Gaiaterra: Elysea's Conflict/Hospitaller

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The Hospitaller is a Grey Steel Order infantry. Planned to be voiced by.

Overview
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History
"Fire will purify your sins."

-A Hospitaller addressing a traitor

The Grey Steel Order as an organization has existed for hundreds of years, ever since the Age of Dawn. For them to have survived as a secret organization for so long, fighting against an enemy like the Heralds throughout that entire stretch of time, it is impossible to not have developed a degree of paranoia. Centuries of experience with traitors, infiltrations within their ranks, double-crosses, and treachery have left the Order unwilling to trust anyone, not even their own. This is manifested in the existence of the Inquisition.

As a chamber of the Order, the Inquisition is the internal police of the Grey Steel Order, taking its name from the Inquisition of the Sigmarite Church; but where that Inquisition fought against heretics, the Inquisition combats infiltrators and traitors within the Order's ranks, rooting them out wherever they can find them and preventing the Order as a whole from being corrupted and destroyed from within.

The Inquisition carefully monitors those within the Talon, maintaining eyes and ears throughout the Order's ranks--members of the Inquisition observe the Forgemasters in their forges, monitor shipwrights as they go about their work, and watch over the soldiers on board Crawlers.

It should be noted, however, that the situation for Inquisition personnel on board Crawlers is somewhat different than for Inquisition personnel elsewhere. A Crawler, despite its massive capacity, can ultimately only carry a limited number of supplies for a limited number of people. A side effect of this is that all personnel are expected to be able to fight or otherwise assist in the battle in some other way should the need arise, and this extends to the Inquisition personnel on board the Crawler.

While some may grumble, the Inquisition as a whole accepts this, since having their men on the battlefield allows them to watch over the Talon's soldiers more closely, and take prompt action if it becomes necessary--after all, even a carefully vetted Templar may turn out to be a traitor, and duped soldiers may have doubts about who they're really fighting for.

Of course, because many members of the Inquisition are (admittedly) poor or even terrible when it comes to fighting and thus better assigned to other places, only certain members--the men known as Hospitallers--may be assigned to the Crawlers of the Chamber Militant. Among other things, they are selected for their combat ability; indeed, Hospitallers are no pushovers in battle; the plate armor they wear protects them against small arms and other threats, and their powerful flamethrowers allow them to immolate enemy infantry, burn soldiers out of buildings, torch structures--and should it become necessary, execute traitors on the spot.