The Silent Sister

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I turned onto Craven Street and pulled into our driveway. Daddy's car was in the garage. I could see its roof through the glass windows—one of them broken--of the garage door. I hadn't thought about his car. Was it better to sell it or donate it? I had an appointment with his attorney in the morning and I'd add that question to my ever-growing list. The car should really go to my brother Danny to replace his ancient junker, but I had the feeling he'd turn it down. These Divisio Astra Telepathica-administered star systems were only known to other arms of the Imperium as vague and shifting code designations, but here the Silent Sisters alone held sway and what numbers, facilities and resources they possessed in these sovereign domains, none save they and the Emperor knew. By the time the girls were teenagers, their language had become unintelligible to anyone else. They had also developed other peculiarities, such as refusing to communicate with virtually any outsiders, refusing to read or write in school, and mirroring each other’s actions. The sisters have more esoteric methods for hunting foes whose sorcerous abilities make them proof against physical harm. Psyk-Out Grenades, for instance, contain the ground-down ashes of cremated martyrs from the ranks of the sisters, bodily remains that have lost none of their potency as weapons of psychic nullification. The foe reels after each detonation as the Sisterhood close in to deal the final blow.

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The Emperor knew of the powers in the Warp that haunted Humankind, and had long sought to starve them of influence by denying their existence altogether, and spreading this belief among all those who came under His rule. Part of this strategy was the manipulation of the Pariah Gene, an extremely rare genetic anomaly that broke the link between the Immaterium and the material universe in the form of an individual Human being so blessed -- or afflicted as the case may be. Even the presence of a single Pariah is an ice-cold blanket over the fires of the soul, a suffocating chill that can turn a nigh-omnipotent psyker into a weakling ripe for slaughter. I don’t like religion, to be honest. Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.” 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.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. Communication outside their ranks was usually facilitated by one of two sources. Firstly, through the involvement of selected apprentice-acolytes of the Sisterhood, themselves Untouchables and warriors in training of various ages, who acted as intermediaries, known as the "Proloquors," and secondly through a number of techno-linguis systems which allowed the symbolic-structure of their sisters' sign-forms to be rendered machine-readable at great speed, and if needed in extermis, outputted as a vox-signal via servo-automata. Riley MacPherson has spent her entire life believing that her older sister Lisa committed suicide as a teenager. Now, over twenty years later, her father has passed away and she’s in New Bern, North Carolina cleaning out his house when she finds evidence to the contrary. Lisa is alive. Alive and living under a new identity. But why exactly was she on the run all those years ago, and what secrets are being kept now? As Riley works to uncover the truth, her discoveries will put into question everything she thought she knew about her family. Riley must decide what the past means for her present, and what she will do with her newfound reality.

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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." The Silent Sisters of a Raptora Cadre stand as the foremost warrior knights of the Chamber of Oblivion. Each Raptora is a sublime fighter of superlative skill and they often serve as the personal honour guard forStill, not all were reviled or ironically burned as witches. The offspring of these few had children of their own, and over the generations, the genetic peculiarity of the Silent Sisterhood found its way further into the vast spread of the Human race. Primarily armed with Flamers or more rarely Assault Needlers, their secondary tactical function was to deny rogue elements escape routes, cut off avenues of ambush and prevent encirclement by often numerically superior opposition forces. They were also deployed to prevent the potential interruption of the retrieval of the psykers who comprised a portion of every world's contribution to the Imperial Tithe by the local population or planetary government, as such removals were sometimes unpopular.