| rdfs:comment | - The Decree Passive is a decree promulgated in 288.M36 by the High Lords of Terra in the aftermath of the terrible events of the Age of Apostasy's Reign of Blood. In essence, it forbid the Ecclesiarchy to "gather, train, promote, sustain or in any way command any force of men under arms", to prevent another occurrence like that of the Reign of Blood in which the High Lord of Terra Goge Vandire became, at the same time, the Master of the Administratum as well as Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum, thus making him the most powerful individual in the entire Imperium of Man for a time. Vandire could keep any Imperial citizen in his thrall with the threat of branding him a Heretic or unleashing the forces of the Ecclesiarchy's Frateris Templars upon any who disobeyed him. This effectively tra
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| abstract | - The Decree Passive is a decree promulgated in 288.M36 by the High Lords of Terra in the aftermath of the terrible events of the Age of Apostasy's Reign of Blood. In essence, it forbid the Ecclesiarchy to "gather, train, promote, sustain or in any way command any force of men under arms", to prevent another occurrence like that of the Reign of Blood in which the High Lord of Terra Goge Vandire became, at the same time, the Master of the Administratum as well as Ecclesiarch of the Adeptus Ministorum, thus making him the most powerful individual in the entire Imperium of Man for a time. Vandire could keep any Imperial citizen in his thrall with the threat of branding him a Heretic or unleashing the forces of the Ecclesiarchy's Frateris Templars upon any who disobeyed him. This effectively transformed Vandire into the ruler of the Imperium, usurping even the authority of the blessed Emperor of Mankind for the duration of his rule. The reforming Ecclesiarch Sebastian Thor who replaced Vandire was ordered to carry out this edict, forcing the Ecclesiarchy to disband the Frateris Templar and the armies and fleets maintained by any member of the Ministorum with one exception, the all-female warriors of faith known as the Daughters of the Emperor, due to the infamous loophole in the Decree Passive's wording which clearly specified only "men under arms". As an all-female militant group, Sebastian Thor argued that the Daughters of the Emperor were not obligated to disband by the Decree Passive, and instead incorporated them into the Ministorum as the Adepta Sororitas, a force that would as much regulate the Ecclesiarchy through their quest for purity as enforce its will upon the faithful.
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