Psyker Hunters

Psyker Hunters are highly trained and experienced conventional soldiers selected from among the best of the Helguard and Arbites and given a half decade long intensive training regime on killing psykers. These disciplined soldiers prefer to kill their foes by stealth and range, though they are also deadly melee combatants. Psyker Hunters are generally deployed in small Kill-Teams and often try to take advantage of the chaos that most major psykers cause to get into position. Usually a Psyker Hunter Kill-Team is the first responder to a rogue psyker.

### Alkahestrial Augments

The Alkahestrial Augments that the Nynye provided to you for the Witch and Psyker Hunters provide a good level of base physical boosts that when combined with the psyker hunters existing cybernetic augmentations should put them physically on par with Astartes.

The Psyker Hunter Augments are infused with the story of the Hunter, those who hunt dangerous prey and strike from hiding. It should make it harder to detect them, especially via psychic means, and guide their initial blows to where their targets' defences are weakest. Additionally, they should boost the speed and agility of the Psyker Hunter, allowing them to get into position faster and better doge any return attacks.

## Skill Levels

### Psyker Hunters

Psyker Hunters are selected from among the best soldiers in the Avernite Helguard, especially those talented at stealth or marksmanship. Their training builds on these talents and strengthens their will, though they can not be expected to stand for long against the telepathy of a powerful psyker. Instead Psyker Hunters use a wide range of tactics of technologies to avoid straight fights, and leverage their greater skill and coordination if forced into a straight fight. Generally Psyker Hunters work in Kill-Teams of around a dozen Psyker Hunters, of whom at least five will be Veterans and one an Elite. Psyker Hunters are equipped with Neutron and power weaponry boosted by Runes of Banishment as standard as well as advanced power armour, Searing Seas Enchanted Talismans of Protection and simple wards. All Psyker Hunters use Teleport Evacuation Devices and Mindstatis Devices to reduce their casualties. One in five Psykers Hunters is equipped with a Battlesuit, giving them powerful and mobile fire support. Like all Jeagers their equipment is often made by the master Artisans of the Orkwings who reach a level of skill few humans can match.

### Veteran Psyker Hunters

Most Veteran Psyker Hunters have spent at least thirty years as a Psyker Hunter, allowing them to build up a great deal of experience fighting psykers. These Veterans are equipped with more advanced weaponry as well as Basic Wards. Veteran Psyker Hunters make up a major portion of the Psyker Hunters total number, and are considered to be the backbone of your Psyker Hunters. Veteran Psyker Hunters replace their Battlesuits with the highly advanced Special Operations Battlesuits.

### Elite Psyker Hunters

Elite Psyker Hunters are some of the best soldiers on Avernus, with most having survived over a hundred and twenty years as a Psyker Hunter, one of the most dangerous professions on Avernus. Elite Psyker Hunters are highly skilled and practical fighters, willing to do whatever it takes to kill their targets. While they sometimes work in elite Kill-Teams most Elite Psyker Hunters lead teams of less experienced Psyker Hunters. To do this they are given access to Shields Breaker Rounds, which bypass many psychic shields, munitions marked with the Inverted Runes of Focus, as well as Advanced Warding and the Rune of Reinforcement on their armour.

### Master Psyker Hunters

Master Psyker Hunters have pushed their skills at hunting rogue psykers to the utter limit. These centuries old veterans are individually equipped with some of the best weaponry known to the Imperial Trust and Advanced Wards reinforced with Trap Runes which allows them to hunt all but the most powerful of Psykers. This is also the point where Psyker Hunters tend to be equiped with the most advnaced wargear, such as TrueSilver weapons and wards, TrueIron armour and even Blink Creators. Given their limited numbers they will most often be kept in reserve to deal with the more powerful rogue Psykers, though some prefer to lead units of less experienced Psyker Hunters. Around a tenth of all Master Psyker Hunters are equipped with Null Blades, making them a terrifying foe to any psyker they get close enough to.

### Grandmaster Psyker Hunters

These deadly hunters generally have centuries of experience, and have honed their abilities at locating and slaying rogue Psykers to a fine edge. Where the Grandmaster Witch Hunters are some of Avernus’ greatest warriors, the Grandmaster Psyker Hunters are far more pragmatic in their preferences, often slaying a rogue psyker before it knows that it is in danger. Despite their preferences when it comes to battle the Grandmaster Psyker Hunters remain utterly deadly, showing that they did not survive generations in one of Avernus’ most dangerous careers by stealth and luck alone. All Grandmaster Psyker Hunters are supplied with Null Blades as standard, allowing them to easily cripple any psyker they can reach. Defensively they are suppled with Personal Void Shield Generators, which while bulky provide them with enough defences to take a direct hit from all but the most powerful psykers.

### Exemplar Psyker Hunters

Exemplar Psyker Hunters are assassins on par with even the Masters of the Assassinorum Temples of the Old Imperium, each having honed their unique way of hunting over the course of centuries. Like all Psyker Hunters while they prefer steal and surprise to make their kills, if forced into a more extended fight display skills that few on Avernus can dream to match, and equipment that even fewer posses. Exemplar Psyker Hunters are among the bare handful of Avernite provided with Orichalcum weapons and armour.