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Well this would be the place for any DIY chapter... but unfortunately for you, your idea isn't exactly viable. The Adeptus Astra Telepathica does not have a Chamber Militant as the Ordos of the Inquisition do. If anything would be considered their military arm it would be the Black Ships which are utilized to round up the psykers which the Adeptus Astra Telepathica distributes around the Imperium.
Well this would be the place for any DIY chapter... but unfortunately for you, your idea isn't exactly viable. The Adeptus Astra Telepathica does not have a Chamber Militant as the Ordos of the Inquisition do. If anything would be considered their military arm it would be the Black Ships which are utilized to round up the psykers which the Adeptus Astra Telepathica distributes around the Imperium.

 

Actually they did have, and could still have, a militant order called the Sisters of Silence. They are rumored to man, or woman, the Black Ships now.

 

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I actually have alot on my plate at the moment, so its really more a question of curiosity for the future.

Sisters of Silence sound to me like a variant of Sisters of Battle. The Black Ships are involved with the Inquisition as well, right?

 

I think therein lies your answer. The Inquisitor forums.

 

The Sisters of Silence fought in the Heresy ... long before the Sisters of Battle and even before the founding of the Inquisition. They are not a part of the Inquisition but loyal serverts of the Emperor.

 

"During the years of the Great Crusade, a cadre of Sisters were dispatched by the Emperor to aid the Death Guard in an attack on a Jorgall cylinder ship. Once there, they managed to wound a Jorgall mutant Psyker and capture it for transport to Terra.

 

The Sisters of Silence participated in some of the major actions of the Horus Heresy, including the defense of the Imperial Palace. They were perhaps most successful during the assault on Prospero, where a force of Sisters were deployed to provide specialised support for the attacking Space Wolves Legion. Due to their Untouchable nature, the Sisters were proof against the psychic attacks of the defending Thousand Sons Legion and provided a stable bulwark for the assault to be anchored upon."

Not possible.

 

The reason being the Adeptus Astra Telepathica is more akin to a phone network than a military organisation.

 

Their soul reason for being is for rich and important people to bounce messages of off them.

 

They are well guarded, hell yes. They are the glue that holds the Imperium together. Thats why they seldom leave their fortresses and have so many body guards.

 

The Sisters of Silence are an appreciable fraction of the Imperiums female pariah population, but hiven how rare a half-way decent pariah is they are few in number. They exist simply to put a bolt through an Astropath's head if a deamon should try and crawl out of it.

 

That and making sure the untrainable psykers on their way to being fed to the Emperor and the Astronomican behave.

Pre-sisters? Even better. It should provide you with more opportunity to flesh them out fluffwise and conversionwise.

 

As the B&C is a power armored only forum (i.e., no discussion on Imperial Guard or Xenos armies), I think they would fall better under the area of Sisters of Battle when making your army list. If you treat them as female 'guardsmen' then this may not be the venue. I am not sure how or if the psychic nature of these Silent Sisters could transfer with any current armies rules.

 

It sounds like an untapped vein armywise. Can't wait to see where you take it.

I think I'm thinking of something else but I thought that the Sisters of Silence all got wiped out at some point?

 

Or was that the brides of the emperor?

 

This definitely feels like one of those "we'd have heard of them by now" things.

 

Indeed. Though with something so important as what is virtually the Imperium's only long range communication network everyone would protect it. So instead of a chamber militant you have all arms of the Imperial war machine protecting you. Arbites, Imperial Guard and any other military forces present with one of these focal points.

It was never stated what happened to the Sisters of Silence. They were never recorded to have been wiped out. But neither were the Squats, Zoats, Jekeoro, Slann, Hrud, Rainbow Warriors, Space Sharks, Rubinek or Legio Cybernetica.

 

They just don't get much screen time anymore.

 

The Daughters of the Emperor were renamed Brides of the Emperor by Gorge Vandire, as he tried to get others to believe that he was the Avatar of the Emperor this was probably just an attempt to get them into bed.

 

They were renamed the Sisters of Battle and adopted by the Ecclesiarchy as its militant arm after an Imperial law was past telling them 'You shall have no man at arms'. They were to replace the Fraternis Tempelars.

Its not as if I'm making them up, from what I've read they were mentioned in:

 

1:Horus Heresy: Collected Visions

2:The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel) by James Swallow

3:The Voice by James Swallow

 

Anyway, my question was, and is, "Is this this place to work on a reborn Cadre of the Sisters of Silence"?

 

This is all for future use, I have no plans at the moment of working on it, just a question.

Liber opens its halls to any form of DIY force that is covered by the B&C - be they Loyalist or Traitor chapters, forces of the Inquisition, AM and Daemon forces. However, I am not sure if this would stretch to the Sisters of Silence - it depends on their foundations.
Sounds like you are trying to make an army akin to Comstar from the Battletech universe. A neat idea but not really suitable for the 40k universe as it would be such a large organisation that it would feature across all areas of the fluff, hence not a lot of people would readily accept it.

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