Editing Emperor's Dragoons (section)

=Notable Members=

Guy Maxíme is the oldest of the Theivpal Dragoons, the first generation of marines sourced from the Primarch's homeworld. Harvested from the most brutal slums of Theivpal, even as a young child, Guy was inured to suffering.  Maxíme began his career like many Dragoon aspirants, promising but otherwise insignificant. His promise as a Marine was proven in the many Xenocides of the early Crusade, where the Dragoons suffered one of their greatest losses of life prior to the Brotherwar. An entire company lost to the Rangdan, and of them Guy Maxíme the lone survivor, wreathed in blood. He carried that loss and violence with him for the rest of his life, and became a figure of contention in the Legion, being a vocal critic of the haughty attitudes of the Legion, the aloof and superior nature of his Primarch, and most dangerously the tyranny of the Emperor, the former landing him heavy censure which only served to embitter him to the Dragoons further. Despite his controversial history, surly manner and unkempt appearance, Maxíme was the single most dangerous marine in the Dragoons, serving as Stag for the longest of any Dragoon.
Guy Maxime was a Stag, but revealed his identity when he traded armour with another marine when he was instructed to act as a distraction for a saboteur team on what was surely going to be a suicide mission for both. So he swapped places with the best rider of the infiltration team and instructed half of the team to provide overwatch for the "Stag", which halved the chance of mission completion but minimized risk of death.

He went with the infiltration team and ensured mission success, sabotaging enemy gun placements and a commander.
He was chastised for shattering tradition it his commander and breaching the sanctity of the most revered position, who he promptly told to go sod off as no life is worth meaningless tradition.
This started a famed career of butting heads with the prim and proper of the legion, and his disheveled appearance and gruff demeanor and complete lack of decorum was a protest against the pomp and ceremony of the legion, and the lack of true warriors in command

As he climbed the ranks outside the white armour of the Stag, socially disgraced, he proved his worth as a warrior and commander. Unlike many Dragoon commanders, he prefered to lead from the front and would not segregate himself from his men. Though largely hard to get along with, he inspired a unique sort of loyalty from those he led, and he never missed an opportunity to punch up. 

Eventually he was able to butt heads with his own genesire, but ironically they disagreed because of their similarities nstead of their differences. As he was cast down from command for his boldness saw the direction was going and abandoned the legion at the Primarch's announcement of secession

The Stag is skill based. The best Dragoon becomes the Stag unless they are in a position that they're removal would cause massive issues. A new battle brother could become a Stag if the current one dies, is injured beyond repair, or fails to maintain his standards of performance. This means that the fifth best marine in the legion becomes the Stag, because number one is a chapter master or something. 

He was the best rider in the legion as a Sergeant, second only to six other marines, the best swordsman second only to three, the  tenth best shot in the legion, and had a history of success on the battlefield. He was voluntold to the position and was ran through the qualifying gauntlet.


-Gallian Fourniret-Chanal, The Butcher of Ardennse. A Dragoon Captain infamous for his disdain for mortal life, Chanal was censured several times for needless loss of life and overlly brutal tactics. While the records of Stag identities are generally secret, it is commonly rumoured that the Captain was the Stag known as the Red Stag, named so for his penchant to be showered in blood.

-Tiberius-Madèlio d'Aubræ, Marquis of Colchis. A Terra Dragoon, Marius was a successful field tactician, diplomat, and artist. By all appearances the ideal Dragoon, and all but confirmed to be amongst the first Stags. However, his lust for honour and glory made him unpopular amongst other officers, and his penchant for utilizing horrific psychological tactics further along in the crusade, such as forcing families in populations that didn't come to diplomatic terms to copulate with one another or choose a member for them to flay upon threat of death, earned him censure. However his efficacy was unquestioned in these times, and the Primarch did not see him demoted.

-Mathurin Françoise Bachiremont, the Alchemist of the Trenches. An accomplished saboteur, Mathurin earned his moniker on Ullanor. Behind enemy lines en route to rendezvous with the Emperor's foward forces, Mathurin's kill team was ambushed by a Kommando horde. The fighting halted the kill team's advance, and forced the Dragoons into melee within Ork trenchworks. His entire team fell to the xenos force, outnumbered and out manuevered. Bachiremont survived, however, salvaging together improvised bombs and chemical weapons, burning, smoking, and poisoning his way through the trenches using any means available. He cleared enemy territory only to find the Emperor himself in medi-vac. The rest of his career, he was deemed morose and grim, nearly always venturing without his assigned killteam. The only time he was ever reported to feel joy was when making and deploying chemical and biological weaponry.

-Emil-Róthgeir d'Muirebe, the White Raven. The Dragoons were not without their intelligence assests, and these are often sourced from saboteur elements. However, Artillery Captain d'Muirebe proved himself worthy of intelligence command after a protracted hive siege where warpstorms cut off ground forces from the fleet. Using Imperial Soldiers smuggled into the hive by Saboteurs, d'Muirebe was able to coordinate collection, misdirection and assassination cells, crippling the hive governance and defenses to the point where the new "Militia" was able to take over and surrender the hive to the Dragoons without further bloodshed. Rewarded for his actions,  d'Muirebe became a saboteur operative commander, and utilized mortal auxilia to great effect. He was threatened with censure, however, after his decentrialized cells would accidentally combat eachother, a deliberate measure he claimed confused the enemy. He was eventually censured after it was discovered that many of the assassinations he ordered were being carried out himself, risking the chain of command (that he nearly decimated via restructuring).

Emperor Jon-Leothe Antredes Merovín, Lion of the East: By the closing days of m41, the Dragoon Sovereignty was in flames. After the decades long Chaos subversion campaign by Telemus the Herald, the Genestealer shadow state of Wyrmic Corsocia, and the Nouveau Imperialist movement the nobility of the Sovereignty was hugely distrusted by the Union, and massive sanctions and measures of control were placed on the state to bring them back into alignment. This did little to bring the state to a state of order, as many systems resisted these measures on principle,  however the devastation of the Hive Fleets and Devilshark incursions limited their bargaining power. The Sovereignty needed a hero to bring balance to the state, and inspiring figure to stoke the flames of hope and restore the people. Instead, they received Leothe Antredes Merovín. Leothe was the Grand Lord Brigadier of the Nova Dragoon 17th Regiment Winds of Victory, and was poised to become the Lord High Marshal of the Dragoons and win the state seat on Ultramar, with many seeing a clear progression to running for the seat of Ultramar itself. Those hopes were dashed in the ensuing military coupe. Merovín did indeed get promoted the command of the Dragoons, then promptly went on an extermination campaign against the nobility that resisted the Union. Those that resisted saw their worlds burn, those that did not simply had their houses eradicated in their totality. The choice was theirs to make, but seeing the results should their lords fight the Lion peasant revolts broke out and in many cases, the noble houses would have been murdered before Merovín and the Dragoons could have reached them. Leothe saw the reconquest of the Sovereignty and with the support of the local Dusk Phantom temples was able to successfully combat and defeat the noble alligned Regiments after a year long conflict. At the dawn of m42 he not only had brought the state back into compliance, but crowned himself the Emperor of the Sovereignty, an action supported by both the military establishment and the common people.