Editing Schola Progenium (section)

== Alumni ==

''Progenia'' of each Schola are ideal members of just about every upper branch of the Imperium. They make good clerics of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] (need to be able to hold a [[bolter]] when some punk heretic tries to start a theological dispute with a knife), adepts of the [[Administratum]] (only a man who loves the Emperor dearly can bear with writing for a 20-hour workday, let alone be quick on the draw enough to crack down on a dataslave rebellion in the middle of his three-minute lunch break), and especially good [[Adeptus Arbites|Arbitrators]] for obvious reasons. They are seen as prime candidates for recruiting into the [[Inquisition]]. They often become [[Commissar|Commissars]] or [[Stormtrooper|Storm Troopers]] in the [[Imperial Guard]], and only particularly promising and fanatically zealous female graduates go on to join the [[Sisters of Battle|Adepta Sororitas...]] [[Commissar Raege|usually.]] [[Severina Raine|Not always even when they are very promising and zealous.]] The same applies to [[Crusaders]], just replace “female” with “chivalry and melee autist”, thus making the Sororitas recruits and Crusader recruits a cut above the rest when it comes to fighting (or medicine, diplomacy or sanctification, depending on the Sororitas non-militant order if that is where the young girl is being sent). The absolute best of the best in specialist combat roles get scooped up by the Officio Assassinorum to <s>flagrantly waste</s> '''process''' in the hope that one tenth will survive the second tier of training to become [[Assassin|Imperial Assassins]] and thus the best of the best of the best in the whole Imperial system at killing the enemies of man dead, just a hair below [[Sisters of Silence]], [[Living Saint]]s, [[Grey Knights]], [[Adeptus Custodes]] or whichever ship captain who knows how to do orbital bombardment is in the star system right now. The merely “average” or barely passing are still by necessity leagues more capable than the typical [[Imperial Guard| Guard conscript]] or [[Hive World]] bureaucrat, so thus get sent off with an officer commission or junior minister job lined up somewhere and are expected to rapidly climb ranks to become a planetary governor or imperial commander.

Basically if you are anyone important while remaining mortal, you are either a Schola graduate or survived several decades of war (or bureaucracy ''shudders''), which isn't easy. That said, if you have to pick one to fight, always go for the graduate. Unless said graduate is also a veteran of kicking the ever-hating fuck out of mind-shattering horrors for several decades on top of fancy academy training, in which case you’re doubly fucked.

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