Sisters of Silence - Sisters of Silence Wargear: In terms of armament and equipment, the Divisio Investigates was particularly well served, and second only perhaps to the Legio Custodes in the scope and customisation of its arsenal. It had long maintained myriad different weapons and tactical systems suited to its needs, from patterns of the Terran Bolter -- a weapon more commonly associated with the Space Marine Legions -- manufactured for use by unagumented Humans, to the exquistely fashioned and utterly lethal powered Execution Blades carried by its Vigilators.The Divisio Investigates also had access to large stockpiles of advanced and specialised weapons such as las-borer alchem Needlers that could render a target comatose for capture as readily as slay them, and with them a poisons cabinet whose contents have been drawn from across a thousand worlds.Though the Sisters of Silence have access to the multitude of the Imperium's approved STC designs, which they have often relied on in their duty, during the late Great Crusade these were largely replaced in the field with unique patterns of grav-repulsor craft outfitted with sophisticated covert operations and stealth systems better suited to their needs.Besides this, the order had access to certain far more arcane technologies all but unguessed at outside the Divisio Astra Telepathica; most prominently psi-negation and disruption weaponry whispered to have been created for them by the hand of the Emperor Himself.Vratine Armour - When a sister-aspirant takes her final oaths of duty and said the last words she will ever utter aloud in her lifetime, she is given her panoply of war: the Vratine Armour -- literally "the armour of the oath." It is a sub-pattern of technologically advanced battlegear which shares design elements with both the power armour of the Legiones Astartes and the silicate-mesh of Selenite void-mail, though unlike either of those famed armours, it is not -- at least without additional gearing -- fully environmentally sealed or designed for extended operations. It does, however, provide formidable protection from ballistic impacts and directed energy weapons, and is tailored and forged uniquely to its intended wearer to allow for their complete freedom of movement and to augment their reaction speed.Voidsheen Cloak - A Voidsheen Cloak was a protective garment worn by the Oblivion Knights. It was made from micro-vitrious mesh designed to diffract and absorb kinetic and directed energy.Enhanced Voidsheen Cloak - The Voidsheen Cloaks worn by Oblivion Knights are made from micro-vitrious mesh designed to diffract and absorb energy, and are particularly effective against diffuse attacks. Those worn by the commanders of the Silent Sisterhood are further reinforced by refractor generators, and are used as a mark of their rank and office.Spectra-vestments - Worn by the Sisters of an Excruciatus cadre, the bloody-coloured raiment of the Silent Judges and the chill silver of her acolytes conceal sophisticated field generator technology that allows it to blur and shift to adapt to its surroundings or simply bleed shadow at will, concealing them from sight should they wish and making them things of darkness rather than substance when viewed from a distance.Flamer with Compression Tanks - Utilised by the sisters of Excruciatus cadres, these deadly weapons are used to render down the most dangerous of the condemned to a fine dusting of ash and little more. Compression tanks can temporarily boost the power of a conventional Imperial Flamer weapon, making them burn at a vastly higher intensity, but depleting the fuel store.Instruments of Torment - In addition to their other wargear, the Excruciatus cadres carry poisons and neuro-disruption barbs of staggering potency that can be brought to play against their chosen victims to lay low the mightiest, even transhuman creatures should they able to surround and harry them.Psyk-Out Grenades and Missiles - Produced under secret conditions within the temples of the Great Astronomican on Terra, the material that comprises the warhead payload of these weapons is akin to psychically-charged ash. On detonation this particulate substance blankets the immediate area, refracting psychic energy and disrupting a psyker's control over their abilities with potentially lethal results.Proteus Neuro-Lash - Fashioned in the shape of baroque multi-headed flails or ornate three-sectioned staves, the Proteus Neuro-lashes are relics of the Age of Strife used by the most skilled warriors among the ranks of the Silent Sisters to subdue large numbers of assailants at once. The neural prongs that adorn the weapons generate a phase-conducted shock field which works to overload a victim's nervous system with bursts of intense agony, so that even the slightest touch leaves them helpless.Execution Blade - In addition to their role as witch-seekers and stern guardians of the tithe of the psyker-born, the Sisters of Silence also serve as remorseless executioners when the need arises, with the time-honoured method of beheading before immolation their preferred agency of final sanction. To this end they often carry unique, finely-wrought two-handed Power Swords, forged to the same exacting standards of the ancient Charnabal Sabres favoured for duelling among the Terran Courts, which are edged in diamond-hard silica glass, making for a wickedly-sharp cutting edge. A skilled strike from one of these weapons can part the seals of the finest armour in battle just as easily as it parts the head from the shoulders of the condemned.Silent Sisterhood Ranged Weapons - As the militant wing of one of the Imperium's most important institutions, the Sisters of Silence had access to a plethora of resource-intensive, rare and obscure weapons and technology, much of which had been specifically modified or developed solely to meet their unique needs. The most common of these were compact bolt weapons which were created to be handled safely by unenhanced humans rather than the superhuman Legiones Astartes without an appreciable loss in firepower. More unusual and esoteric firearms used by the Silent Sisterhood included magnetically accelerated Stake-Crossbow launchers firing silver stakes embedded with nega-psi and pyro-toxic materials, high-energy Needlers which delivered a variety of narcotics and poisons, Snare Guns and other Snare Weapons which discharged rapidly hardening fibro-plastic nets to capture prey, and even examples of rare Adrathic Destructor directed energy beam weapons, deployed only against the direst threats.Excrutia Armatus - The Excrutia Armatus was a complex array of restraints and excruciation tools that was among the most recognisable symbols of the Sisters of Silence's Chamber of Judgement during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy. The sight of its gruesome implements displayed by the Silent Judges is a promise of retribution to the enemies of the Emperor, a slow and terrible end in the pain halls of the Silent Sisterhood. In the face of such a dire promise of retribution lesser foes are struck by terror and hesitate in the face of the Silent Sisterhood's onslaught.Vratine Grenade Launcher - The Vratine Grenade Launcher was a pattern of Grenade Launcher specifically used by the Sisters of Silence.Distort FieldVratine Bolter - The Vratine Bolter is a boltgun of ancient and ornate Terran design that was sized to be used by mortals and was the preferred standard weapon of the Sisters of Silence.Nemesis Bolter - The Nemesis Bolter was a variant of the Sisters of Silence's Vratine Bolter which possessed a longer range than its standard counterpart.