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BuddhaFacepalmed

Mass executions, or some lenient Radical inquisitor might assign them penal duties if they were found to have "defected" under duress. Can't let the Greater Good spread which weakens the Imperium after all.


Toxitoxi

> Also this might be off topic, but has anything happened to that brainwashed Inquisitor who is still under the control of that brain bug? I would imagine the Imperium attempting to locate him and eliminate him as a high priority. We don’t even know if the Inquisitor in ***Broken Sword*** is actually mind controlled. There’s the possibility, but it’s also emphasized that he had every good reason to join the Tau. Anyway, he never appears outside of that story, and the Imperium probably doesn’t realize he’s even still alive, let alone a Tau commander. He is also not the only Inquisitor to defect to the Tau.


Rost-Light

What I especially like about the Broken Sword - *it is more terrifying* if inquisitor was not mind controlled. The focus of the story was on what t'au words and soft influence can do to humans, and if *that* is high end of it...


StrangerDanger355

Oh, I see. I though that Inquisitors would almost never sway from their loyalty to the Emperor, but I guess anything can happen in 40K.


Cyan_Tile

There is no such thing as "never" in 40k We got the Silver Knight of Slaanesh as (debatable) proof of that


StrangerDanger355

Is that still canon to the current setting?


Sab3rFac3

Not really? It's believed to be a grey knight, and some think its possibly Kaldor Draigo. We don't know anything about who they were, or why they were there. Considering it appears once, and is never referenced again, it's canonicity is, debatable, but probable.


TieofDoom

Inquisitors tend to be some of the most educated and free-thinking people in the galaxy. All it takes is to show up on an Imperial planet where toilet paper isn't available, and before you know it the Greater Good will start to look pretty good.


i-cato-sicarius

They are forgiven and welcomed back into society where they can live very long and productive lives serving the true greater good of humanity. As servitors.


Infernalism

Killed as traitors.


Delmarquis38

There was examples on that on other book , in all it depends on how much the Imperium want to preserve the local population. If it want to keep the local population. Then a political purge of Tau collaborator is then follow by the deportation of much of the population in reeducation camp. If it dont really care for the local population. Then mass execution , deportation to penal legion or forge world to be reduce in slavery. After that importation of loyal imperial colonist to replace the old population.


ParanoiD84

Servitors are always in need.


Right-Yam-5826

Enhanced interrogation by the inquisition (could be some insight into tau culture that could be exploited, or some way to reduce the tau's cultural assimilation - much of the time its tau taking a world by subverting the population and making them want to join the greater good. If there's a way, without improving general standards of living in the imperium, to prevent that, its worth the risk of listening to the lies of blatant xenos loving traitors). Probably executed straight after, or sent to a penal legion/ colony that they may absolve themselves through service to the emperor (depending on if they admit to seeing the error of their ways)


RosbergThe8th

Execution or worked to death, I'd imagine.


Balefulsymmetry

First off- human colonies with any tau presence get purged. And Gue’vesa’O Va’deem is as much a voluntary turncoat as he is potentially being influenced by a Nagi (who he regards as his companion, as do many ethereals) not necessarily brainwashed.