I know they can’t, because then we would have a PvP.
LOL
But IDK enough of WH40K universe, so I wanted to know opinions, about if “in theory” they could betray us…
They are gangsters anyways.
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Betray for who? For cultists and scabs that disrupted their operations already and continue hunting them? That already led them to be unified prior inquisition offer, judging by introduction video.
Being heretic and being criminal even if leads to same consequences from the lex, is not the same at all in their core especially not for their souls, which they don’t know, but that’s how it is.
They may turn away because they are being used as meat, but so do rejects. But also unlike rejects who’s only fate is 100% fight and die for the emperor, i am sure hive scum received some sort of offer that could bring them something good if it’s true.
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don’t worry little runt, ogryn gonna eat you when hungry, no be-tray-al needed 
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Yeah I thought it.
THE LEX IS THE LEX!
We don’t even get freedom.
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Stay away from me!
I am not a ration with legs.
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It’s honestly way more complicated than that, there is the lex imperialis “imperial law” which is what arbitrators enforce and it mostly consists of making sure the tithe is paid (people call them cops but they are more taxmen than cops) then there is the lex atoma the local law which is enforced by enforcers (different planets have different laws and even variation in how the imperial cult is practised) local law on a imperial hive world will mostly consist of making sure production isn’t disrupted and that the “plebians” don’t get ambitious and threaten the nobles. In the underhives the gangs ARE the law! They are the ones that make sure things run smoothly and they will work for the nobility quite often as well. The Imperium is extremely corrupt and utterly incapable of enforcing laws and they don’t particularly care unless something hurts the Imperium on a grand scale. If you are a common citizen in a hive city and someone robs you then you are probably more likely to get help from a gang than you are from the enforcers and don’t even bother with the arbites they will probably break your legs for even looking at them, basically there isn’t law in the Imperium (though there sure are laws! Millions of them) only power and those that wield it.
Grutting hel I’m autistic…
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If anybody asks me for a sad story, I will read them this.
LOL.
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That’s grimdark for you.
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There’s a lot of IRL examples of this, actually. I’ll provide one:
The Sicilian Guardie were basically useless in the years connecting the 19th and 20th Centuries, this caused people to throw their lot in with the Sicilian Mafia. The Mafia would protect you and your property from briganti and even mediate business disputes, provided their “fees” were paid. If you paid the “fee” and showed them respect, the Mafia always had your back. You just couldn’t rely on the Guardie like you could the Mafia, and that’s a huge part of the reason why the Mafia became so influential.
Me too, me too.
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They already are… you can sabotage the map in more than one way… barrels or just failing =p
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As far as 40k goes, anyone could betray anyone at any time. That’s why the Inquisition trusts no one, especially itself 
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That is canon?
Inquisition doesn’t trust itself?
LOL
The different ordo’s sometimes fight each other and since pretty much no one is above the inquisition (some are kinda equal) it’s up to inquisitors to police themself and they do.
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Half the Inquisition’s lore is the Inquisition fighting other factions of the Inquisition 
The Ordo Malleus’s first job was to police other Inquisitors, the Daemon-hunting came later.
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WH40K is a grimdark, sad and crazy universe.
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Aye, this passage was my immediate first thought, that’s how GW introduces the setting for the tabletop game in every edition of the rules, it’s straight up “everything is as awful as it can possibly be and things will only ever get worse”
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When I started playing (3rd edition).
The phrase that stuck into my head was:
“In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war.”
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