The Black Hand

"Your innocence is irrelevant. I care only for the truth of the matter - and ensuring it never leaves this room." - Inquisitor Udo Motya

Udo Motya is a follower of the Redactionist school of thought, a radical offshoot of the Amalathians so obsessed with maintaining stability in the Imperium that they ruthlessly attempt to suppress any information they believe might jeopardise that, all the while collecting and collating the same data for their own use. 

Inquisitor Motya is notoriously secretive, hiding his identity behind an ancient golden mask and heavy black robes, ensuring that even his closest acolytes have never seen his face or heard his true voice. He wears the symbol of his order sparingly, instead adorning himself with all manner of strange and arcane markings and runes, lending himself the air of a cult magister as much as that of an Inquisitor - a quirk that has not gone unnoticed by his peers in the Ordo Hereticus.

Indeed, Udo has come into conflict with a number of his colleagues in recent years, his extreme methods and insular nature leading them to declare him radical, if not outright traitoris. As such his influence in the Ares Sector is increasingly limited and in recent years he has turned to a number of less righteous allies to complete his goals.

For the most part Motya remains in the shadows, content to operate through a small group of trusted agents such as his highly capable Interrogator Amon Vuk and the dread pariah-assassin Null. Motya is currently directing his resources into learning all he can about the strange events unfolding on the mining world Aphra Sela.