Editing Strike Legion (section)

=== Imperium ===
The main enemy. Basically, the Imperium of Man except they're the main villain, though the Empress is, from what is revealed about her, [[Star Wars|FAR worse]] than the Emperor considering she seems more motivated about herself than anything else. Life is [[Grimdark]] with worlds being greatly overpopulated, free thought discouraged (by ANYBODY), its tiny populace of nobles picked by the Empress eats up a fourth of its resources (which is pretty insane given the Imperium's size) while another half goes to its military, which it decides to spend on fighting the Republic because the Empress doesn't like gens. Any hint of rebellion is typically answered by killing everyone on the planet and then replacing the people with a populace from other worlds. [[Skub|Not as Grimdark as the Imperium]], everyone does have guaranteed food and shelter, but that more so seems to stem from not having the threat of [[Chaos]] and being better organized.

==== Imperial Armada ====
The Empress's main way of enforcing her will. Lore makes them out to be glorified trash heaps who only win through sheer numbers. In gameplay they aren't ''' that''' weak though they are typically not as well armed as their enemies, they tend actually as durable as Fleet's ships. They have by far the greatest Frame carrying capacity of any ships in the game, but as a tradeoff, their mass-produced Frames are, outside of the Free Trade Alliance's, probably the worst in the game. Since killing junk Frames would be boring, they do possess some elite-designed Frames, some of which are among the best in the game. As they're separate from the ground army, their personnel are pretty easy to kill since none of them pack any decent weapons or armor.

==== Imperial Defense Corps ====
Ground troops, basically the [[Imperial Guard]], though their weapons and armor seem closer in capability to the Space Marines. Follows the tradition of higher-ranking officers being better fighters.

==== Imperial Marines ====
The Empress's version of the Space Marines, whose appearances make them sound like they dress more like [[Chaos Space Marines]] considering they put spikes on their armor. When they are sent to put down a rebellion, they go and bombard the planet from orbit before picking off the survivors. While better equipped than the Defense Corps, a lot of their stuff is junk compared to factions in the Republic (outside of their equivalent of [[bolter]] weapons), though their melee and shooting skills are better than their counterparts in Fleet. Note that while their power armor is among the worst in the game, it still has personal regenerating energy shields, built-in weapons, and flight capabilities.

Also, Marine leaders are [[Creed| tactical genii]].

==== Imperial Intelligence ====
Spies and secret agents don't get mentioned as much as other groups. They're spies and not assassins, so they're not very impressive in combat.

==== Imperial Justice ====
[[Judge Dredd]] inspired cops like the [[Adeptus Arbites]], which still managed to get in a Warhammer reference with its highest ranking officers being called [[Inquisition| Inquisitors]]. Higher-ranking officers have impressive stats, but none of them are especially well-equipped.

==== Imperial Trade Agency ====
The Imperium's traders, who also collect taxes and are supposed to defend themselves from pirates, but a lot of the criminals in the game are better armed than them so they probably suck at that job.

==== Imperial Surveyors ====
Explorers meant to find new worlds for the Imperium. They are a bit harder to kill than the tax collectors since they have some veteran troops in their ranks.

==== Assassins Guild ====
The Empress's assassins who kill anybody perceived as a deviant, which can include anybody from a commoner to a high-ranking military officer. She also sicks them on lovers that have bored or angered her. Seriously. Some of them act as [[Commissar]]s during battle, and wear power armor that's a lot better than what the Imperial Marines get. 

==== Imperial Foundation Prime ====
The Empress's version of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], though they don't appear to be as insane because she has her other mad scientists for that. They focus on finding new technology and believe in [[Convergence of Cyriss| one day turning the Imperium civilians into machines]]. Despite being scientists, they have some powerful soldiers in their ranks in the form of cyborgs they create to fight the Strike Legion, who are programmed with fighting skills so they aren't just nerds with big guns.

==== Imperial Weavers ====
Scientists that specialize in genetic engineering and hope to create genetic engineering that surpasses technology. They work on creating their own super soldiers to counter the Strike Legion, some of which the Empress hopes to use the genes of to spread and bring about a greater species of humans throughout the Imperium. Their creations include monsters inspired by [[Video Game| Prototype]] that consume biomass to grow stronger, and others with powers inspired by the X-Men, meaning teams of mutants with each packing a different power.

==== Imperial Psi-Core ====
The Empress's answer to the Master's Guild. Since the use of Mastery can drive somebody insane, and the Empress already had to put down her own version of the [[Horus Heresy]] (given the state of her Imperium she had more success putting it down than the Emperor did), she has them divided into four schools to weaken its power. Some of them have their frames and power armor. The frame seen is nothing to brag about, but the armor is impressive.

==== Imperial Protectorate ====
The Empress's version of the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and [[Sisters of Battle]] rolled into one, which also serves as another organization to kill anybody who doesn't feel like worshiping her. Its highest-ranking members only take orders from the Empress. Their other purpose is to manipulate bloodlines on Imperial worlds to produce the results the Empress desires.

The Protectorate has a few different types of soldiers in it. These include assassins. frame pilots and a number of its members are trained in Mastery.

==== Imperial Authority ====
Having one church devoted to her wasn't enough for the Empress, so she got paranoid and created an all-male one. Compared with their female counterparts, they mostly have similar soldiers, but they trade in assassins for gun experts in power armor.

==== Imperial Evolution Sector ====
A research organization that's devoted to developing Imperial answers to the Strike Legion. This one produces three types of super soldiers, gun experts, hand-to-hand experts, and elite power armor troops that use a special, and very deadly, type of armor.

==== Imperial Covenant ====
Another attempt at creating a reliable next-generation soldier. This one, however, takes its victims from the Protectorate and Authority. Even the scientists working in it have to undergo enhancement before they do their work. The trademark for their super soldiers is that they have parts of their brains replaced with cybernetics. Their products consist of super strong, but poorly armored, soldiers, designed as new ground troops, and new expert pilots. Both are intended for the Empress's new Vengeance fleet she's preparing.

==== Imperial Asylum ====
No, it's not a prison for the insane. It sends the insane people to the battlefield. This place takes subjects that didn't make it through other experiments and does its own work on them by fiddling with certain sections of the brain. The stuff they churn would probably be the most powerful of the Imperium's ground troops if not for their lacking durability due to their crap armor. Everything they make is insane and has a clown theme to it, and yes, there is a homage to the Joker, and it wields lightsabers.

==== Imperial Paranormal Division ====
Sounds like something meant to protect against supernatural threats, but no, it's actually meant to bind them into hosts and throw them at the enemy. The stuff they send out has a knack for getting around armor.

==== Death Factory ====
Yeah, seriously, that's what these are called. They grab unwilling Imperial citizens and mutate them into monsters. These range from stuff that rips into tanks, to things modeled on Godzilla that rip into frames, and some that are even bigger and can rip into warships.

==== Imperial Pyramid ====
The Empress's secret organization that manipulates her worlds. Unlike the Protectorate, that's its sole purpose. They do things like insert conspiracy theories and various other insane stuff that means people in the Imperium can barely tell fact from fiction because they don't know who to trust, besides nobody (seriously, look at the work at manipulating everything that goes on). Since they're not soldiers, they're not much for combat.

==== Doom Legion ====
The Empress's [[Adeptus Custodes| elite army that represents her best soldiers]], and that's about all we know about them because they aren't represented in the game.