Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170903183638

Persecutors are as old as the Empire itself being it's death squads used to annihilate threats and to exterminate whole villages or people groups if deemed necessary. They tend to very rarely use stealth instead they commit their atrocities right out in the open showing the survivors and others what happens to those that dare defy or threaten the Empire.

They tend to operate in mobile 'command ships' with each Persecutor legion having it's own home ship from which it can deploy, organize, and arm itself as well as retaining the mobility they need for their mission. Very rarely Persecutors will set up a semi-permanent base of operations upon a world (normally in long term cleansing actions taking hundreds of years) they tend to take the from of massive fortresses and star ports. Most are later converted to cities or palaces long after the cleansing are complete.

The Persecutors are related to the Vigilistum and Legions and it's members are recruited from both, but they are a separate military force in their own right who answer directly to the Emperor and the High lords. Under their command are the purifiers, another type of death squad although more for terror warfare and military operations.

Persecutors wear a very formal forum of power armor that although looks rather 'exposed' actual hosts a 'void field' inside thus protecting the persecutor from most if not all ranged attacks while they are trained to easily disable and kill close ranged targets. The Symbol of the Persecutors is a skull and cross bows with a eye upon it's forehead. The eye is their to semblance the ever watching nature of the Emperor's agents. 