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==Unification Wars==
The Seventh Squad, as they were known in those prehistoric times, were a respected force. What the Seventh initially lacked in ferocity on the battlefield they made up in efficiency. However as the campaign lengthened their passion for combat awoke, meeting meeting tactical swiftness with righteous fury. The squad rode in with the Seventeenth as infantry support.

Their history began in the Eastern Wastes, vast marshlands and ruined coasts. Their first engagement was held within the strongholds of Fildelphii, a labyrinthine hive that had defended the Viscounts of Sylarvainia for centuries. Traditional maneuver elements proved to be ineffectual, personnel often becoming entangled in the twisting halls and streets of the city without armoured elements to provide proper support. To solve this smaller teams were used with extensive air support. The effects were felt immediately, as the smaller units were able to cover more ground in less time in the cramped urban conditions, and with the strong aireal assests providing overwatch they were almost unstoppable. When the Seventh Squad began siezing vital infrastructure, such as water processing plants, and threatening Fildelhpiian leadership with them, such as introducing promethium into the water supplies, the Viscounts began to be a little more willing to enter into peace negotiations.

Their skill was tested again in the battle grounds of Ba'al-Timur,some of the most aggressive and desperate fighting the Seventh Sqaud had seen thus far. The Marshlands of Ba'al-Timur led into sunken urban sprawls, vast webs of hive hidden by ancient ruins and murky waters. Infantry engagements were often short and deadly, the Astartes unaccustomed to this kind of asymmetrical warfare and guerilla tactics. Air support, while effective, was often a temporary solution, as the Survivors of air raids would escape back into the depths and continue to ellude the Seventh. Attempts at negotiations were met with bloodshed, and attempts to rat them out of their caves and grottos and sunken dungeons was only met with lost marines. It was only until the Seventh began to simply use bombardments and set charges to collapse the cave systems that they were able to bring the clans of Ba'al-Timur to heel.

One of their final battles along the Eastern front was at an ancient Merican centre of political thought, now a blasted pit dominated by roving bands of mutants. There was little to salvage from the ruins of Dæcee, and so Hektor did order a great purge of the wastes. The Seventh was instrumental in this cleansing. They purged with firebombs and automatic fire, the Merican waste lit by slaughter. In the bloody week that followed the collected Astartes washed the ashes of Merica with scarlet mutant blood, the seventh often put in charge of flushing out mutants from their burrows and warrens. It was here that something awoken in the squad, a certain visceral joy that came with the hunt and war. A deep, grotesque pride in the bloody work they did, equal parts inspiring and unnerving.

However bloodlust wasn't the only thing that the Seventh discovered in the pit of Dæcee. The squad leader, Rush Thil'Kanon, discovered the remains of a great Merican archive in a Mutant den. There he found many elder texts and manuscripts of a Merica long past. He took a few, as little more than trophies to ogle at, but these withered tomes would be instrumental in the genesis of the philosophy of the legion later on.

The climax of their career was on Luna, where against the wishes of Hektor, they part of the assaulting force. Indignant at Hekotor's reluctance in the Lunar Campaign and eager to prove themselves to the other astartes the Seventh Squad abandoned their tactical acumen in favor of a glorious charge, a tactic that has proven successful in other squads, in an attempt to break the defensive line. While they did indeed crack the Lunar defenses they incurred heavy casualties, Rush Thil'Kanon himself being interred within a Dreadnought sarcophagus after the battle. Despite their heavy losses, the Seventh continued to fight with greater ferocity like mad savages, a skill no doubt learnt from the conquest of Eastern Merica. The battle, while successful, was a lesson in hubris for the Seventh amd it tempered the still living veterans wisdom in the waging of war.

At the close of the Unification Wars he Seventh had garnered a reputation for ruthless efficiency and wanton destruction in the face of an assured victory, and mad fatalism and reckless determination in the face of defeat. However their cleverness in the east, at Fildelphii and Ba'al-Timur did not go unnoticed in the eyes of those who valued a sharp mind over bloodthirsty brawn. In the eyes of those marines, the descendants of the Seventh had potential to be more than wild dogs of war to be fed to the heat of battle. Either way the Seventh was proud to have proven themselves, and to have won the favor of Hektor and their fellow marines.