Pilgrym - Magistrate Danforth

Magistrate Danforth is the leader of my Pilgrym warband and I've already written a little piece of fiction earlier. The only thing missing from this photo is his little servo-lamp (seen in the sneak peek group shot). The model is based on John Blanche's amazingly quirky piece of art.

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Pilgrym - Judge Hathorne

Whatever you do, avoid this man at all costs. He's ruthless and dogged in his pursuit of the law. And he has this sociopathic stare that bores right through you. They say he's even made Inquisitors cower. He's memorised the Book of Law from cover to cover so he knows exactly what to charge you with and he's not afraid to prosecute, whoever you are; highborn or dirt-scum. That he stays on Terra should tell you something about the state of this planet.

Baldwin Galligaskins, third heir to House Galligaskins 

Sentenced to lifetime incarceration for delinquency and doryphorism

 

 

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Vigilantism in the 41st Millennium

In my first year of reading psychology at university, I attended a public forum about the topic of the psychology of the costumed hero. The discussion surrounded the psychological deconstruction of the 'realistic' hero (such as Batman), ones without superpowers but are still larger than life. Also discussed was how Alan Moore fronted such motif in his works of Watchmen and V for Vendetta.

Essentially, it looked at the stark mental health aspects within the costumed hero genre, such as egotism, dysfunction, maladaptive cognitive reasoning, poor social integrations, oppositional defiance disorder, antisocial behavioural disorder and grand delusions. The conclusion was that to look at our heroes in a strictly psychological light, was to see them as utterly insane, especially when juxtaposed to our own society (outside the comic setting).

With my Pilgrym project focussing on the Adeptus Arbites, I was looking for something rather tongue-in-cheek to include in the warband, something that truly represented the insanity that makes up the Imperium in the 41st millennium. It was actually the Runtherd, whilst playing one of the Batman games, that prompted the idea of what would Batman be like in the 41st millennium which in turn reminded me of that topic about the insanity of the costumed hero.

I imagined that Batman would be much more homespun, a sackcloth mask and probably entirely detached from reality, spouting irrelevant one-liners whilst throwing stars cut from rusted steel. An unhinged fanatic of the law avenging some imagined slight.

I was also thinking about how vigilantism is treated in the 41st millennium? Is it welcome, outlawed or simply ignored/treated as a nuisance?

I'd appreciate your thoughts!

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Mankind is Divided

We will not stand by whilst our augmented brothers and sisters are persecuted! The apartheid must end! Progress demands evolution, evolution demands augmentation!

 

 

 

Despite not being much of a gamer (beyond the Portal, Legacy of Kain and Mirror's Edge series) Deus Ex is one of my most favourite game series that has gone from strength to strength, addressing issues that we will soon face in the next decade (if not already). It won't be too long before we begin to see augmentation for its own sake rather than as a replacement for damaged body parts.

Pilgrym - Old Bailey

It is said that she was discovered by excavators in the aftermath that followed the Horus Heresy, entombed and hidden for millennia. It is said that in the centuries that came after, some arbitrators heard her call and simply vanished from active service. It is said that there is a secret compound hidden deep beneath the Hall of Judgement where her devotees have taken the Lex Imperialis to new heights as holy doctrine. It is said that to look upon her bronze skin is to be blinded by her purity. It is said that she is one of the first saints, a handmaiden to the Emperor when he still walked amongst humankind. It is said that they are her sightless warriors of the sword, executioners of consummate skill.

It is said that her name is upon the lips of her cultists as their blades deliver the deathstroke: Iustitia.

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Pilgrym - The Huntsman

Even amongst their fellow brethren, cyber-controllers (otherwise known as huntsmen) are considered quite 'feral'. Their need to commune with beasts, even those constructed in a blessed cybernetic form, is seen as a perversion akin to venerating the organic order over the purity of the machine. It's small wonder that huntsmen find their place amongst the Adeptus Arbites, directing cyber-mastiffs and grapple-hawks to chase down their prey for capture.

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Pilgrym - The Arbitrators

No arbites warband would be complete without at least a couple of these footsoldiers of judgement. When putting them together, I drew a lot of inspiration from Jes Goodwin's original design sketch merged with some more obvious 2000AD elements.

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