Editing Hua Yuan (section)

===The Sisters of Battle and the Greater Imperium===
The Grand Cathedral and Sororitas Abbey are built on the cliffs overlooking the main hive, separated by the Harsh atmosphere, but close enough that operations within Hua Yuan are easily performed. The cliffs are carved out into a gigantic aquilla, symbolizing the Imperium’s domain over the Hive. The exclusion and hostility by the natives, and the protection offered by the Sisters of Battle led to a large Imperial district that grew around it, going down the cliff and the surrounding lands. The Cathedral was designed to almost echo labyrinthian Hive, with seemingly endless mazes of dungeons and mausoleums. Members of the Administratum ordered a very large orbital dock be built to allow easy and Imperium controlled access on and off of the planet. As a result, the Cathedral has become quite iconic, as it is the first and last thing seen on the moon (excluding the [[Defense Laser]] and surface-to-orbit missile batteries). This was designed with a more symbolic intent in mind, showing the Imperium’s dominance and power, acting as a reminder to whom the hive belongs to. This also rendered pre existing docks mostly useless, outside of smuggling and black market deals. 

The Sisters are often thought of as the real power behind the Imperium on Hua Yuan. They’re the source of much tension, but are too useful to be ignored. Their brave defence against a Tyranid attack earned them much acclaim within the hive, especially the current Abbess, whose leg was torn off by a raver she beat to death, despite her distaste for her celebrity. Yuanese keep their distance from the sisters, who are viewed with fear and awe. The Yuanese are aware of their destructive capabilities and extreme measures of dealing with mutants and heretics, leading to their presence seen as a bad omen. They’re seen as outsiders who dress weirdly sombre, represent the Imperium and their dominance over Hua Yuan, an Imperial insult to have women lord over them, flaunt their excellent equipment in the faces of the less fortunate, and use dangerous amounts of fire in their purges, causing anxiety over the flames spreading in their cramped hive. Despite this, no one denies their zeal, they’re selfless defence of hostile strangers, aid of the poor and downtrodden, and important and influential relation to the Imperium, just begging for marriage opportunities

“The Imperial Matchmaker” is a de facto head of Famulous on planet, who is deeply entrenched in a very long political game. It can’t really be said whether the Matchmaker gets his power from the Abbess, or the Abbess from the Matchmaker. He has stored extensive archives of lineages and family histories built up over centuries on Hua Yuan, knowing all of the goings on and secrets of each house, no matter how small. He was on the front line of tracking genestealer cultist infiltration in the nobility. He was a proponent of first born recruitment, as he saw it as a means to get proper genetic screening of large cross section of the population. He was also the driving force behind the eldest daughters being the ones able to join the Abbey.

The Sisters are pushing a long game of political and religious dominance, much more blatantly than the Matchmaker. The Yuanese Ecclesiarchy is divided between local and Imperial dominance, and the Abbess wants to mend this rift as soon as possible, annoyed by how stubborn the Gardeners are. The religious theatre of Hua Yuan is engulfed in utter chaos as different factions push their own agendas and plans, undermining and preventing the schemes of others in the process. This state only got worse following the Tyranid attacks. Nobles began buying land and building “vast” new churches and cathedrals instead of houses or industry in war zones. This caused numerous problems, leaving the sisters and sympathetic clergy now much more overstretched than before trying to man all the new stations. It is not an uncommon sight to have small clusters of Sororitas working in a quiet corner of a much larger repurposed floor, alongside Hospitallers performing genescreening in deephive. 

Because the Cathedrals are sponsored by noble houses, they often house relics and Exterminator trophies inside, displaying them to the public. Some have chambers dedicated to the heroes of the Imperial Guard, having their names and accomplishments carved over the entirety of the walls, with the more notable and directly traceable trophies presented in the center. Banners of the Guard forces adorned with purity seals are a common sight in these cathedrals, often of fallen forces, despite the most common being the banner of the 1st.