[experiment 626]

well, i know it's been mentioned before but just as a re-cap;

back in '04 the design team had started on concept work for codex: alien hunters.
from what my mate on the inside could tell me, the rough drafts and thoughts included the idea of inquisitors w/xeno weaponry and giving radical inquisitors the option of a xenos henchmen among other options! (i might add, the inquisitors would get the real tasty stuff too like an agoniser and/or some nasty poisons and such!)

however as development continued, it was concluded that the alien hunters were still looking just a bit too similar to the other ordo forces only with deathwatch in place of sisters/grey knights... so the project was halted in order to go back and really develop just who the xenos inquisitors and their lackies really were and what they are about.

and of corse, then we had 4th edition hit the shelves and the need to re-write every 'dex aside from codex: imperial guard to fit in with the new rules edition!!!

so well, there's the whole history as to how and why the alien hunters are still waiting in the perverbial shadows!

cheers!