The Vindicare Temple teaches the assassin the art of patience and the perfection of marksmanship. These stoic assassins are conditioned by their temple to be unflinchingly loyal to the Imperium, often being trained to limit their vocabulary only to words that are useful for their profession, cutting off all emotional attachments to other humans so that they will never hesitate to eliminate any target.{{Fn|2}}{{Fn|3}} The intense training of a Vindicare Assassin enables them to pick out a single target even amongst roving hordes of enemies on the battlefield.{{Fn|1}}
In one celebrated (but carefully concealed) engagementVindicares go under heavy surgical procedures following their passage into the Temple. Their brains are augmented to regulate their breathing, being taught automated mantra-meditation that can loop through their minds to achieve focus, neural augmetics are inserted in their occipital lobe to allow them to rule out obstacles while searching for their target and connection nodes are inserted beneath the skins of their palms so that they can neurally bond with their Exitus Rifle for killshots that may be too difficult to take or to not expose themselves to danger and other elements.{{Fn|21}} Many Vindicare operatives die on their first mission, their names remembered and passed to a new initiate if they completed a kill - forgotten if they have failed. Other Vindicares are killed on their second or fourth missions. Shot by other assailants, torn apart by shelling, eviscerated by daemons or xenos horrors and in the worst possible circumstance captured and tortured for unending days. This is why Vindicare operatives considered "green" are often sent to battlefields to start their careers, tasked with lower-level targets to build experience, seconded to a massed [[Eldarcrusade]] assault in on a temporary basis, being granted a broad kill order from the [[Lammas CampaignHigh Lords of Terra]] was halted by a lone Vindicator Assassin hiding in a ruined tower. The Eldar advance in that encompassed the face enemy command echelon plus any and all targets of this tower was stalled again tactical interest, being considered "journeyman" work while they subvocally report and again by a hail journal the events of their first missions.{{Fn|21}} After five successful missions however the targets that Vindicares are sent to eliminate change, moving from quarry such as mega-armored [[Orks]] or bedraggled [[Chaos Cult|cult leaders]] to instead persons of deadly sniper fire which slew much greater importance; [[Planetary Governors]], [[ExarchChaos Lords]]s, [[WarlockElemental Council|T'au sept leaders]]s, and rogue [[Support Weapons BatteryHeretek|Support WeaponsMechanicus Archmagi]] crews in quick succession; operational lynchpins. Eventually, Further meaning the Eldar called in their scouts Vindicare also does not have to keep a vox-recorded mission journal anymore that's dispatched back to clear the tower{{Fn|4}}, but when they entered it they found it full of grenade traps ready to meet themVindicare Temple for evaluation.{{Fn|521}}
==Equipment==
[[Image:Vindicare Assassin Art.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A Vindicare Assassin ]]
The [[Exitus Rifle]] of a Vindicare Assassin is his primary weapon, and is chambered to fire a variety of specialised ammunition types, therefore he is equipped to take out targets ranging from well-shielded individuals to monstrous beasts or vehicles.{{Fn|1}} He is also issued with an [[Exitus Pistol]], which fires a shot more powerful than most personal firearms used in the [[Imperium]], providing him with a valuable short-ranged weapon for situations where a sniper's rifle would not do.{{Fn|1}} Extra equipment also includes items such as a spool of monofilament wire acting as a garotte stored in their back-rig and two magnetic grapnels which can be used for traversal and also loaded into the Exitus pistol to act as a climbing gun.{{Fn|21}} Vindicare Assassins wear a [[Spy Mask]], which can scan a wide spectrum to pick out heat and energy sources over long distances. The mask also allows the Assassin to monitor the enemy's communication channels, and comes equipped with concentrated food and water cartridges for extended operations.{{Fn|1}}
Vindicare Assassins wear a [[Spy Mask]], which can scan a wide spectrum to pick out heat and energy sources over long distances. The mask also allows the Assassin to monitor the enemy's communication channels, and comes equipped All Vindicares are adorned with concentrated food and water cartridges for extended operations. They also wear a specially designed '''Stealth Suit''', which combines normal [[synskin]] with chameleon chemicals to hide their forms in their surroundings.{{Fn|1}} The synskin suit includes other capabilities like tightening around a specific bodily area to staunch blood flow if an assassin is injured or flooding their system with chill-stimms to keep them steady and counteract nausea. The Stealth Suit also holds a ballistic cogitator unit in the shape of an armored box at the center of the Vindicare's back, this device is closely connected with the assassin's Spy Mask from where crucial targeting information and calculations are made.{{Fn|21}}
Vindicare Assassins have also been known to have their insertion aided with [[Vindicare Jet Pack|jet packs]] and [[Vindicare Balloon|Balloons]].{{Fn|20}}
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**{{Endn|19b}}: pgs. 30-31
*{{Endn|20}}: [[ Eternal Damnation (Comic Anthology)]] — The Samos Sanction*{{Endn|21}}: [[Assassinorum: Iron Sight (Short Story)]]
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