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The '''Vanus Temple''' is one of the assassin temples of the [[Officio Assassinorum]].¹ They are intelligence-gatherers, in matters of strategy and tactics their insight is unparalleled. They often assassinate their targets indirectly using their intelligence and knowledge to bring down targets. [[Fon Tariel]], an infocyte of Clade Vanus during the Horus Heresy noted that: 'the cleanest kill is one that another performs in your stead with no knowledge of your incitement.'²

Agents of the Vanus Clade are known as infocytes and also made use of predictive engines in order to base their calculations on all available data as well as prognostic simulations in order to determine the success rate of the operations.^2-p22 The infocytes are essentially human computing engines that are far different from mindless automata such as [[servitor]]s as their skills were unparalleled in matters of stratec and tactics. Their presence cemented their Clade's role as being the intelligence-gathering arm of the Officio Assassinorum and its been said that they have never been known to make an error in judgement though some considered this disinformation. Despite this being the case, the Clade is well known for the creation and dissemination of proganda which is noted as being its greatest strength. Infocytes are said to hold the same relationship with raw information as an addict had with their chosen vice in the sense that they enrapted by the idea of new data as well as what they could do to not only gather it but know it as well.^2-p39 They along with cryptocrats take part in operations through telepresent means that are conducted from their sanctum or from an Officio Assassinorum sponsored starship with them physically deployed in the field a rare occurence.^2-p52 In terms of equipment, Clade Vanus are known to possess cogitator gauntlets that projected hololithic panes that floated in the air for them to access data.^2-p52 They could also send small swarms of organic-metal netfly automata that can tap into opti-cables and parse throguh the rich data which they fed back to the operative. Each of these netflies was by itself a relatively unsophisticated piece of technology but, when en masse, their networking skills allowed the information they transfered to be cohered into a dense picture of what occured in the immediate surroundings of the Vanus Assassin. This allowed them to generate maps of nearby structures, traffic and place monitoring beads throughout any given zone. This the netflies accomplished by boring into the deep sub-web of imaging coils in the area.^2-p53 According to [[Fon Tariel]], the dictates and method of operation of the Clade were summed up as: 'the cleanest kill is one that another performs in your stead with no knowledge of your incitement.'²

During the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]], the Clades met at the [[Shrouds]] where Sire Vanus revealed that his assassins predictive engines along with their most diligent infocytes concluded that the [[Venenum Temple|Venenum Clade]]'s assassin [[Tobeld]]'s survival to complete his mission to eliminate [[Horus]] was zero point two percent. The margin of error was reported to be negligable and marked an improvement in proximity to the renegade [[Primarch]] compared to all the previous Officio Assassinorum operations.^2-p22 In order to eliminate the rogue [[Warmaster]], the Master of Assassins ordered the assembly of the first [[Officio Assassinorum Execution Force]] and Clade Vanus dispatched [[Fon Tariel]] as their representive to the strike team.^2-p39

*²:[[Nemesis (Novel)]], p. 21-24, 39-40, 52-53, 75-78.