Brontian Longknives

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“I am not anti-gun. I'm pro-knife. Consider the merits of the knife. In the first place, you have to catch up with someone in order to stab him. A general substitution of knives for guns would promote physical fitness. We'd turn into a whole nation of great runners. Plus, knives don't ricochet. And people are seldom killed while cleaning their knives.”

-Molly Ivins

"You think he's compensating for something?"

-Shrek.

"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will cramp his style."

-Steven Brust

"THIS is a knoife."

An Imperial Guard legion with lots of knives, who originate from the RPG Only War. They come from the Hive World of Bront, located within the Golgenna Reach Sub-sector of the Calixis Sector. Not that means anything tbh. Even though its a hive-world with loads of violence, they're pretty self-disciplined. If you couldn't tell by their name, they really, really like knives. Like, a fucking LOT. They prefer to use knives over their flashlights, and they give themselves ritual scars and shit and wear them proudly.

History

The Hive World of Bront is known to be a as usual, violent place. But it somehow possesses a level of order and discipline usually not found on Hive Worlds of similar population. Being One of the younger Hive Worlds in the Calixis Sector, Bront was founded almost a decade after the end of the Angevin Crusade, as a reward to the 33rd Army Group, the last of the Crusade’s forces to be demobilized as the sector hAD fully established itself in the Imperium of Man. While they didn't start off as a Hive World, Bront was industrialised faster than england in the 1800s and was reclassified as a Ad Hive World within a thousand or so years of its founding. Bront's populace was made up from the descendants of countless thousands of Imperial Guardsmen and their families who were drawn from dozens of different worlds, who had been brought together by the shared experience of conflict. Aw.

Culture

The population of Bront have strong traditions of military discipline and ancestral ties to the Imperial Guard, with old regimental groups forming a system of kinda clan-houses. These clans form the heart of Brontian society, maintaining ancient traditions from their ancestors' distant homeworlds and giving them a deep sense of loyalty and duty to the God-Emperor and its people. The military tradition of Brontian culture also ensures that the clans work damn hard to be ready to defend the Imperium as their ancestors once did. Disputes between clans are resolved through ritualized mass battles, favoring an assortment of blades over pistols, rifles, and other ranged weapons. So basically, they're scottish/Celt dudes.