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This temple of the Officio Assassinorum specialize in shock and terror tactics, instilling fear in their victims. Their primary targets tend to be rebel governors or planetary lords who have turned from the Emperor's light, but they frequently have orders to behead the entire organization with multiple targets. The temple uses genetic alteration and cybernetic enhancement to create superhuman killing machines, and also use an advanced range of combat drugs. As many become addicted to the drugs and the killing, they are kept in cryo-suspension when not on a mission. Recruits tend to be very young, as only they can survive the genetic alteration process, which includes a second heart and many techniques similar to those of the Space Marines. Only the modified cerebral cortex and hyper-immuno system of a living assassin can keep its highly modified body under control, and after death runaway failure leads to combustion or explosion.