Sisters of Unabated Wrath

### Specialty

Anti-Fascist Actions, Anti-Imperial Actions, Flame Warfare, Urban Warfare, Siege Defense

*“The Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons — doing so becomes an ersatz phallic exercise.”*

May the Emperor help those who come across the Sisters of Unabated Wrath. They are a renegade order of Sisters of Battle who gave up on the Imperium after their failure to move past their hyper-fascism. Having become disillusioned they split off and forced their own society on the fringe of the borders of the Imperium known as the Eco Free States.

## Origins

The Sisters of Unabated Wrath began as a detached element of the Order of the Silver Veil stationed on the world Eco to help facilitate its defense. A corrupt planetary governor, one covetous of Eco’s rich mines, fabricated evidence and indicated that Eco had fallen to chaos.

### The 1st Battle of Eco (The Space Marine’s Attempt)

A space marine chapter, a group of prick Astartes known as “The Doves of War”, was assigned to purge the planet. Aware of the falseness of the charges and the corruption within the Imperium that allowed this to happen, the sisters attempted to save the people of Eco.

The 1st Battle of Eco lasted for years and only with aid from the local PDF were they able to repel the attack. While the Doves of Wars rolled through cities and unleashed orbital bombardments on Eco’s infrastructure (both civilian and military) the sisters roasted marines by the dozens. In a war of attrition a single chapter of marines would lose to a planet of people and, with blood and fire they purged the battle brothers of the Adeptus Astartes.

### The Aftermath

After the battle there were lots of pieces to pick up and the sisters filled a lot of the administrative and military roles. As the planet and its defenders had been declared *Excommunicate Traitoris* due to their act of rebellion, the Order of the Silver Veil disavowed them. Still, they soldiered on in the name of compassion and service to the Emperor’s compassion. They kept the armor of the Doves of War and displayed them as trophies of victory.

## "Burning Bright"

While the sisters, formerly of the Order of the Silver Veil, maintained their faith they knew they had been betrayed by all they held dear. They were filled with a righteous anger at the Imperium that had betrayed them and the sisterhood who had so quickly turned their back on them. They rebranded themselves as the Sisters of Unabated Wrath and took charge of the planet of Eco. Over the next decade they oversaw the rebuilding, rearming, and societal restructuring of the planet. The planet became a hotbed for anti-Imperial and anti-fascist thought and that began to covertly leak into the Imperium via data transmissions, back channels, Rogue Traders, and the like.

Many Inquisitors, assassins, and other Imperial agents have infiltrated Eco and tried to plant the seeds of their destruction but all, in time, were rooted out and eliminated. Their faith and the strength of their message was strong enough to keep the population inoculated against the propaganda and even psychic assault on their people by the Imperium. They created a comparative utopia once the boot of the Imperium had been lifted from their neck. While prosperous, its people still needed to toil hard and endure the onslaughts of their foes but at least they did so with abundant civil liberties and transparency from their government.

## The Three Wars

Three times Eco was attacked and four times the Sisters of Unabated Wrath repelled them.

### The 2nd Battle of Eco (The Imperial Guard’s Attempt)

The 100th-106th Vorkosigan Regiments and elements of the Imperial Navy laid siege to Eco for 12 years. Many plant falls were made by the Vorkosigan Regiments but all were eventually repelled. The Naval blockade was breached by daredevil blockade runners and sabotage eventually destroyed an Imperial Battleship (The “Unwavering Faith”) with void bombs that were smuggled onto the bridge by a clever sister.

### The Tarkin Incident (The Inquisition’s Attempt)

An Inquisitorial force made an unexpected assault on Eco by the use of a powerful artifact from the Age of Technology to teleport into the middle of its capital. It was led by Inquisitor Vem Tarkin of the Ordo Hereticus and included 2 missions of the Adepta Sororitas, several platoons of Inquisitorial Stormtroopers, and numerous small armored elements. The artifact did not work as planned however and they were horribly mutated upon emerging from the teleportation field (which had dragged them through the warp). The battle was fierce, lasting for several days, and it cost the lives of many sisters but eventually was contained. A small warp-tear remains in the capital, guarded around the clock by sisters.

### The 3rd Battle of Eco (The Ecclesiarchy’s Attempt)

After a century of relative peace (the occasional assassin notwithstanding) Eco and the Sisters had expanded their hold to several planets and they had a foothold in many more nearby systems. The Ecclesiarchy declared a crusade against Eco and its “spiritual rot”. They gathered untold millions of rabble/faithful from a dozen worlds and essentially shipped them there in bulk freighters. Many of these crazed zealots were killed before their ships could even land thanks to planetary defenses but the Ecclesiarchy planned to win through sheer volume. While there were Imperial Guard regiments mixed in, the vast majority were simply half-crazed maniacs yelling about “The Emperor” and blowing themselves up. The sisters lit them on fire and made fools of the Ecclesiarchy.

## The Expanding Nova (Present Day)

The Sisters of Unabated Wrath have expanded both their numbers and their holdings. The “Eco Free States” control a dozen planets across 3 systems and have footholds across the Imperium. While once their flames purged the mutant, the witch, and the heretic, now their flames purify the fascist, the xenophobe, and the jingoist.

## Organization

The Sisters of Unabated Wrath are a single military organization with a number of administrative and logistical elements that are integrated with The Eco Free State. The Sisterhood contains approximately 10,000 sisters at any given time and their ranks include many auxiliary units

### Square Formation

While the Sisterhood uses a form inspired by their roots as members of the Adepta Sororitas, they have significantly deviated as circumstances have demanded. They largely use a “square formation”. This means there are 4 sisters to each “cell”, 4 cells to a squad, 4 squads to a Mission, 4 Missions to a Commandery, 4 Commanderies to a Preceptory, and 4 Preceptories to a Convent-Army. This largely holds true for infantry (armor uses reduced numbers) and some platoons or even companies are made of auxiliaries. A square formation like this always lets a unit dedicate half its members to an action while holding a quarter in reserve and a quarter to supportive actions.

### Ranks

* **Novitiate Compagna:** A sister in training. A cadet.
* **Sister Compagna:** A formally trained and equipped soldier-nun of the Sisters of Unabated Wrath.
* **Compagna Superior:** Commands a squad. Equivalent to an NCO or Sergeant.
* **Compagna Palatine:** Commands a Mission. A junior officer equivalent to a Lieutenant.
* **Cannoness Commander:** Commands a Commandery. A senior officer.
* **Cannoness Preceptor:** Commands a Preceptory. A flag officer.
* **Cannoness Superior:** Commands a Convent-Army. Commands a theater of war. Equivalent to a multiple star General or Admiral.

**Note:** “Compagna” is “companion” in High Gothic. It can mean “wife”, “spouse”, “partner”, or even “friend”.

## Tactics & Equipment

*“BURN BURN BURN!”*

The Sisters of Unabated Wrath are known for 2 things: not taking fascism lying down and lighting said fascists on fire.

Each and every sister has some kind of flamer weapon or explosive on their person at all times.

**Sister Compagna (Standard Loadout)**

* x1 Hand Flamer
* x1 Chainsword
* x1 Frag Grenade, x1 Krak Grenade
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Dragon-Tamer**

* x1 Flamer
* x1 Knife
* x1 Frag Grenade, x1 Krak Grenade
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Flame-Minister**

* x1 Heavy Flamer
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Wrath-Blaster**

* x1 Rocket Launcher
* x1 Flame Pistol
* x1 Knife
* x3 Krak Grenades
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Boot-Melter**

* x1 Multimelta
* x1 Knife
* x1 Frag Grenade, x1 Krak Grenade
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Faith-Tester**

* x1 Plasma Gun
* x1 Knife
* x1 Frag Grenade, x1 Krak Grenade
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour

**Riot Girl**

* x2 Chainswords
* x1 Hand Flamer
* x2 Frag Grenades
* Wrath Pattern Sororitas Power Armour
* Jump Jets

**Compagna Superior**

A Compagna Superior may take a master-crafted version of their primary weapon. If that weapon is a chainsword they may replace it instead with a power weapon (typically power swords or power fists). When upgrading a hand flamer it may instead be made into an inferno pistol.

## Trivia

* The planet’s name “Eco” is a reference to famous modern Italian philosopher Umberto Eco who famously wrote “Ur-Facism”, the seminal work that defined fascism. They lived though Italian fascism during WWII and became an ardent anti-fascist.