Order Of the Motive Force

#### Origin

The Order of The Motive Force is a Sisterhood of Adepta Sororitas founded by Canoness Irulan for the purpose of pursuing the mammon Crusade. Irulan envisioned her new found Order to be a mainly mechanized force, leaning heavily on transports and blessed war-machines. She felt that speed in battle was the imperium's greatest strength and so she would make that strength hers. The Order would be a swift hammer of the emperor's wrath, driven forward by faith and roaring engines and fire. Her quest to secure the required warmachines lead Iurlan and her sisters to form close ties with the adepts of mars, bartering oaths and fealty on bended knee before the cathedral manufactoria in exchange for the holy engines of destruction that would carry them to the emperor's foes.

#### The Muster

The Order began as a small splinter of the Order of the Argent Shroud, a core of sisters superior and their loyal squads bonded to canoness Irulan through years of battle and faith in her vision of crusade. Too few Sisters followed Irulan to wage a true crusade and so a muster was announced in hopes that other sisters and imperial forces would join them. It would take 3 years for the mechanicus to complete the delicate work necessary to build the armored core of tanks that Irulan requested and so Irulan and her sisters knelt upon the manufactory steps and entered a period of holy meditation and penance. Over the 3 year span only a few battle sisters answered the call, but crusader orders, priests and ancillary staff gathered from across the sector around the meditating sisters. When the forge's great gates finally opened and the holy engines of war rolled out the sisters and their mustered crusaders wept at the beauty of the sight and it is said their tears fell as drops of sacred oil from their cheeks. This was declared a divine sign of the omnisiah's favor and Canoness Irulan pronounced a new name for the sisterhood in honor of the moment and of the contribution of the mechanicus to the sisterhood's founding "the order of the Motive force".

#### Planetfall and Disaster

Shortly after the muster, the Order of the Motive Force arrived in the Mammon system and landed on the ravaged world of Antiphon. The Order immediately set about constructing a Convent Fortress and Cathedral from which it would pacify and re-conquer the world in the emperor's name. As the Spires and holy edifices of the cathedral grew from the dust and disaster of the riven world the sisterhood would commission a map of the solar system to be made by renown cartographer Nickodemus Gorge. Shortly after the map was delivered to the Cannoness disaster struck.

In the middle of the night, unknown forces fell upon the cathedral and broke it in fire and destruction. Orbital bombardment, planted explosives and the un-holy influence of warp born turbulence came together to raise the noble edifice in a single hour of brutal violence. Come the dawn the ragged remnants of the Sisterhood pulled themselves from the rubble to find that their blessed machines of war miraculously survived the bombardment. Filled with rage the survivors loaded the ruined remnants of their cathedral onto the hulls of their tanks and immediately set off on a wild eyed quest for vengeance. Canoness Irulan swore on the soul of the emperor that her and her sisters would never rest, never stop until those responsible for the cathedral's destruction were crushed too dust beneath the tread of their war machines.

Few among the Sisterhood questioned the quiet appearance of Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus in the bloody morning hours following the cathedral's destruction. None would ask the reason the inquisitor would choose to follow the order in their single minded crusade for blood and vengeance, it was clear to all that she pursued the same vile force that had brought the cathedral to ruin. No one would notice or question the disappearance of astro-Cartographer Nickodemus Gorge. No one would think to search for his maps now burnt to cinders and burried beneath a mountain of rubble.

## Crusade Timeline

### Season 1

1. The Slaughter
2. The Thoth infestation

## Army List

#### HQ

Canoness Irulan: 1xp

Palatine Veridiyan: 5xp

#### Troops

Calamity Squad: (melta) 1xp

Naomi Squad: (flamer) 2xp

Beatrix Squad: (H-bolter) 1xp

Jessica Squad: (20 sister, 2 flamer, simulacrum)

#### Elites:

Preacher Nickodemus: 1xp

Crusaders of the Templar shield: 1xp

Crusaders of the Convent Step: 2xp

Crusaders of Kyria's Iratus: 1xp

#### Heavy Support

castigator, the mausoleum of thunder: 5xp. battle Scar- weakened armour

Immolator, the sacristy of fire: 2xp

## Battle-scribe army readout

++ Battalion Detachment 0CP (Imperium - Adepta Sororitas) [56 PL, 6CP, 1,000pts] ++

+ Configuration +

Battle Size [6CP]: 2. Incursion (51-100 Total PL / 501-1000 Points)

Detachment Command Cost

Gametype

Order Convictions: Order: Argent Shroud

+ Agents of the Imperium +

Lord Inquisitor Kyria Draxus [5 PL, 85pts]: 3) Dominate

+ HQ +

Canoness [3 PL, 65pts]: Brazier of Holy Fire, Chainsword, Inferno pistol, Warlord, Warlord Trait: 5. Indomitable Belief

Palatine [3 PL, 45pts]: Bolt pistol

+ Troops +

Battle Sister Squad [6 PL, 106pts]: Incensor Cherub

. 4x Battle Sister: 4x Bolt pistol, 4x Boltgun, 4x Frag & Krak grenades

. Battle Sister w/ Special or Heavy Weapon: Multi-melta

. Sister Superior: Power sword

. . Bolt Pistol & Combi-melta: Combi-melta

Battle Sister Squad [6 PL, 86pts]: Incensor Cherub

. 4x Battle Sister: 4x Bolt pistol, 4x Boltgun, 4x Frag & Krak grenades

. Battle Sister w/ Special or Heavy Weapon: Heavy bolter

. Sister Superior: Power maul

. . Bolt Pistol & Boltgun

Battle Sister Squad [6 PL, 91pts]

. 4x Battle Sister: 4x Bolt pistol, 4x Boltgun, 4x Frag & Krak grenades

. Battle Sister w/ Special or Heavy Weapon: Ministorum Heavy Flamer

. Sister Superior: Power sword

. . Bolt Pistol & Condemnor Boltgun: Condemnor Boltgun

+ Elites +

Crusaders [3 PL, 55pts]

. 5x Crusaders: 5x Power sword

Crusaders [3 PL, 66pts]

. 6x Crusaders: 6x Power sword

Crusaders [3 PL, 66pts]

. 6x Crusaders: 6x Power sword

Preacher [2 PL, 25pts]: Relic: Triptych of the Macharian Crusade

. Auto Pistol & Chainsword

+ Heavy Support +

Castigator [9 PL, 175pts]: Castigator Battle Cannon, Hunter-killer missile, Storm bolter

+ Dedicated Transport +

Immolator [7 PL, 135pts]: Hunter-killer missile, Immolation flamers

++ Total: [56 PL, 6CP, 1,000pts] ++

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