Inquisition - Inquisition Factions: Many Inquisitors blaze a unique trail through the galaxy, relying on their own judgement and knowledge to prevail. However, it is Mankind's nature to seek consensus -- a common path upon which to proceed -- and Inquisitors are no different. At any time, there are scores of different philosophies advocated within the Inquisition, each considered the path of ultimate truth and salvation by their adherents. These are not doctrines, but ideas, tested with every tool at the Inquisitor's disposal. If an Inquisitor adopts one philosophy to the exclusion of all others, it is not because its principles fulfill a religious need, but because he or she has come to embrace its tenets as the ultimate truth required to save Humanity.Just as the size of an ordo itself rises and falls, so too does the popularity of each philosophy, with some flaring but briefly and others enduring through the millennia. Though they are often pursued with the tenacity of religious belief, these are theories founded in reason and tested through scientific rigour. Inquisitors are, first and foremost, practical men and women -- they do not waste their effort or time on ideas proven to be flights of fancy.These philosophies are often so broad that they cut across the Inquisitorial divisions, drawing like-minded Inquisitors together from across many ordos. Such groupings are sometimes referred to as "factions," but this is erroneous, implying a structure that simply does not exist. All Inquisitors are equal in a philosophy's pursuit, even though they might choose different methods to enact their beliefs.Thus, a Thorian -- who believes that the Emperor's soul can be reborn into a new body of flesh and blood -- might hail from one of many ordos. Even as an Inquisitor of the Ordo Xenos seeks alien gene-tech to create a new body, a member of the Ordo Malleus might delve into the study of the Warp to learn how the Emperor's spirit might be guided into the physical world. Meanwhile, an Inquisitor of the Ordo Hereticus might contribute their own researches into the legends of the Ecclesiarchy's saints who have been resurrected from the dead. However, for each Inquisitor dedicated to such a philosophy, there is always at least one who opposes it as Radical folly and seeks to destroy all traces of it. After all, central to the Inquisition's purpose is the credo "Trust No One," and this applies as much -- or perhaps more greatly so -- to one's fellow Inquisitors as any other living being.The Inquisition's members broadly adhere to two very different schools of thought about their ultimate purpose and the methods to be used in pursuit of that purpose; that of the Radical and that of the Puritan. To the Radical "the ends justifies the means" in every instance, whether through the employ of Exterminatus, Daemonhosts, or alien weaponry.By contrast, the Puritans adhere strictly to official Imperial political and religious doctrine and typically persecute their more unorthodox brethren when given the chance, as they are most concerned with maintaining the Imperium's status quo, even if this results in simply perpetuating the long period of technological and cultural stagnation that has afflicted Humanity for much of the time since the end of the Horus Heresy over ten millennia ago.The main tenets of the Inquisition's competing philosophical sects on how best to defend the Imperium, beyond the basic Radical/Puritan divide, can be defined below.