With who’s authority? Does she have a Custodes behind her or something?
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She isn’t ordering the warband around - she’s ‘coordinating’ with it, and taking ‘command’ of the whole warzone.
Basically she showed up with a full-strength regiment (the 53rd/the poor guys running like they’ve sh*t themselves in the Grim Protocols trailer) rather than the severely understrength and battered 21st (the blue guys), so she’s the biggest stick in the system at the moment. She’s also used 53rd veterans to start whipping the rejects into shape as part of trying to make a more functional war effort.
She is, of course, going to fail, as seen by her journals, and mostly just feed the 53rd into a meat grinder.
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And Rannick is happy to let her supply an army of redshirts and take the inevitable political backlash for any problems.
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My presumption is that we, as Operatives, are paying lip service to the Commissar whilst getting on with our own job of targeted precision strikes, like the good Inquisition lackeys we are. Let these ‘Steelheads’ fight the big battles, we’ll just follow Morrow’s example for interacting with the Commissar: be polite, call her ma’am, and otherwise ignore her and get on with our job.
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she is ordering servitors around as if she is the real deal, but she is faking it, i don’t like her either
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She is a political officer of the Imperial Guard. Unless im missing some background story she has no authority to even suggest anything to Rannick.
You are missing background - she’s been put in charge of the whole regiment (think a Gaunt situation) and thus has broad jurisdiction over the full-scale war now. Plus, Imperial jurisdictions often become a d*ck-waving contest about who has the biggest gun, and a full regiment of Guard is bigger than the relatively meagre paramilitary/guard remnant forces Grendel/Rannick has.
Realistically this would eventually come back to bite her via Inquisitorial displeasure but Grendel isn’t around in person to put in some authority and from context clues I think the Moebian Domain is on the wrong side of the Great Rift and having significant problems with transport and comms.
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I see your point and thx for the exposition, but why wouldn’t Rannick wave an Inquisitorial Rosette in front of her?
Rannick’s a ‘mere’ interrogator, and Dukane can simply ignore him if she wishes - it’d inevitably screw her over but she’s extremely full of herself (read her journal entries) and isn’t considering the implications of angering anyone who isn’t a full Inquisitor.
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My own suspicions would be that Grendyl is willing to tolerate Dukane as she has brought the 53rd to the fight and can be left to take control of the soldiering aspect of the war. She can bluster and stomp around all she likes, dictating that she is in charge of the warzone - and I know my Veteran will happily salute her all she wants if it keeps her off his back - but she is a mere warrior ant compared to Grendyl. I doubt Rannick is perturbed at all by her presence.
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This is fairly well borne out by the few dialogues between Dukane and warband members. They’re almost transparently going ‘f*** off you’re not allowed to know that’ to a large portion of her questions, and getting away with it. She’s tolerated because she’s willing to toss a lot of people into the disaster zone that aren’t the warband’s membership or the reject penal legion so more power to her so long as she doesn’t start interfering.
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