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Assassins are recruited at a very young age, from the orphans of Imperial servants raised in the [[Schola Progenium]]{{Fn|1}}, and from the populations of [[feral world]]s. Prospective candidates are tested mercilessly even as they are shipped to [[Terra]], pitted against hazardous environments as well as each other, with perhaps one in ten surviving the journey.{{fn|11b}} The survivors are divided among the temples and then undergo ten years of intensive training under the Lord Assassins.{{fn|11b}} From then onwards they live and operate from one of the Assassin temples said to be located somewhere on Terra. They are harshly tested and trained, their senses and resolve heightened with implants. Even after the initial training, the life of an agent of the Officio remains hard and unforgiving.{{Fn|2}}