<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=287886.msg14151996#msg14151996">Quote from: AndyZ on 19-05-2018, 04:24:03</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Question: <br/><br/>What is mind-cleansed?  I imagine you're psychically given amnesia?  Can this happen for purely benevolent reasons, such as that your character finds out a secret that the higher-ups don't want him to know, but it's not his fault and he accepts it as duty to the Emperor?<br/><br/>If all that makes sense, it could make for an interesting backstory, and would help with my not having to worry about coming up with a backstory myself when I don't know the lore that well.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Back in the early days of 40k, knowing about Chaos was a big no no. As an example, have a read of this<br/><br/>http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/First_War_for_Armageddon<br/><br/>What this meant was that any mortals who encountered Chaos, like an IG regiment fighting them, would get shipped offworld and their transport "lost to eldar pirates" or "lost in the warp". Marines, who were far more valuable, were simply mindscrubed ... literally everything in their brain removed. Memories, skills, personality almost. They could be re-educated through the hypno-training Marines got anyway.<br/><br/>Over time, that's been allowed to slide, and now knowing Chaos exists isn't an automatic death sentence. There are still plenty of secrets though, other things the general population of the Imperium doesn't know about (and doesn't need to know about), so there probably still are reasons a marine might get mind scrubbed.<br/><br/>Another option you could take if you wanted to pass on working up a backstory is to make a Blackshield character.<br/><br/>http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Deathwatch_Black_Shield<br/><br/>Honestly though, you don't need to invest a huge amount of time in creating a backstory. Some suitably martial activity against one of the xenos races is enough :)<br/><br/>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeNasdgBFU