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==Overview==
The Repressor is was originally used as an armoured personnel carrier by the Adeptus Arbites as a means of crowd suppression. The Sisters of Battle first used the Repressor on the [[Cardinal World]] of [[Avignor]] during the [[Avignor Uprising]], when agent-provocateurs of a heretical sect caused a crowd of a million pilgrims to riot. The local Precincts was overrun by the mob, and the Battle Sisters of the [[Order of the Sacred Rose|Sacred Rose ]] Preceptory, currently guarding the [[Cardinal]]'s Palace, offered their aid. They replaced the Repressor's non-lethal weaponry of water cannons and grenade launchers with heavy flamers, and took to the streets to purge the heretics with holy fire.{{Fn|1}}
For years only the Sacred Rose used the Repressors, causing anger with other Orders, until the 291st Synod Prioris of [[Terra]] where the issue was hotly debated. Eventually it was decreed that the victory on Avignor had been the [[Emperor]]'s divine will, and that the Repressor be included in the canon list of sanctioned vehicles.{{Fn|1}}
