Editing Schola Progenium (section)

== Curriculum ==

Despite the harsh regime under which progenia have to live, the level of physical and mental training afforded to them makes them some of the most highly educated and fit people in the Imperium.

Each progenium, regardless of their final career path will have a functioning knowledge of the [[Administratum]], the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and the [[Imperial Cult|Imperial Creed]], Imperial History and Philosophy, as well as fluency in High Gothic (presumably, generally useful subjects like first aid, mathematics and geometry including algebra, calculus and applied mathematical fields like statistics, social sciences like psychology and sociology, political and economic sciences and natural sciences like physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy et cetera are also taught, though they would inevitably have a heavy dose of propaganda for good measure, especially on the social sciences track).

They will also have rudimentary training in close quarters combat and basic ranged weaponry, so even your schola-trained Administratum drone can be a reasonably even match-up with a normal Guardsman past his basic training.

Sports also appear to be encouraged with many students partaking in games of Scrumball, which sounds like a violent 40K version of Rugby. Pray to the Emperor that you never face the Sororitas Novitaes in a match, as they seem to be under the impression that the point of the game is to send as many members of the opposing team to the infirmary as possible.

Later in their schooling, the progenia will be bundled into groups matching their aptitudes; for example those with a talent for investigation are steered towards [[Adeptus Arbites|Arbites]] training, while those with strong mental fortitude and close-combat skills are sent to the Order of the Cardinals Crimson to become [[Crusaders]]. Those female recruits with truly exceptional scores and faith are picked out by [[Adepta Sororitas]] assigned to the Schola as potential recruits. Eventually culminating in the final '''Test of Compliance''' to prove their suitability:

*[[Militarum Tempestus|Tempestus]] candidates are made to undergo a live fire exercise without any prior notice, to prove that they can respond quickly enough to survive as well as work efficiently as a team. These exercises are often performed in a ''Hallucinarium'' which is a labyrinth that exposes the cadets to strange visions and orders. The point of this is to make sure that the cadets will follow orders even when confused or receiving contradictory inputs.
*Future [[Commissars]] are handed a pistol and told to execute one of their poorly performing classmates in order to make certain that the student will act without hesitation and is loyal to the cause. The schola tries to make it one of their close friends if they can, so that it is not too easy for the cadet if they just didn't ''like'' the target- and more importantly, ensure that their loyalty to the Imperium and willingness to follow orders comes before any kind of personal relationship. If they refuse or take too long, they'll probably end up getting shot by another student on his own way to becoming a commissar instead.
*Despite the common belief that female graduates [[derp|"usually"]] get shuffled off to the various institutions of the [[Sisters of Battle|Adepta Sororitas]], the fact is that the Sisterhood ''only'' wants young women of particularly strong faith and are very picky over who joins their convents, so female progenia can end up in other organisations just as frequently as the males. That being said; in the 41st Millennium, fanatical faith is never in short supply so the Sororitas can draw the majority of their recruits from the Schola, as a fanatic who actually knows what they are doing is preferred to one who does not. The Sisters don't exactly have a vast number of power armor suits, anyway. Which also must be taken into account when picking potential recruits.
*Candidates for the [[Officio Assassinorum]] just vanish when it gets close to Selection Day. Despite all of the testing and prep work they've already done in the Schola, the true training only starts on the ship back to the Terra, with conditions so extreme that attrition rates of 90%+ are common. ''THEN'' they need to spend a further ten years as an apprentice before they even get considered for their first assignment. In exchange they become deadlier than the rest of graduate class combined.
*The [[Inquisition]] gets free run of Scholas to pick and choose whichever candidates they like. Though when they come to visit, often the best candidates [[Just as Planned|will be inexplicably absent on field trips or recovering from injury in the infirmary.]] The Inquisition also takes a deep interest in truants, since it takes a lot of motivation and resourcefulness to escape from the facilities.

Note: The codexes and RPG rulebooks are contradicted by the 40K novel series' entries, which make no mention of Drill Abbots or graduate Commissars executing anybody. The sixth Cain book takes place in a Schola, and none of this shit happens at all, though his books are framed as a first person autobiography, so he can include or neglect whatever he likes (and any Schola run by him probably wouldn't have that anyway, as his distaste for the "standard" Commissariat conduct is well documented, and every graduate that doesn't get shot by one of his classmates is one more for Cain to hide behind), the novel states cadets still take practice in interrogation and live fire exercise on convicts, and it may simply be that execution tests are optional and it may require cadets performing very poorly, read: it will be extremely detrimental to the Imperium to graduate an incompetent with ample political power over the military. Also, there are hundreds, if not thousands (or even more), of different scholas across the galaxy and each works according to its own idiom. (That, and the tests of compliance were added in a codex written after that particular book.)