speculate she could have been a noble, a pirate, both, or something else entirely, prior to her service with the Shipmistress. It isn't clear whether she was born into the sphere of **House Brahms** or brought in to the fold at some point by Emora Brahms.

Rejects can only speculate on **Commodore Hallowette**'s history, but it all seems to point toward piracy, fencing, smuggling, bribery, extorsion, trade with xenos, and other shady, unsavory, and generally underhanded business. It's no small leap of the imagination to see her as a pirate queen prior to meeting Shipmistress Brahms.

(Unconfirmed, citation needed) **Hallowette** is armed and proficient with a needler pistol, a weapon favored by assassins (source?).

## Discord with the Inquisition

**Lady Alice** and Shipmistress Brahms make it abundantly clear that Grendyl's retinue, all his acolytes and rejects especially, are guests upon their Mourningstar, and unwelcome ones at that. They have no vested interest or duty in regard to the Moebian domain. They are only here due to Brahms being substantially indebted to Grendyl for unknown reasons and his authority as an Inquisitor. All other interests are purely profit driven.

The rogue traders and inquisitors can prove valuable contacts to one another. Each have a habit of crossing paths at some point in their careers, and it is common to see the two working together in 40k media. However, squabbling can be seen regularly been seen between the members of Grendyl's warband and the Rogue Trader's officers. **Hallowette** regularly runs her own unauthorized, secretive missions and with Inquisitorial operatives to acquire items for personal profit - Zola asks **Hallowette** if she can spare some of her operatives to help with Inquisition matters and is told they are too busy with important business. This can be experienced during the Ascension Riser 31 raid to acquire valuable Prismata Crystals. When Sire Melk interrupts **Hallowette's** underhanded operations he readily join in. Then he proceeds to greedily request a bribe to keep silent about the matter.

While ordering **Inquisitorial acolytes** on missions is technically in her authority as the Commodore of the vessel requisitioned by the Inquisition. After all Zola does reference that **Hallowette** has operatives allocated to her.

Since patch 13, comms chatter informs us **Hallowette** has been busy bribing various members of the Inquisition warband with illicit or rare items including a piece of lost tech gifted to Hadron which was important enough it had to be sent back to Mars to be verified. She is also engaging in escalating threats against Morrow who is bristling against her actions running counter to his own authority.

## Quotes

### Mourningstar Hub - Vox Chatter

* **Zola**: Commodore, we're a little short-handed down in the HL-17-36. You couldn't spare a few bodies?
* **Hallowette**: Sorry my darling, no can do. They're all on high priority, need-to-know assignments.

* **Hallowette**: Hey Zola, Shipmistress is getting a bit touchy about your rejects crawling all about the place. (approximate from memory)
* **Zola**: She agreed to placing the Mourningstar at Grendyl's disposal, didn't she?"
* **Hallowette**: Agreement and being happy aren't the same thing, you know that.

* **Zola**: -thanks commodore for helping train troops-
* **Hallowette**: -says she's happy to, as long as she is getting paid-

* **Hallowette**: Have you been meddling with my terminal, Hadron?
* **Hadron**: I'm quite sure I don't know what you're talking about.

* **Hallowette**: Something's been eating away at my datastore. Contacts, trade routes, leverage... all of it lost. Looking at you, tech-priest.
* **Hadron**: [tut] Such a suspicious mind. Organics were ever thus.

* **Hadron**: I expect any illicit technology acquisitions to be authorised through me, commodore.
* **Hallowette**: Well, expect away and get used to disappointment!" (approximate quote from memory)

* **Masozi**: Lady Alice, I need a favour... Storm Raptor's blown an ionic compensator, and Clanky's refusing to fix it.
* **Hallowette**: Don't worry, I can lay my hands on a spare. And a less cantankerous tech-priest.

* **Masozi**: Lot of auspex-stealthed shuttles out there, Lady Alive. Your doing?
* **Hallowette**: Well supply runs have got a bit hairy now. Can't blockade what you cant see, right? (approximate from memory)

* **Hallowete**: You know, the more I talk to you Morrow, the more I warm to greenskins.
* **Morrow**: I can see that. You've got a lot in common with those xenos filth.

* **Hallowette**: Morrow, you been interfering with my shipments? (approximate from memory)
* **Morrow**: Me? nah, destroyed some contraband earlier is all. (approximate from memory)
* **Hallowette**: Shipmistress will here about this, if you're lucky. (approximate from memory)

* **Hadron**: Commodore, I wish to thank you - reluctantly - for your kind gift. I have sent it to Mars to confirm its authenticity.
* **Hallowette**: Happy to do it. We're all on the same side, right?

* **Morrow**: Commodore? I hope you're not behind these rumours of some kind of "cult" at work on Atoma?
* **Hallowette**:

* **Morrow**: Oh, so it's threats is it? Don't have much use for those on Armegeddon: we prefer action.
* **Hallowette**: Have it your way. Just don't lean too heavily on a handrail, or linger in an airlock, you hear?

* **Morrow**: Commodore... Zola tells me you're the person to see for... special order?
* **Hallowette**:

* **Zola**: Commodore ... Lady Alice ... I need you to stop aggravating Morrow. He's bad enough at the best of times.
* **Hallowette**: Aggravating? Me? He's the one who started it.

* **Hallowette**: Oi, Melk, I asked the Shipmistress about your meeting request.
* **Melk**: Oh, most excellent. I am in your debt.
* **Hallowette**: She said she didn't have time for social climbers. Her exact words. Then she said something about an asteroid.
* **Melk**: Ah.. perhaps it will wait.

* **Hallowette**: [Cough to Clear Throat] Lord Melk? That... special consignment just arrived for you.
* **Melk**: Really woman, over an open channel? I mean.. thank you. I'll be along presently.

* **Zola**: (thanks her for helping train troops)
* **Hallowette**: Ah think nothing of it. happy to help... as long as the Aquilas keep flowing. (approximate from memory)