There they pledged their lives and service to Ardus Kaine, the last of the Imperial Grand Moffs, whose Oversector Outer was the largest and most prosperous of the fractured Empire’s remaining territories. Some of those Inquisitors came to Entralla.
Worse still, no one seemed to know exactly how many were left. As those warlords fell one by one to the determined efforts of the New Republic the Inquisitors vanished yet again, like smoke thinning in a slight breeze. The surviving Inquisitors scattered through the galaxy, finding refuge with warlords who accepted their service, seeing the submission of an Inquisitor as a sure sign of their provenance as the Emperor’s true heir. Since the deaths of the Emperor and Vader at Endor, the Inquisitorius had become even more mysterious. Those who knew best-and there were scant few-said that most of all, it had served itself. Some said it had served the Emperor personally others (who knew better) said that it had been an extension of Darth Vader’s will.
Rather, it was because the Inquisitorius was mysterious.
This was not because they were uniquely lethal or capricious in their use of violence. Of all the Empire’s many tools for the repression of dissent, the Imperial Inquisitorius was the most feared.
