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| [[Image:Ravenor-omnibus.jpg|thumb|The titular character is a chair. This would not be a very interesting cover, so they went with a suitably [[GRIMDARK]] logo instead.]] | | #REDIRECT [[Gideon Ravenor]] |
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| Absolutely delicious novel; lotsa [[shooty]], deep storyline, mysterious, and packed to the max with Win. Written by Dan Abnett so you know its fuckawsome.
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| ='''Significant Characters'''=
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| '''[[Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor]]''' - Referred to as "The Chair", boss of this posse
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| '''Carl Thonius''' - Interrogator with a fetish for nice duds. No Carl, you are the daemonhosts.
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| '''Patience Kys''' - Telekinetic Psyker that Ravenor recruited by lying to her, sexy pale flavoured, has the hots for Mathiun.
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| '''Harlon Nayl''' - Heavy Weapons guy with over 9000 guns who won't fucking die.
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| '''Kara Swole''' - Acrobat that use to work for [[Gregor Eisenhorn]], also has a really nice pair of tits and ass (analogous to a 40k grimdark'd version of Yoko). Is always described as "voluptuous". Always.
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| '''Wystan Frauka''' - Your very best friend when confronted by psykers, has the same power as [[Jurgen]]. Equipped with standard issue soft porn magazines and brass balls.
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| '''Zeph Mathiun''' - Heavy Weapons Black Guy, has a robot arm with a very big gun, turns into a red-shirt when confronted by a [[daemon]]
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| '''Zael Efferneti''' - Crazy crack-head of a [[psyker]], also roughly 14 years old; becomes a [[Grey Knight]] named Hyperion, because why the fuck not?
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| '''Maud Plyton''' - Former marshal, blue balls, has a nice car
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| '''Cynia Preest''' - Ship Captain that isn't a Squat, Ravenor's primary, has no combat abilities making her kind of a pussy. Her description puts her as kind of hot but super old '200+ years old'
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| '''Sholto Unwerth''' - Ship Captain that everyone hates and knows is a [[Squat]], although no one in the book actually says it....
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| ='''Overall Plot'''=
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| Inquisitor Gideon Ravenor, who in his interrogator days had an unfortunate run-in with an exploding lightning fighter and got burned to a charred lump of meat, is now confined to a floating life-support chair. However, this does not prevent him from being an awesome psyker, and the book opens to him and his group of hardasses investigating a rogue trader cartel supplying the populace with warp-tainted superdrugs. After picking up the tweaking child psyker Zael on the capital world, they chase the leader halfway across the subsector, during which time Thonius loses an arm and gets all angsty despite it being reattached. It turns out all their leads were a trap and the cartel almost drives their ship into the local sun, but the traders conveniently forget about half the group, and the inquisitor's employees manage to retake the ship and blow the shit out of the cartel leader.
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| Suddenly everything gets more complicated: The drugs were just a side operation, and Ravenor finds out the cartel's real purpose is to smuggle abandoned Imperial machinery off daemon worlds and onto the subsector's capital world. The highest levels of subsector government have some sort of sneaky secret agenda, so Ravenor and his group covertly head to the capital world to try and unravel all of this nonsense. Somewhere along the way, Thonius dumbassedly tries to cure his angst with leftover warp drugs, with predictable results. They also have a run-in with Eisenhorn, now a million years old and still chilling with Cherubael, who reminds them how fucking badass he is and warns them of a daemon manifestation that's likely to occur in someone close to Ravenor within the next few months. Who could this be, really.
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| When they get to the capital world, they have to deal with both a cult trying to help the aforementioned daemon make his appearance, and various government officials working on a secret project to decode a pre-human language, Enuncia, that will allow them to royally screw up reality with a simple sentence. The Chaos-tainted machinery provided by the cartel allows them to translate the language without their equipment blowing up. In the meantime, the local Department of Special Crimes uncover a diagram hidden in a false ceiling in an Imperial temple. Immediately afterward, their division is promptly shut down by a higher level of the police force, and all the members are assassinated except one, Maud Plyton, who vows to get to the bottom of this shit.
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| Around this time, Ravenor's cover is blown and Thonius has a really bad trip and (surprise, surprise) becomes the host for the daemon, Slyte. He keeps it a secret though. Patience Kys gets captured while working undercover in the Administratum, and the government nasties hire a man to send a daemon and a bunch of psykers after the inquisitor himself. Nayl is out dicking around and Kara is busy making moon-eyes some doctor, leaving Mathuin and Thonius to defend Ravenor from the attack. Mathuin unloads his rotator cannon on the daemon and stabs it in the chest for good measure, but gets killed anyway. Thonius, being a useless metrosexual, hides upstairs with Zael. However, Slyte takes over his body, kills all the psykers, boosts Ravenor's power so he can kill the daemon, and renders Zael comatose with fear. Somehow, Ravenor still does not suspect Thonius at this point.
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| Patience then escapes from the prison after a fanservice-based fight, and Nayl and Kara finally remember they have important things to do, and they all get together again and find out just what the subsector governor is up to. Plyton shows up and provides them with the information they need. It turns out the entire capital city was designed by a mad architect to channel warp energy, and the temple with the secret diagram is the focal point of it all. The governor and his lackeys are going to perform a ritual that allows them access to the complete and unabridged Enuncian dictionary, likely killing a bunch of people in the process, then killing millions more once they can fuck with the fabric of spacetime. Ravenor decides he won't stand for all this, and his group launches an assault on the temple right as the ritual is beginning. They are joined by Plyton and Kara's doctor, for some reason.
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| Things go pretty well until the end, when the ritual is nearly complete and a bunch of people are, in fact, killed in the process. Only Kara and Thonius have managed to actually get inside the temple and are hopelessly outclassed, so Thonius manifests Slyte ''again'' and kills all of the governor's henchmen, destroys the dictionary of evilness, and saves Kara from the resulting giant explosion. Half the city blows up. Ravenor finds Thonius and Kara completely unharmed in the epicenter of the explosion that killed thousands, and STILL doesn't suspect Thonius, writing it off as a miracle.
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| The governor somehow escapes all this, and the inquisitor's group sets off after him, with the new additions of Plyton and that damn tagalong doctor. Oh, and the governor is actually Ravenor's old nemesis Zygmunt Molotch, who somehow survived crash-landing his ship six years before and is up to his old tricks.
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| [''This section will be edited and detail the third part of the story after the /f/at guy behind the screen rereads the omnibus'']
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