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"Sister Gregory, I don't know how to ask this..."
"Yes, Sister Anthony?"
"It's the power armor the sisters gave me... It...Does it have a place to um... Stow my bolt pistol?"
"......"
"......"
"You mean like the holster?"

It makes exactly as much sense as female space marines.

Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

You failed.
Even on Earth where several cultures have had strict primogeniture they simply send the sons off to join the military or the priesthood or use them to marry into other families.
Raising males as females is kinda silly and assumes they simply forgot the Imperium is always looking for people to join the Guard.

 purplefood wrote:

JWhex wrote:Well I read in the Rogue Trader that the two lost legions were actually male Sisters of Battle which is why they were purged.

Someone already posted that... as a joke... it was me...

oopsie, sorry, I missed it.

There is a second meaning to my joke though. I was also making fun of people that post here and claim they read someting in the Rogue Trader book when it is obvious they have never even seen the book let alone read it.

 Brother SRM wrote:
If you want to field dudes in power armor who are not Marines, Inquisitors tend to have some lying around. You could make a counts-as force, playing them as Sisters.

From a fluff perspective, well, that's been explained pretty handily already in this thread

This is pretty much what I was going to say. Want to make the Imperial SAS/SEAL/DEVGRU/GROM/Spetznaz and the "those are the IG Stormtroopers" lone doesn't float your boat - or the ODST, or whatever - then go for it.

 dementedwombat wrote:
Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

After reading this my mind wandered to so many interesting situations

 dementedwombat wrote:
Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

No no no no no no no...

And did you admit to the OP being basically a troll?

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:

 dementedwombat wrote:
Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

No no no no no no no...

And did you admit to the OP being basically a troll?

He IS the OP

 purplefood wrote:

Mythal wrote:
You can't have male Sisters of Battle because the Grey Knights refuse to wear anything with a beard.

Plot twist: Grey Knights are male sisters of battle.

Mind = Blown. Our Spiritual Liege has spoken.

 dementedwombat wrote:
Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

...why exactly wouldn't they just make them regular IG cannon fodder?

dementedwombat wrote:The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits. There, I did it.

As a fluff-nut, I feel somewhat compelled to point out that this isn't how they recruit at all, at least in GW's own fluff. Sisters of Battle get their novices exclusively from the Schola Progenium, taking in the best of those orphan-girls that were raised by the Ecclesiarchy from infancy. Apart from a rather high risk of "discovery" in day-to-day activities throughout their ~12 years in this gender-segregated facility, I would also assume that the Schola features medical check-ups and examinations, not in the least to discover genetic mutation and root out possible psykers.

That being said, here's your Male SoB.

 TheDraconicLord wrote:

 SoloFalcon1138 wrote:

 dementedwombat wrote:
Ok, let me see if I can make this work. Brace yourselves, I'm actually trying to rationalize male sisters of battle. I can't believe I'm doing this. I'm the OP and I posted it as a joke...

There's a planet, and they follow a strict primogeniture arrangement of "the first son gets all the stuff". The only problem is that this leads to lots of squabbling when you start having more male heirs. So, they adopted a tradition where all the male babies after the first are raised as female, to avoid any problems regarding inheritance.

The Imperium shows up, wonders why the planet has a 90% registered female population, and with typical Imperial care and forethought (in other words, not any) plops down a major SoB recruitment center to draft the bounty of "female" recruits.

There, I did it. Can someone please pass me the brain bleach?

No no no no no no no...

And did you admit to the OP being basically a troll?

He IS the OP

I know. OP also means original post.