Bellona (Inquisitor)
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Bellona was a Radical Inquisitor, who sought to save the Imperium by enacting a large scale plan to close the Great Rift.[1]
History
This would be done by synchronizing the death cries of a billion psykers, that were linked across a hundred Imperial worlds. As these worlds sat along a Warp Nexus and in Bellona's words bred psykers like vermin, their deaths would act like a great amplifier. Bellona calculated this would then create a massive psychic shockwave, that would be strong to permanently seal the Great Rift. In order to make this come to pass, however, the Inquisitor would need to destabilize the Imperial worlds by eliminating their Imperial Commanders and pushing them towards civil unrest. Once they were wracked by ungovernable violence, the Administratum would abandon the selected worlds, and this would end the League of Blackships's visits to collect their psykers. This would allow the population to proliferate and once Bellona deemed number of psykers was enough, she would then activate the trigger to put her plans into motion.[1]
This would be the deaths of the Astropaths empowering Gheisthaven's Astropathic Choir, as it sat on a bedrock of Blackstone and was fueled by the Imperial worlds' proximity to the Warp Nexus. Bellona would engineer their deaths, by having them injected with a drug she was creating called Sanctus. The Astropaths' deaths would create a psychic death shockwave that would pass through Gheisthaven's Astropathic Choir and then spread to the selected worlds along the Nexus. Their Psykers struck by it would die as well and in doing so, they would increase the strength of the shockwave. Eventually it would grow so powerful, that it would close the Great Rift and end the greatest threat to a decaying Imperium. She would task the Blank Heroth, who served in her retinue, with killing Gheisthaven's Choir due to his abilities and because he had earned her trust. This was after Heroth had uncovered evidence of treachery from Bellona's other retinue member Yusi, who the Inquisitor had not trusted. Though Heroth had killed Yusi before informing Bellona of her treachery, the evidence the Blank gave the Inquisitor proved Yusi's guilt. Bellona would forgive the Blank for the death and this was the first step for Heroth earning the Inquisitor's trust.[1]
In time, she would fully do so by making Heroth a part of her inner circle and would learn that the Blank valued the sanctity of his life. This fact added to Bellona's decision to have Heroth put her plans into action. With the Great Rift closed, the Imperium's decay could be reversed and Bellona told Heroth, that was worth losing any amount of psykers to achieve. The Inquisitor remarked that even her psyker retinue member Jurgen's life was forfeit as well, when Heroth asked about his fate. However she was unaware that Heroth was in fact a plant sent by her old friend Inquisitor Markov, who knew she was a radical and was conducting something that could put the Imperium at risk. Markov had also supplied Heroth with manufactured evidence that would convince Bellona of Yusi's guilt. His ultimate goal was to have Heroth learn the truth of Bellona's plan and then execute her when he gave the order. However Markov would wait until Heroth warned him that Bellona was going to enact her plan soon. Knowing that her actions could kill them all, Markov ordered the Blank to kill Bellona and any of her retinue that Heroth decided needed to die. The Blank carried out his orders and executed Bellona before her plans could come to fruition.[1]
Heroth would spare the lives of her retinue members Baldur and Jurgen, who were unaware that the Blank had killed the Inquisitor. They tried to begin new lives on Gheisthaven afterwards, but Bellona's death sent Jurgen into a downward spiral. He became a depressed addict just rotting away, until the Psyker learned it was Heroth who had killed Bellona. This led him to hunt down and kill the Blank and afterwards the Pyker used his abilities to read Heroth's mind. It was then that Jurgen learned the truth of why Bellona was killed and how she would have willingly sacrificed him for her plans to succeed. Now knowing that Heroth's actions had saved the lives of billions, including himself, Jurgen became extremely remorseful. Both at having wasted his life mourning Bellona and for having wrongly killed Heroth.[1]
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Sources
- 1: Interrogator (Animated Series), Episode 9
