Editing Darmine (section)

==Planetary History==
Darmine was discovered in 435.M39 by [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] [[Explorator Fleet]]s, who promptly passed it over via report to the [[Administratum]], finding it to be completely devoid of any ancient technology. 

Initially, the planet was deemed useless, but scanners eventually managed to pick up potentially large mineral deposits underneath the unforgiving sands and rocky mountains.

While mining machinery was requested, it quickly broke down through heavy sandstorms and general wear-and-tear. Further requests were denied due to being uneconomical, and so prisoners were shipped in from throughout the [[Imperium]] to ensure the deposits did not go untapped.

Though there was initially little to no success, a prisoner named Weston Mills unearthed a huge gold deposit when he tripped over a rock formation on the way back to the mining camp and hit it with his pickaxe in frustration. He was the first to be granted Free Man status as a reward and an incentive for his fellow convicts to increase their efforts. Many others, spurred on by this, doubled their work in determination to also be pardoned. Though a large amount died due to exhaustion and sunstroke, many more soon joined him. Weston requested permission to start the first true free settlement of the planet and be named Mayor of it, realising he would probably be killed on the spot as a suspected informant if he returned to his old Hive World gang.

The Imperium representatives had not taken serious thought in attempting to actually populate the planet, and so were taken aback by this unusual request. Unwilling to go through the effort of processing the pardoned convicts back to their places of origin and hoping that they would stay and continue their work if they were granted this further freedom, their request was authorised. The settlement of Millstown was established, and while reportedly filled with whorehouses and harbouring several establishments suspected of contributing to the traffic of illegal drugs from off-world, it policed itself notably well and kept its streets relatively safe and patrolled by "the Marshalls". The murder rate was almost non-existent, at least by records.

These would later go on to assist the Imperium officials in pursuing convicts who escaped their work and made their way up to the mountains, convincing them to eventually make Weston Mills the planetary governor and allowing him to create more settlements. Over the next 30 years, hundreds of towns and cities had sprung up and those convicts not on mining duties were instead directed to the construction of roads and spaceports to link them together.

When Mills passed away of supposed food poisoning, his successor almost immediately entered talks with the Tau Empire. Prisoners who had heard this down the rumour mill from the Governmental Offices' employees and were looking for an easy pardon began offering information on the man's extra curricular activities, which was quickly picked up by the Marshalls. The Planetary Governor was promptly dragged from his quarters in the middle of the night by order of High Marshall Rudabagh and taken deep into the desert, where he was buried alive for his [[Heresy|crimes against the Emperor]]. Rudabagh issued a report to the Administratum regarding this, who were satisfied with his judgement and issued him Planetary Governor status, ordering him to raise regiments to support the ongoing Damocles Gulf Crusade. 

Rudabagh converted the Marshalls from a lawkeeping organisation into the planet's armed forces within a very short amount of time. Already used to traveling and fighting in horrific weather conditions and temperatures and against all manner of odd and deadly creatures, the Marshalls made up the elite units within each regiment. The rest of the ranks were filled with penal troopers fitted with explosive collars.

As the final stages of the army neared completion however, Rudabagh was informed that the Crusade was already over and was instead directed to help in the effort against the impending arrival of [[Hive Fleet Behemoth]]. 

Though losing two entire regiments to the [[xenos]] threat over the course of their conflict, the tactics of the Marshalls was deemed an effective counter to the [[Tyranids]]. The penal legionnaires' bombs were finding themselves detonated more and more frequently, with the commanders in charge by the end of the conflict seeing them as little more than glorified suicide bomber squads against any Tyranids that managed to get into range. Those that proved themselves useful however, were reluctantly inducted into the regiment and used to shore up the heavy casualties taken from the creatures. This was a tradition that would continue on until the present day.

As the Hive Fleet was halted and defeated in [[Ultramar]] by the [[Ultramarines]], the Marshalls were commended on their service and ordered to return home and raise new regiments to cover the loss of their old ones.