Silent Sisters

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During the Unification Wars, there had been many terrible threats born of psyker- witchery and Warp entity possession encountered during the pacification, but these had been fought head-on and overmastered by the power of the Emperor and the raw might of His genetically-enhanced warriors, but in the latter case at a terrible and disproportionate cost in lives. Vratine Grenade Launcher - The Vratine Grenade Launcher was a pattern of Grenade Launcher specifically used by the Sisters of Silence.

And, indeed, they had. Wallace realized that day that the girls had been preparing for one of them to die for quite some time. It seemed that they had come to the conclusion that one had to die so the other could truly live. Wallace’s research into the girls’ earlier diaries revealed a deep-rooted disdain for one another. Despite their seemingly unshakeable bond, and their apparent devotion to each other, the girls had each privately recorded increasing fear of the other for over a decade. As part of this never-ending task, their duty was also to hunt down Renegade psykers and destroy those who are deemed too dangerous to the rest of Humanity to live. This was a perilous task well beyond the abilities of any merely Human law enforcement or military force, but it is made possible, indeed in some cases seamless, in its execution not simply by the martial prowess of the Sisterhood itself, but crucially by their fundamental nature as psychic Nulls.The hosts of Silent Sisters upon Terra eventually numbered near three thousand, and Guilliman declared them the Vigil Indomitus. They would be the first in a spreading network of vigils throughout the Imperium, each granted the explicit authority to carry out their ancient duties. The Vigil Indomitus divided into cadres, with each joining the battle groups of the Indomitus Crusade fleets. The exact biological source -- as it is believed to be -- which creates in a Human being the state of psychic Null, the so-called " Pariah Gene," has proven an elusive and ephemeral subject of study, and in testing no single "gene" at all. Such attempts to exploit or isolate it when pursued by both the Imperial Archotechnologist Corps and the Mechanicum during the Great Crusade's early years courted disaster, and as a result the Emperor decreed a general moratorium upon the study of the biological basis of the psychic Null phenomena, affecting all but His own direct experimentation should He wish it. There is also the observation that no Space Marine, or Custodian Guard for that matter, has ever been recorded as being a psychic Null. This factor weighs the evidence of some scholars that within the Space Marine gene-seed itself is perhaps a shadow of the Emperor's own genetic material and a sliver of His own psychic power which is crucial to the process and success of the transformation of a mere Human into a transhuman Astartes. Vigilators are the most-senior tactical role granted only to the most experienced of Null Maidens. These sisters were members of the Execution Blade-equipped close combat elite of the Silent Sisterhood -- it was their task and the task of cadres like theirs to close rapidly in combat with enemy psykers and dispose of them with the bloody certainty of a Power Sword strike, preferably one inflicting a decapitating blow.

And when she found out her former partner was the dad of one of the babies concealed by her mum? “I was relieved, really. I had suspected it and this verified it. He was full of apologies – unbeknown to me it (their sexual relationship) had carried on for a long time.” 'Gossiping shoppers said we ate the babies' Every vigil is granted high levels of autonomy. The number of its warriors varies depending on the area they must cover and the populations of the worlds therein, and some of the largest vigils number in the thousands, though a vigil most commonly numbers approximately 1,000 Silent Sisters. Most vigils are based within their spire-convent, usually a fortified keep at the heart of their territory, though those that accompany the Indomitus Crusade fleets nominate one of their capital ships as their mobile spire-convent. Though nominally part of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica, the Silent Sisterhood answers directly to the Golden Throne, and they undertake many actions throughout the Imperium at the behest of Roboute Guilliman, the Imperial Regent and lord commander of the Imperium and his fellow High Lords of Terra. First among the Sisterhood's duties include ensuring the Great Tithe of psykers to Terra is adhered to. During the Terran Wars of Unification it was doubtless true that a number of so-called " Untouchables" did serve under the banners of Unification, but evidence suggests that understandably perhaps they did so at a remove both from the Emperor Himself, and His aide and minister, Malcador the Sigillite, then vizier to the Master of Mankind, the both of them being psykers of prodigious strength, with He who was to be Emperor the greatest psyker Humanity has ever known.While the official cause of death was believed to be the major swelling around her heart, Jennifer Gibbons’ death still largely remains a mystery. There was no evidence of poison in her system or anything else unusual.

Fools may call these women abominations, hags and freaks. Only the wise known the Sisters as the bravest of all Humanity's saviours -- they who battle Chaos itself."I saw their parents and then they took me upstairs, and they showed me in the bedroom lots of bean bags filled with writings – exercise books. And what I discovered was that while they had been in that room alone, they had been teaching themselves to write. And I put [the books] in the boot of the car and took them home. And I couldn’t believe this, that these girls, to the outside world, hadn’t spoken and had been dismissed as being zombies, had this rich imaginative life.” Vratine Bolter - The Vratine Bolter is a boltgun of ancient and ornate Terran design that was sized to be used by mortals and was the preferred standard weapon of the Sisters of Silence. 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. Of course, following her strange visit with the girls, Wallace alerted their doctors to the conversation they had shared. The doctors told her not to worry, and said that the girls were under supervision. Police believe Quirk gave birth at various points between the mid-1980s and late 1990s. After the break-up of her marriage in the mid-1980s, she fell into a downward spiral of drinking and casual sexual encounters. Each baby had a different father. Read More Related Articles

Life has moved on. Six years ago, Joa, who is currently going through a divorce, had her third child, Alex. He is profoundly deaf, and this has led to his mum working at Happy Hands Deafness Resource Centre in St Helens. Read More Related ArticlesSuch 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. Alternatively outfitted with a variety of esoteric weaponry capable of inflicting equally bizarre and horrifying deadly effects on their targets, small squads of these units are commonly tasked with disabling specific targets in lightning strikes behind the enemy's lines, where their defences are weakest.