Sororitas Bloopers

[*Furyou Miko]

Just for fun... some alternate endings to famous scenes featuring the Adepta Sororitas!

 

First, apropos of Knight of the Raven, we have...

 

 

 

Vandire smiled peacefully at the young Frateris Templar. "Trust in the Emperor, for he protects me." He ordered, fingering his rosarius to make sure that the conversion field generator was active.

 

"Y.. yes, sir." The young officer swallowed nervously and raised his laspistol, firing once at the Ecclesiarch's chest, praying that his master was right. There was a bright flash as the conversion field activated, and them a scream from one of the other templars as Lord Goge fell backwards, a fist-sized hole in his neck where the ancient device's power circuits had overloaded.

 

Lord Goge Vandire, freshly-promoted Ecclesiarch, High Lord of the Administratum... died. Nervously, the Frateris Templar turned to look at the increasingly angry group of female cultists in whose temple they stood, and reached for their weapons.

 

"I think, sir, that perhaps you had better leave." A young novice named Alicia said, softly. There was more threat in that simple phrase than in any of the late Vandire's bombastic speeches.

[Servant of Dante]

I just noticed this, (you sig)

There is no knowledge
that is not power.
Power corrupts.
Ignorance is Innocence.

I mean, I've read it before, and I like it, but one might remember that "Innocence is no Excuse," and (somewhat of a contradiction), "There is no innocence, only varying degrees of guilt"

 

Not sure if I remembered that second one exactly right. These are both from GW books.

 

As usual, I don't really have an on-topic comment to make, but I will keep this thread in mind.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

 

Just for fun... some alternate endings to famous scenes featuring the Adepta Sororitas!

 

First, apropos of Knight of the Raven, we have...

 

 

 

Vandire smiled peacefully at the young Frateris Templar. "Trust in the Emperor, for he protects me." He ordered, fingering his rosarius to make sure that the conversion field generator was active.

 

"Y.. yes, sir." The young officer swallowed nervously and raised his laspistol, firing once at the Ecclesiarch's chest, praying that his master was right. There was a bright flash as the conversion field activated, and them a scream from one of the other templars as Lord Goge fell backwards, a fist-sized hole in his neck where the ancient device's power circuits had overloaded.

 

Lord Goge Vandire, freshly-promoted Ecclesiarch, High Lord of the Administratum... died. Nervously, the Frateris Templar turned to look at the increasingly angry group of female cultists in whose temple they stood, and reached for their weapons.

 

"I think, sir, that perhaps you had better leave." A young novice named Alicia said, softly. There was more threat in that simple phrase than in any of the late Vandire's bombastic speeches.

 

This would spare the Imperium a LOT of trouble. I wonder how increased stability (or stagnation, if you were its enemy) would affect the future of the 'Warhammer 40,000' universe? Perhaps the Adeptus Mechanicus Explorators who discovered the Tau home world in M35, would have the opportunity to exterminate the xenos and allow human colonists to claim it, sparing the Imperium the inconvenience of the Damocles Gulf Crusade in M41? Perhaps, with the forces invested in the Damocles Gulf Crusade being available (due to the aforementioned extermination of the Tau), Hive Fleet Behemoth could be destroyed before it reached Macragge?

[Bjorn Firewalker]

I just noticed this, (you sig)

There is no knowledge

that is not power.

Power corrupts.

Ignorance is Innocence.

I mean, I've read it before, and I like it, but one might remember that "Innocence is no Excuse," and (somewhat of a contradiction), "There is no innocence, only varying degrees of guilt"

 

Not sure if I remembered that second one exactly right. These are both from GW books.

 

As usual, I don't really have an on-topic comment to make, but I will keep this thread in mind.

How about this:

 

"There is no knowledge that is not power.

 

"Power corrupts.

 

"Ignorance is the means by which corruption is removed from the Emperor's instruments, as a whetstone removes rust from a sword."

[*Furyou Miko]

It certainly makes 'Innocence proves nothing' make more sense :p

 

Without the Reign of Blood, the Imperium would be much better off. A lot of the Great Crusade era technology that's not present in 40k was lost during the Reign of Blood.

[BitsHammer]

Black Templar players would have to argue with us on who is better since they committed how many Marines again to try and take the Ecclesiarchal palace, something that came into existence AFTER Dorn vanished and was only manned by regular humans versus the Imperial Palace which was fortified by Dorn and the best engineers during the height of the Imperium and had trouble holding off the traitor Marines while being manned by loyal Marines?

 

Just saying. ;P

 

Teasing aside the whole Reign of Blood was a right mess and without Vandire I have to wonder if someone else wouldn't have unified the branches like he did for good, or possibly worse intentions. Or if we'd have a different flavor of our favorite Imperial cultists.

 

Thinking of cults, why haven't they Word Bearers raised their own tainted version of the Sisters, or tried enslaving a cgroup of them? Seems right up their alley since they seem so intent on "correcting" the Imperial Truth.

 

Also got to wonder if no one bothered to check to see who exactly wrote that "good book" they teach from...

[Servant of Dante]

My short-short story Whisper in the Wind was originally going to have a sister failing to protect someone because of Tzeentch, but I decided I didn't want to portray that. The inspiration was that my seraphim superior died to her plasma pistol two games in a row, and I figured that Tzeentch must be to blame.

 

Also, please read the story. It's one of those things where nobody leaves any comments and it's a little disappointing. I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out myself.

[*Furyou Miko]

Black Templar players would have to argue with us on who is better since they committed how many Marines again to try and take the Ecclesiarchal palace, something that came into existence AFTER Dorn vanished and was only manned by regular humans versus the Imperial Palace which was fortified by Dorn and the best engineers during the height of the Imperium and had trouble holding off the traitor Marines while being manned by loyal Marines?

Don't you mean wouldn't have to? No Vandire means no Reign of Blood means no second siege of terra.

 

Teasing aside the whole Reign of Blood was a right mess and without Vandire I have to wonder if someone else wouldn't have unified the branches like he did for good, or possibly worse intentions. Or if we'd have a different flavor of our favorite Imperial cultists.

Instead of the Battle Sisters, we would have the Frateris Templar as an army still. Pretty easy to answer that one. What there would have been is a period of chaos - no Thor means no single unifying leader to step into the role of Ecclesiarch, although the Administratum would probably replace their leader quickly enough. The Ordo Hereticus wouldn't have been founded either.

 

Thinking of cults, why haven't they Word Bearers raised their own tainted version of the Sisters, or tried enslaving a group of them? Seems right up their alley since they seem so intent on "correcting" the Imperial Truth.

You're assuming they haven't tried. They've just failed to convert Sisters, because Sisters are incorruptible because of their true faith.

Also got to wonder if no one bothered to check to see who exactly wrote that "good book" they teach from...

A common misconception. The Temple of the Saviour Emperor was the last-man-standing in the wars that preceded the founding of the Ecclesiarchy, and their only rival was the Convocation of Light. The Lecititio Divinatus cult doesn't even get a mention that late in the game and must have died out much earlier.

[BitsHammer]

We have no official fluff or stories about attempting to brainwash Sisters over to Chaos. Ah well, IF I manage to become a BL Author I guess I could fix that. :P

 

And yes, no whiney BL players is what I meant while poking fun at them.

[Warsmith Aznable]

Not exactly blooper related, but creative writing related since I didn't want to start a new thread just for this.

Over in the Chaos subforum we have a long running weekly/biweekly writing contest called Inspiration Friday. The current topic is "Tales of Honour" and the subject matter is open to Loyalists as well as those fallen.

Since I am the current presiding judge, I invite all here in the Sororitas subforum to come share some righteous and holy creativity with the traitors and renegades and show them what's what!

[taikishi]

 

Thinking of cults, why haven't they Word Bearers raised their own tainted version of the Sisters, or tried enslaving a group of them? Seems right up their alley since they seem so intent on "correcting" the Imperial Truth.

You're assuming they haven't tried. They've just failed to convert Sisters, because Sisters are incorruptible because of their true faith.

 

 

Whereas I see this and think more of:

 

Fluff - Chaos cultists with the same fanatical devotion to either Chaos or a specific god that the Sisters have in the God Emperor but aren't fallen Sisters.

Mechanics - an army that uses the Sisters rules but aren't Sisters and aren't fallen Sisters.

 

I don't see why that can't be a possibility, basically a dark mirror of the Sororitas. After our April Fools' tournament, our local Tau player fell in love with playing my Sisters and decided she wanted to start a Slaaneshi version, but not after some dirty looks on my part she clarified that she wanted to do something that was more an experiment of the Dark God, not actual tainted/fallen Sisters and would be more of a Counts As Sisters army.

[BitsHammer]

 

 

 

Thinking of cults, why haven't they Word Bearers raised their own tainted version of the Sisters, or tried enslaving a group of them? Seems right up their alley since they seem so intent on "correcting" the Imperial Truth.

You're assuming they haven't tried. They've just failed to convert Sisters, because Sisters are incorruptible because of their true faith.

Whereas I see this and think more of:

 

Fluff - Chaos cultists with the same fanatical devotion to either Chaos or a specific god that the Sisters have in the God Emperor but aren't fallen Sisters.

Mechanics - an army that uses the Sisters rules but aren't Sisters and aren't fallen Sisters.

 

I don't see why that can't be a possibility, basically a dark mirror of the Sororitas. After our April Fools' tournament, our local Tau player fell in love with playing my Sisters and decided she wanted to start a Slaaneshi version, but not after some dirty looks on my part she clarified that she wanted to do something that was more an experiment of the Dark God, not actual tainted/fallen Sisters and would be more of a Counts As Sisters army.

Pretty much what I was thinking. I mean with all the powers of chaos it's only make sense that sooner or later they'd see a group of well equipped cultists.

[Knight of the Raven]

Vandire smiled peacefully at the young Frateris Templar. "Trust in the Emperor, for he protects me." He ordered, fingering his rosarius to make sure that the conversion field generator was active.

"Y.. yes, sir." The young officer swallowed nervously and raised his laspistol, firing once at the Ecclesiarch's chest, praying that his master was right. There was a bright flash as the conversion field activated, and them a scream from one of the other templars as Lord Goge fell backwards, a fist-sized hole in his neck where the ancient device's power circuits had overloaded.

Lord Goge Vandire, freshly-promoted Ecclesiarch, High Lord of the Administratum... died. Nervously, the Frateris Templar turned to look at the increasingly angry group of female cultists in whose temple they stood, and reached for their weapons.

"I think, sir, that perhaps you had better leave." A young novice named Alicia said, softly. There was more threat in that simple phrase than in any of the late Vandire's bombastic speeches.

Though the Reign of Blood was necessary. Indeed, some injustices are necessary to prevent greater injustices, and there is no greater injustice than the Adepta Sororitas never being born.

[Servant of Dante]

Not exactly blooper related, but creative writing related since I didn't want to start a new thread just for this.

Over in the Chaos subforum we have a long running weekly/biweekly writing contest called Inspiration Friday. The current topic is "Tales of Honour" and the subject matter is open to Loyalists as well as those fallen.

Since I am the current presiding judge, I invite all here in the Sororitas subforum to come share some righteous and holy creativity with the traitors and renegades and show them what's what!

I have an idea for a story . . . I'll drop it in my order's topic and in the inspiration Friday topic when it's done.

[ChromeZephyr]

Thinking of cults, why haven't they Word Bearers raised their own tainted version of the Sisters, or tried enslaving a cgroup of them? Seems right up their alley since they seem so intent on "correcting" the Imperial Truth.

 

My Warhost has done precisely that, as Temple Guards steeped in the True Faith for the worlds they conquer.  Cultists are good for soaking up enemy ammunition and sacrificial offerings, and the host has better things to do than garrison the new Temple Worlds they leave in their wake themselves.  I'm currently banned from purchasing new models until I finish up the boxes and armies of unpainted plastic I have currently, but a few units of them will be created when I get there.

[*Furyou Miko]

Oh, Chaos Cults with similar levels of faith and training I don't have a problem with. XD My Chaos army are such a group, even. It's just specifically Corrupted Adepta Sororitas that grind my gears.

[BitsHammer]

Oh, Chaos Cults with similar levels of faith and training I don't have a problem with. XD My Chaos army are such a group, even. It's just specifically Corrupted Adepta Sororitas that grind my gears.

Psychically brainwashed, forced possessed or otherwise doing something to remove their choice to side with Chaos I don't mind as a way to justify it, but them just going renegade on their own is pretty impossible IMO.

[*Furyou Miko]

That's conversation for the Lost and the Damned though.

[Servant of Dante]

I mean, this is the sisters' forum. We're allowed to say that there's no reason a sister would choose to serve the dark gods, right? I'd like to think that we are as good or better than the grey Knights (but I'm biased).

[BitsHammer]

That's conversation for the Lost and the Damned though.

 

Fair enough. Speaking of bloopers....

 

 

Cardinal Thran Gelph was lost. Not that he wanted to admit it of course, but at some point the band of Sororitas he led had become hopelessly lost. All around them the local flora waved in the breeze, almost as if it was mocking him. He turned from the map on his pictslate to the sound of footsteps approaching him and his eyes met those of Sister Superior Heneretta. His frown deeped as he recognized the look on her face.

 

"Cardinal, are we lost?"

 

"We are not lost! We've merely been misdirected by some kind of foul chaos witchery!"

 

She tilted her head just a little, her expression not unlike a mother looking down on her child, "So we are lost then."

 

He sputtered, his face turning a shade of red that matched his robes perfectly.

 

"I'll have my squad question the locals in the village we just passed then. I'm sure we'll find our way, or find the source of this witchery you spoke of."

 

"You shall do no such thing!" Several of the Battle Sisters present looked up from their positions, some had been praying while others maintained vigil for any signs of enemy movement but now their eyes were focused on the Cardinal. "Now get back in position before I turn this whole formation around and take us back to the drop site!"

 

The Sister Superior's face was emotionless save for a rather amused twinkle in her eyes, "As you wish Cardinal."

 

As she left the man turned back to his pictslate while muttering to himself about the nerve to imply that he could be lost. The gall to think that a faithful Imperial Servant like himself would need directions!

[Servant of Dante]

This is wonderful. Did you write it?

[BitsHammer]

This is wonderful. Did you write it?

I did!

Actually wrote it specifically to post here just before I did post it. I've been feeling pretty inspired lately.

[Servant of Dante]

I'm working on a story. Im going to post it to inspration Friday in the csm forum. Incidentally my main character is an imperial Saint of my creation!

[BitsHammer]

I'm working on a story. Im going to post it to inspration Friday in the csm forum. Incidentally my main character is an imperial Saint of my creation!

Sounds neat! I did a short piece of my own for that. Just something that came to mind.

[Servant of Dante]

 

I'm working on a story. Im going to post it to inspration Friday in the csm forum. Incidentally my main character is an imperial Saint of my creation!

Sounds neat! I did a short piece of my own for that. Just something that came to mind.

I'll make sure to read it. My piece will go in my order's thread since it will be relevant