/tg/ Heresy 31k-40k Dump

This page details people, events, and organisations from The /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

Sisters of Battle

To Be Resolved:

-Boob Plates

-The role of Imperial Saints

-Possibility of SoB covens reflecting specific saints and emulating their tactics and equipment around their story

Ideas for SoB to be debated: then placed in 31k-40k ideas.

• Lorica segmentata instead of corsets for the torso bits?

• More relation to the Sisters of Silence?

• Detailing out the training and life of the Sisters?

• Basing Covents on famous figures of the Imperium, including Primarchs?

Proposal 1: The Sexy Solution

• Keep boob plates.

• Add hot men in revealing robes (go for a kind of "sexy Jesus" look, with long hair, beard and big brown eyes).

• Also add hot men in tight pants. Maybe the non-Militant Orders could have pages or something? Or maybe they could just admit men, given that they don't bear arms? "Ordo Famulous", indeed!

• Keep the Orders Majoris based on the founding Saints of the Sororitas (OU's versions are Alicia Dominica and her Companions).

• The Orders Minoris are spin-offs from the Majoris Orders founded because of reasons.

• Sisters of Silence connection left vague because there's five thousand years of obscurity.

• Primarch-based Orders to be filed alongside -4STR - it's an insulting idea that shouldn't even be considered. The OU Orders already are based on famous figures from the Imperium - Alicia Dominica and her companions!

And a clarification: there are two Convents, one on Terra and one on Ophelia VII. Both house multiple Orders. There are also Preceptories scattered around the Galaxy, each housing about a thousand sisters from an Order (which might be the lot if they're a Minor Order). On top of that, the Sororitas have Commanderies, which are barracks-nunneries with about 200 sisters.

Note: hot men should bare arms.

More SoB stuff

We should also consider numbers, equipment and chain of command. They are an army, after all.

Proposal 1: Full Sororitas

The Sisters are meant to be the main military arm of the Ecclesiarchy, which is a gigantic part of the Imperium. OU numbers are six Orders Majoris, with tens of thousands of Sisters each, plus "lots" of Orders Minoris with thousands of Sisters. A conservative estimate would be half a million troops, which is rarer than the Astartes and basically nothing on a Galactic scale.

So I suggest that the Orders Majoris are all well over a hundred thousand power armoured troops, PLUS millions of flak/wishful-thinking armoured troops. (Consider: the Sororitas we know are from the Progenia, so there can't be very many of them. But how many faithful women from less distinguished backgrounds are there who would be willing to fight if it meant a way out of the horrors of the hive?) Altogether, the Ecclesiarchy has well over a million Adepta Sororitas proper (power armoured) plus hundreds of millions of women in arms - the largest army in the Imperium after the Imperial Guard.

To make sense of this, they need more ranks up the top. The OU has a position (but no person, sadface) for the Abbess Sanctorum, who is meant to be the head honcho for the Sororitas. In the Catholic Church, and Abbott or Abbess ranks up there with a Bishop. Then there's the Prioress (in the Catholic Church, a very low-ranking office), then Canonesses (which is just a term for a nun). Instead of this:

• Just a senior Abbess at the top of the Adepta Sororitas is fine - call her the Abbess Primoris, Abbess Palatine, Archabbess or what-have-you - formally equivalent in rank to the Arch-Cardinals (Cardinals Palatine, depending on which book you're reading) but required to be subordinate to their decisions and the will of the Ecclesiarch. She commands from a Convent on Terra.

• Each of the Orders Majoris should have an Abbess as their commander, again with an equal rank but subordinate to the Cardinals of the Adeptus Ministorum. These all have their own Convent based on a Shrine World elsewhere in the Galaxy. The Orders Minoris are distinguished by having a Prioress at their head and being based in a Priory, which denotes their junior status without making them out to be part of the same command structure.

• With that in hand, the Preceptories and Commanderies of the OU are fine for the work of fanning the Sisters out through the Galaxy.

Equipment is a relatively low priority. They shouldn't really have the Legiones Astartes kit, otherwise they're female space marines. Ideally, their kit ought to be out in its own little realm of special.

WAAAAGH! The Beast

Infernals Terminator

At some stage we gotta get this party started. The OTL has it kick off in 544.M32. Certain things need to happen here, like culling the Loyalists. A lot of Second Founding Chapters die. Others, like the Infernals, get beat up and/or go crazy.