Drexus Cazarr wiped his brow of sweat, the heat had been overbearing that day, the sun made itself known, the men were uneasy because of a missing scout, but Drex figured it was just a rhonceraptor that got him. Some of the other men claimed chaos had come out of the warp and marked this planet for conquer and termination, but those were just paranoid delusions brought about by the heat, although Drex could only hope a chaos ship landed on his planet...his home ground, he could only hope that those pestilient worshipping bastards would dare try to take what was his.
Drex was always a hothead, but when it came to heretics and other enemies of the imperium he just lost it, those wretched beings tried putting their grubby claws all over what wasn't theirs, they didn't like it much when the planet fought back though, granted the chaos were tough and the orks, their training was clearly lacking. He'd been in fights with orks before, and chaos, he saved one of his snipers from chaos, his tactics were astonishing that day, he remembered, it was his first day as commander.
It was five years ago, the chaos had gone to some backwater planet in search of an old temple or something, Drex picked up the distress signal and took one thousand of his strongest men over, the thousand men destroyed over five thousand chaos troops, even the berserkers couldn't stop his men that day, of course they were leaderless. Five hundred of his men were on the front line, rippers as well as him, they tore through the chaos front lines, slaughtering everyone of those warp infested scum, the howling of the two insane armies echoed throughout that valley, of course his men weren't crazy like chaos, only in battle did they lose it.
The battle raged on for an hour before Drex gave the command, when he did though, his ghosts started firing from behind chaos and the talons flanked both sides reaving destruction in their wake, the chaos were trapped...no escape...no survival. The chaos morale broke after the ambush, even their fearless berserkers quaked at the might of his army, the feeling to overpower someone so strongly was amazing, it did well for his ego and his commander position, his men worshipped him after that battle, and survivors from the other planet joined his ranks, he'd obviously impressed the right chaos lord if there was an attack on his planet.
He wasn't going to jump into anything though, he'd send some scouts out to find out what was really happening, and he'd let the jungle fight his enemies for the time being, he wasn't scared of any opponent, and neither was his men, their morale was strong, stronger then average imperial troops, the emperor had really blessed his men, as well as him...Drex would kill for him, then again Drex would kill someone over a drink, but he really committed his faith to the god emperor and his teachings, he knew though, he wouldn't be getting any reinforcements for a long time, he'd have to prove himself first, again.
Drex laughed a little, he was sitting her calling up his first battle as commander...he had something to deal with, he walked over to a few snipers in the mess hall, he knew them by name of course, the planet was small as well as the army, names weren't hard to remember. "Williams, Wolf, get your asses out in the jungle and find brother Thomas....today please, ladies!" He ordered, he was always acting like a hard ass, but when it came down to it, he'd die for any of these guys, he was a good man, as well as a good leader.

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