Mind Cleansing - Forces that Utilise Mind Cleansing: Arbitrators - The Adeptus Arbites and local Enforcers may well, during the course of their sworn duties, uncover truths too terrible to understand and see things that no man or woman may live through sane. The Inquisition, for its part, sees such unfortunates as prime candidates for mind cleansing and induction into their ranks, burning away what cannot be allowed to remain and leaving a lifetime of training and an ingrained sense of duty.Assassins - The cleansed Assassin is usually little more than a living weapon in the hands of the Ordos, a near-disposable tool of death, reprogrammed to serve without question and kill without conscience. They make for able bodyguards and infiltrators, and indeed some may once have been mercenaries, recidivists or other scum that have been captured, cleansed and turned on their former friends.Clerics - Ecclesiarchy clerics are among the rarest of cleansed Acolytes, as martyrdom in most cases is deemed preferable for a true servant of the faith than mind scrubbing. Exceptions do exist, however, and the cleansing may leave a cleric shorn away of their past and memories, leaving only fervour and the love of the Emperor behind. Some Radical Inquisitors, with a sense of ironic punishment, may order a Heretic or criminal to be remade as a faithful servant of the Emperor to pay for their sins with a lifetime of service. This is frowned on by many traditionalists and Puritans as an unjustly lenient punishment, added to which, as past events have proven on more than one occasion, evil may remain in even the most "scrubbed" soul.Imperial Guardsmen - The Inquisition has frequent use for inducted military forces when a major raid or suppression is called for. However, it is often necessary that the men and woman involved cannot be allowed to remember what they have done or seen in the Ordos' service. If the risk of corruption is too great, death is the only answer, but if possible, a particularly able servant of the Emperor should not be wasted when they have more left to give. Another reason for utilising mind cleansing is to remove knowledge of the existence of the Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter, the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus. Entire platoons of Guardsmen drawn from the Astra Militarum may be given final benediction (i.e., execution) to prevent word of the Grey Knights' existence from spreading. If an incursion requires the attention of the God-Emperor's finest warriors, then any who were present are likely corrupted beyond redemption. Those who are allowed to live might be instead subjected to a mind-cleansing. An Inquisitor, however, has the authority to prevent this waste of his resources when he feels it is appropriate. While protecting an entire platoon is risky, potentially even a Radical act, a small group of trusted Acolytes might be spared. These Acolytes must have great potential, and should see their protection as a badge of honour.Psykers - Psykers are prey to all manner of horrors from the Warp and frequently prone to mental disorders and trauma, particularly if their abilities have emerged or been discovered late in life. Sometimes where this is the case, the powers-that-be judge that the psyker's talent can be salvaged, but that "who they are" has become irretrievably damaged. The answer for some is to cut away the personality and memories like a surgeon might cut away cancerous tissue from a healthy organ, but as with surgery, the results cannot always be guaranteed.Tech-priests - The Adeptus Mechanicus knows that knowledge can be dangerous. The cerebral augmentation of a Tech-priest can make the selective destruction of memory easier in fact than with a normal brain. A cleansed Tech-priest may have served as part of some secret project or mission that, once complete, merited the wiping of all trace of its knowledge for those involved as a matter of course. Alternately, they may have followed some Renegade master, become prey to tech-heresy themselves or simply strayed too far into regions forbidden. Some Tech-priests even see mind cleansing as a desirable procedure, ridding them of the weakness of a sentimental attachment to the past.