Name: Specialist Zekial Cherevin

Background: Imperial Guard Weapons Specialist, served with the Yeveian 122nd Siege Regiment

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Personality: Betrayed by his commanding officers and those that he served side by side with, Cherevin no longer trusts easily. In fact, a major flaw in his personality now is his inability to trust anyone farther than whatever capability they have to betray him and stab him in the back for their own gain. Cherevin still harbors a hatred for Chaos, more so than when he served with honor, for if Chaos had not trapped the hive, he wouldn't be in such a position. But this hatred is safely channeled and aimed at the forces of Chaos, and to a lesser extent the enemies of Man. But still, all this hatred and distrust is wrapped up in a neutral, military bearing that has not faded despite him being a guest of the Imperial brig. Still standing tall, as he had as a Guardsman and not stooping to the level some prisoners and traitors did to survive, his pride had not broken despite the setbacks.

History: The star system of Yeveia bordered several warp storm infested systems, and saw near constant assaults from Chaos raiders and traitors looking to supply themselves again. No planet in the system can support life on its surfaces anymore, and the two planets closest to the system's star are dead worlds, temperatures and atmospheres so extreme that even trying to land is tantamount to suicide. The capitol world is dual classified as Fortress/Death world, nearly the entire population militarized and conscription or 'preferred auxiliary' programs accounting for over 75% of the system population occupation. The ruling class are whoever the highest surviving officer in the chain of command is at any one time, some men lasting a few days, others until they die of old age, feats that often earn eternal recognition from the rank and file. It is in this blasted world that Zekial Cherevin was born. Both his parents were NCO's in the tithe that had went out to the Imperium, which was lowered due to the quality of the troops and, in general, they couldn't spare as much or they would risk the entire loss of the system. Zekial was left behind to be raised by his uncle, a PDF officer due to an injury that prevented the old man from continued active service. While other children would be learning to walk and talk, he was learning to march and fight. Conscripted as trench fodder for a Siege regiment, he defied the odds by outliving the other conscripts and earning a real place in his regiment.

Only after he survived his first siege was Zekial authorized a real role in his squad, issued training in various special weapons that one might expect to come across for trench fighters. From flamers and grenade launchers to melta guns and explosive ordinance, the young lad rapidly figured out that if he was going to survive, he would have to be able to field just about any weapon he could get his hands on. Assigned to a special weapons team, he proved talented with any weapon command saw fit to assign him. From torching oncharging cultist forces with flamer, covering an advance with smoke rounds from a grenade launcher, or sending a bunker sky high, Zekial appeared to have a bright future as NCO for the squad, and perhaps further on. But fate, whether by the Emperor's hands or anothers, would not be content to allow him to rest so idly, relatively speaking, within his regiment.

A recent chaos invasion had left an underground hive lost, and the 122nd were assigned to break the defenses on the surface and spearhead the grinding assault to expell the invaders. Zekial and the others in his squad were some of the first into the trenches, digging alongside engineers and dodging sniper fire while praying a stray ordinance round wouldn't obliterate all of them. Luck or providence was with them, and they managed to dig in and then break the chaos lines in record time. Tasked with breaching the chaos held hive, none of them were prepared for what would happen next. Tasked with breaching the primary starport gate, which opened upwards directly into the sky, no one really figured out what happened. Whether too much, or not enough, explosives were used, or whether there the gates were trapped, or a fickle, unlucky turn of fate occurred, the gate was indeed breached, but the servos that normally opened the gate went critical, causing a chain reaction that would lead to the complete loss of the hive, and all the surviving population and supplies, chaos evacuating via gates into the warp with minimal casualties.

Officers and men of standing well above that of the current General in charge of the system demanded answers, and the General demanded answers of the Major in charge. Demands went down, and it was decided to pin all the blame upon Zekial, in their minds reasonably so despite the fact the Guardsman could not have foreseen the consequences of him following orders. Demonized and ostracized as a murderer and traitor, Zekial was swept away for execution. While he could have fought back, and caused some serious damage, he did not. He knew of his innocence, at least he was certain in it, and despite his less than fanatical religious belief in the Emperor, if they indeed met face to face, the disgraced guardsman could at least defend himself. Of course, this changed with his sentence changed to eternal service to the Inquisition, which meant little in the Guardsman's mind. After all, that was still as much a death sentence as a firing squad, right? Either way though, he had marching orders, and maybe he would clear his name in due time after all in such service.

Equipment:
Carapace Armor, modified to accept various backpack modules for heavy weapons
Trench Shotgun (Modified Shotgun that has a shortened barrel and operates a (sometimes) reliable semi automatic system of fire), when not issued a heavy weapon
Serrated Combat Knife
The Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer

Name: Mathilda Tarshoffer
Background: Celestian (Former Repentia)
Appearance:
Personality: Mathilda is fearless, having stared death in the eyes several times. She hates the typical things that Imperium and sister of battle hates, witches, mutants, heretics and traitors. She doesn't like sanctioned psykers but tolerates them and will even attempt to be friendly with them since she knows the Imperium needs them to survive. She treats space marines with honour and respect due to them being the Emperor true sons. She doesn't have any strong thoughts about guardsmen and judges each of them individually. Mathilda has a hard time taking prisoners, as she just tends to execute them instead.

History: Born on a Shrine World on a the day of Sanguinala (The day that celebrates Sanguinius noble sacrifice). As young as she could remember Mathilda has been in the Schola Progenium. After many years of training she was selected to be a Sister of Battle. She tooks her Vows on Terra itself and joined the Order of the Ebon Chalice.

She engage in several minors battles but her first true test was during the Promethean War. Arriving as reinforcements to help Salamanders, Sister Mathilda fought agaisn't Chaos Space Marines. At first the battle went well but when Lord Gralastyx unless an army of possessed chaos marines, the tide turned against them. Mathilda saw her sisters and the Salamanders being slaughtered. Seeing a Salamanders Sergeants attempting to rally the force, she came to his aid and assisted him. Several Sisters of Battle and Space marines joined them. Here Mathilda saw that the Space Marines and Sisters of Battle both fought with the same determination. Yet they were still finding themselves overwhelmed. Mathilda was ready to die but it seemed that the Emperor had other plans as Saint Celestine appeared and turned the tide of battle to their favour. The battle was soon won with the combined efforts of Salamanders and Sisters of Battle being led by Saint Celestine. The two forces then departed, each moving on to another battle.

Mathilda fought many more battles, rising in rank in time she became a Celestian Superior. Eventually she was sent on a mission to assist Inquisition with the capture of several Alpha Legion Space Marines who had caused an entire planet to revolt against the Imperium. The Inquisition wanted the capture of the Alpha Legion if possible and set them to the highest priority. Mathilda and her squad easily advance against the cultists and PDF as she and her squad were also being supported by Inquisitorial Storm Troopers. Then the mission went south as Mathilda found out that the attack force that had been sent to take out the Aquilla Strongpoint had been repelled as the Alpha Legion Space Marines had been stationed there instead of Governor Palace as the Intel had originally suggested. The Aquilla Strongpoint began to rain down fire, eliminating anyone it targeted. Mathilda and her squad made her way towards the Strongpoint along with half the other teams sent to the city. When Mathilda arrived near the strong point, Alpha Legion Space Marines began to open fire with their bolters and plasma guns. Firing several frag grenades in response, Mathilda, her squad and the storm troopers accompanying her rush the Aquila Strongpoint. Several of them were cut down by the bolter fire but those that did make it inside engage the Alphe Legion Space Marine in close range fire fights and in close combat. Although the Alpha Legion Space Marines were outnumbered, both sides took heavy losses and eventually it came down to Mathilda and a single Alpha Legion Space Marine. The two fought but Mathilda was outclass. As Mathilda was on the ground she turned to face the Alpha Legion Space Marine and smiled as she then drop two Krak Gernades, detonating them both, ready to meet the Emperor but somehow she survived. Still wounded, Mathilda look around as her sense came back to her. She saw the Alpha Legion Space Marine attempting to limp away. Mathilda slowly got up before pointing her Inferno Pistol at the Alpha Legion Space Marine and fired it, killing the Alpha Legion Space Marine instantly.

When Mathilda gave her report the Inquisitor in charge was furious, stating that she should have attempted to capture the Alpha Legion Space Marine instead of killing him. He blamed Mathilda and her order for what he considered a failure of a mission. Not wanting to bring dishonour to her Order and for ignoring an Inquisitorial Order, Mathilda took the Repentia oath.

Mathilda went on several minor missions at first, which she survived and did not find resolution to her crimes. Yet for each battle that Mathilda survived another one appeared to challenged her. This newest one was a large one. Here she had to fight Ork Greenskins while fighting alongside guardsmen. Mathilda and her sisters found themselves in the presence of several Sanctioned psykers and even a Primaris Psyker. As the battle raged on, Mathilda and her squad charged several shoota boyz and would have been cut down if that for the intervention of the Primaris Psyker who created a forcefield around the Repentia allowing them to charge the Orks and engage them in close combat. Mathilda suffered several critical injuries that would kill a human but she kept fighting on, ignoring the pain. When the battle ended she feel to the ground, her life ending but several of the Sanctioned Psykers who had assisted Mathilda squad began to heal her and her fellow Repentia. Mathilda was enraged when she found out what happened, seeing that she had been tainted by such powers who didn't allowed her to go to the Emperor side in death. If not for her Mistress, Mathilda would have killed the Psykers. In the next engagement, Mathilda found herself, her fellow sisters and guardsmen facing an Ork Stompa who had taken out their heavy support. Realizing that she and her fellow repentia where the best bet to destroying it, Mathilda and her squad charged the the Stompa, using their evisecerators to cleave into the Stompa and killed the crew. After the battle Mathilda realized if not for the Psykers she would have died and the Stompa would have wipe out the Guardsmen and her fellow Sisters of Battle. Thus Mathilda started to realize how important and useful Psykers were.

After the war, Mathilda was forgiven by her Order and allowed to return to her rank under the condition that she serves under Inquisitor Haribal of Ordo Herticus for the rest of her life. Unknown to Mathilda, Inquisitor Haribal pulled a few strings to end Mathilda Oath and to have her serve under him.

Equipment: Inferno Pistol, Power Sword, Power Armour, Frag Grenade, Krak Grenade