Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Guard (section)

===== [[Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim|Septiim System]] =====

Septiim is more than a host to the Blue Daggers.  It is the seat of some of the most successful and broadly-copied Imperial Guard forces in Sector history.
* 1st Septiim Grenadiers “Exemplars”: This elite heavy infantry regiment has carved its name into history again and again.  As is often the case with Septiim regiments, their unit number is not abandoned, but rather recycled if their total numbers drop too low.  The 1st Grenadiers, however, have never suffered that fate.  They have returned intact from every campaign they have ever waged, including the ones against the Techno-Recidivists of the Pox Ring of nearby Naxos Sector.  This regiment has a few distinctive features, such as their broad equipping of grenade launchers to the underbarrel rails of as many lasguns in their regiment as can affix them, or their septet of Praetor Assault Launchers, which they have outfitted with extra bolters and missile launchers to allow them to get closer to their targets than most Praetors dare, just to shorten missile travel durations and allow them to strike faster.
* 6th Septiim Spearmen “Hailstorms”: This regiment is part of the reason that Septiim regiments are the template for the rest of the Sector.  Although supplying this regiment was a logistical nightmare for the overworked forges of Cognomen, the regiment’s battle profile is a blazing streak of Septiim blue and Cognomen red across the battlefields of Cloudburst, Drumnos, and even as far coreward as Port Maw.  Armed with a broad variety of IFVs and APCs, the Spearmen of the 6th are blitz-strike experts, who use a mixture of high-quality vehicle suspension packages and Hunter-Killer missiles to surround and thin the forward elements of hostile forces, then sweep past physical obstacles to claim advantageous territory.  The Septiim love of bolters began here, and spread to the rest of the system’s military.  Every single pintle mount, hardpoint, hull mount, and sponson mount on every 6th regiment battle vehicle is packed with bolters, from their Leman Russ Punisher-equipped First Company to their recon platoon transports, excluding their ambulances.  The regiment has a long-standing hatred of the Drukhari, thanks to the brutal losses inflicted on the first incarnation of the regiment by the piratical xenos that dwell in the spinward reaches of the Naxos Sector.
* 61st Septiim Airborne “Seagulls”: A notable exception to the usual avoidance of airdrop troopers in Septiim tactical doctrine, the 61st employ a mixture of parachutes, gliders, gravlifters, and ultra-high-altitude cargo planes fielded by their attached Imperial Navy transports to deliver soldiers well behind enemy lines.  This regiment is modelled after similar Elysian and Harakoni regiments, but is understandably somewhat less specialized than them, and can field limited numbers of vehicles and AA using conventional forces to secure their paratrooper beachheads.
* 95th Septiim Conservators “Unrivaled Few”: The most heavily lauded and decorated of all Septiim regiments, this elite city-fighting regiment is over ten thousand strong and outfitted with a whole park of Hydra batteries.  Their armored spearpoint vehicles are modified Leman Russ Executioners and Demolishers, and even Eradicators.  Each is outfitted with dozer blades, which allows them to plow holes in city barricades and through collapsing buildings, then deploy their Hydras and Gorgons to establish impenetrable firebases in the urban rubble.  They are an irremovable thorn in the side of their foes, and have put down local rebellions in seven Sectors in their eight hundred years of war.