Blood Ravens Force Commander

The Force Commander showing his hair-esy while trying to be badass.

The Force Commander, also known as Force Commander Hairgel or FC; was a newly promoted officer from the Bladh Ravens who is sent to Sub-sector Aurelia to help Davian Cool with a mess caused by the orks. Later he also has to fight some pesky Eldar, a splinter Hive fleet, a Black Legion warband (led by the supreme badasses Araghast and Eliphas) and the worst of them all: Imperial bureaucracy, whom even Angelos wishes good luck.

In all seriousness, despite his evident hairesy he is somewhat awesome, turning the tides of the campaigns with merely a handful of marines: a tactical squad, an assault squad, a devastator squad, some scouts and a badass dreadnought in “against all odds, success or death” missions, like assaulting a main hive with no support than a few guardsmen, defending a desert city from waves and waves of orks, assault, later defend, and then re-assault again Angel Forge (twice!) against Tyranids, Orks, Eldar and Chaos Space Marines, and winning! Showing that, despite the odds, he gets the fucking shit done.

He is also a quiet dude and gives no fuck to rushing at the enemy shouting loud litanies, curses or anything; just run to the enemy. In fact throughout the campaign he says NOTHING, even though he has an animated conversational portrait in the files, which raises the question why doesn't he have a VA...

Like almost any squad in Chaos Rising (save Thule, but he’s too awesome for that), he can turn to heresy with tainted equipment and foul deeds. His luck depends of how corrupted he becomes. From the ranges of being ordered a 100-year long crusade of redemption, being smacked at point with Gabe’s Godsplitter, or become a Chaos Lord; or merely being expelled by the double-heretic Kyras, or being nominated as the successor of Thule as Captain of the fourth company.

You can name him if you wish. In the novels his name is Aramus, but because the book was written by a certain Irish leper, canonicity of that can be dealt with the apropiate response

Dawn of War II

FC is the main PC in Dawn of War 2, so the plot of the game is also his story. What, you haven't played it? *BLAM* HERESY! GO AND BUY IT!

Long story short, this is the beginning of his history as a commander. The campaign itself starts pretty well. On Calderis he has to aid Davian Thule to protect the population from an Ork Waaagh, killing the aforementioned orks by the hundreds, rescuing his squad leaders, and do what marines are made to do: show the enemies of the Emprah the color of their guts while they are still living. This is the point when strange things start to happen. Everyone thought that the Eldar were behind the attacks, but Spike Spiegel Cyrus suspected that something worse was behind it all... too bad he was right.

From that point on, shit hit the fan quickly. Davian Cool got poisoned and had to be interred in a Dreadnought, a cold bitch called Elena Derosa seems to get the hots for FC each time he saves her planet, an Eldar bitch who seemingly didn't get laid in centuries tries to save her Craftworld by destroying your planets, Gabriel Angelos is ripping off the smurf plan of Tarsis Ultra to help you deal with the 'nids in the sub-sector and LOTS of "gifted" wargear. And pauldrons. EGSCBAWKS-HUEG pauldrons all the time.

It ended in an awesome final battle, when FC, his friends, Merrick, and some guardsmen had to poison the Hive fleet itself. After that, they prepared for a final resistance, because FC's personal strike cruiser sacrificed itself to cover the ground team, so they had no place to retreat. What did they do? They went forth to destroy as many 'nids as they could; the heroic bastards. Luckily for them, Gabe came just in time to save their asses, so that they can destroy the Hive Tyrant Alpha together, and put an end to the war in the sub-sector. This earned him and his men the title "Heroes of Typhon".

DAWN OF WAR II: RETRIBUTION

He doesn't appear in Retribution, but he's mentioned in a piece of wargear called "The Hammer of the Nameless". An interesting thing to point out, is that while it is implied that he used a hammer to defeat Ulkair, the best weapon for the purpose would have been a Power Sword.

Canon conflicts between the games and the novels

Firstly, the book was written by a certain Irish leper, so the canonicity of the book is questionable at best. With that said, let's go through how much rape has he delivered to canon. (Feel free to include any which I may have missed!)

• In the books, he's from Meridian, which is bullshit, because the only recruit taken from Meridian in centuries is Thaddeus, not him.

• The reason for his early promotion differs in the novel; FC earned his promotion fighting the Tyranids on Prosperon to protect a sacred scroll from falling into the hands of the xenos. this Lexicanum page for reference.

• It's also said that he's from the Fifth Company. Also bullshit, because even his initial armour shows the number of the fourth company. Take this with a grain of salt, because ALL the marines (even the multiplayer ones) shows the number of the fourth.

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