The Orders of the Adepta Sororitas in the Prosperitas Sector

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The details of the foundation and nature of the Adepta Sororitas as a whole can be found here. This focuses upon the Adepta Sororitas Orders found in the Prosperitas Sector.

Four Facts about the Adepta Sororitas

  • They are the Faithful Elite. The Sorors of the Orders Militant are some of the most elite troops available to the Imperium. Their training makes them superior to almost all mortal soldiers of the Imperium, on a par with their Schola-raised brethren in the Stormtrooper Regiments. But combined with their unique status as the only mortal forces of the Imperium fully equipped with power armour and the deadly bolt guns, they are the only mortal force reliably able to match the God-Emperor’s transhuman Angels of Death, the Adeptus Astartes without staggering casualties. The Non-Militant Orders are no slouch either, often receiving access to similar equipment and training, while not as focused on war as the Militant Orders, at the same equivalent level.
  • They are part of the Ecclesiarchy but do not answer to the Priesthood. The Sisterhood was founded in the wake of the 'Reign of Blood' which marked the implementation of heavy curbs on the power of the Priesthood. For this reason the Sorors do not answer directly to the Priesthood despite respecting the guidance of the Ecclesiarch on Terra and senior Priests, they have their independence and can and will act against the judgement of Priests if they view it as unfit.
  • They hold themselves to high standards and take repentance seriously. When a Soror fails at her duties she will normally subject herself to painful physical acts of repentance. Where failures are so egregious that they cannot be ritually atoned for a Soror places herself in 'Repentia' stripping herself of her blessed armour to go into battle without its protection to face the foe to atone for her failings.
  • They are children of the Schola. Sorors are selected from those orphans raised in the Schola Progenia who demonstrated a particularly devout faith in the God Emperor, like Commissars and Stormtrooper Scions they are raised immersed in the faith of the Ecclesiarchy and indoctrinated from an early age.

Four Facts about the Orders of the Prosperitas Sector

  • Some consider them disruptive - though individual sisters may differ, the Sororitas have a reputation for being hardline puritants refusing to treat with any psyker or mutant and ensuring their own ranks are pure of any deviation from the human norm in the frontiers of the Galaxy, like the Prosperitas Sector this can mean they lack the philosophical 'flexibility' that is often demonstrated by other Imperial groups operating in such regions. Their hardline dedication to their role as caretakers of the 'purity' of the Imperial Faith can often lead to them challenging the Imperial social order - something more accepted in stable regions of the Imperium and less welcomed by the eclectic citizenry of the Prosperitas Sector - no more so is this embodied then the Order of His Sanguine Tears open support for the Fidelis Militia in defiance of their own duties to uphold Saint Thor's decree passive, out of a belief that an army of the Faith was 'necessary' to purify some of the deviant practices accepted in the Prosperitas Sector before their discovery they were being played by the Temple of the Saviour Emperor.
  • Many look to them as religious authorities - Though the social hierarchy of the Prosperitas Sector might consider Sisters a problematic force at times, it cannot be said of most faithful citizens who have found the small clusters of Sororitas activity in the Prosperitas Sector to be beacons of hope and protection against the dark. Of all the factions of the Imperial Faith present in the sector, the Sororitas are the least fragmented, and while they may not universally agree with each other they have mostly accepted, despite her flaws, the coordinating authority of Canoness Asenath Dinah of the Order of His Sanguine Tears.
  • The Sanguine Tears are specialists in Counter Insurgency Warfare, or COIN as it is dubbed by the Imperial Guard. The Sanguine Tears are experienced in fighting against insurgents, having spent years suppressing the insurrection on Nivalis. Now that their battle with the Temple is over, it is largely expected they will be a great aid to the Ordo Hereticus Inquisitors of the Ordos Prosperitas in rooting out insurgent threats like Warp Cults and the Rising Flame. For this reason as well, the Annwfyn and Ruwwad natives of the Prosperitas Sector do not have the best opinions of the Sorors having faced their persecution at points in history.
  • They can be found in many places but have no one home - Prior to the Temple Uprising some would have said that the Fortress-Convent of the Order of His Sanguine Tears on Nivalis was the spiritual headquarters of the Adepta Sororitas, but its destruction by Archenemy forces that invaded Nivalis during the uprising has left most Sisters moving as scattered groups and missions across the Sector. Though individual missions may have established roots on worlds they have deployed to there is no one central base they can rely on, the Order of His Sanguine Tears have made use of the Adepta's sole Endeavour-class Light Cruiser Saint Nafisa's Axe since the loss of their fortress monastery and make its forges and devoted tech-wrights available to maintain the wargear of any Sister from any Order. However this nomadic arrangement has led to a number of arrangements with individual Inquisitors and individuals of similar influence to maintain and support Soror missions.


The Order of His Sanguine Tears - Order Militant

An Order Minoris of the Order of our Martyred Lady, the Order of His Sanguine Tears still wears the black armour and red vestments and trim of its parent Order. Though it was not officially founded until recent years, the Priory that formed the Order first came to the Prosperitas Sector during the leadership of Warmaster Fassir, and was vital in the consolidation of Imperial control over the Cadian Corridor and Subsector Tertius.

The Order’s Greatest Champion, Saint Nafisa, was a Prosperitas-born Soror. Through her ascension upon her martyrdom against the Archenemy in battle in the Cadian Sector was born a desire amongst the Sorors who followed her to return to the Prosperitas Sector. It received blessings to do so via the support of the then Cardinal-Emissarius Grulge, who led the reinforcement of the Ecclesiarchy presence in the Sector.

Deployed to suppress riots on the Shrine World of Nivalis after religious celebrations there were interrupted by heretics in 584.M41, the Sorors witnessed a dire omen, as every statue of the Emperor seemed to weep tears of blood. With the permission of the Convent Primary on Ophelia IV and the Cardinal-Emissarius, the Soror commander, Canoness Asenath Dinah was granted the right to found a permanent Convent-Garrison on Nivalis, and found a new Order Minoris to staff it.

As young as the Order is, the Battle Sisters have made themselves a formidable presence on Nivalis. The failure of the planetary government and the Priesthood to bring about order led to both Canoness Dinah and Cardinal-Emissarius Grulge forcing the Planetary Governor to abdicate their position in favour of the Cardinal-Emissarius taking over as the Governor of Nivalis in the late 580s, with the Order engaging in several years of ongoing counter-insurgent operations on the planetary surface. These continued until the arrival of an Archenemy hulk above the planet in 592.M41.

Role in the Ecclesiarchy Civil War and the Crusade

Canoness Dinah was amongst the first members of the Ecclesiarchy to break her convents with the Heresiarch Grulge following his increasingly power-hungry attempts to silence all opponents within the Ecclesiarchy using secretive internal investigations cabals such as the ONI. Following the declaration of the Cardinal as an Apostate following the revelation of his membership of the proscribed Temple of the Saviour Emperor sect and the eruption of outright conflict between Ecclesiarchy factions, the Order was stretched thin protecting Ecclesiarchy Loyalists from the renegade Templar forces who sought to stamp out all attempts to unseat the apostate.

The Order has its own guilt to bear; the well-drilled fanatics of the Fidelis Templar, formerly the Fidelis Militia, were a product of its own hubris. Canoness Dinah willingly supported Grulge's ambitions of an 'Army of the Faith' (as did many other Priests), willfully flaunting the terms of the Decree Passive that the Sorors themselves were supposed to enforce. This guilt has led to the Order as a whole taking on oaths of penitence for their role in raising this forbidden army which caused so much destruction across the Sector. This manifested in their violent persecution of the internal conflict with the Temple, with Soror forces mounting brutal purges of Templar-held places of worship and those with sympathies towards them.

Freed from their obligations by the Fall of the Heresiarch in 597.M41, it is widely hoped that Sorors of the Order will soon return to the Crusade front-lines to help the embattled Guard and Navy forces who have been so long without their power-armoured assistance.

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