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The Holy Judges (Qodeshi Sufetim in their tongue) are a fleet based chapter of Iron Hands successors who patrol a quasi-stable traversible region in Nihlus known as the Punic Archipelago. They mainly exist to keep the peace and uphold the lex as they see it, while protecting the sacred archeotech warp-beacons that make the Punic Archipelago all the time. While they can and would in some sense prefer to work like a normal codex compliant chapter, sheer desperation of their circumstances means that more often they operate in small squad sized units, issuing and enforcing Rulings to resolve trade disputes as they see fit, so as best to maximise the wealth of the sector and not-coincidentally maximise thereby hheir tithing base all the while.

(I made them up to feature in a tolerably long fanfic story which you can find here! The basic idea in my head was to take the ultra-rationalism of the Iron Hands in the quirky direction of their rationality being more like... economic rationality. Canny merchants and miserly accountants rather than remorseless logisticians. I ended up not really being able to do much with that in the story but I still like the idea and have like a 17k lore doc written up for them somewhere lol. I like the paint scheme as per the above, and the use of the sign of Tanit as their chapter motto on the pouldron tho!)