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"THOSE FAITHFUL TO THE EMPEROR WILL HAVE HIS PROTECTION"
"Out here, beyond the Periphery, the void itself burns. Some say it’s the flames of dying stars, others that it’s the fires of war that consume the entire region. Me, I know it’s the flames of hell that burn on the Spinward Front, and they’ll take us all before they’re extinguished."
— Gunnery Sergeant First Class Maull, 86th Cadian Regiment
"For an age, no one cared about the Periphery or the cold reaches beyond its borders. The light of the Emperor just never really shone this far. Now the Orks want it, the Secessionists want it, the Eldar want it, and even those powers we don’t name want it. Stands without reason that after all this time, after centuries of not caring, the Imperium should decide it wants the Periphery after all..."
— Evidence submitted in the court martial of San Durra
"The High Lords of Terra would bleed us dry for their purposes, at the same time that they refuse to help defend ourselves against the xenos. The time has come to withhold our tithe, so that we may use it for our defence."
— Duke Severus XIII, to the citizens of Lukius
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The Company in it's entirety, thousands strong stood on the Tarmac of the recently seized and partially bombarded spaceport where landing ship after landing ship after landing ship spilled our swarms of guardsmen. All around you, Similar throngs of Imperial guard were being fed their introductory orders by their commissars.
"I am Commissar Bolton, In charge of this wing of the 1118th Ad-hoc Irregulars. We have been deployed to this world of Prax to confront the Severan Dominate Secessionists and break a particularly stubborn link planetside in the larger campaign spanning several star systems. Concern yourself with what is front of you, and it will have an impact on events on a scale beyond your humble comprehension. The Dominate has had success in slowing the Imperial foothold here. Too much success. Further reinforcements will not be coming beyond what is already committed to this conflict due to the declared more pressing concerns of the Jericho Reach. Look to your left and look to your right. We are it -- and we SHALL, in the EMPEROR'S NAME, Prevail here. Those who are not prepared to do their duty in the trenches and battlefields will serve as target practice on the firing line. There are no more drills. Rebel secessionist scum are merely miles from our landing position, here as Base-Station Valkav. You are to immediately report with your units to the quartermasters and receive your kits, check your weapons and prepare for immediate deployment. Fight well, and we should have the Dominate scum on their heels before anticipated ork incursions arrive in the sub-sector. Fear not your enemies -- they are abominations, and we are the treaded boot that comes crushing down on all enemies of the Imperium. FOR THE EMPEROR!"
and like that, the ordered chaos of the Imperial Guard broke out. Units formed and greetings were exchanged, units fell in to their respective places to receive their gear.
"Mazer! Elsara! Holleski! Cyros! Tiguvius!"
You and your units run up to the quartermaster bunker and are quickly distributed the gear basic kit for your units, a veritable falls of materials pouring out into the spaceport it seemed at least on this drop the Company would at least be sufficiently supplied.
STANDARD KITS! FORM UP AND RECEIVE! :
• One uniform
• One set of poor weather gear
• One laspistol (Main Weapon), and two charge packs
• One knife
• One flak vest
• One rucksack or sling bag
• One set of basic tools
• One mess kit and one water canteen
• One blanket and one sleep bag
• One rechargeable lamp pack
• One grooming kit
• One set of cognomen tags or equivalent identification
• One primer or instructional handbook
• Combat sustenance rations, two weeks’ supply
MAZER -- HEAVY WEAPONS SIEGE INFANTRY! YOU ALSO RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and two photon flash grenades per soldier.
One Heavy Bolter with Ammunition Supply, One Melta-Gun with Ammunition supply.
ELSARA -- "HARDENED" LINE INFANTRY w/ Medic! YOU ALSO RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
One Apoth (healing) setup for the unit. Surplus ammunition and supplies for the unit and priority requisition clearance! MOVE OUT!
CADET HOLLESKI -- OPERATOR DEMOLITIONS/SAPPERS! "WHY DO WE HAVE CADETS ON DECK? NEVERMIND! IT WAS NICE KNOWING YOU!" RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
Six Satchel Charges and 4 Bangalore Torpedo bombs for the unit! NOW GET OUT OF THE WAY, REAL GUARDSMEN ARE STANDING BEHIND YOU!
Experimental variant of the Centaur Utility Vehicle featuring an expanded open-top crew deck fit to carry up to 10 troops alongside the standard 2 crewmen. Includes mounted Heavy Stubber. "YOU WILL GIVE YOUR VEHICLE A NAME, SOLDIER! You're responsible for being in the rear with the gear for the rest of the units. Follow orders and you might just earn your title as guardsmen! MOVE OUT!"
CYROS -- SURVIVALIST/SCAV TROOPERS! DEDICATED MEDICAL UNIT!
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one Apoth (Healing) kit, one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
Single Infantry-Portable field hospital setup (attached to Centaur) Two Metal Detectors. One advanced tech-tool kit. MOVE ASIDE!
SERGEANT TIGUVIUS -- RIGHT DISCIPLINED LINE INFANTRY! "LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE IN CHARGE HERE! GOOD LUCK!"
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and two photon flash grenades per soldier.
One Tempered Steel Battle-Sword, Reserved. Surplus ammunition and supplies for the unit and priority requisition clearance!
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Once supplied, the above units were waved off to a staging area where they would soon receive their first assignment.
"TWO UNITS STILL IN THE BARREL TO ATTACH TO YOUR FIGHTING-GROUP, INCOMING!) ( Kent and Demonsoul have to finish their characters)
Nearby in the staging area was a table piled with maps and boards pinned with papers. There was time to settle in with your unit and to meet other units recently attached. Soon, missions would be posted and they would either be swept up in the larger conflict or have the opportunity to volunteer for especially notable or dangerous assignments.
"THOSE FAITHFUL TO THE EMPEROR WILL HAVE HIS PROTECTION"
"Out here, beyond the Periphery, the void itself burns. Some say it’s the flames of dying stars, others that it’s the fires of war that consume the entire region. Me, I know it’s the flames of hell that burn on the Spinward Front, and they’ll take us all before they’re extinguished."
— Gunnery Sergeant First Class Maull, 86th Cadian Regiment
"For an age, no one cared about the Periphery or the cold reaches beyond its borders. The light of the Emperor just never really shone this far. Now the Orks want it, the Secessionists want it, the Eldar want it, and even those powers we don’t name want it. Stands without reason that after all this time, after centuries of not caring, the Imperium should decide it wants the Periphery after all..."
— Evidence submitted in the court martial of San Durra
"The High Lords of Terra would bleed us dry for their purposes, at the same time that they refuse to help defend ourselves against the xenos. The time has come to withhold our tithe, so that we may use it for our defence."
— Duke Severus XIII, to the citizens of Lukius
____________________________________________________________
The Company in it's entirety, thousands strong stood on the Tarmac of the recently seized and partially bombarded spaceport where landing ship after landing ship after landing ship spilled our swarms of guardsmen. All around you, Similar throngs of Imperial guard were being fed their introductory orders by their commissars.
"I am Commissar Bolton, In charge of this wing of the 1118th Ad-hoc Irregulars. We have been deployed to this world of Prax to confront the Severan Dominate Secessionists and break a particularly stubborn link planetside in the larger campaign spanning several star systems. Concern yourself with what is front of you, and it will have an impact on events on a scale beyond your humble comprehension. The Dominate has had success in slowing the Imperial foothold here. Too much success. Further reinforcements will not be coming beyond what is already committed to this conflict due to the declared more pressing concerns of the Jericho Reach. Look to your left and look to your right. We are it -- and we SHALL, in the EMPEROR'S NAME, Prevail here. Those who are not prepared to do their duty in the trenches and battlefields will serve as target practice on the firing line. There are no more drills. Rebel secessionist scum are merely miles from our landing position, here as Base-Station Valkav. You are to immediately report with your units to the quartermasters and receive your kits, check your weapons and prepare for immediate deployment. Fight well, and we should have the Dominate scum on their heels before anticipated ork incursions arrive in the sub-sector. Fear not your enemies -- they are abominations, and we are the treaded boot that comes crushing down on all enemies of the Imperium. FOR THE EMPEROR!"
and like that, the ordered chaos of the Imperial Guard broke out. Units formed and greetings were exchanged, units fell in to their respective places to receive their gear.
"Mazer! Elsara! Holleski! Cyros! Tiguvius!"
You and your units run up to the quartermaster bunker and are quickly distributed the gear basic kit for your units, a veritable falls of materials pouring out into the spaceport it seemed at least on this drop the Company would at least be sufficiently supplied.
STANDARD KITS! FORM UP AND RECEIVE! :
• One uniform
• One set of poor weather gear
• One laspistol (Main Weapon), and two charge packs
• One knife
• One flak vest
• One rucksack or sling bag
• One set of basic tools
• One mess kit and one water canteen
• One blanket and one sleep bag
• One rechargeable lamp pack
• One grooming kit
• One set of cognomen tags or equivalent identification
• One primer or instructional handbook
• Combat sustenance rations, two weeks’ supply
MAZER -- HEAVY WEAPONS SIEGE INFANTRY! YOU ALSO RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and two photon flash grenades per soldier.
One Heavy Bolter with Ammunition Supply, One Melta-Gun with Ammunition supply.
ELSARA -- "HARDENED" LINE INFANTRY w/ Medic! YOU ALSO RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
One Apoth (healing) setup for the unit. Surplus ammunition and supplies for the unit and priority requisition clearance! MOVE OUT!
CADET HOLLESKI -- OPERATOR DEMOLITIONS/SAPPERS! "WHY DO WE HAVE CADETS ON DECK? NEVERMIND! IT WAS NICE KNOWING YOU!" RECEIVE:
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
Six Satchel Charges and 4 Bangalore Torpedo bombs for the unit! NOW GET OUT OF THE WAY, REAL GUARDSMEN ARE STANDING BEHIND YOU!
Experimental variant of the Centaur Utility Vehicle featuring an expanded open-top crew deck fit to carry up to 10 troops alongside the standard 2 crewmen. Includes mounted Heavy Stubber. "YOU WILL GIVE YOUR VEHICLE A NAME, SOLDIER! You're responsible for being in the rear with the gear for the rest of the units. Follow orders and you might just earn your title as guardsmen! MOVE OUT!"
CYROS -- SURVIVALIST/SCAV TROOPERS! DEDICATED MEDICAL UNIT!
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one Apoth (Healing) kit, one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and Krak grenades per soldier.
Single Infantry-Portable field hospital setup (attached to Centaur) Two Metal Detectors. One advanced tech-tool kit. MOVE ASIDE!
SERGEANT TIGUVIUS -- RIGHT DISCIPLINED LINE INFANTRY! "LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE IN CHARGE HERE! GOOD LUCK!"
One M36 lasgun and six charge packs (Main Weapon), one suit of Imperial Guard flak armour, one respirator, four empty sandbags and one entrenching tool, two frag grenades and two photon flash grenades per soldier.
One Tempered Steel Battle-Sword, Reserved. Surplus ammunition and supplies for the unit and priority requisition clearance!
__________________________________________________________________________
Once supplied, the above units were waved off to a staging area where they would soon receive their first assignment.
"TWO UNITS STILL IN THE BARREL TO ATTACH TO YOUR FIGHTING-GROUP, INCOMING!) ( Kent and Demonsoul have to finish their characters)
Nearby in the staging area was a table piled with maps and boards pinned with papers. There was time to settle in with your unit and to meet other units recently attached. Soon, missions would be posted and they would either be swept up in the larger conflict or have the opportunity to volunteer for especially notable or dangerous assignments.