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==Hygelac Dog-Soldiers==
There are some worlds, far from the light of Terra, where the lay of the land is so savage and unforgiving that humanity has had to change its very nature simply to survive. Hygelac is one of these worlds. Considering itself a subject of the Unyielding Vigil despite lying a hairsbreadth beyond its western border, the craggy forest world of Hygelac is littered with the ruins of its old masters - ancient gene-warlocks and tech-sorcerers of the Dark Age, their time now long passed. Plagued by torrential rains, howling winds, and a local wildlife adapted to the extremes of the planet, the people of Hygelac used the genetic sorcery of those ancient days to make themselves the apex predators of their hostile world.

Lithe powerful, with reflexes honed well beyond human perfection, the people of Hygelac's sprawling forests are endowed with several noticeably canine traits such as an enhanced sense of smell, exceptional nightvision, and vicious claws and fangs. Natural hunters, the soldiers of Hygelac are superb guerilla warriors, able to brave any environment and confound their foes with swiftness and cunning akin to that of a wild pack. Most prominently, the bloodlines of the old warrior castes retain a survival mechanism built into their very genome - in times of rampant adrenaline, they can surge free of their humans forms, growing muscle mass and tough, prickly fur at an astounding pace, their teeth and claws lengthening and becoming the equal of any blade. Possessed of a savage speed and strength, these feral abhumans make short work of their enemies in close quarters, rending man and xeno alike in twain.

Stubbornly loyal to the Vigil despite the disgruntled disapproval of purists both within and without, the Dog Soldiers of Hygelac see combat across the Segmentum Tempestus, blending the patient skill of the hunter with the merciless savagery of the beast.