Editing Unburdened Horde (section)

===The Bastion Breakers===
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Not the most numerous, or well known of the Bulwark successors, but a highly vital group to the early Horde's successes. The ''Bastion Breakers'' jumped onto the Legionary Wars as a mercenary band for higher. Taking in any Marines they could, a dreaded reputation brewed for the group. Nevertheless, the Breakers remained steadfast loyal to their employers which did not give them many successes. Founded by '''Adjudicator Serbat''', interned into a Dreadnought Chassis after the [[Battle of the Crucible]], his iron will even from his diminishing memory kept the small group highly mobile and fair to one another. This was crucial as the Legionary Wars went on, with inner rivalries ripping apart whole empire states in the tumultuous time before the Horde's unification.  


After the Council of Medica, the Bastion Breakers were hard pressed to lend their services to the various members making up the Unstainted. With freshly refurbished equipmen, Serbat was leading them to victory breaking apart all those who refused to give up tribute or recognize the power wielded by the new dominant power inside of the Eye. Using an inverted strategy pioneered by the visionary Hidden Rex, the Breakers used their innate memory of fortifications and defense strategy to rip apart lesser fortresses with ease. The blasting cry of their explosives heralded the fall of many a castle in the genesis of the Unburdened Horde.


Upon the broken foundations of a hundred warbands, the Breakers lived up to their namesake. In return for their services, Serbat retired to them to the turbulent world of ''Strakoxs''. Filled to the brim with a maddened populace, daemons, and young warbands looking for plunder it has some of the greatest fortresses known in the Eye. From ''Mount Slacte'' the Bastion Breakers train new recruits, amass equipment, and set out to destroy all opponents on the planet to keep their warband keen on the ways of war without worrying about Horde politics. When the Unburdened calls upon them, they set out to make war and break down any fortifications in their path.


The young '''Arch Strategist Galius''', brought up as the successor to Serbat as his age continues to eat away at his mind, dreams of one day taking the Bastion Breakers to destroying the mightiest obstacle in the way of the forces of Chaos - Cadia. He has made it his life's mission, even constructing whole live-fire exercises that claims thousands of slave-lives with recreations of the Kasr-Cities to practice his skills on breaking them down. He is a staunch perfectionist, never content with a single experiment.



'''Culture'''
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Living far more monastic lifestyles than their counterparts, the Breakers focus exclusively on advancing the strategies of their forefather in any measure possible.  Watchmen of the Breakers reflect upon the writings of Sebastion Rex every morning before their first meal. It is usually a modest meal of hydrocarbons mixed in with basic protein supplement. After this, they commence practice upon the slopes of Mount Slacte before descending down to do battle with the barbarians of the planes or attacking the Autocrats of the southern plateaus attacking their defenses and assessing their weaknesses. This is part of the daily routine of a Breaker, as every facet of their lives obsesses over the deconstruction of defense tactics and fortifications. 


Neophytes are taught from dusk till dawn on mathematics, chemistry, and physics. These are to help hone their minds on measurements and explosives. How to implement them in battle or a siege. After these scientific studies are completed they move onto combat training and practical fortification dismantlement. This instills the core tenants of the Bastion Breakers, to end a siege before they enemy can prolong a fight. To break apart their defenses, to overwhelm them with force. The goal is not to take an enemy on their own, but open up opportunities for others to do so. Once a Neophyte understands how to do this, they are implanted with gene-seed and uplifted to the status of Astartes.


A subset of the standard Watchmen are the Khornate disciplines of the Lancer-Tower Brigade. These odd three hundred Marines attach themselves to any warband they can who are on an offensive side. After completing their mission, which is to break apart a fortress to the foundation, they return to give tribute to their leader Serbat before immediately setting out to do so again. If their assigned warband takes too long to attack, it is not uncommon for them to use excessive explosives to butcher them before stealing their equipment and attacking a battlement on their own.