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'''Assassins''' are agents specialized in killing and infiltration. Various types of assassin are used by several races and armies to efficiently damage an enemy by removing one or more important individuals. Assassins may infiltrate the enemy in order to destroy kill important leaders and officers, destroy special objectives, or perform some other covert task that a conventional army would have to suffer many losses to achieve. Although considered underhanded, assassins can in many circumstances destroy a threat far more efficiently than entire armies can, which will often leave planets devastated.
The [[High Lords of Terra]], rulers and administrators of the [[Imperium]], have a special division, the [[Officio Assassinorum]], (aka the Office of Assassins), to deal with such matters. The [[Dark Eldar]] have the [[Mandrake]]s.