Editing Schola Progenium (section)

== Student Admissions ==

Not just any orphan is granted admission to the Schola Progenium, no sir. With the amount of [[How Imperial Life Is Worse Than You Can Imagine|war and death in the Imperium]] orphans are a dime a dozen, plus tuition fees are expensive, so the Imperium reserves the use of Schola facilities for only the "finest" prospective students.

To be admitted you have to be the offspring of someone notable; whether it is the child of an officer of the military or any other branch of the Adeptus Terra for that matter, or the scion of a noble house whose parents have fallen to ill-circumstance.

In fact, it has been rumored that such [[Celestial Lions|ill-circumstance]] has occasionally been via the Schola Progenium itself when they scout out a good prospective candidate and want to separate them from their parents.

That all having been said, few tithes take whole families as that tends to be a non-sustainable way of spending the Emperor's currency. Actual orphans tend to be more the result of mischance than malevolence or heavy-grinding campaigns. If anything, the Schola is unlikely to accept people just based on their lineage and probably couldn't care less. What matters is that if one or more of your parents or recent ancestors made a name for themselves enough to stand out among the teeming trillions, they want you.

Upon arrival, students receive chemical mind-wiping to strip away any connection with their former life, remove any trauma that might have occurred when making them orphans, and to provide a fresh canvas to mold the students into ideal AND LOYAL subjects of the Imperium. Though it seems this step isn't mandatory, as [[Ciaphas Cain]] still looks up to his scumbag parents and fondly remembers his home planet (he attributes his excellent sense of direction to having been a hiver), wherever it actually is (Amberley doesn't even know, and if anyone could find out...), and that's assuming he's not just confabulating wildly inconsistent stories about a largely imagined childhood given his own admission of being a pathological liar.

They also receive new names, though siblings from the same family get assigned the same surnames since the Schola has found sibling rivalry to be an excellent tool for motivation.

=== Exceptions ===

[[Inquisitors]] can sponsor the enrollment of [[Dark Heresy|specific individuals]] in a Schola to undergo [[Stormtrooper]] training.

This is actually quite a difficult period for any prospective mature student; despite the fact that they may be much older and experienced than his high-school aged classmates, the Schola itself makes no special distinction between them.

Due to their varied background, their range of education may be vastly inferior to that of the other progenia, particularly if they originally came from a feral world or underhive. As such, they will probably be far behind their classmates, and end up pissing off their instructors to no end, who can't deal with a war veteran exposed to daemonic infohazards and aliens who is likely suffering from PTSD and can probably tear them limb from limb out of experience. That said, the veteran will doubtless be dramatically ahead of his peers in actual combat training, which is all anyone would truly care about. What they need is smoothing out their hard-earned skills and talents combined with tactical and small unit training.

*It's quite ironic, since according to the [[Dark Heresy|RPG rules]], Storm Troopers are ascension (lv9+) characters whilst Drill Abbots are lv5+ guardsmen so it is [[derp|quite possible]] for a Guardsman character to become a Drill Abbot FIRST and THEN a Storm Trooper.

''Those who can, do; those who can't, teach.''