Sisters of Silence - Restoration in the Era Indomitus: Though a portion of the Silent Sisterhood still garrison the Black Ships, many more have answered the call to war in the wake of the birth of the Great Rift in the Era Indomitus. With Warp storms ravaging the Imperium and the Daemon Primarchs walking the worlds of the material universe once more, the moment has come for the Silent Sisterhood to change the faltering course of Human history.They will not be found wanting. Those in whom the Pariah Gene makes itself fully manifest are still highly prized by the Adeptus Astra Telepathica. Often they are sought out at great length and considerable expense. Once they have been secured, they are taken up by the Black Ships and returned to Holy Terra.Most perish during the stringent loyalty tests and punishing physical regimes they must endure as part of their training. Some, should they be judged fit for it, are taken to the hidden fortress of the Officio Assassinorum's Culexus Temple where they are trained and transformed into the soulless horrors known as Culexus Assassins. Others become soul-guardians within the Imperial Palace. Despite the intensity of their trials, a significant number of these female Pariahs have the sheer fortitude to make it into the Silent Sisterhood.It was Roboute Guilliman who, upon his resurrection in 999.M41 after the 13th Black Crusade and resumption of the duties of the Lord Commander of the Imperium, ordered the remnants of the Silent Sisterhood located and reinstated to the Imperial fold.Guilliman well remembered the value his father had placed on the Null-Maidens. With the threat posed by the Great Rift, they were now needed more than ever, and he declared the Dispensatus Anathema, sending out as emissaries those of the Sisterhood who had fought with him at the Battle of Luna. The decree called upon Sisters of Silence who still fought in the sectors surrounding the Throneworld.As Guilliman's Indomitus Crusade took shape and the first fleets were mustered, bands of Silent Sisters converged on Terra from every direction. Each isolated group had met different challenges through the generations, diverging to overcome them as necessity dictated. The tactics, characters, and traditions of each group were far removed from each other, but their collective sense of duty was undimmed.The hosts of Silent Sisters upon Terra eventually numbered near three thousand, and Guilliman declared them the Vigil Indomitus. They would be the first in a spreading network of vigils throughout the Imperium, each granted the explicit authority to carry out their ancient duties. The Vigil Indomitus divided into cadres, with each joining the battle groups of the Indomitus Crusade fleets.As the influence of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica had waxed and waned over the millennia, their military arm had become less prominent. There had once been a large population of Sisters of Silence during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. Though numerous enough to play a role in the War of the Beast a thousand standard years after the end of the Heresy, by the 41st Millennium they had dwindled almost to extinction. Those remaining were occupied aboard the Black Ships, hunting renegade psykers and performing the crucial role of damping the potent and uncontrolled abilities of their Human cargo. The militant orders of the Emperor's day had been disbanded, diminished or lost to war.The last surviving few were scattered around the Imperium, most reduced to a handful of members. They had fought on, here and there, but their glory days were a myth at best. They were unremembered by the people they had died to protect. But after thousands of standard years of obscurity, when Guilliman returned, the Sisters of Silence came back willingly into the light, not because of who he was, but because of what he was. To them, the primarch was a Living Saint.It shocked Guilliman that the Sisters of Silence worshipped his father as a god as so many other misguided souls of the present dark age did. Not for the first time this made Guilliman think of his brother, Lorgar, the Daemon Primarch of the traitorous Word Bearers, who had been so hungry to find someone worthy of his devotion.No longer centralised within the vast spire-convents of Luna, the Sisterhood has recently reestablished a presence in every segmentum, forming many new orders and offshoots. Some are charged with specific duties -- such as infiltrating the hyperspatial tunnels of the Webway to stymie the plans of psychic xenos races, recovering Pariahs from enemy forces that seek to use them for their own gain, or neutralizing spectral attacks in strategically vital locations.Others have carte blanche to pursue their own agendas, provided they culminate in the destruction of the Archenemy's forces. If there is any quality these genetic deviants share in abundance, it is self-reliance.The Sisters of Silence have been a largely fleet-based force since the reconvening of their orders by the Primarch. They have long-standing pacts with veteran astropaths and Navigator houses that are better able to endure their presence on interstellar voyages. Under Guilliman's instruction, they have been instrumental in navigating the turbulent Warp storms that tear through the galaxy since the onset of the Noctis Aeterna and the birth of the Great Rift, gathering in large numbers to project a null-field capable of repelling the Empyrean itself.This approach is still dangerous, however. The effect of the Pariah Gene is exponential and can cripple a war effort through unintended fear, confusion and astropathic malfunction among its non-Pariah elements if used poorly. But the sisters' efficacy cannot be denied, even by those who abhor them; they can becalm eldritch storms and cast back Daemonic invasions with only the force of their presence.In many ways, the Sisterhood stand guard over Humanity's psychic evolution. Truly these women are death incarnate to those who believe that their unnatural powers make them gods amongst mortals -- the Talons of the Emperor are always ready to tear such fools down from their pedestals.