Editing Emperor's Dragoons (section)

=History=

==Pre-Primarch History & Reunion==

The Lion Lancers were really good at cavalry and that's about it. The whole Legion was a bunch of cavalier asshats that charged into whatever conflict they could with gusto. They were essentially just a Hellfire missle in marine form. In general, few people wanted to work with them, as they would general eschew other tactical recommendations for just throwing grav bikes at the issue until it went away.

He didn't. Linares did. Linares was found pretty shortly after JFA, and JFA was already instituting good order and discipline into the ranks, probably issuing the most amount of Courts Marshal ever in the entirety of military history before or since. He wasn't exactly unpopular, but there was growing pains, and general grumbling from the literal Grognards.  But things, slowly, and reluctantly, got reeled in of only to make JFA stop bitching at them.
Then they met the newly christened Silver Blades
The Silver Blades were everything the Lancers were and more, and a lot of the old guard fucking loved working with them. On their first campaign together though, JFA and Linares, initially very friendly, began to butt heads over tactics. This came to a head when they had the enemy more or less corralled in a city situated in a valley.
The problem, was that the city was an extremely soft target, filled to the brim with civilians. The enemy knew the gig was up, and was essentially forcing the Imperials hands in slaughter to make a point about their tyranny. JFA, of course, saw right through this and devised a plan to use the Dragoons to flush the enemy out into open terrain, then the Blades come through and wipe them out. Enemy: dead, civilians: unharmed
The idea was for the blades to wait for a signal, then they would come through
JFA let them sit there for a whole day, making the enemy nervous, antsy, more willing to break. After all, dying in service of sending a message is good and all at first glance, but after a good bit of sitting and being surrounded by an insurmountable force, death becomes much less attractive
Dawn of the second day, Linares couldn't wait anymore, and they rushed down into the city
JFA hoped that the plan would work anyway, and he would just use the Blades advance as the flushing out then clear them out himself
Instead the Blades got bogged down in city fighting, unable to swiftly irrigate the enemy from their positions. His hand was forced, and the Dragoons piled in
They were victorious, but his hesitations brought on unnecessary losses for the Blades, and the city and its non combatant population was utterly destroyed
Linares never forgave Fred for imposing losses on hin he couldn't recoup given the gene seed flaw, and Fred never forgave Linares for his tactical indiscretion. At the end of the day, the Dragoons for the first time were forced to be the competent guys watching mavericks and hooligans ruin their plans. War is fun and games until you have to watch children float down a river of blood.

==The Great Crusade==
The Dragoons only had three major losses during the Crusade. The first happened a few decades after Aristide discovery, and it was the first time the Dragoons met an equal force. On Karserii Jon-Fred was opposed by static gunlines supported by orbital canons. He assumed he would be able to simply overrun their entrenched positions with an armoured vanguard shielding assault cavalry and light infantry. He was successful at first, the foremost lines collapsing. Eventually the enemy became so tightly packed that any assault force was mowed down far before arrival, and the orbital defenses, largely ignored, forced the Dragoons to mettle in ground siege, unsupported by the navy

It was a hard won victory, and JFA was taught that his marines were not gods, nor an expendable resource. His tactics grew, as did his humility, but he had a lost a significant number of troops. He memorialized his failure by embedding a stud forged from a single ceramite shards from the armour of each fallen Astartes recovered

The second was a logistical failure, a shipment of regular bolter shells was replaced by a shipment of incendiary rounds. It was a celebrated failure, but during a void engagement with Eldar a magazine of a transport ship was ignited, and the in the catastrophic explosion two more ships where lost, a frigate and a cargo ship, desperately hamstringing the capabilities of the legion for months, and the loss of personnel was unacceptable. Another stud was drilled onto his skull, carved from the hull of the lost ships. 

The last stud was earned on Ullanor, and as rumour has it, a shard of the Emperor's armour is embedded within the stud.

==Brotherwar==

==Post-Brotherwar==

 
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To circumvent this, a handful of renegade elements have arisen organically to push the offensive front beyond the Devilshark owned line of demarcation. Most predominantly are the Astartes Ex Regio, the Frontier Warriors. Their origins date back to the initial disappearance of the Warmaster Jon-Frederíc Aristide. Only a select few Dragoons managed to actually follow their Primarch into the unknown to strike out against Chaos, but many took to pursuing him, albeit fruitlessly. These elements found themselves stranded and without support, deep in the north western expanse of the now enemy Imperium. Holding their ground, silently, it wouldn't be until a Corsair infiltration group found them decades later. 

These Corsairs were experimenting with how far their technically legal Rogue Trader writs would take them into Imperial space, gleefully discovering that overzealous Ecclesiastical misinformation campaigns robbed many isolated systems of the knowledge that there were non-Imperial Space Marines at all, and these ignorants wouldn't dare deny a Rogue Trader, much less an Astartes one. The Dragoons had made use of this as well, dwelling temporarily in feudal and dead worlds to dodge suspicion. Joining forces they instead sought to form a covert beachhead in the Imperium, using human militiamen, doctored Writs of Trade, and fabricated Chapters to operate deep in enemy territory. Here they join the Inquisition and the Sigilites in the invisible dance of power, control, and espionage in the galaxy, fighting secret wars on behalf of the Union.