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|colspan=2 align="center"|'''Officio Assassinorum'''
[[File:ImpAss.jpg|thumb|right|170px|An Imperial assassin{{Fn|26}}]]
*'''[[M31]]''' - The first [[Officio Assassinorum Execution Force]] is dispatched to kill the rogue [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]]. The operation ends in failure.{{Fn|11a}}
*'''[[M31]]''' - The [[Callidus Assassin]] [[M'Shen]] slays [[Night Lords]] [[Primarch]] [[Konrad Curze]].{{Fn|5b}}{{Fn|11a}}
*'''546.[[M32]]''' - In the aftermath of the [[War of the Beast]] the [[High Lords of Terra]] are killed to a man on the orders of the rebellious [[Grand Master of Assassins]] [[Drakan Vangorich]].{{Fn|11a}}
*'''990.[[M32]]''' - [[Culexus Assassin]] [[Dranos]] slays the [[Sorcerer]] [[Xantaka]].{{Fn|11a}}
*'''[[M37]]-[[M40]]''' - The [[War of the Golden Cog]] with the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]].{{citethis}}
*'''501.[[M37]]''' - [[Cardinal]] [[Jerome the Unsaintly]] is killed by a [[Vindicare Assassin]] after trying to secede from the Imperium{{Fn|11a}}
*'''563.[[M37]]''' - [[Venenum Temple]] Assassin [[Urhua Thereaux]], originally targeting the renegade [[Governor]] [[Yawell]] of [[Morisha]], instead finds him dead and replaced by an anti-Imperial democratic committee. Thereaux kills every committee member over the next three days.{{Fn|5b}}{{Fn|11a}}
*'''003.[[M38]]''' - The progressive astronomer [[Lenas Scard]] is declared heretical and killed by the [[Vindicare Assassin]] [[Erasmus Menst]].{{Fn|11a}}
*'''386143.[[M38]]''' - A [[Callidus Assassin]] manages to end the rebellion on [[Orlenza Triartes]] by replacing the rebellious lords chief military advisor{{Fn|11a}}
== Connections to Space Marine Chapters ==
Owing to their codes of conduct and their proud warrior nature, [[Space Marines]] find assassination distasteful, and will avoid any contact with assassins under most circumstances. However, as is to be expected from an institution which specialises in subterfuge and clandestine actions, there have been countless rumours and conspiracy theories concerning the Officio Assassinorum, and a number of these relate to disasters which have befallen certain Space Marine Chapters. A long string of coincidences have led some to lay the blame for the loss of the [[Fire Hawks]]' fleet in the warp, the unusual destruction of the [[Crimson Fists]]' [[fortress monastery]] by one of their own defensive missiles, the death of the [[Celestial Lions]] [[Apothecaries]] on [[Armageddon]]{{Fn|11b}}, and the ambush of the [[Angels of Retribution]] on [[Alantor X]], as well as many other lesser known catastrophes squarely at the Assassins' door. It may never be known if Assassins were involved in any of these calamities, and if they were, whether they were working under the orders of the [[High Lords of Terra]], some other institution or for their own agenda.{{Fn|5b5c}}
What is known, however, though it is hardly common knowledge, is that, since the [[Horus Heresy]], some secret departments of the [[Inquisition]] have researched methods of controlling and/or killing Space Marines, and some Assassins have access to their work.{{Fn|10}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Nemesis (Novel)]], Chapter Two
*{{Endn|4}}: [[Inquisitor Rulebook]] [http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m1320030_Inq_Rulebook_part_2.pdf Part Two], pg. 31
*5: [[Codex: Assassins (3rd Edition)]]:
**{{Endn|5a}}: pg. 7
**{{Endn|5b}}: pg. 12**{{Endn|5c}}: pg. 13
*{{Endn|6}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]], pg. 124
*7: [[The Fall of Medusa V]]
