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Located on [[Terra]], the Hall of Judgement is a relatively modest structure compared to the other agency department's on Terra. Expanding much further beneath the earth than above it, the Hall is a heavily armed fortress bristling with anti-aircraft cannons, automated gun turrets, gunship launch bays, and [[Gun Servitor]]s. Many rumors surround the Hall of Judgement, including that its deepest cells hold mad heretics from a bygone age and that the [[Emperor]] himself appears in mirrors to deliver his verdict to the accused.{{Fn|3}}
The Hall of Judgment contains the complete [[Book of Judgement]] of the [[Lex Imperialis]]. Volume upon leather-bound volume sits upon rows of iron shelves that fill its walls. Every row of the Hall home to ten thousand volumes, the shelves soaring ahundred metres up towards the vaulted ceilings ceilings. Over the ages,the Hall has been expanded and extended many times, so thatit is now an entire complex covering many acres, with milesof corridors, levels, and rooms rooms. Scholars, scribes, and law lordspace the time-worn marble floors, while above their heads,on the narrow gantries and ladders that cover the shelf stackslike a spider’s web, crawl legal assistants and low-rankingfunctionaries, searching through the detritus of judgement forweeks and months at a time to find just a single referencereference.{{Fn|2}}
Every Adeptus Arbites Judge, at some point in his career,attempts a pilgrimage to the Hall of Judgement, there to studythe full intricacies of the law law. Many spend long years there, forthe most heinous, subtle, or far-reaching crimes often require alengthy process of research to pass judgementjudgement.{{Fn|2}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Codex Imperialis(Background Book)]], pg. 34*{{Endn|2}}: [[Dark Heresy: Book of Judgement]] , pg.9*{{Endn|3}}: [[Vaults of Terra: The Hollow Mountain (Novel)]] - , Chapter 7
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