Editing Alienhunters (section)

==Possibilities of heresy==

Like with the other ordos there is a high possibility of heretical corruption in the Alienhunters. Prolonged contact with alienkind can alter the perceptions of the Inquisitor and make them think the Xenos aren't all that bad; sometimes, they may even openly question the necessity of destroying them. Some Inquisitors become attracted by Xenos technology and start trafficking it to get their hands on it. Others become the tools or agents of Xenos cleverer than them or who have stronger psychic powers than their own.

The threat of biological corruption is a particular worry. There are many xeno diseases in the galaxy, and some Xenos even breed through infecting other species. Look no further than Genestealers, for example, and all the particular horror revolving around them and how they spread.

There is at least one known case of the Eldar of Ulthwe having a pact with an Inquisitor cell of the Alienhunters for mutual assistance/information. There have also been several cases of Inquisitors..."fraternizing" with the Eldar, usually by Radicals who argue that "well, they look human enough and they enjoy it just as much as we do, if not more". <s>And to be fair, they do have a point.</s>{{BLAM}} {{BLAM|Heresy!}}

Gideon Ravenor, famed Inquisitor of the Ordo, was known to be in contact with the Eldar and even to address them in an honourable fashion, quite unlike the usual gung-ho attitude any servant of the Emperor should rightly assume with the dirty Xenos.

There are three major Radical philosophies/factions that are particularly associated with the Ordo Xenos, as exemplified by the '''Ocularians''', the '''Revivificators''', and the '''Xenos Hybris''' of the [[Dark Heresy|Calixis Sector]].

The '''Ocularians''' philosophy isn't restricted to the Ordo Xenos, but is definitely prominent amongst them; after all, it is the Ordo Xenos who know the most about the [[Craftworld]] [[Eldar]], who make regular use of oracular divinations to guide their race - the same thing that the Ocularians want so desperately for humanity. Essentially, Inquisitors obsessed with foretelling the future to prevent disasters and are willing to make use of xenos knowledge and/or technology to do so.

As '''Revivificationism''' is fixated on understanding death and the way that souls interact with the Warp upon dying, the Ordo Xenos' authority to study the Eldar of both the Craftworlds and of Commorragh is of great interest to them. After all, the former cheat death through the use of their Soul Stones, whilst the latter have conquered death to the point that most of their population is incessantly cloned back from death over and over again. These Inquisitors have no issue using xenos tech to try and revive the dead, regardless of the potential cost.

Finally, the '''Xenos Hybris''' movement is based pretty much exclusively out of the Ordo Xenos, as its guiding philosophy is that not all sapient Xenos are evil and humanity might even benefit if it stopped having a universal "kill on sight" policy towards everything that isn't genetically human. At the very least, Xeno-tech should be studied and used to make up for the current deficiencies in humanity's own tech. Now, this may sound counter-intuitive since the vast majority of aliens in the 40K verse are absolute fucking assholes, but it's not unprecedented. Though the Eldar's dickishness and the Tau's arrogance obscures matters, they do work with humanity often enough, and they're actually not the only races that do so, just the only races with individual codexes who're seen doing it. In fact, it's been pointed out in some novels that at least some sapient xenos races declare war on the Imperium not for any particular hatred of humanity, but because humanity attacked them first. This philosophy is distinguished from the above by how broad and all-encompassing its pursuit and use of xenos lore and technology can be, from equipping acolytes with pulse rifles to recruiting a Kroot. While Games Workshop/Black Library hasn't given them an Imperium-spanning ideology like the Amalathians or Xanthites, it is common to see Inquisitors sympathetic to its position in Black Library works, such as Gideon Ravenor. FFG's 40k RPGs implied that there are many small Radical factions adhering to this philosophy throughout the Imperium.