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. Even the cruder but more direct manipulations of the environment or ambient energy by the psyker such as conjured fire or the hurling of debris by telekinetic force is lessened and sometimes negated outright by the Untouchable's sheer proximity. With psychic Nulls such as the Sisters of Silence, specifically chosen for the "strength" of their gift, it is the case that their minds are not simply absent or inert to a psyker's mental perception, but howling abysses of darkness that not only negate psychic force directed at them, but actively interfere with the flow of Warp energies into realspace around them. 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.

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 Articles 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. There are those who doubt the veracity of this account, or at least its significance. Others merely contest that the historical account has been doctored. Some later speculated that the whole Pentacanaes affair was arranged; a kind of bloody experiment -- a field test whose results were bought at the deliberate sacrifice of a billion lives. But like many things that occurred during those early years of the Imperium, much of the extant record has become unknowable. Of all the Emperor of Mankind's servants, the Sisters of Silence were perhaps the most secretive and mysterious. They are a covert organisation that served as the militant arm of first the Divisio Astra Telepathica at the time of the Great Crusade and then the Adeptus Astra Telepathica since its foundation after the Horus Heresy, and within whose ranks and titles they are known, at least in formal documentation, as the Divisio Investigates -- a rather obscure phrase which covers up a shrouded world into which very few have ever had the power or the authority to look within.The Sisters of Silence are as remorseless, dedicated and as formidably skilled as any Human fighting force of the Imperium, while the cold darkness of their minds makes them a more terrible foe than any to the witch, the rogue psyker and the Warp-touched. 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. In terms of armament and equipment, the Divisio Investigates was particularly well served, and second only perhaps to the Legio Custodes in the scope and customisation of its arsenal. It had long maintained myriad different weapons and tactical systems suited to its needs, from patterns of the Terran Bolter -- a weapon more commonly associated with the Space Marine Legions -- manufactured for use by unagumented Humans, to the exquistely fashioned and utterly lethal powered Execution Blades carried by its Vigilators. 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. While they relied not only upon their power as psychic Nulls, but also their skill and speed as well as the protection of their advanced Vratine Armour to defend them from harm in such close assaults, to serve as a Vigilator was still to invite peril and death, but this was an honour that the Silent Sisterhood's ranks aspired to above all.

Vratine Grenade Launcher - The Vratine Grenade Launcher was a pattern of Grenade Launcher specifically used by the Sisters of Silence. Ultimately, the decision was made to separate the silent twins and send the girls to two different boarding schools. The hope was that, once they were on their own and able to develop a sense of self, the girls would break out of their shells and begin to communicate with the wider world. But underneath the laughter, Wallace began to discover a darkness within each twin. Reading through June’s diaries, she found that June felt possessed by her sister, whom she referred to as a “dark shadow” over her. Meanwhile, Jennifer’s diaries revealed that she thought of June and herself as “fatal enemies,” and described her sister as “a face of misery, deception, murder.”

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Vratine Armour - When a sister-aspirant takes her final oaths of duty and said the last words she will ever utter aloud in her lifetime, she is given her panoply of war: the Vratine Armour -- literally "the armour of the oath." It is a sub-pattern of technologically advanced battlegear which shares design elements with both the power armour of the Legiones Astartes and the silicate-mesh of Selenite void-mail, though unlike either of those famed armours, it is not -- at least without additional gearing -- fully environmentally sealed or designed for extended operations. It does, however, provide formidable protection from ballistic impacts and directed energy weapons, and is tailored and forged uniquely to its intended wearer to allow for their complete freedom of movement and to augment their reaction speed. Growing up in a chaotic home on Merseyside, young Joanne raised herself and her brother and sister, while her mother lapsed into a downward spiral of drinking and casual sex. Kharon Pattern Acquisitor - One of a number of unique and highly sophisticated anti-gravitic vehicles utilised exclusively by the Silent Sisterhood, the Kharon Pattern Acquisitor was in truth a paramilitary rather than battlefield design meant for the execution of the great psyker cull of the burgeoning Imperium's worlds. Built to incorporate numerous systems to approach its targets silently and with utmost stealth, this grav-tank was also made quite deliberately to be a thing of mystery and terror when its presence was unveiled, to cow potential resistance through fear as much as the threat of force. In the early 1980s, Marjorie Wallace was working as an investigative journalist with The Sunday Times in London. When she heard about a pair of unusual twin girls responsible for setting at least three fires, she was hooked.