Off-Duty Sororitas

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**Battle Brother Ambrosius**

There are a nuber of Orders, some less militaristic than the others. Some of them are fighting all the time, while some are only doing so when they must.

I think that it can be compared to the different ideals in the Ecclesiarchy. Some preachers are just ordinary priests trying to help the Emperor's flock, while some are fanatic and crased redemption cultists swinging around with a huge chainsaw.

**Mr Morden**

forruner_mercy wrote:Aren't there groups that do not do that kind of combat?

In the Mercy Run short story, some Sister Hospitalar(?) are just wearing robes.

Yes - therre are two parts to the Sororitas - the Orders Millitant and the Orders Hospitaller (healers and combat medics), Famulous (the organisation of Households, mariages etc of important Imperial families, controlling the bloodlines) and Dialogus (scolars specalising in language, negotiation and codes)

Basically the Orders millitant is there to fight and guard the holy places and people - but the other Orders are also trained in the ways of combat - just it is not their priority.

**Lynata**

That said ...

WD Liber Sororitas wrote:As the Orders are primarily based together at one of these two sites, the Sisterhood as a whole is a far more homogenous organisation than many other institutions of the Imperium, such as the Adeptus Astartes or the Imperial Guard. Though Sisters spend many long hours in solitude or training, they are nonetheless part of a wider organisation than their own Order, and for this reason see themselves as members of the Adepta Sororitas as much as their own Order. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for a Sister to transfer from one Order to another, particularly in the case of a Sister who has become wounded or too old to fight transferring from an Order Militant to one of the non-militant Orders, such as the Orders Famulous or Hospitaller. It has also been known for a senior member of the Adepta Sororitas to leave the organisation entirely for higher office elsewhere, such as within the upper echelons of the Adeptus Terra, or the Inquisition – such an event is unheard of within the Adeptus Astartes, and far from common within the Imperial Guard.

It has been observed that the different Adepta Sororitas Orders do not display any great divergence from one another in terms of combat doctrine or organisation, as do many Space Marine Chapters and Imperial Guard regiments. Such differences arise, in the case of the Astartes, from the strong genetic link with the Chapter's Primarch or in the case of the Imperial Guard, as a result of combat doctrines unique to the culture from which the regiment was raised. The Adepta Sororitas can trace the routes of its doctrines to a single source - the San Leor temple of the Daughters of the Emperor - and their teachings have remained largely unchanged since that time.

Personally, I'd simply ascribe any descriptions deviating from the extreme dedication and isolation mentioned in GW's own sources to divergent author interpretation, much like Goto thinks Marines are fighting with multilasers. Like any cases of conflicting material, this is something that each of us has to decide on for him- or herself, though.

**Tadashi**

Brother Coa wrote:
Tadashi wrote:
Mr Morden wrote:... As soon as they are freed from his malign (and plot drive  influence and their minds are their own they kill themselves in shame. Again IMO, the Grey Knights would have fared no better – probably why they did not turn up!

I don't think so. If a Grey Knight can withstand daemonic possession, then a second-rate psyker would probably be nothing. And Space Marines have superhuman physical AND mental endurance. I'm sure they can hold their own against someone like that.

Grey Knights would first kill Sisters then then use them as armor paint. After that they WILL be able to withstand Chaos taint and kill that Sorcerer.

I really, REALLY, hate the new Codex: Grey Knights. I preferred Codex: Daemonhunters.

**Eldrad40k**

**LumenPraebeo**

It's been recorded in the databases on a backwater planet of Equois III that a Dark Angels Marine and an off-duty Adepta Sororita of House-Serenity have been tasked with a mission to escort an ambassador to a vaguely designated area in Segmentum Solar. During the course of the mission, which attracted the attention of many xenos that consisted mostly of the Eldar;
witnesses and several colleagues of the two reported the pair to be drawn to each other and have engaged in heinious activity considered heretical for warriors of their status. The two were brought in and apprehended with the success of the mission. Both the Astartes and Sororita were interrogated, but managed to break loose. The Astartes was killed, but the Sister of Battle managed to escape. One of her personal aids reports that the Sister has informed her that she is pregnant.

**Tadashi**

LumenPraebeo wrote:It's been recorded in the databases on a backwater planet of Equois III that a Dark Angels Marine and an off-duty Adepta Sororita of House-Serenity have been tasked with a mission to escort an ambassador to a vaguely designated area in Segmentum Solar. During the course of the mission, which attracted the attention of many xenos that consisted mostly of the Eldar;
witnesses and several colleagues of the two reported the pair to be drawn to each other and have engaged in heinious activity considered heretical for warriors of their status. The two were brought in and apprehended with the success of the mission. Both the Astartes and Sororita were interrogated, but managed to break loose. The Astartes was killed, but the Sister of Battle managed to escape. One of her personal aids reports that the Sister has informed her that she is pregnant.

Where the hell did you get this from? An Astartes and a Sister? Pregnant? By the Dark Angel? That's not good. The Emperor will not be pleased. Not to mention Lord Azrael and the Inner Circle.

**Brother Coa**

LumenPraebeo wrote:It's been recorded in the databases on a backwater planet of Equois III that a Dark Angels Marine and an off-duty Adepta Sororita of House-Serenity have been tasked with a mission to escort an ambassador to a vaguely designated area in Segmentum Solar. During the course of the mission, which attracted the attention of many xenos that consisted mostly of the Eldar;
witnesses and several colleagues of the two reported the pair to be drawn to each other and have engaged in heinious activity considered heretical for warriors of their status. The two were brought in and apprehended with the success of the mission. Both the Astartes and Sororita were interrogated, but managed to break loose. The Astartes was killed, but the Sister of Battle managed to escape. One of her personal aids reports that the Sister has informed her that she is pregnant.

Aren't Adeptus Astartes sterile? And aren't they a LITTLE BIG to be handled by ordinary women?

Spoiler:

**Battle Brother Ambrosius**

I believe they are. And even if they weren't, I guess their "equipment" would be well over a meter long, a fact which would cause some practical problems.

**Tadashi**

What I want to know is where did he get that from.

That is simply going too far, even by 40k's grimdark theme.

**Battle Brother Ambrosius**

I agree. It looks like it might be from 4chan. Don't ask me how, I just recoqnise these kind of things.

**Melissia**

It's a dumb fanfic, nothing more.

**Brother Coa**

Melissia wrote:It's a dumb fanfic, nothing more.

Quite possible, I can't find info on that planet Equois III anywhere on 3 different 40k encyclopedias.

**Melissia**

There's nothing "quite possible" about it. It is.

**Tadashi**

What's the name of the fan fic...as offensive as it is, its stirred up my curiosity.

**Squigsquasher**

I don't know, but if you don't purge thoughts of it from your mind at once I shall set the 155th Catachan Drag Queens upon you; the most deadly (and cringeworthy) fighting force in the universe.

**Veteran Sergeant**

Battle Brother Ambrosius wrote:I believe they are. And even if they weren't, I guess their "equipment" would be well over a meter long, a fact which would cause some practical problems.

O_o

They are seven and a half feet tall. You're suggesting it would be half again their height? I don't even think the Space Marine's enhanced circulatory system could handle that kind of blood loss to the brain.

Assuming they stay proportional, they are only slightly taller than the bigger basketball players and you don't see them killing sports groupies on a regular basis. Certainly women survive encounters with some of the more male adult actors all the time.

She told you that you were nine inches that one time, didn't she? I knew there had to be a reason why your sense of length was so far off.

**Tadashi**

Well whatever it is, its certainly disturbing.

**LumenPraebeo**

I made that story up

**Tadashi**

HERETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I sentence you to death!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Castiel**

Yay, a heretic burning! Fetch your flamers everyone!

**LumenPraebeo**

So what do you think? Since it stirred your curiosity, I can dig up my archives and give you the whole tale.

But you must keep this story silent, this is a dark secret that the chapter master wants to keep hidden for all time.

Btw Melissia, there is nothing dumb about my fanfic, it is BRILLIANT!!!

**ObliviousBlueCaboose**

At least we can agree that an off duty sister has more fun then an off duty marine. Judging on how shiny marine armor is they must spend hours polishing it. Blood angels even more so.

**Tadashi**

Probably not. What little time Space Marines don't spend training or maintenance is devoted to self-reflection in most Chapters, although I can see the Space Wolves hunting or telling stories, and the Blood Ravens studying in their Librarium. I don't imagine active Sisters doing something different from what Space Marines do in their spare time (self-reflection, studying, etc.).

**Melissia**

Sisters also must know and study the religious texts of the Imperium as well (the Litany of Faith, for example).

**Lynata**

ObliviousBlueCaboose wrote:At least we can agree that an off duty sister has more fun then an off duty marine.

I'm not sure I would agree - aside from the fact that a Sister is "on duty" 24/7, GW's fluff makes their activities sound pretty grimdark, at least if that Canoness is to be believed.

"The purpose of life is to suffer." - that's one hell of a dogma to live by (quite literally), and a very strong glimpse at their lifestyle.

ObliviousBlueCaboose wrote:Judging on how shiny marine armor is they must spend hours polishing it. Blood angels even more so.

Meh, I guess that's what you have serfs and novices for.

**Eumerin**

Members of the Order Famulous probably engage in a certain amount of entertainment, since their duties revolve around matchmaking, checking up on the noble families, and similar activities. The ability to socialize with the nobility in their own milieau would be critical to fulfilling their duties. But I don't expect the other orders engage in too much of that. The combat arms have already been mentioned. And the other two non-combat arms (for a certain value of "non-combat", in the case of the Hospitallers, who are certainly capable of engaging in a firefight if necessary...) both have a scholarly focus, suggesting that they likely spend much of their time studying up on topics of particular interest to them.

**ObliviousBlueCaboose**

I still stand by that the majority of marines, esp blood angels, spend their free time polishing their armor. It goes like this.

"Incoming distress signal Brother Captain." said Battle Brother Marticuis Suicles "Chaos maraders are attacking the Imperial planet Bob, the pdf tried to respond but where killed to a man"

"Not now Brother Suicles, Im polishing the gold inlays of my armor"

"Very well sir"

**Brother Coa**

Well if this thread learn me something it's that Sisters of Battle are the HOTEST thing in entire Warhammer 40000 universe, with Eldar Farseers being close by.
Seriously, every fan stories I read about them it's Sisters being fall in love, having sex, being sexually tortured, being molested... only one of those I read was good, about a Sister who save little girl from an Ork who murdered her family and take the girl to it's Covenant.

For fluff for the last time:

-Off-Duty Sororitas learn, teach, prey, socialize with their fellow sisters ( you know like talk and that sort of thing ), preparing their weapons and armor for battle, helping out citizens of their world ( like today's nuns in shelters etc... ) and doing some hobby ( like that Sister with it's garden ).

Off-Duty Astartes learn, teach, prey, socialize with their fellow brothers, preparing their weapons and armor for battle and all other activites depends on Chapter ( Space Wolves like to drink and eat, Black Tempalrs love to spare, Ultramarines likes to tell stories about great deeds, Iron Hands liek to do upgrade to their body...

I think that Only Grey Knights don't have off-time activities when it comes to off-duty power armored types.

**RAVEN 97**

Tadashi wrote:That's because they ARE very pretty...

Need I say any more...

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