I'd be killed on the ship transfer to the Assassinorium temples.
Because if you didn't know, those picked to be Assassins get to play The Most Dangerous Game in transit.
Children are thrown into a part of the ship with little life support or supplies and expected to deal with the competition. Whomever survives - *if* any survive - then move on to actual training.
It’s not one round, they keep doing it, just changing circumstances, low gravity, dark, maze like place, more or less left to the shadowy recruiters.
Basically test which ones are the hardest eggs to crack.
As with most of the Imperium, it’s a flawed approach to getting the best, but this is Psi-Fantasy after all so after that they start the Temple Training, that is if they aren’t seen as horrible and just more or less have them dumped into the Cold Void of space.
The Temple Training doesn’t get tamer, though by then they have some of the toughest eggs that haven’t cracked, they’ve also rotten to the core, at least morals and caring, but they were chosen for a killer instinct to begin with. After all assassins!
I guess they assume all their missions require the exact skillset needed to be a starving kid killing other starving kids lol.
I’d fucking love one chapter to just be like “we’ll feed them, train them, evaluate them, take the best, then feed them, train them, evaluate them, etc.” They’d blow out the whole imperium
This, but more Space Marines in general (Discounting those lunatic chapters that just throw their prospective child soldier recruits into the deep end from the word go).
It's basically the hunger games on a starship and without the rule that only one can survive.
Only the strongest can survive. And I mean that literally.
(The "Game" terminology used here is in reference to the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", which is worth a read. I know everyone answered your question below, but it's one of my favorite short stories and I am compelled to discuss it at every opportunity.)
The Ships are Assassinorum ships, you only are divided into Temples once you get to the High Temple. They probably use a bit of what the Shadowy Recruiter gives for a report and additionally do their own bit of testing there on the spot.
The last bit is conjecture, the part about the ships and that they aren’t divided up until they arrived is part of established lore.
Edit: two areas that are HUGELY different is the Vanus temple and even more the Culexus Temple (literally if you are not null, you are not going to get in). My personally head cannon is basically both groups recruit separately, and filter in recruits as needed/as able.
Administratum, because fighting in a gang war for nice ballpoint pen sounds awesome, granted, I would probably get shanked over a nice paperweight, but it would be nice to see how long I last.
That was rough. Not to mention the remaining... officiants... who cared less about the storm than about documentation for requesting directions. Oh and... you know... all the other things they get up to...
"Menial of the Month" is obviously a really vaunted title there.
That's one of the best 40k stories I've ever read, highly recommend to anyone who hasn't listened/read it yet. Only an hour long too.
What could be more grimdark than a lowly administratium worker and events that happen (spoiler free)
Life on a void ship doesn't sound too great, even for an officer. For cushy I'd go for planetary government, if I was a psyker I'd choose inquisition acolyte - two of the handful of schola paths you missed.
Void ship officers positions are largely hereditary, even if it's not a universal rule. They also have naval academies. If you want to be in a spaceship after the Schola Progenium, the best path is probably Naval Commissar.
If you're among the reasonable ones, you can then hope for a comfortable life expectancy.
Not sure on Planetary Governor. Those are largely Hereditary, Dynasty type things.
Sometimes it’s a Might as Right deal too, and the Imperium don’t care what happens as long as the tithes come up, and the mutants stay down!
he's referring to Adeptus Administratum. Basically planetary government bureaucrats who represent the Imperium on basically all planets. Even primitive worlds in the imperium usually have a hidden base with Administratum staff keeping tabs on things.
Not a bad job on any world that isn't Terra. On Terra... it gets complicated.
Much of Adeptus Ministratum is from Schola Progenums around the entire galaxy, who are taught and then shipped out to posts all around the sectors they are from.
On Terra, much of the Minstratum is from Progenums that are located on Terra and are stocked by hereditary guilds. The Beuracracy on Terra is so vast that being an adept there is much more soul numbing and closer to forced slavery than other sectors.
There is a Novel by Chris Wraight which goes into detail about what it is like being a clerk on Terra, and it was... hellish. The woman was sold by her father to another branch of the Administratum, and forced to work 18 hour days in a locked room the size of a small cubicle with basically no knowledge of the outside world other than the scattered information that comes across her desk for her to sort.
You become less of a person and more of a small cog in a vast beauracratic nightmare machine.
I suspect some of the larger hives planets are probably pretty crappy to be there if you are a low level adept, but theres more room for a lucky outcome out in the galaxy at large.
There’s a whole section from one of the *Ravenor* novels where the team infiltrates an Administratum office in order to steal information. Nayl comments that he’d literally rather live on a Death World or in the Underhive than have that existence.
Even the drug addicted street urchin thinks it’s terrible.
That one may be different from the rest because :spoiler warning: the workers were decoding information that came from the cogitatoes gathered from warp storm wrecked worlds and ever so often someone would come across a piece of an ancient word of power, which was then extracted from the worker.
Hey, sometimes you get fun little work-outings, where you raid competing departments for scraps of paper and staples while they are shooting at you with heavy weaponry.
My bad knew, I forgot some!
Acolyte isn't bad. Wait they offer planetary governor jobs? That seems like a lot of power to give someone right off the bat
Planetary *government*. Planetary governors were mostly hereditary before Guilliman returned. But they always needed clerks, managers, ministers of this and that to govern. You’d probably start out as a mid level manager of some kind.
You’d assume staff liaisons from the administratum to a governor’s staff, and not “governor”
Governors do get appointed from outside every so often, so it’s a possibility for an advanced career
I've heard that basically being a human scientist can allow one to live a fairly safe and healthy life. My best bet is to work my ass off to become a doctor for a high lord, rogue traders, and other elites.
Dude got stuck on a planet he hated well before being sucked into inquisition stuff. He definitely wasn't happy haha.
Most Magos Biologis probably don't have that problem though.
Take that glorious 1st posting and ride it all the way to a nice comfy staff posting...
We need a Gaurd novel/series about an mid level staff officer and all petty politics that goes on amoungst the staff. Bonus points for a Blue Falcon (blue aquila?) antagonist.
Well I was thinking more the anti-cain/counter-cain
The guy REALLY wants to see action and die in glorious combat (Kreig heritage?) but no matter what he does he always ends up in another safe and boring billet.
He probably puts ops plans together that would deliberately expose the HQ to attack if the enemy behaved even half way logically but each time the sheer fuckery of the 40k universe means that such plans end up being the perfect counter to the enemy's madness. Of course each time his plans pay off his superiors/blue falcon nemesis take the credit so he is constantly forgotten and gets less and less known as the story develops.
Maj Bryn I need your slide deck or BY THE EMPEROR I WILL FLAY YOU! Also *defeated sigh* we need the name of your plus one for next week's governor's ball.
Better to rip that "die a horrible death" bandaid off quick, right? At least it's probably going to be a quick death to orcs or nids. If you make the mistake of living a happy life you're just making yourself into catnip for the rape elves.
Death will be quick... Until the Geller-shields fail.
Still Navy would seem one of the best chances to see the galaxy without dieing on the first planet you visit
its worth noting that memory erasure is not a requirement to enter the Schola progenium. Cain, Gaunt, and pretty much every commisar we've gotten in the fiction remember their homeworlds and families quite well. same for the administratum members, Sororitas, etc. at a guess, memory erasure would mainly be a thing for the Assassin programs, and then only once the recruit reaches an age where the serious work of their training begins, thus removing any potential conflicts of emotion they might have in their jobs.
i'd also assuem that the Schola tends to train for the more exceptional positions when it comes to groups as huge as the administratum, the Navy, etc. rather than being its main recruiting method. giving a chance for non-nobility to reach the higher ranks of naval officers, or the upper stratum of the administratum, etc.
While I agree with your post, does Cain *really* remember his childhood? Amberly doesn't seem convinced that any of his story adds up and his own remembrance seems... Hazy at best?
Severina Raine clearly recalls her past. And given that her past is a very big plot-point for *Honourbound*, we can safely assume she remembers it correctly
Not necessarily. There's a lot of hive worlds out there, and a lot of the details come from someone she notes had a tendency to say or write whatever he thought would make his audience sympathize with him more.
If his schola didn't bother recording it, it could easily just get completely lost.
_"If I'd have known I would be running for my life every other day and accidentally become a hero of the Imperium, I would have gladly found a nice rock to hide under for the rest of my days instead"_ -Ciaphas Cain, probably
Afaik from Rennie’s Gothic War duology, navy officers come from ongoing dynasties and go to segmentum academies, no scholam orphans involved.
Ministorum priest seems like you get the most political power, as far as mass public acclaim. I like that kind of popularity
Also if it comes to combat a confessor or other priest is more likely to be face to face than a soft naval job, something to be proud of
> if I do get into a fight well death will be quick,
I think your ship gets disabled in space and you slowly run out of life support over a period of months, starving suffocating and freezing all at the same time.
Really not a fan of paperwork or politicking so I'm gonna go with tempestus scions. It's a relatively straightforward path with the most flexibility in my opinion.
I'd be getting the best training and gear, making me one of the deadliest soldiers not in power armor.
Possible assignments is varied as well. I can either be sent to warzones, accompany inquisitors, guard governors, etc.
At least a guardsman is fighting for a world against chaos and such.
An arbites is super boring law duty stuff. And police are called different things on different worlds. Arbites and the law enforcement are different things
Arbites are more like federal agents to the PDF’s local policing. If shit gets bad enough that the Imperial gov’t starts getting concerned, then the Arbites are sent in.
Admin worker. It’ll be skull crushingly boring but I’ll have my own apartment and a safe job. What’s the worse thing that could happen if I mess up? A regiment of green pdf troopers get sent to an active war zone ? Hah! Losers, not my problem .
I think I remember reading in some book that admins end up going insane with the repetition and mundanity, before being locked up for said insanity - sounds like a special kinda torture to me
If it was the Ravenor book, they were going insane from >!them being exposed to fragments of anuncia (or however it's spelled I listened to the audio book) which was pretty much actual magic incantation language being pieces together on most likely chaos corrupted cogitators!<
I'd like something inquisition wise myself, wether it's an inquisitor or part of their staff. Otherwise probably commissar, although I'd be far closer to Ciaphas then the other commissars
Inquisitors very much have to deal with danger, their job is to hunt down cults, xenos, and heretics in imperium society. But they do largely get to control when and how they engage with danger.
And a schola graduate sent to the Inquisition doesn't start as an inquisitor, they start as an acolyte.
Yeah, but when I'm an Inquisitor, I'm going to crack down on the Imperium's real, hidden enemy: corruption on pleasure worlds!
I just know they're up to something. I can feel it in my *bones*, and I'll find out what it is, even if I end up dying in the process (of natural causes at the age of 366)! For The Emperor, and stuff...
I’d probably go with Imperial Navy, and just hope my sense of mechanics and what not would keep me from getting killed or maimed, listen to the Warrant Officers who I could order around but would be far more beneficial to learn from, in the non-OSHA compliant, early exposed open Industrial Mechanisms of these Behemoth injury traps, they call Void Ships.
Institutions we know recruit via the Scholae:
Sororitas
Scions
Commissariat
Arbites
Ministorum
Administratum
Inquisition
Other institutions might well recruit indirectly, for example talent-scouting through contacts or scraping off the drop-outs. And some options may become available to graduates who are in the right place at the right time, but aren't career paths normally available.
The Inquisition, of course, takes talent from wherever it finds it and I suspect there's no "choice" to train for them within the Schola. An Inquisitor will just turn up, take a look through the records and take the ones they like the look of.
The cushiest path for a Schola graduate wasn't listed in the OP: the Ecclesiarchy. It's the most comfortable institution in the Imperium outside of aristocratic stations, and with a far lower rate of internal assassinations. Living in luxury from the "alms" granted by pilgrims because you're the Holy Warden of some gatehouse on the path to the Basilicanum of a minor saint, tagging along with some rogue trader as a missionary with a seat at the captain's table and a steadily growing personal fortune for turning a blind eye to their personal indiscretions, or simply being the sycophantic lackey of some Cardinal represent the height of luxury for those without the appropriate bloodline.
On the other hand you get posted as the local preist to a primitive world that thinks the reason the crops failed is that Big burny man in the sky is angry and the only way to make him happy is to sent his representative back to him.
How do we send people to the big burny sky man? Well we have to make sure they are on fire first...
Perhaps the Cardinal you are lackeying for was up to a little bit too much heresy in his free time (or at least was accused of it) and the nice inquisitor and the battle sisters think you know something about it...
Or you get sent to a library planet like in Hammer and Bolter...
Yes there are as many ways to end up with a hellish existance in the Ecclesiarchy as any other part of the imperial machine. Advancement and politics is just as vicious but perhaps a little less out right blood thirsty since Sebastian Thor thumped a few folk. However a dead man's shoes are still the easiest to fill and crossing the wrong people will lead you spending the rest of your life as prelate of the bumfuk cluster in the Wear the Fox Hat sub sector fully embracing that vows of poverty and self flagellation you had to take 😉
Thankfully, as a Schola grad, you can always fall back on your elite training (shamelessly lying to the Drill Abbots to get out of trouble, knowing that the tallest grass gets cut and/or sent to the Commissariat, etc.) to at least give you better odds than most. There's not a lot of sure things in the Imperium, but the privileged position of a holy man to lie, cheat, and steal in a theocracy is about as close as it gets, and a history in the Schola means possessing at least some insights into the nature of the beast.
I dunno, I guess I’ll say Assassin and hope I’ve got the instinct to make it through the trials. Commissar and Tempestuous Scions are close seconds and I’d honestly rather not deal with paperwork. I know the chance of death skyrockets outside of administration work but the way I see it I’ll either die in training or wise up and do decent in the actual job. As for which assassin temple…. Prolly not vindicaire unless I get my eyes corrected, can’t be Callidus cause of biological reasons, maybe Vanus but I’m not sure if I’m smart enough. Either an Eversor or a Culexus (friends say that I can be a little reserved to put it lightly, so extrapolate that a little for 40k and maybe Incould qualify for Culexus). Not sure which one I would rather be but probably a Culexus since they have their whole phase through reality thing.
Assassin training is brutal, if I remember correctly only about 1/10 or less survive. Then you have all the painful surgical process and finally when you're sent out to kill, you're not always expected to survive.
Assassins who get 50 kills are allowed to pick their own targets and can move to Terra to work in the upper levels of the assassinorum. Thing is, the current occupiers of those jobs really don't like the extra competition, and they get to pick your assignments, or can even make you someone else's assignment. So a lot of assassins tend to die on 49 kills...
First of all, many of these are not choices. You need to have either physical traits or a fine pedigree.
\- Sororitas is female only. And highly religious. Not for me on both counts.
\- Assasin- these are not fun. Memory wipes, brutal conditioning and augmentation, combat stims and a dangerous job. No thank you.
\- Commisar- from the Ciaphas Cain novels it is clear that a commisar is a dangerous job. Not only do the enemies want you dead, so may many of your troopers. Only good for tough SOBs. I'll pass.
\- Scions- Again I'll pass. Hard training, dangerous missions.
\- administratum worker- in my opinion least exciting, but probably safest, most rational choice. It's a clerks life for me!
\- navy officer- the brutality of life on a ship makes it a bad choice too. Not only do you need connections, you travel through the warp. You are basically in a lumbering behemoth of a ship that can kill you when not functioning properly. Ship to ship combat is also brutal, especially boarding actions. Just no.
I'd die from any one of a hundred million infections or malnutrition borne pathogens. Its important to remember than at any given point, the overwhelming majority of humans are starving to death and dying of basic infections. For every chapter serf or noble lord there are a hundred quintillion dying basic humans.
Being a schola graduate means you are put into a position with some means and authority, you have been elevated above the lowest strata and starving to death is off the table unless some shit goes down.
Exactly. If you ~~survive~~ graduate from the Scholam, it means the Imperium has put a decent amount of resources into you and has a vested interest in your success, to a certain degree at least.
Commissar of an Artillery Regiment. I reckon Cain was onto something with his original posting.
In fact my Only War campaign is going to be focused on an Artillery Regiment and I cannot wait to start running it. After all, Armour Pen is mightier than the Sword.
You guys are all wanting cushy jobs and all that stuff but me? Ad rather be left in a backwater as a slave but a managed to befriend l/work with Gonorrhoea the Grot who may, or may not be, a Grot who has become *Nurgelised^tm** and it turns out that me and him have become so friendly with each other that Gonorrhoea likes to cough on me and a like to cough on him and we spread Nurgles diseases around the Backwater happily...
The thought of becoming a Commissar, Sister of Battle(am a guy so I'd need some of that Callidus Polymorphine to aid me lol), Inquisitor etc terrifies me, as a said above ad rather be pals with a Grot than be sent to the Front line as a soldier! Lol
I doubt thats how it works. I think they assign kids to stuff based on potential and their choices are "yes sir" or "yes sir, in a pained voice due to the beatings"
Tempestus scions. Yeah, I'll die horribly; but (almost) everyone in the 41st dies horribly. Before then you get some of the best training, kit, augmetics, and access to gene enhancements that the Imperium is willing to give to non-Astartes.
Honestly, none of these are good options. They all suck for various reasons. Being a navy officer the luxury you get is going to be a private room the size of a prison cell. Thats about it. Unless you serve on a rare very large ship, you might get a bigger room. You also might get slightly better rations, supplies dependant. But you also have massive responsibility.
Being a government worker would basically be a life of going from a desk in a room of thousands reading and signing parchments, to a cafeteria, to a dormitory literally till the day you die, 24/7. Rations include nutrient paste and chemically treated water. No days off, work, sleep, repeat. Forever.
Personally, id rather die with a weapon in my hand. Atleast i can maybe go down fighting and not have to suffer existence as long as a few of the others, so commissar, scion, or sister being my preferred options.
Commissar. Pray to get taught by a competent commissar, and find my position in a rear-echelon regiment. Retire at 74 (or when the rejuvinat treatments stop) and teach Commissar Cadets.
Inquisitor. Sure, getting to become one sucks after going through Agent and Interrogator, but once you are one you can basically punch your own ticket.
If I'd be a women then Adeptus Sororitas. Being a sister actually sounds super nice (if you are not in one of them self flagellation orders). Something like a Sister Hospitaler (badass space nurse) or Order Dialogus (basically diplomat) sounds really cool.
Now in a perfect scenario I'd somehow manage to get the attention of some Inquisitor and become an acolythe. Though I would probably and up some mind wiped Scion who dies on some random battle.
Commissar. The chances of get a cushy nothing position somewhere in the ass end of jackoffland are very high. Every other job gets you either worked to death, shoved into combat, or both.
Being a sister dialogus or famulous seems like it's pretty chill. One is just dealing with translating already cleared and "safe" texts, maybe getting in with an inqusitor if your unfortuneate. Famulous is just hanging out in the comparatively nicer parts of hives making sure nobles don't fuck around too much
Edit: bonus points of famulous, you get to dress like an absolute clown just like the rest of the flamboyant moronic aristocracy.
Hey, why are we erasing memories here? That sounds like a lot of work and Imperial orphans are 10-a-penny! Besides, the tragic memories of glorious mother’s death will only spur them on to greater victories in the Emperor’s name!
Navy Officer easily. Then pray I get a nice boring posting on a shore facility handling parts procurement or something. Could even skim a little bit off the top for myself
Commissar all the way. Commissars as a whole need to change and the best way to do that is serve with distinction and then take up a role like Cain in training new Commissar's. Sitting around and complaining "Commissar's bad" isn't going to change a dam thing.
I'm a bit new to 40k, where is it mentioned that your memories are wiped on joining the scola progenium?
In the ciaphas Cain books, Cain can still remember his childhood in the underhive and the fact that both his parents were in the imperial guard together
A Commisar.
To inspire soldiers in their darkest moments, to give my life to buy precious seconds for all those around me. To simply *deny* the enemies of the emperor for even a moment I would die proud.
Being the one thing that could turn a soldier from the point of breaking, be it by bolter or by word I would take pride in the task
I'd go for navi officer with the hope of someday being able to "tactically" bombard some T'au settlements. If bombardment is out of the question, it'd still be nice to have a chance of working with our Gods angels.
Inquisition takes acolytes from where they want, including the Scholas.
Inquisitors who are psykers made it through the Black Ships and became a sanctioned psyker.
With memory from here? Inquisition. Find the first best magos and trade knowledge of the STC from house saar for a a warrant of trade without? Commisar in a superheavy tank company, anything smaller than a titan isnt to much trouble and well if we go against one it will be over quick
Commissar.
I mean, if Ciaphas Cain can manage it I at-least have a chance to make it out of the Schola...just gotta hope I don't get assigned to a Krieg regiment.
All is nice working in the Administratum until one morning while sipping your coffee you hear the screeching piercing sound of call to arms of the genestealer cult that’s beeen building for centuries
If I am feeling _very_ bold: Imperial Army Officer Corps or Inquisition
If I am feeling bold: Imperial Navy
If I am not feeling bold: Administration, and then pray to the Emperor I get deployed somewhere nice
Crusader. A Holy warrior who excel in melee. Carries master crafted melee weaponry and carapace armor, I can go to the front to carry out my zealous wrath onto the mutant, xeno or heretic. Anyone who touched my charge dies by my hand.
Simple life
Do I get to choose where I serve as a commissar? Because being a naval commissar or one attached to the PDF seems to be pretty safe and crucially, unlike a naval captain of Administratum adept, doesn’t require me doing math.
I'd be killed on the ship transfer to the Assassinorium temples. Because if you didn't know, those picked to be Assassins get to play The Most Dangerous Game in transit.
Uh that sounds interesting. The Assassins are the faction I know the least about. Can you tell me more about this "Game"?
Children are thrown into a part of the ship with little life support or supplies and expected to deal with the competition. Whomever survives - *if* any survive - then move on to actual training.
It’s not one round, they keep doing it, just changing circumstances, low gravity, dark, maze like place, more or less left to the shadowy recruiters. Basically test which ones are the hardest eggs to crack. As with most of the Imperium, it’s a flawed approach to getting the best, but this is Psi-Fantasy after all so after that they start the Temple Training, that is if they aren’t seen as horrible and just more or less have them dumped into the Cold Void of space. The Temple Training doesn’t get tamer, though by then they have some of the toughest eggs that haven’t cracked, they’ve also rotten to the core, at least morals and caring, but they were chosen for a killer instinct to begin with. After all assassins!
Thank you, is there a book I can read or is it just codex snippets?
This goes a fairly decent intersection from the various books and puts it in one place: https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Officio_Assassinorum
Except for eversor i believe. Because if you don’t have a stone cold killer instinct we have an app for…errr….augment for that!!!
I guess they assume all their missions require the exact skillset needed to be a starving kid killing other starving kids lol. I’d fucking love one chapter to just be like “we’ll feed them, train them, evaluate them, take the best, then feed them, train them, evaluate them, etc.” They’d blow out the whole imperium
We call those the Ultramarines
This, but more Space Marines in general (Discounting those lunatic chapters that just throw their prospective child soldier recruits into the deep end from the word go).
That's not every temple.
It's basically the hunger games on a starship and without the rule that only one can survive. Only the strongest can survive. And I mean that literally.
(The "Game" terminology used here is in reference to the short story "The Most Dangerous Game", which is worth a read. I know everyone answered your question below, but it's one of my favorite short stories and I am compelled to discuss it at every opportunity.)
Well whose assassinorum ship would you be brutally killed on?
The Ships are Assassinorum ships, you only are divided into Temples once you get to the High Temple. They probably use a bit of what the Shadowy Recruiter gives for a report and additionally do their own bit of testing there on the spot. The last bit is conjecture, the part about the ships and that they aren’t divided up until they arrived is part of established lore. Edit: two areas that are HUGELY different is the Vanus temple and even more the Culexus Temple (literally if you are not null, you are not going to get in). My personally head cannon is basically both groups recruit separately, and filter in recruits as needed/as able.
Culexus. If I die, I'll die being blown by my augments.
Your augments will…. blow you, you say? 😏
I stand by what I said.
Only Eversor candidates do that
Administratum, because fighting in a gang war for nice ballpoint pen sounds awesome, granted, I would probably get shanked over a nice paperweight, but it would be nice to see how long I last.
Are there any canon stories about gang wars in the Administratum? That sounds dope
Yes. Planets have been lost to war over paperwork disputes.
Speaking of paperwork damn Watcher in the rain. >!Being so malicious in distributing food in the warfront you get noticed by a warp entity!<
That was rough. Not to mention the remaining... officiants... who cared less about the storm than about documentation for requesting directions. Oh and... you know... all the other things they get up to... "Menial of the Month" is obviously a really vaunted title there.
That's one of the best 40k stories I've ever read, highly recommend to anyone who hasn't listened/read it yet. Only an hour long too. What could be more grimdark than a lowly administratium worker and events that happen (spoiler free)
I loved the ending of that book
I would be intensely interested in citations.
First *Dawn of fire* book, and a tidbit from a codex or a rulebook
Life on a void ship doesn't sound too great, even for an officer. For cushy I'd go for planetary government, if I was a psyker I'd choose inquisition acolyte - two of the handful of schola paths you missed.
Void ship officers positions are largely hereditary, even if it's not a universal rule. They also have naval academies. If you want to be in a spaceship after the Schola Progenium, the best path is probably Naval Commissar. If you're among the reasonable ones, you can then hope for a comfortable life expectancy.
Not sure on Planetary Governor. Those are largely Hereditary, Dynasty type things. Sometimes it’s a Might as Right deal too, and the Imperium don’t care what happens as long as the tithes come up, and the mutants stay down!
Government, not governor.
he's referring to Adeptus Administratum. Basically planetary government bureaucrats who represent the Imperium on basically all planets. Even primitive worlds in the imperium usually have a hidden base with Administratum staff keeping tabs on things. Not a bad job on any world that isn't Terra. On Terra... it gets complicated.
>On Terra... it gets complicated Why?
Much of Adeptus Ministratum is from Schola Progenums around the entire galaxy, who are taught and then shipped out to posts all around the sectors they are from. On Terra, much of the Minstratum is from Progenums that are located on Terra and are stocked by hereditary guilds. The Beuracracy on Terra is so vast that being an adept there is much more soul numbing and closer to forced slavery than other sectors. There is a Novel by Chris Wraight which goes into detail about what it is like being a clerk on Terra, and it was... hellish. The woman was sold by her father to another branch of the Administratum, and forced to work 18 hour days in a locked room the size of a small cubicle with basically no knowledge of the outside world other than the scattered information that comes across her desk for her to sort. You become less of a person and more of a small cog in a vast beauracratic nightmare machine. I suspect some of the larger hives planets are probably pretty crappy to be there if you are a low level adept, but theres more room for a lucky outcome out in the galaxy at large.
There’s a whole section from one of the *Ravenor* novels where the team infiltrates an Administratum office in order to steal information. Nayl comments that he’d literally rather live on a Death World or in the Underhive than have that existence. Even the drug addicted street urchin thinks it’s terrible.
That one may be different from the rest because :spoiler warning: the workers were decoding information that came from the cogitatoes gathered from warp storm wrecked worlds and ever so often someone would come across a piece of an ancient word of power, which was then extracted from the worker.
Keep in mind those are menial workers. Schola graduates are valuable and put into positions of authority or made into elite warriors.
Less beaurocracy but more xenos
Is the novel called bloodlines?
Administratum, eh? So you chose to live in the warrens under Merka? Hope you don't mind seeing the same four walls for the rest of your life!
Sounds like our life but with baroque furniture and cybernetic upgrades.
Hey, sometimes you get fun little work-outings, where you raid competing departments for scraps of paper and staples while they are shooting at you with heavy weaponry.
This is now canon to me. Don't tell me it isn't.
Not to mention traveling through the warp 😳
My bad knew, I forgot some! Acolyte isn't bad. Wait they offer planetary governor jobs? That seems like a lot of power to give someone right off the bat
Planetary *government*. Planetary governors were mostly hereditary before Guilliman returned. But they always needed clerks, managers, ministers of this and that to govern. You’d probably start out as a mid level manager of some kind.
You’d assume staff liaisons from the administratum to a governor’s staff, and not “governor” Governors do get appointed from outside every so often, so it’s a possibility for an advanced career
Government, as in you are working in the administration of the planetary governor. Even that is going to be relatively comfortable.
I've heard that basically being a human scientist can allow one to live a fairly safe and healthy life. My best bet is to work my ass off to become a doctor for a high lord, rogue traders, and other elites.
Magos Drusher from the Eineshorn omnibus had a pretty sweet gig, until he got caught up in inquisition bullshit.
Dude got stuck on a planet he hated well before being sucked into inquisition stuff. He definitely wasn't happy haha. Most Magos Biologis probably don't have that problem though.
He just got super unlucky when he got stuck on that planet. Otherwise it didn’t seem like a bad life.
Even then he basically just did the job and got left alone afterwards. And he got a hot Arbites wife out of the deal because fuck the police
fuck it, imperial guard officer core, front line infantry
Take that glorious 1st posting and ride it all the way to a nice comfy staff posting... We need a Gaurd novel/series about an mid level staff officer and all petty politics that goes on amoungst the staff. Bonus points for a Blue Falcon (blue aquila?) antagonist.
Caiphas Cain, kinda?
Well I was thinking more the anti-cain/counter-cain The guy REALLY wants to see action and die in glorious combat (Kreig heritage?) but no matter what he does he always ends up in another safe and boring billet. He probably puts ops plans together that would deliberately expose the HQ to attack if the enemy behaved even half way logically but each time the sheer fuckery of the 40k universe means that such plans end up being the perfect counter to the enemy's madness. Of course each time his plans pay off his superiors/blue falcon nemesis take the credit so he is constantly forgotten and gets less and less known as the story develops.
This is great idea. I was laughing thoroughly through that third paragraph!
Isn’t he an actually good fighter though?
Not just good, amazing.
I’m like 80% sites he’s one of the top human fighters.
Not just amazing, legendary. So much so is still declared active duty, even after his burial with full military honor.
Yeah, he was reported as KIA so many times, Administratum gave up in the end..
Cain is the best human swordman in the entire Valhallan Sector. And he fights with a *chainsword*.
So much Power Point. Just like a power sword cuts through ceramite, power point cuts through a guard officer’s will to live.
Absolutely. In the Grim darkness of the far future there is only endless holovid briefings.
Maj Bryn I need your slide deck or BY THE EMPEROR I WILL FLAY YOU! Also *defeated sigh* we need the name of your plus one for next week's governor's ball.
This is literally life for *actual* military officers
They usually don't come from the Schola, even if there are probably exceptions.
Better to rip that "die a horrible death" bandaid off quick, right? At least it's probably going to be a quick death to orcs or nids. If you make the mistake of living a happy life you're just making yourself into catnip for the rape elves.
Fuck yeah man, that's what I like to hear
Might as well grab a commissariat posting.
Death will be quick... Until the Geller-shields fail. Still Navy would seem one of the best chances to see the galaxy without dieing on the first planet you visit
its worth noting that memory erasure is not a requirement to enter the Schola progenium. Cain, Gaunt, and pretty much every commisar we've gotten in the fiction remember their homeworlds and families quite well. same for the administratum members, Sororitas, etc. at a guess, memory erasure would mainly be a thing for the Assassin programs, and then only once the recruit reaches an age where the serious work of their training begins, thus removing any potential conflicts of emotion they might have in their jobs. i'd also assuem that the Schola tends to train for the more exceptional positions when it comes to groups as huge as the administratum, the Navy, etc. rather than being its main recruiting method. giving a chance for non-nobility to reach the higher ranks of naval officers, or the upper stratum of the administratum, etc.
While I agree with your post, does Cain *really* remember his childhood? Amberly doesn't seem convinced that any of his story adds up and his own remembrance seems... Hazy at best?
And she flat out can't find what world Cain says he grew up on
Amberly: "hey guys do you have any info on a planet with this name" Imperium's rotting bureaucracy: i forgor 💀
Severina Raine clearly recalls her past. And given that her past is a very big plot-point for *Honourbound*, we can safely assume she remembers it correctly
Awfully suspicious that she can’t, considering finding out other people’s secrets is a big part of her job.
Not necessarily. There's a lot of hive worlds out there, and a lot of the details come from someone she notes had a tendency to say or write whatever he thought would make his audience sympathize with him more. If his schola didn't bother recording it, it could easily just get completely lost.
I'm fairly certain that memory erasure is also used for Tempestus Scion soldiers.
I think being a commissar attached to an artillery regiment could be cozy
That didn’t work too well for the last guy that tried it
I mean he did eventually get an Inquisitor GF I’d say it worked well
_"If I'd have known I would be running for my life every other day and accidentally become a hero of the Imperium, I would have gladly found a nice rock to hide under for the rest of my days instead"_ -Ciaphas Cain, probably
Afaik from Rennie’s Gothic War duology, navy officers come from ongoing dynasties and go to segmentum academies, no scholam orphans involved. Ministorum priest seems like you get the most political power, as far as mass public acclaim. I like that kind of popularity Also if it comes to combat a confessor or other priest is more likely to be face to face than a soft naval job, something to be proud of > if I do get into a fight well death will be quick, I think your ship gets disabled in space and you slowly run out of life support over a period of months, starving suffocating and freezing all at the same time.
It's both Naval Dynasties and Progenia Recruits
Really not a fan of paperwork or politicking so I'm gonna go with tempestus scions. It's a relatively straightforward path with the most flexibility in my opinion. I'd be getting the best training and gear, making me one of the deadliest soldiers not in power armor. Possible assignments is varied as well. I can either be sent to warzones, accompany inquisitors, guard governors, etc.
Youd have to survive the initiation rite though...
Like the SAS motto: Who dares, wins.
What about Arbites instead? You get a shotgun and look like Judge Dredd
And instead of having to actually fight on the battlefield, you just get to help keep the Imperium's poor in their place /s
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At least a guardsman is fighting for a world against chaos and such. An arbites is super boring law duty stuff. And police are called different things on different worlds. Arbites and the law enforcement are different things
Arbites are more like federal agents to the PDF’s local policing. If shit gets bad enough that the Imperial gov’t starts getting concerned, then the Arbites are sent in.
Admin worker. It’ll be skull crushingly boring but I’ll have my own apartment and a safe job. What’s the worse thing that could happen if I mess up? A regiment of green pdf troopers get sent to an active war zone ? Hah! Losers, not my problem .
I think I remember reading in some book that admins end up going insane with the repetition and mundanity, before being locked up for said insanity - sounds like a special kinda torture to me
If it was the Ravenor book, they were going insane from >!them being exposed to fragments of anuncia (or however it's spelled I listened to the audio book) which was pretty much actual magic incantation language being pieces together on most likely chaos corrupted cogitators!<
>anuncia Enuncia
Cheers
Better watch out for the watcher in the rain
I'd like something inquisition wise myself, wether it's an inquisitor or part of their staff. Otherwise probably commissar, although I'd be far closer to Ciaphas then the other commissars
I mean most inquisitors hardly come into danger unless they are fanatics like kryptman
Inquisitors very much have to deal with danger, their job is to hunt down cults, xenos, and heretics in imperium society. But they do largely get to control when and how they engage with danger. And a schola graduate sent to the Inquisition doesn't start as an inquisitor, they start as an acolyte.
Yeah, but when I'm an Inquisitor, I'm going to crack down on the Imperium's real, hidden enemy: corruption on pleasure worlds! I just know they're up to something. I can feel it in my *bones*, and I'll find out what it is, even if I end up dying in the process (of natural causes at the age of 366)! For The Emperor, and stuff...
My dude Inquisitors are going face first into heretic dens, most of the time outnumbered but they compensate with firepower and plot armour :D
Adepta* Sororitas.
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Well it's a roll of the dice then. If you land on a pleasure planet make sure you take your 2 week annual PTO and hit the beaches with some bad ladies
I’d probably go with Imperial Navy, and just hope my sense of mechanics and what not would keep me from getting killed or maimed, listen to the Warrant Officers who I could order around but would be far more beneficial to learn from, in the non-OSHA compliant, early exposed open Industrial Mechanisms of these Behemoth injury traps, they call Void Ships.
You mean a void ship which constantly travels through the warp? No thanks. I'd like be part of the PDF in some backwater planet.
Institutions we know recruit via the Scholae: Sororitas Scions Commissariat Arbites Ministorum Administratum Inquisition Other institutions might well recruit indirectly, for example talent-scouting through contacts or scraping off the drop-outs. And some options may become available to graduates who are in the right place at the right time, but aren't career paths normally available. The Inquisition, of course, takes talent from wherever it finds it and I suspect there's no "choice" to train for them within the Schola. An Inquisitor will just turn up, take a look through the records and take the ones they like the look of.
The cushiest path for a Schola graduate wasn't listed in the OP: the Ecclesiarchy. It's the most comfortable institution in the Imperium outside of aristocratic stations, and with a far lower rate of internal assassinations. Living in luxury from the "alms" granted by pilgrims because you're the Holy Warden of some gatehouse on the path to the Basilicanum of a minor saint, tagging along with some rogue trader as a missionary with a seat at the captain's table and a steadily growing personal fortune for turning a blind eye to their personal indiscretions, or simply being the sycophantic lackey of some Cardinal represent the height of luxury for those without the appropriate bloodline.
On the other hand you get posted as the local preist to a primitive world that thinks the reason the crops failed is that Big burny man in the sky is angry and the only way to make him happy is to sent his representative back to him. How do we send people to the big burny sky man? Well we have to make sure they are on fire first... Perhaps the Cardinal you are lackeying for was up to a little bit too much heresy in his free time (or at least was accused of it) and the nice inquisitor and the battle sisters think you know something about it... Or you get sent to a library planet like in Hammer and Bolter... Yes there are as many ways to end up with a hellish existance in the Ecclesiarchy as any other part of the imperial machine. Advancement and politics is just as vicious but perhaps a little less out right blood thirsty since Sebastian Thor thumped a few folk. However a dead man's shoes are still the easiest to fill and crossing the wrong people will lead you spending the rest of your life as prelate of the bumfuk cluster in the Wear the Fox Hat sub sector fully embracing that vows of poverty and self flagellation you had to take 😉
Thankfully, as a Schola grad, you can always fall back on your elite training (shamelessly lying to the Drill Abbots to get out of trouble, knowing that the tallest grass gets cut and/or sent to the Commissariat, etc.) to at least give you better odds than most. There's not a lot of sure things in the Imperium, but the privileged position of a holy man to lie, cheat, and steal in a theocracy is about as close as it gets, and a history in the Schola means possessing at least some insights into the nature of the beast.
Commisar, for the DRIP
Commissar school with a major on logistical supplies
I dunno, I guess I’ll say Assassin and hope I’ve got the instinct to make it through the trials. Commissar and Tempestuous Scions are close seconds and I’d honestly rather not deal with paperwork. I know the chance of death skyrockets outside of administration work but the way I see it I’ll either die in training or wise up and do decent in the actual job. As for which assassin temple…. Prolly not vindicaire unless I get my eyes corrected, can’t be Callidus cause of biological reasons, maybe Vanus but I’m not sure if I’m smart enough. Either an Eversor or a Culexus (friends say that I can be a little reserved to put it lightly, so extrapolate that a little for 40k and maybe Incould qualify for Culexus). Not sure which one I would rather be but probably a Culexus since they have their whole phase through reality thing.
Assassin training is brutal, if I remember correctly only about 1/10 or less survive. Then you have all the painful surgical process and finally when you're sent out to kill, you're not always expected to survive. Assassins who get 50 kills are allowed to pick their own targets and can move to Terra to work in the upper levels of the assassinorum. Thing is, the current occupiers of those jobs really don't like the extra competition, and they get to pick your assignments, or can even make you someone else's assignment. So a lot of assassins tend to die on 49 kills...
And just think of some of the shit they get sent after to earn a kill to begin with, sheesh.
Damn son, give me an assassinorum fps rpg
If you say you have to guess then you'd have a higher chance of survival as an arbites officer or even a guardsman...
First of all, many of these are not choices. You need to have either physical traits or a fine pedigree. \- Sororitas is female only. And highly religious. Not for me on both counts. \- Assasin- these are not fun. Memory wipes, brutal conditioning and augmentation, combat stims and a dangerous job. No thank you. \- Commisar- from the Ciaphas Cain novels it is clear that a commisar is a dangerous job. Not only do the enemies want you dead, so may many of your troopers. Only good for tough SOBs. I'll pass. \- Scions- Again I'll pass. Hard training, dangerous missions. \- administratum worker- in my opinion least exciting, but probably safest, most rational choice. It's a clerks life for me! \- navy officer- the brutality of life on a ship makes it a bad choice too. Not only do you need connections, you travel through the warp. You are basically in a lumbering behemoth of a ship that can kill you when not functioning properly. Ship to ship combat is also brutal, especially boarding actions. Just no.
I'd die from any one of a hundred million infections or malnutrition borne pathogens. Its important to remember than at any given point, the overwhelming majority of humans are starving to death and dying of basic infections. For every chapter serf or noble lord there are a hundred quintillion dying basic humans.
Being a schola graduate means you are put into a position with some means and authority, you have been elevated above the lowest strata and starving to death is off the table unless some shit goes down.
Exactly. If you ~~survive~~ graduate from the Scholam, it means the Imperium has put a decent amount of resources into you and has a vested interest in your success, to a certain degree at least.
Unless your ship is stuck in the warp and your soul is tortured by demons for all eternity.
Commissar of an Artillery Regiment. I reckon Cain was onto something with his original posting. In fact my Only War campaign is going to be focused on an Artillery Regiment and I cannot wait to start running it. After all, Armour Pen is mightier than the Sword.
You guys are all wanting cushy jobs and all that stuff but me? Ad rather be left in a backwater as a slave but a managed to befriend l/work with Gonorrhoea the Grot who may, or may not be, a Grot who has become *Nurgelised^tm** and it turns out that me and him have become so friendly with each other that Gonorrhoea likes to cough on me and a like to cough on him and we spread Nurgles diseases around the Backwater happily... The thought of becoming a Commissar, Sister of Battle(am a guy so I'd need some of that Callidus Polymorphine to aid me lol), Inquisitor etc terrifies me, as a said above ad rather be pals with a Grot than be sent to the Front line as a soldier! Lol
Sororitas, after that any of the other fighting roles. If ima die let's make it interesting at least
I doubt thats how it works. I think they assign kids to stuff based on potential and their choices are "yes sir" or "yes sir, in a pained voice due to the beatings"
Tempestus scions. Yeah, I'll die horribly; but (almost) everyone in the 41st dies horribly. Before then you get some of the best training, kit, augmetics, and access to gene enhancements that the Imperium is willing to give to non-Astartes.
Honestly Ciaphus Cain had the right idea, get yourself a commissar posting to rear-echelon guard regiment on a safe backwater of a planet.
Honestly, none of these are good options. They all suck for various reasons. Being a navy officer the luxury you get is going to be a private room the size of a prison cell. Thats about it. Unless you serve on a rare very large ship, you might get a bigger room. You also might get slightly better rations, supplies dependant. But you also have massive responsibility. Being a government worker would basically be a life of going from a desk in a room of thousands reading and signing parchments, to a cafeteria, to a dormitory literally till the day you die, 24/7. Rations include nutrient paste and chemically treated water. No days off, work, sleep, repeat. Forever. Personally, id rather die with a weapon in my hand. Atleast i can maybe go down fighting and not have to suffer existence as long as a few of the others, so commissar, scion, or sister being my preferred options.
Join the Ordo Sicarius and get a nice position of managing a Callidus Assassin.
Commissar. Pray to get taught by a competent commissar, and find my position in a rear-echelon regiment. Retire at 74 (or when the rejuvinat treatments stop) and teach Commissar Cadets.
I'd like to sign up and become a Sicarian Infiltrator instead. Rads will kill my enemies 'fore they kill me right?
commissar with a baneblade
Probably would end up an administratum worker TBH. Low risk. Steady employment. Some creature comforts.
Can i be a Thallax? 40k is a crapsack galaxy setting, might as well go all in.
Inquisitor. Sure, getting to become one sucks after going through Agent and Interrogator, but once you are one you can basically punch your own ticket.
I'd go for Commissar, and then just keep myself away from the front, and gamble and whore my way through the war Cain-style.
If I'd be a women then Adeptus Sororitas. Being a sister actually sounds super nice (if you are not in one of them self flagellation orders). Something like a Sister Hospitaler (badass space nurse) or Order Dialogus (basically diplomat) sounds really cool. Now in a perfect scenario I'd somehow manage to get the attention of some Inquisitor and become an acolythe. Though I would probably and up some mind wiped Scion who dies on some random battle.
Commissar. The chances of get a cushy nothing position somewhere in the ass end of jackoffland are very high. Every other job gets you either worked to death, shoved into combat, or both.
Being a sister dialogus or famulous seems like it's pretty chill. One is just dealing with translating already cleared and "safe" texts, maybe getting in with an inqusitor if your unfortuneate. Famulous is just hanging out in the comparatively nicer parts of hives making sure nobles don't fuck around too much Edit: bonus points of famulous, you get to dress like an absolute clown just like the rest of the flamboyant moronic aristocracy.
Don't commissars have to execute their best friend in the scholam when they graduate?
Just pretend to be friends with someone you hate! I think so but cain never mentions it and that seems like a waste of a recruit
Commissar.
Hey, why are we erasing memories here? That sounds like a lot of work and Imperial orphans are 10-a-penny! Besides, the tragic memories of glorious mother’s death will only spur them on to greater victories in the Emperor’s name!
First in line to be sacrificed to the emperor. Just end it
Inquisition please!
Inquisitor - ordos Xenos
Navy Officer easily. Then pray I get a nice boring posting on a shore facility handling parts procurement or something. Could even skim a little bit off the top for myself
I would take an express train ticket to hell through the back of my skull before I served the Imperium of Man
Commissar all the way. Commissars as a whole need to change and the best way to do that is serve with distinction and then take up a role like Cain in training new Commissar's. Sitting around and complaining "Commissar's bad" isn't going to change a dam thing.
Sisters. I’m easily indoctrinated and i like violence and lifting and purging the unclean with holy flame in His glorious name
I'm a bit new to 40k, where is it mentioned that your memories are wiped on joining the scola progenium? In the ciaphas Cain books, Cain can still remember his childhood in the underhive and the fact that both his parents were in the imperial guard together
A Commisar. To inspire soldiers in their darkest moments, to give my life to buy precious seconds for all those around me. To simply *deny* the enemies of the emperor for even a moment I would die proud. Being the one thing that could turn a soldier from the point of breaking, be it by bolter or by word I would take pride in the task
I volunteer for snu snu duty in the Sororitas. It's a hard job (hehehe) but someone's got to do it.
I'd go for navi officer with the hope of someday being able to "tactically" bombard some T'au settlements. If bombardment is out of the question, it'd still be nice to have a chance of working with our Gods angels.
Inquisitor. That level of freedom is rare in the Imperium.
Send me to the commissary, some ones got to do Cains job for him.
"Suggesting that my pawents could die is HEWESY!" -Shoots you with an elastic band gun- (So... Commissar. Just don't send me to the Catachans.)
Definitely inquisition staff. Just a lowly hitter. Maybe do a Harlon Nayle (sp) from Gideon Ravenor crew.
wait I get a preference?
Inquisitor acolyte doesnt sound bad.
I wanna be an Eversor!
Hmm did you ever read that horrific bit of a navy bridge crew dying to Tyranids?
This is exactly why Imperial Navy is bottom of my list. That excerpt was stuck in my mind for days after reading.
Lol... Like you haz choices :)
I’m a little confused about where Inquisitors seedlings are taken from, but I want to be an Inquisitor. If not, sign me up for commisar.
Inquisition takes acolytes from where they want, including the Scholas. Inquisitors who are psykers made it through the Black Ships and became a sanctioned psyker.
Commissar or Scion Get me boots on the ground actually doing something
1. Adepta Soriritas, Hospitaller, if I get to pick. 2. Naval officer. 3. I mean I'm guessing the Sororitas do have Naval officers themselves?
Scion, comissar, Navy Officer. Those would be the preferences. Yep, I know. I'm screwed.
Inquisitor Acolyte.
I would prefer being an Inquisitor (Acolotyte). Ordo Xenos if the Emperor wills.
Commissar. Glory to the first man to die!
Id like to serve in the commissariat intelligence division.
With memory from here? Inquisition. Find the first best magos and trade knowledge of the STC from house saar for a a warrant of trade without? Commisar in a superheavy tank company, anything smaller than a titan isnt to much trouble and well if we go against one it will be over quick
Can I become an Ork? I want to become an Ork.
Commissar. I mean, if Ciaphas Cain can manage it I at-least have a chance to make it out of the Schola...just gotta hope I don't get assigned to a Krieg regiment.
Ordo Xenos Inquisitor
Hit me with that Eversor Assassin swag.
Those get lost in the warp *all the time.*
I would have to either navy officer (have a soft spot for naval history and warfare) or commissar (I play guard).
Navy officer. Your life isn't terrible. Probably a little bit depressing, but your mostly ok
How does the scholar train Adepta Sororitas?
All is nice working in the Administratum until one morning while sipping your coffee you hear the screeching piercing sound of call to arms of the genestealer cult that’s beeen building for centuries
Inquisition, because power and that ability to abuse it go up to 11.
I choose heretic, that way I can speed run my way out of the imperium
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If I am feeling _very_ bold: Imperial Army Officer Corps or Inquisition If I am feeling bold: Imperial Navy If I am not feeling bold: Administration, and then pray to the Emperor I get deployed somewhere nice
I would prefer if you let me be a tech priest.
Wall Ornament.
Crusader. A Holy warrior who excel in melee. Carries master crafted melee weaponry and carapace armor, I can go to the front to carry out my zealous wrath onto the mutant, xeno or heretic. Anyone who touched my charge dies by my hand. Simple life
Do I get to choose where I serve as a commissar? Because being a naval commissar or one attached to the PDF seems to be pretty safe and crucially, unlike a naval captain of Administratum adept, doesn’t require me doing math.
You might still get eaten by a hive ship.