Editing The Carlisian Shock Troops (section)

== Homeworld and History ==
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The Carlisar system lies in the Segmentum Solar, not so very far from ancient Terra.  Carlisar IV is the primary habitable world of the Carlisar system.  The date of its colonization is now lost to history, but humans have dwelt in its hives for many centuries, protected from occasional radioactive outbursts from Carlisar's mighty star.  It is popular among Carlisians to blame their sun for the wretched state of the lands between Carlisar IV's hives, but in truth the ecological devastation was wrought by human hands.  Although Carlisar IV was not devastated by the outbreak of the Age of Strife, the breakdown of interstellar trade threatened the hivers with mass starvation.  A desperate program of agricultural colonization on Carlisar III ultimately resolved the food situation, but billions died as a result of famine - and on the new colony itself.  Prior to the Age of Strife, Carlisar III had been considered too inhospitable for human settlement due to its vicious local flora and fauna, but in hard times hard decisions were made.  At great cost of life, the death world was broken to the plow and in theory the Carlisar system was nearly self sufficient. 

Unfortunately, the shortages on Carlisar IV had destabilized its once-popular government.  Those who controlled subterranean farms leveraged their assets into aristocratic privilege, and then fell to fighting among themselves over who would reign the planet as monarch.  Over the centuries, tyrants would arise and then fall victim to the squabbling nobles, but neither tyranny nor anarchy held any good for the common people.  The only constant on Carlisar IV was that the poor lived close to the surface and suffered, while the rich dwelt safe below.  Ironically, salvation from human-inflicted misery would come along with invasion by Xenos.

Late in M28, WAAAGH! Blackgut swept into the Carlisar system.  Blackgut's forces were not immense, as the long cold of Old Night had chilled the flames of war across the Galaxy - and with them, the Ork race.  But Mork and Gork still called out to the hearts of their savage children to go forth across the void and bring violence to other peoples.  Blackgut certainly delivered a great tribute to his gods on Carlisar IV.  Although the nobles of the planet first attempted to draw their soldiers back from the surface, leaving commoners to be slaughtered by greenskins, this cowardly act provoked a coup.  The common soldiers and junior officers of the armies were mainly drawn from the lower classes and they refused to abandon their kin.  Senior officers attempting to enforce order were frequently shot and once the bloody coup began the army ran riot through the noble districts, carrying out a slaughter hardly less ferocious than that the Orks promised.

Captain Valmir Aschen, backed by the leaders of rebel forces across Carlisar IV, declared himself President for the Duration of the Emergency.  Under his dictatorship, Carlisar's soldiers fought a desperate holding action while the full resources of the Hive World were mobilised for war against the invading Orks. Subterranean palaces and estates were converted into shelters for the population, while the ramshackle of the surface structures were converted into fortresses and barracks.  Civilian industry beyond the bare necessities for life ceased to be, but Aschen was never seen to live above his people.  The President's clothes were patched when cloth became scarce, and his cheeks were hollow during lean harvests.  But his eyes were ever-bright with a fierce will to triumph over the invaders.  According to Carlisar IV's histories, the war against the Orks lasted for eight long years before Warlord Blackgut was finally slain.  The huge Ork's trukk was bombed to pieces, his body was crushed by a Carlisian tank, and finally infantrymen stabbed him to death with their bayonets.  Blackgut's bleached skull was hung as a trophy in the office of the president, the only luxury that Aschen ever permitted himself.

With the WAAAGH! broken by loss of its leader, it was thought that Carlisar IV could find a new normal.  The Emergency's duration seemed to have come to an end, and many wondered if Valmir Aschen would step down.  The emergence of Savage Orks in the polluted badlands of Carlisar IV put an end to such speculation.  Nothing would ever put a final end to the Greenskin menace, and when Aschen's will to victory could no longer keep his body alive the military appointed another President - for the Duration of the Emergency.  Never the less, the defeat of Blackgut brought about some improvement in the conditions of life.  Civilian goods reappeared and if rationing remained in force, hunger was banished from the world.

By the time [[Rogue Traders (Hektor Heresy)|Rogue Trader Militant]] Vuthros Khan rediscovered the Carlisar system in 808.M30, even conscription had been abolished, though a powerful volunteer military remained.  Then-President for the Duration of the Emergency Clinton Adams welcomed the Emperor's reluctant herald and received the news of a war for the unification of the [[Galaxy (Hektor Heresy)|Galaxy]] with rapture.  Adams declared that generations of Carlisians had died for that same goal, that sacrifice for the future of mankind was in the blood and bones of every Carlisian, and that those alive today would gladly put themselves at the service of the Great Crusade.  The Rogue Trader's report back to the War Council was greeted with incredulous surprise and several months later the [[Expedition Fleets (Hektor Heresy)|First Expedition Fleet]], led by the Emperor of Mankind himself and accompanied by the master of the Imperial Army [[Gufarnus Altmakar]], arrived at Carlisar IV to secure its compliance.  The spot where Clinton Adams surrendered rule of the planet to the Emperor was preserved for future generations, and the master of the Imperium was so impressed by the martial valor of Carlisar that he claimed the first six regiments of its Shock Troops for his own.  Since being graced by the Imperial person, Carlisar IV has made a point of delivering as many regiments as the world can sustain, always exceeding its tithe obligations.