Silent Sisters

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Nemesis Bolter - The Nemesis Bolter was a variant of the Sisters of Silence's Vratine Bolter which possessed a longer range than its standard counterpart. The Sanctioner Cadre is a specialised force of the Chamber of Vigilance whose principal task is to identify and eliminate troublesome agitators -- such as rebellious warlords, priests and demagogues -- or to silence dangerous Rogue Psykers whose capture would otherwise incur a high cost in lives and the expenditure of too many valuable assets. This is a task for which they are armed and equipped with a variety of specialised wargear including long-range Nemesis Bolters, sensor-auspex and stealth gear. Siege of Terra (014.M31) – The Silent Sisterhood provided a stalwart defence of the Imperial Palace during the Siege of Terra. They were also instrumental in the defence of the Imperial Webway extension located in the subterranean levels of the Imperial Palace against a massive Daemonic incursion from the Immaterium during the War Within the Webway. In 1960, Aubrey went to stay with a relative in Coventry and soon qualified as a staff technician. Gloria followed, with Greta and David, several months later. [5] The twins were born on 11 April 1963, at a military hospital in Aden, Yemen, where their father had been deployed. The family soon relocated, first to England, and, in 1974, to Haverfordwest, Wales. [3] The twin sisters were inseparable and their language, a sped-up Bajan Creole, made it difficult for people to understand them. Such organisations as these have great autonomy, and it is not unknown for their masters to believe themselves above such scrutiny. Large-scale assaults against covens of psychic mutants or the sorcerers of the Heretic Astartes see the Sisterhood's coldly rational and tactical discipline standing in sharp contrast to many zealous and fanatical warriors who fight in the Emperor's name.

The Silent Sisterhood as an organisation was one of singular reach and secrecy. Its exact numbers were unknown save to the Emperor, for though it remained nominally part of the Divisio Astra Telepathica at the time of the Great Crusade, it had long become interwoven with the will and direct agency of the Emperor Himself. For while the Legio Custodes guarded the Master of Mankind directly, the Sisters of Silence became pivotal to the carrying out of the Emperor's great and secret works to contain and limit the influence of the Ruinous Powers and their servants as he sought to expand the Imperial Truth. Voidsheen Cloak - A Voidsheen Cloak was a protective garment worn by the Oblivion Knights. It was made from micro-vitrious mesh designed to diffract and absorb kinetic and directed energy. This latter range was needed because the Sisters of Silence remained an organisation dedicated not only to the ministration of the Great Tithe but also to investigation, pursuit, inquiry and judgement. They also possessed and had to express when needed an unmatched and encyclopedic knowledge of the psyker and the Empyrean, which they alone, owing to their psyker Null status, were uniquely safe in keeping. Mankind's surety of purpose, restored by the tremendous success of the Great Crusade, was shaken to its core by the treachery of the Warmaster Horus. The corruption Horus spread through the Legiones Astartes eroded the Imperial Truth -- the secular wisdom, laid down by the Emperor, that saw the furtherance of logic and science required the outlaw of the concept of supernatural entities. Sister-Commander Bellas - Sister-Commander Bellas, alongside her fellow commander Aphone, served as a senior commander of of the Silent Sisterhood during the Indomitus Crusade. After Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman declared an end to the crusade, Bellas was among those Imperial forces that lent their aid to the Realm of Ultramar during the Plague Wars. She fought against the vast plague hordes of Nurgle and helped Lord Commander Guilliman reclaim the world of Espandor from the Plague God's clutches.

The Secret Agreement

During the Era Indomitus, the Vigil Indomitus established satellite vigils throughout the Segmentum Solar, hoping they would prosper enough to be able to join later fleets of the Indomitus Crusade. Some of these vigils would not be ready by the time their appointed battle group passed by, beset by calamity or forced by circumstance into striking out on their own. Some would wait in the dark for many years, never to be reached as crusade forces were diverted and delayed, for despite Roboute Guilliman's superhuman logistical acumen, such tragedies of bureaucracy continued to haunt the Imperium in the Era Indomitus. Drawn from the elite ranks of the Chamber of Oblivion, the Knights Centura serve as the battlefield commanders of the Sisters of Silence. Elevated as a result of their seniority, martial prowess and power as psychic Nulls, they are afforded use of the rarest weaponry the Sisters of Silence can bring to bear and charged with the inviolate duty of commanding both the tactical operations of the Great Tithe and the sworn duty of destroying Rogue Psykers deemed too dangerous to live. We spent an afternoon walking down the busy street, chatting to residents and business owners to try and get an idea of how things have changed, the successes of this diverse community and the struggles it still faces. The new Sisters of Silence fleets have used their null abilities in conjunction with the Navis Nobilite to penetrate the new fierce Warp Storms that ravaged the Imperium. [12] Notable Battles Heresy-era If this is the case, it would be wholly an anathema to the Pariah Gene and likely simply kill its implanted subject. It can only be speculated that if even a single Legion of psychic Null Legiones Astartes had been possible, how very different history may have been -- just as without the involvement of the Sisters of Silence in the Horus Heresy and the Emperor's great work of the Webway Project during the War Within the Webway, Horus' treachery may well have ended in triumph upon the broken throne of Terra.

Primarily equipped with flamers, their secondary tactical function is to deny rogue elements escape routes, cut off avenues of ambush and prevent encirclement by often numerically superior opposition forces. Even within small detachments, the Firebrand cadres are deployed to prevent the interruption of the retrieval of the Imperial Tithe. However, in such instances, they are often presented as a force intended to intimidate the related governing structures and population into compliance through fear rather than having to carry out the promise of death and fire they so obviously represent, though of course they never shirk from this dark duty when it becomes necessary.Yet many more vigils joined their appointed battle groups and proved invaluable as their ships spread ever deeper into the beset Imperium. The presence of the Sisters of Silence helped to calm the turbulent Warp storms around the battle groups, allowing them to make far greater progress than their commanding groupmasters had hoped. The cadres are company-equivalent bodies, though it is rare for them to ever fight as one. As vigils are bound to uphold the Sisterhood's duties across a particular stretch of the Imperium, its cadres each carry out a particular facet of those duties. Some cadres investigate non-compliance with the Great Tithe, some are tasked with hunting down those Human psykers who have fled Imperial justice. There appears to be perceptible degrees of this effect which vary from individual to individual, with some Untouchables "stronger" in the phenomena than others, and it is from the strongest of these that the Sisters of Silence are drawn. It is also noteworthy to the extent that the disturbance caused by an Untouchable is evident not only to Humanity, but also all other lifeforms and xenos species encountered to some greater or lesser extent. Lastly is the Nemesis Praxia, Ebon Naroda; she who was high guardian of the compiled lore and estates temporal of the Divisio Investigates, and ultimately responsible for the training of its acolytes.