Editing Nobledark Imperium Imperial Forces (section)

=== Destroyermen ===

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Destroyermen are the heavy infantry of any squat army. The concept of Destroyermen originally derived from the squat custom of having people who would risk their lives as the first ones to enter an unexplored cavern or mine shaft, to see if it was safe to enter. Despite being clad in the best protective gear available, this work was extremely dangerous — as evidenced by the casualty rate — but at the same time it paid extremely well. However, being mostly collectivists, a squat clan would often not waste all of the earnings on themselves. Instead, they would put into upgrading and improving the protective suit, making it more likely that the individual performing this job would keep coming back intact. This bizarre method of technological natural selection went on for millennia, until eventually most squat colonies had numerous sets of masterwork craft powered armor scattered among various clans. From there it was a simple leap to go from using this armor for checking for gas pockets and occasional hostile xenos to using them in open warfare against threats like Orks. Destroyermen are often the “tip of the spear” in squat armies, fighting in areas where casualties are likely to be high. Destroyerman armors have often been in squat families for generations, and the living clan members are fiercely protective of them, seeing them as emblems of their clan’s glory and heritage.
 
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Like most squat technology, the concept of Destroyermen and Destroyermen suits was developed during the Age of Isolation, the period in which the Hubworld League was cut off from contact with the majority of humanity. Destroyerman armor is often referred to as the little brother of Space Marine terminator armor, and there is a grain of truth to that statement; Destroyerman armor and Terminator armor actually spring from a common source: the environmental hazard suits used for working in hard vacuum or mining in inhospitable conditions during the Dark Age of Technology. However, whereas Terminator armor was retrofitted for military usage and has been increasingly refined for combat over millennia, Destroyerman armor is much more sedate. This is in part because Destroyermen were never expected to see combat on the level that most Space Marines do, and in part because the ability to efficiently manufacture some of the higher-end devices for the armors (like teleporters) was lost during the Age of Strife. In general, Destroyerman armor is more geared towards making sure the wearer and the armor survives, rather than making a more efficient killing machine like Terminator armor. There is also the issue of the armor wearer; although the armor may be high quality, the person inside the armor is still only human, thus lacking the genetic modifications typical of Space Marines or Sisters of Battle (particularly the Black Carapace of the former) and therefore limited what a Destroyerman is capable of.

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