Editing Prospero Spireguard (section)

==Overview & History==
During the Compliance action on Ark Reach Secundus the Guard were noted to wear crimson greatcoats, heavy boots and silver shakoes lined with fur cut from the wings of the snow-shrikes, an indigenous bird used by the Avenians as weapons.

Officers were noted to wear crimson jackets decorated with brass buttons and gold frogging. They were also outfitted with silver helmets, curved sabres and [[laspistol|laspistols]].

A detachment of these men were onboard the warship Waning Moon under the command of Thousand Son Space Marine Mhotep during the early start of the Horus Heresy. They were set to board the mysterious vessel, the Furious Abyss, but were ultimately killed, when the Furious Abyss destroyed the Waning Moon. Only one rescue pod was able to leave, with only Mhotep aboard.

Modern Spireguard forces can vary a lot in it's appearance, though. While regiments drafted from the [[Sortiarius]]' population of [[Thrall Wizards]] generally keep the old style fueled by the aforementioned sentimental nostalgia of Magnus the Red, Thousand Sons maintain their grip on several planets outside the [[Eye of Terror|Eye]] and out of the view of the [[Imperium]] where they draft more expendable Spireguard regiments. Those "lite" Spireguards are pretty much your standard Imperial Guardsmen in both appearance and function, except with more respected [[psyker|psykers]] and no [[Ministorum Priest|priests]]. Magnus famously mustered a million-numbered army of those lesser Spireguards for his first attack on [[Fenris]] in M32 and then left it all behind to cover his retreat.

They have been reborn and replenish by the time of the 13th Black Crusade.

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