Editing Emperor's Dragoons (section)

==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.