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Officio Assassinorum

2022-10-05T17:34:18Z

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[[File:Officoass1.jpeg|180px|center]]

{{Topquote|Ask not for whom they seek, lest it be thyself.|Tactica Imperium on The Officio Assassinorum}}
{{Topquote|The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.|Voltaire}}
{{Topquote|Nothing is true, everything is {{BLAM|HERESY!}}|A slightly redacted motto of the Officio Assassinorum's precursors from ancient Terra}}
{{Topquote|I'm in the retirement industry.|Agent XLVII}}

[[File:Armyof4byIronShrineMaiden.jpg |200px|thumb|right|Dawwww.]]

You can tell you don't mess with the '''Officio Assassinorium'''. Anyone, from the lowliest of workers to the [[High Lords of Terra]], at ANY moment, is open to either having their brains spilled on pavement by a sniper round, their spleen torn out by screaming Wry-man, shanked by dear old mum for no apparent reason, or if they're a psyker die in absolute terror unable to use their powers. When the shit hits the fan, these are the guys that get their hands dirty. It's all about the wetwork. This branch of the [[Administratum]] recruits, trains and commands Assassins of all kinds; for more information on the individual Assassin types, please visit [[Assassin|this page]].

==History==
[[File:Nemesis_02.jpg|400px|thumb|left|If the [[Imperial Guard]] is the hammer of the [[EMPRAH]] and the [[Space Marines | SPESS MEHREENS]] are the sword, the operatives of the Officio Assassinorum are the poisoned needle. The scary thing is that that daemon in the back probably isn't the deadliest thing in the picture.]]
The Officio Assassinorum was founded at the beginning of the [[Great Crusade]] as a department for holding any up-and-coming warlords or heretical leaders accountable for their actions. And by "accountable" we mean "disposed of". And by "disposed of" we mean "killed so hard that they will die to death". Originally such work was performed by the [[Alpha Legion]], although like much of those bastards' history it's hard to be sure. Formed by [[Malcador the Sigillite]] and the six masters of the Clades (the future temples), it was founded in extreme secrecy in an attempt to keep it out of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]'s knowledge and maintain his purity (a concept the Big.E always found funny). It's even more amusing that they thought they could hide something from someone capable of basically hearing the thoughts of every human at once. And they all seem to know of one another.

In the beginning, the Officio acted independently in the shadows under the guidance of [[Malcador the Sigillite]], their existence kept mostly secret. As mentioned, [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Empers]] knew from the beginning but tolerated the Officio. Constantin Valdor and the [[Adeptus Custodes|guys in gold]] found out pretty quickly there were other people dealing with threats to the God-Emperor behind their (and his) backs, but they too decided the Officio was A okay. This unwritten arrangement worked out relatively well in the beginning until [[Horus Heresy|a large quantity of fecal matter hit the air circulation device]]. Malcador first sent individual assassins then a whole execution force after Horus, but the assassins were unable to kill the wayward Primarch. Worse, [[Rogal Dorn]] learned about the existence of the Officio. Being less... tolerant... than the Custodes, Dorn did not like what he saw. So, he did the [[derp|sensible thing]] and invited himself to one of the Officio's meetings, intent on [[rage|voicing his opinion on their modus operandi tactfully]]. Malcador, who would not take shit from Dorn, politely but firmly told him he should grow up. Luckily, at that point Big.E himself walked in, told Dorn the existence of the Officio was [[just as planned]] and that he should leave them alone, but at the same time he told [[Malcador]] to drop the cloak and dagger and that the Officio from now would officially be recognized and work under strict rules of engagement.

From that time on, a terminatus order could only be issued by a positive vote of the Senatorum Imperialis (AKA the [[High Lords of Terra]]) and the members of the Officio Assassinorum are kept on a very short leash. Unlike the [[Inquisition]], they have no discretionary powers of their own, [[The Beheading|because they tend to horribly abuse them if they do]].

The head of the Officio is known as the '''Grand Master of the Officio Assassinorum''', or '''The Master of Assassins''', who sits alongside the Fabricator-General of Mars and the Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum as one of the [[High Lords of Terra]].

Which, if you think about it, must be somewhat distracting during their meetings. The Lords are sitting around and discussing the fates of trillions of men, and as the debate goes back and forth, one of them says nothing, ever. He just sits there, smoking a lho-stick with his trench coat wrapped around him, almost completely overlooked. And then they remember that a bad decision could get them killed, and this is the guy who does that. And only that. His only job is to dispatch death on swift wings to any high official. It'd be like having the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head everywhere you went (which is possibly the point...).

Members of the Officio are recruited at a very young age; most of them are children from Feral Worlds or are taken from the Schola Progenium. Recruits are biologically augmented and trained at the School of Assassins on Holy Terra for ten years before being assigned to one of the Assassin Temples to continue their training and eventually serve the Imperium.

The Assassin specialists' approach Sly Marbo levels of awesome, as the Temples have permission make use of "any means or tools to get the job done," even if it means banned tech from the Dark Age of Technology (like the Terminus gland) or Xeno artifacts (like the C'tan phase blade). These Assassins are also given crushingly restrictive psych treatments to ensure they never use these tools except when ordered, which can make them seem kind of spastic during downtimes when said tools are augmentations to their own body.

There are only 2 recorded examples of anyone in the Officio turning against the Imperium. Unfortunately, both times it was the Grand Master, Drakan Vangorich. The Imperium learned of the first one's butthole treachery when he had the [[High Lords of Terra]] [[The Beheading|wiped out to the last man]]. Very [[grimdark]], though the uncaring [[Eldrad|dicks]] had it coming to them. It could be said that Vangorich getting rid of the incompetent idiots was a ''good'' thing for the Imperium, but he did more harm than good in the longer run with his increasingly totalitarian ([[grimdark|totalitarian compared to the 'regular' Imperium standards which are already pretty fucked up, mind]]) ways to prevent the situation from going to shit ever again.

After that betrayal, an Astartes retribution force was dispatched to "resolve" the situation. It is not known how many marines were sent; since the force was made up of elements of three chapters ([[Halo Brethren]], [[Sable Swords]] and [[Imperial Fists]]), it was probably at least 1000 marines (400 Marines landed, half survived the initial purging, just one survived the whole “fight the Assassinorum” thing which at least proved that even ambushed by a hundred of Eversor assassins, the Astartes were still quick enough for one of them to get the job done). As soon as they landed on Terra, the commander of the force was assassinated. The remaining marines broke into the grand chamber of the Assassinorum Temple and found 100 (!) [[Eversor]] Assassins between them and their target. A single marine survived to plug the Grand Master in the brain with a boltgun. This super-hardcore-awesome-ass-kicking marine was definitely as badass as [[Darnath Lysander]]. As it turns out, it was the Imperial Fists' Chapter Master!

The other one was [[Love Can Bloom|Vindicare Assassin LIIVI]].

Ha, just kidding. The second time was during the Age of Apostasy in M36, when the Grand Master was himself assassinated by a [[Callidus]] Assassin under the orders of [[Goge Vandire]], the insane ruler of the Imperium. Of course, you don't become Grand Master without being an Assassin yourself, and it turned out that he had switched places with a body double. What followed was a civil war within the Assassinorum to mirror the one wracking the Imperium and ended up filling the Imperial Palace with nerve gas and destroying entire wings of Mankind's greatest fortress with ancient Dark Age and xenos weaponry. Eventually, the Grand Master triumphed, but went into self-imposed exile at the end of it and might still be alive today. After the war, the [[Inquisition]] set up the [[Ordo Sicarius]] to monitor the Assassins and make sure they stay in line.

Alas, they will always be second best, for they can never become [[Sly Marbo]]. They only exist in fluff for the purposes of showing just how BADASS a specific enemy is. For example, during the [[Horus Heresy]], eight(!) Assassins, at least one from each temple, was sent to form an Assassin's Justice League of Doom and kill [[Horus|that asshole who started it]]. For [[Plot armor|SOME REASON]], like everyone else in the Imperium who tried to stop it, they [[FAIL|failed.]] Also, the same thing was tried during the Medusa V campaign, to assassinate the leader of the Chaos faction; seven of them failed, getting a front row seat to some [[Eldar]] stealing their kill. Imperial Armour books goes even further and currently have a Vindicare torn apart by an angry mob of Vraksian heretics after ''failing'' to shoot down his target, and Eversor being ripped to shreds by point-blank pulse carbine fire and only taking down ''one'' of his targets due to a tactical nuke strapped to his chest, with both cases causing the completely opposite effect imperials hoped for. This is known as the "[[Derp|Worf]] Effect" by [[Star Trek]] fans, or "The Avatar of Khaine effect" by Eldar players.

==Divisions==
[[File:TempleAssassinsExplained.jpg|600px]]

The Officio Assassinorum has six "temples," or specialist branches, each focused on one particular method of assassination:
* [[Callidus]] - shapeshifters, masters of infiltration. Almost all women (or [[Squad Broken|women pretending to be Orks]], or...just...try not to think about it).
* [[Culexus]] - soulless gothtards that are invisible & immune to psykers, daemons & the Warp.
* [[Eversor]] - cyborg, drugged-up killing machines that have two settings: coma and '''RIP'N'TEAR!!'''1!!1!one!
* [[Vanus]] - leet hacker NERD CHESS PLAYERS. All are genii in the fields of intelligence gathering, strategy and [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. "The cleanest kill is one that another performs in your stead with no knowledge of your incitement." They are what every neckbeard wants to be.
* [[Venenum]] - master poisoners who can take the things found in a vegan's kitchen and kill a [[Space Marine]] with the resulting mixture (death by malnutrition, presumably).
* [[Vindicare]] - snipers that can "BOOM! HEADSHOT!" from beyond the horizon.
* ''[[Maerorus]]'' - a failed attempt at creating a [[Sly Marbo|living weapon able to operate without support or equipment for a prolonged period of time.]] The only one created proved to be impossible to control and went rogue; all attempts at making more were immediately discontinued. Think Alex Mercer from Prototype, only even more sociopathic. Technically a resounding success, but it had issues with loyalty.

* [[Adamus]] - generic super ninja sword-swinging death-Stroke wannabes. Allegedly the oldest of the Assassin Clades from the Crusade era, from before the big 4 were more considerably expanded, but it's uncertain if they still exist in the 41st millennium. Their models harken back to the old Rogue Trader Assassin models from the 80's.

[[Death Cult Assassin|Death Cult Assassins]] aren't part of this framework; there are thousands -if not tens of thousands- of death cults throughout the Imperium and they each train in their own way to kill enemies of the God-Emperor but are not officially sanctioned and are more autonomous than the Assassins. Although particularly talented Death Cultists might be trained by the Assassinorum as basically a reward and either just become a better Death Cultist for it or outright be inducted as an Imperial Assassin.

==Assassinorum: Execution Force==
[[Assassinorum_Execution_Force|GeeDubs released a (rather awesome) Space Hulk-style board game]] for 1-4 players that revolves around an Execution Force - an Officio Assassinorum team comprised of a Callidus, Culexus, Vindicare, and Eversor assassin. Gameplay is a combination of Splinter Cell and X-COM, wherein the four player-controlled Assassins run through the map attempting to find a teleportarium room, which in turn will allow them to move to the second (and final) map. Once there, players must kill a boss of sorts - a Chaos Sorcerer who is trying to blah blah kill the Imperium with blibbity bloobity Chaos shenanigans. You've heard the story before. Along the way, Assassins fight Renegades (Chaos [[Cultist-chan|Cultists]] and [[Dranon|Spess Muhreens]]) which are spawned either by revealing rooms (the only way to find the teleportato and its control room) or through random events. Renegades can be alerted to the Assassins' presence by catching them in line of sight or by hearing the sounds of glorious gunplay down the hall. The Assassins, of course, are all badasses with unique attributes and abilities, including Primaris and Omegon Tactics (super special powers that can be used thrice or once per game, respectively). All in all the game is an overcosted and short-lived boardgame compared to Space Hulk, which for the same price gave you almost triple the amount of good guys and also more uniquely posed bad guys as well as over a dozen different missions with differing map layouts. Not to mention the map tiles were embossed as well. This means you would need a week or so of daily playing to finish all Space Hulk missions, while Officio Assassinorum will get boring after 3 or 4 plays. A shame, GeeDubs. A shame.

On the upside, you can take those four assassins and bring them over to a standard 40k game as henchmen for an Inquisitor.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:AnotherGameNightRuined.jpg
File:Back in the Day by DeadXCross.jpg
File:AssassinsHangout.jpg|Eversors are the [[That Guy]] of Assassins.

</gallery>

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Officio Assassinorum

2022-10-05T17:30:54Z

2600:1700:1180:3C50:B519:2A85:B337:19EF: /* History */

[[File:Officoass1.jpeg|180px|center]]

{{Topquote|Ask not for whom they seek, lest it be thyself.|Tactica Imperium on The Officio Assassinorum}}
{{Topquote|The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.|Voltaire}}
{{Topquote|Nothing is true, everything is {{BLAM|HERESY!}}|A slightly redacted motto of the Officio Assassinorum's precursors from ancient Terra}}
{{Topquote|I'm in the retirement industry.|Agent XLVII}}

[[File:Armyof4byIronShrineMaiden.jpg |200px|thumb|right|Dawwww.]]

You can tell you don't mess with the '''Officio Assassinorium'''. Anyone, from the lowliest of workers to the [[High Lords of Terra]], at ANY moment, is open to either having their brains spilled on pavement by a sniper round, their spleen torn out by screaming Wry-man, shanked by dear old mum for no apparent reason, or if they're a psyker die in absolute terror unable to use their powers. When the shit hits the fan, these are the guys that get their hands dirty. It's all about the wetwork. This branch of the [[Administratum]] recruits, trains and commands Assassins of all kinds; for more information on the individual Assassin types, please visit [[Assassin|this page]].

==History==
[[File:Nemesis_02.jpg|400px|thumb|left|If the [[Imperial Guard]] is the hammer of the [[EMPRAH]] and the [[Space Marines | SPESS MEHREENS]] are the sword, the operatives of the Officio Assassinorum are the poisoned needle. The scary thing is that that daemon in the back probably isn't the deadliest thing in the picture.]]
The Officio Assassinorum was founded at the beginning of the [[Great Crusade]] as a department for holding any up-and-coming warlords or heretical leaders accountable for their actions. And by "accountable" we mean "disposed of". And by "disposed of" we mean "killed so hard that they will die to death". Originally such work was performed by the [[Alpha Legion]], although like much of those bastards' history it's hard to be sure. Formed by [[Malcador the Sigillite]] and the six masters of the Clades (the future temples), it was founded in extreme secrecy in an attempt to keep it out of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]'s knowledge and maintain his purity (a concept the Big.E always found funny). It's even more amusing that they thought they could hide something from someone capable of basically hearing the thoughts of every human at once. And they all seem to know of one another.

In the beginning, the Officio acted independently in the shadows under the guidance of [[Malcador the Sigillite]], their existence kept mostly secret. As mentioned, [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Empers]] knew from the beginning but tolerated the Officio. Constantin Valdor and the [[Adeptus Custodes|guys in gold]] found out pretty quickly there were other people dealing with threats to the God-Emperor behind their (and his) backs, but they too decided the Officio was A okay. This unwritten arrangement worked out relatively well in the beginning until [[Horus Heresy|a large quantity of fecal matter hit the air circulation device]]. Malcador first sent individual assassins then a whole execution force after Horus, but the assassins were unable to kill the wayward Primarch. Worse, [[Rogal Dorn]] learned about the existence of the Officio. Being less... tolerant... than the Custodes, Dorn did not like what he saw. So, he did the [[derp|sensible thing]] and invited himself to one of the Officio's meetings, intent on [[rage|voicing his opinion on their modus operandi tactfully]]. Malcador, who would not take shit from Dorn, politely but firmly told him he should grow up. Luckily, at that point Big.E himself walked in, told Dorn the existence of the Officio was [[just as planned]] and that he should leave them alone, but at the same time he told [[Malcador]] to drop the cloak and dagger and that the Officio from now would officially be recognized and work under strict rules of engagement.

From that time on, a terminatus order could only be issued by a positive vote of the Senatorum Imperialis (AKA the [[High Lords of Terra]]) and the members of the Officio Assassinorum are kept on a very short leash. Unlike the [[Inquisition]], they have no discretionary powers of their own, [[The Beheading|because they tend to horribly abuse them if they do]].

The head of the Officio is known as the '''Grand Master of the Officio Assassinorum''', or '''The Master of Assassins''', who sits alongside the Fabricator-General of Mars and the Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum as one of the [[High Lords of Terra]].

Which, if you think about it, must be somewhat distracting during their meetings. The Lords are sitting around and discussing the fates of trillions of men, and as the debate goes back and forth, one of them says nothing, ever. He just sits there, smoking a lho-stick with his trench coat wrapped around him, almost completely overlooked. And then they remember that a bad decision could get them killed, and this is the guy who does that. And only that. His only job is to dispatch death on swift wings to any high official. It'd be like having the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head everywhere you went (which is possibly the point...).

Members of the Officio are recruited at a very young age; most of them are children from Feral Worlds or are taken from the Schola Progenium. Recruits are biologically augmented and trained at the School of Assassins on Holy Terra for ten years before being assigned to one of the Assassin Temples to continue their training and eventually serve the Imperium.

The Assassin specialists' approach Sly Marbo levels of awesome, as the Temples have permission make use of "any means or tools to get the job done," even if it means banned tech from the Dark Age of Technology (like the Terminus gland) or Xeno artifacts (like the C'tan phase blade). These Assassins are also given crushingly restrictive psych treatments to ensure they never use these tools except when ordered, which can make them seem kind of spastic during downtimes when said tools are augmentations to their own body.

There are only 2 recorded examples of anyone in the Officio turning against the Imperium. Unfortunately, both times it was the Grand Master, Drakan Vangorich. The Imperium learned of the first one's butthole treachery when he had the [[High Lords of Terra]] [[The Beheading|wiped out to the last man]]. Very [[grimdark]], though the uncaring [[Eldrad|dicks]] had it coming to them. It could be said that Vangorich getting rid of the incompetent idiots was a ''good'' thing for the Imperium, but he did more harm than good in the longer run with his increasingly totalitarian ([[grimdark|totalitarian compared to the 'regular' Imperium standards which are already pretty fucked up, mind]]) ways to prevent the situation from going to shit ever again.

After that betrayal, an Astartes retribution force was dispatched to "resolve" the situation. It is not known how many marines were sent; since the force was made up of elements of three chapters ([[Halo Brethren]], [[Sable Swords]] and [[Imperial Fists]]), it was probably at least 1000 marines (400 Marines landed, half survived the initial purging, just one survived the whole “fight the Assassinorum” thing which at least proved that even ambushed by a hundred of Eversor assassins, the Astartes were still quick enough for one of them to get the job done). As soon as they landed on Terra, the commander of the force was assassinated. The remaining marines broke into the grand chamber of the Assassinorum Temple and found 100 (!) [[Eversor]] Assassins between them and their target. A single marine survived to plug the Grand Master in the brain with a boltgun. This super-hardcore-awesome-ass-kicking marine was definitely as badass as [[Darnath Lysander]]. As it turns out, it was the Imperial Fists' Chapter Master!

The other one was [[Love Can Bloom|Vindicare Assassin LIIVI]].

Ha, just kidding. The second time was during the Age of Apostasy in M36, when the Grand Master was himself assassinated by a [[Callidus]] Assassin under the orders of [[Goge Vandire]], the insane ruler of the Imperium. Of course, you don't become Grand Master without being an Assassin yourself, and it turned out that he had switched places with a body double. What followed was a civil war within the Assassinorum to mirror the one wracking the Imperium and ended up filling the Imperial Palace with nerve gas and destroying entire wings of Mankind's greatest fortress with ancient Dark Age and xenos weaponry. Eventually, the Grand Master triumphed, but went into self-imposed exile at the end of it and might still be alive today. After the war, the [[Inquisition]] set up the [[Ordo Sicarius]] to monitor the Assassins and make sure they stay in line.

Alas, they will always be second best, for they can never become [[Sly Marbo]]. They only exist in fluff for the purposes of showing just how BADASS a specific enemy is. For example, during the [[Horus Heresy]], eight(!) Assassins, at least one from each temple, was sent to form an Assassin's Justice League of Doom and kill [[Horus|that asshole who started it]]. For [[Plot armor|SOME REASON]], like everyone else in the Imperium who tried to stop it, they [[FAIL|failed.]] Also, the same thing was tried during the Medusa V campaign, to assassinate the leader of the Chaos faction; seven of them failed, getting a front row seat to some [[Eldar]] stealing their kill. Imperial Armour books goes even further and currently have a Vindicare torn apart by an angry mob of Vraksian heretics after ''failing'' to shoot down his target, and Eversor being ripped to shreds by point-blank pulse carbine fire and only taking down ''one'' of his targets due to a tactical nuke strapped to his chest, with both cases causing the completely opposite effect imperials hoped for. This is known as the "[[Derp|Worf]] Effect" by [[Star Trek]] fans, or "The Avatar of Khaine effect" by Eldar players.

==Divisions==
[[File:TempleAssassinsExplained.jpg|600px]]

The Officio Assassinorum has six "temples," or specialist branches, each focused on one particular method of assassination:
* [[Callidus]] - shapeshifters, masters of infiltration. Almost all women (or [[Squad Broken|women pretending to be Orks]], or...just...try not to think about it).
* [[Culexus]] - soulless gothtards that are invisible & immune to psykers, daemons & the Warp.
* [[Eversor]] - cyborg, drugged-up killing machines that have two settings: coma and '''RIP'N'TEAR!!'''1!!1!one!
* [[Vanus]] - leet hacker NERD CHESS PLAYERS. All are genii in the fields of intelligence gathering, strategy and [[JUST AS PLANNED]]. "The cleanest kill is one that another performs in your stead with no knowledge of your incitement." They are what every neckbeard wants to be.
* [[Venenum]] - master poisoners who can take the things found in a vegan's kitchen and kill a [[Space Marine]] with the resulting mixture (death by malnutrition, presumably).
* [[Vindicare]] - snipers that can "BOOM! HEADSHOT!" from beyond the horizon.
* ''[[Maerorus]]'' - a failed attempt at creating a [[Sly Marbo|living weapon able to operate without support or equipment for a prolonged period of time.]] The only one created proved to be impossible to control and went rogue; all attempts at making more were immediately discontinued. Think Alex Mercer from Prototype, only even more sociopathic. Technically a resounding success, but it had issues with loyalty.

* [[Adamus]] - generic sword-swingers. Allegedly the oldest of the Assassin Clades from the Crusade era, from before the big 4 were more considerably expanded, but it's uncertain if they still exist in the 41st millennium. Their models harken back to the old Rogue Trader Assassin models from the 80's.

[[Death Cult Assassin|Death Cult Assassins]] aren't part of this framework; there are thousands of death cults throughout the Imperium and they each train in their own way to kill enemies of the Emperor, but are not officially-sanctioned and are more autonomous than the Assassins. Although particularly talented Death Cultists might be trained by the Assassinorum as basically a reward and either just become a better Death Cultist for it or outright be inducted as an Imperial Assassin.

==Assassinorum: Execution Force==
[[Assassinorum_Execution_Force|GeeDubs released a (rather awesome) Space Hulk-style board game]] for 1-4 players that revolves around an Execution Force - an Officio Assassinorum team comprised of a Callidus, Culexus, Vindicare, and Eversor assassin. Gameplay is a combination of Splinter Cell and X-COM, wherein the four player-controlled Assassins run through the map attempting to find a teleportarium room, which in turn will allow them to move to the second (and final) map. Once there, players must kill a boss of sorts - a Chaos Sorcerer who is trying to blah blah kill the Imperium with blibbity bloobity Chaos shenanigans. You've heard the story before. Along the way, Assassins fight Renegades (Chaos [[Cultist-chan|Cultists]] and [[Dranon|Spess Muhreens]]) which are spawned either by revealing rooms (the only way to find the teleportato and its control room) or through random events. Renegades can be alerted to the Assassins' presence by catching them in line of sight or by hearing the sounds of glorious gunplay down the hall. The Assassins, of course, are all badasses with unique attributes and abilities, including Primaris and Omegon Tactics (super special powers that can be used thrice or once per game, respectively). All in all the game is an overcosted and short-lived boardgame compared to Space Hulk, which for the same price gave you almost triple the amount of good guys and also more uniquely posed bad guys as well as over a dozen different missions with differing map layouts. Not to mention the map tiles were embossed as well. This means you would need a week or so of daily playing to finish all Space Hulk missions, while Officio Assassinorum will get boring after 3 or 4 plays. A shame, GeeDubs. A shame.

On the upside, you can take those four assassins and bring them over to a standard 40k game as henchmen for an Inquisitor.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:AnotherGameNightRuined.jpg
File:Back in the Day by DeadXCross.jpg
File:AssassinsHangout.jpg|Eversors are the [[That Guy]] of Assassins.

</gallery>

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Maerorus

2022-10-05T17:25:58Z

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'''Maerorus''' was (very hopefully) an [[Assassin]] temple of the [[Officio Assassinorum]] in [[Warhammer 40,000]], although only a single assassin from this temple is known. Mentioned in the book ''Seventh Retribution'', Legienstrasse (for some reason named after a train station outside Hamburg) was created at the behest of the [[Officio Assassinorum]] around M40 with the aid of [[Heretek]]s (as even the promise of an STC wasn't enough to convince the Adeptus Mechanicus to help out) and forbidden sciences, crossbreeding and Xeno hybrids (likely [[Kroot]]) were used to make Legienstrasse. In her creation the ultimate [[heresy]] was committed: purposeful violation of the holy [[Human]] form. The purpose of this experiment was to create the ultimate assassin who would not need to rely on fallible technology, sending the agent in to [[Rip and Tear|beat everyone to death with their bare goddamn hands]]. While this seems like the Officio Assassinorum tried to weaponize [[Fist of the North Star|Hokuto Shinken]], the truth is far, far [[Grimdark|worse]]. She was able to absorb the biomass of a target upon touch, completely removing the target whole. She could use this new biomass to mutate at will or to create more Maerorus assassins by laying eggs (with a single clutch being able to kill an entire Imperial Guard company shortly after hatching), making her prime material for [[/d/]]. So, in order to create the ultimate assassin, the Officio Assassinorum created an un-godly emperor damned super abomination of Alex Mercer from Prototype and John Carpenter's version of The Thing, only a billion times <s>worse</s>better because it's 40K.

It does not need to be said that this was not going to end well.

Legienstrasse figured that, as the most [[Powergamer|OP PLZ NERF]] person to walk the Imperium since the [[Emperor]] himself, she didn't want to follow orders and escaped. The Officio Assassinorum tried to cover it up the same way they do everything (IE: kill everyone involved) and they began to chase her. Roughly a millennium later they cornered her on the planet Opis. [[Extra Heresy|Corrupting the planet's ruling class and collaborating with the]] [[World Eaters]] and [[Daemons]] to attack the planet, the Assassinorum figured that the ensuing war would force her out in the open, allowing them to confirm a definite kill, along with the likely [[Exterminatus]] removing all evidence. Most alarmingly, she was able to take control of the both the daemonic and World Eater forces, seemingly without being corrupted by Chaos along the way. Predictably, an [[Inquisitor]] and his gang rolled in to check the situation out. Afraid that their scheme would be uncovered, the [[Dark Heresy|Inquisitor and his posse]] suddenly died to [[Berzerker]] [[Celestial Lions|snipers]] who were totally not [[Vindicare]] operatives.

Eventually a liberation fleet consisting of [[Imperial Guard]], the [[Imperial Fists]] lead by [[Brother-Captain]] [[Darnath Lysander]] and a fuckton of Assassins (including two Grand Masters) dropped in. Sure enough, during their first encounter she managed to dodge sniper fire from Imperial Fists [[Scout]]s and a Grand Master of the Vindicare temple while fighting Lysander, a combination of [[Assault Squad|Assault]] and [[Veteran Squad|Veteran]] Marines, the Chapter's [[Emperor's Champion]] and the Grand Master of the [[Culexus]], Lady Syncella. Legienstrasse killed a number of the Imperial Fists and the Culexus operative.

During their second encounter (this time with [[Terminator]]s, an [[Librarian|Epistolary]], an [[Eversor]] operative and once again the Emperor's Champion), the Grand Master of the Eversor temple and Lysander took the fight to Legienstrasse. She killed pretty much everyone but Lysander, but when she mortally wounded the Eversor, Lysander [[rogue|backstabbed]] him with the Black Sword of the Emperor's Champion, drove the blade through the rogue assassin and pinned both of them to a pillar. The Eversor exploded, severely wounding Legienstrasse and giving Lysander the opening to cut her head off with the (still intact) Black Sword without uttering a one-liner (because he's an Imperial Fist, and they don't have any jokes). Somehow this did not do the job, so Lysander took his [[Power weapon|Thunder Hammer]] and wailed on the headless body like he just picked up the Hammer item in [[Video games|Super Smash Brothers]] until [[Thousand Sons|all was dust]].

Luckily the Officio Assassinorum learned their lesson and stopped all development of the Maerorus (or more likely they drew up plans for Maerorus 2.0 and said "okay, ''this'' time we ''don't'' give it free will, we put in that remote self-destruct, and everything will be FINE!", which would probably only work for a time then end [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDlr44qeHY like this]). But nobody's entirely sure if ALL of Leigenstrasse's eggs were destroyed...

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Adamus

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[[File:Adamus1.jpg|250px|right|thumb|The Adamus Assassin is dummy thicc, and the clap of his ass cheeks keeps alerting his targets!]]

The Adamus is a new assassin branch showed in September 2022 for the [[Officio Assassinorum]].

These new, [[/d/|latex-covered, butt-cheeks endowed assassins]] resemble the male versions of the [[Callidus]] assassins. Except, instead of morphing to blend in, they go straight for the jugular. Think of them as a temple of Slade Wilson "DEATHSTROKE" [[Eversor]]s but much more subtle, with psychological clarity and with a calculating guile mind of a chess master.

==Overview==

You know the phrase "Cut off the head of a snake"? Yeah, this is the Adamus entire modus operandi. Of course, you may say, "Hey wait a minute, isn't that the job of <u>''ALL''</u> assassins?" and you will be correct. It is just that, for the Adamus, they specifically target ''leaders''. Other assassins would target low-hanging fruits if upper management asks them to do so in really weird and unorthodox ways, not for the Adamus though.

Ergo, its operatives are experts in the art of the decapitation strike. And, because of their more traditional and orthodox approach, this makes the Adamus Temple the oldest of the formal orders of the Imperium's Officio Assassinorum. Adamus assassins do this by studying how their enemies fight, noting their strengths and learning their weaknesses, which they then ruthlessly exploit.

Their standard-issue equipment always comes with a [[Nemesii Blade]] and a yet unknown gun.
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