Editing Black Ships (section)

==Inquisition==
[[Inquisitor]]s usually get around by seizing other peoples' ships, but the [[Inquisition]] does maintain a fleet of its own special ships. These [[Inquisitorial Black Ship|Black Ships]] are rather like the archetypal [[Wikipedia:Black helicopter|Black Helicopters]] of conspiracy theory fame: though rarer than their military cousins, they are specially-built to be faster, quieter, and deadlier, and employed for sinister purposes.

In battle, most of these ships have their running lights turned off and go to minimal power emissions, contrary to Imperial Navy warships which turn on all their lights and have their weapon systems clearly swiveling and powering up to be more intimidating. Though few have actually witnessed a Black Ship in battle, conflicting reports say they are usually of a class of vessel mimicking the oldest designs (horizontally oriented instead of vertical, and without the distinctive armored prow of 41st millennium Imperial Navy ships, basically the kind Chaos fleets use most of the times), and painted as black as the space they sail through. They state that at one moment a Black Ship will appear to be completely defenseless, then quick as blink, suddenly bristle with weapon and lance batteries, as well as types of weapons not conventionally employed by Navy ships.

Most of the time they are parked over a planet where an Inquisitor is performing a high-profile and important investigation, both to intimidate the local population and to perform [[Exterminatus]] when push comes to shove. Inquisitors tend to tag along on the other sort of Black Ships as well, even though they are legally under the control of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. This not only lets them keep an eye on the tremendously-dangerous cargo and inspect any worlds tithed along the way, but can also grant the Inquisitor the ability to pass their black ship of as just another Psyker-bus, allowing them to operate with an greater level of subtlety.