You wake up groggy, and aware of a constant slight pain in your left shoulder, at first your vision is blurry but it quickly recovers and you take a look around the sterile white room you're in. Besides the bed you're laying on, a chair in the corner, and a mass of medical machines and monitors to your right it is eerily empty, you sit back and think of the events that occurred before this when it hits you. Looking at your left arm you find everything from the shoulder down is gone, replaced by bionic replacement that glimmers slightly as the light hits marking it as recently created. You grimace at the sight of whats become of your arm, but are at the least glad you still have a left arm even if it is a mechanical replacement like this.
Its not long before someone enters, a slumped short figure with a number of medical mechadendrites sprouting out of his back and swaying slightly as he moves closer. The man looks at you for a few seconds, his face covered by a medical mask so all you can see are the dull grey of his eyes, before he turns his attention to the bank of monitors beside you.
"It is a good thing they got you here when they did Colonel Mordecai, any longer and you may well have died from blood loss, however as you've probably noticed we could not save your arm. The damage was quite extensive, in fact it was a surprise the thing stayed attached that long given that the chain axe had sheared through almost the entirety of the bone in your shoulder. We did what we could for you, and that arm is the result, just as a warning that arm is stronger then your old one and not something most human's could muster with their flesh and bone limbs.
You've been out for a week since your defense at
Salix Major, you'll be glad to know your regiment managed to win that battle and all the forces of Chaos that went into the Pass of the Martyr never came out though the same can nearly be said about your regiment. You'll be in this place for two more weeks so get used to it, I'll send someone in to fetch anything you might need here in a bit."
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You spend a large amount of your time digging through all the books on lasgun maintenance and very basic technical knowledge you can get your hands on. You learn a fair amount thanks to all the reading you do, but you feel your understanding of technology is still lower then the average of what most other Guardsmen, and more specifically other Commanders of Guardsmen Regiments, should know. At the very least you feel you could field strip a lasgun, and put it back together without too many problems which is quite an improvement considering where you came from.
The rest of your time is spent taking care of all the regimental problems the loss of nearly half the Volgar 3rd has caused which pertains primarily to the merging of the 7th Salix Infantry into the ranks of the Volgar 3rd and some additional reinforcements from Volgar that'd been signed off as specialist units to other regiments. Along with that comes the reports for all the wounded from the Pass of the Martyr, altogether around sixty of the one hundred and eighty wounded survived the battle and are now back in action, the rest succumbed to their wounds or were given honors and discharged from the military unable to continue the fight. Finally a handful of reports come in about the condition of the warzone, the battle on Galin and Salix was drawing to a close and the forces were already being assigned elsewhere, to other warzones that need them.
By the time you've recovered the Volgar 1st, 2nd, and 3rd have already been reassigned to their next warzone however the trip there is gonna take three months so you have a lot of time to prepare ...
Condition: Good Health
Age: 31 years and 4 months old
Possessions:M35 M-Galaxy Short pattern Lasgun
Standard Issue Bayonet
Superb Longsword
Flak Armor
Standard Trooper Combat Webbing [Three Frag Grenades]
Traits:Born CommanderBionics and Implants:Bionic Left ArmRegiment Relationship: Somewhat Liked.
Skills:Competent Leadership
Competent Swordsmanship
Average Thrower
Average Marksmanship
Novice Technical Aptitude
Note: All squads of the Volgar 3rd have Excellent Melee Weapons. The 1st & 2nd Infantry Battalion are trained for effective massed fire.
Command Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Veteran
Origin: Majority Volgar
Commissar-General Kalman [Garm Pattern Bolt Pistol, Chainsword, Heavily Wounded, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
Cadet Commissar Malkom [M35 M-Galaxy Short pattern Lasgun, Bayonet, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
Command Chimera [Heavy Bolter, Medium Armor, Field HQ, Capacity: 0/2]
Personal Guard [Hotshot Lasguns, Carapace Armor, Half Strength, Frag Grenades (0/1), Krak Grenades (0/1)]
Veteran Infantry Squads [Hotshot Lasguns, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (0/1), Krak Grenades (0/1)]
2 Infantry Squads [Hotshot Lasguns, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (0/1), Bloodied]
Scout Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Bloodied
Origin: Volgar
Captain Ralph 'Old Ironside' [Long-las, Flak Armor, Camo-Cloak]
2 Scout Unit [Long-Las, Leather Armor, Camo-Cloaks, Motorized (Bikes), Frag Grenades (1/1)]
1st Infantry Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Bloodied
Origin: Volgar
17 Infantry Squad [Lasguns, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
6 Infantry Squads [Lasguns, Leather Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
2 Anti-Tank Squad [Missile Launcher, Flak Armor, Krak Grenades (1/1)]
2 Heavy Weapons Squads [Autocannons, Leather Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
2nd Infantry Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Bloodied
Origin: Salix
24 Infantry Squads [Lasguns, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
Heavy Weapons Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Bloodied
Origin: Volgar
6 Infantry Squads [Lasguns, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
3 Infantry Squads [Lasguns, Leather Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
11 Heavy Weapons Squads [Autocannons, Flak Armor, Frag Grenades (1/1)]
7 Anti-Tank Squads [Missile Launcher, Leather Armor, Krak Grenades (1/1)]
Engineer Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Skill: Green
Origin: Volgar
18 Engineer Squads [Entrenching Tools, Construction Units, Lasguns, Leather Armor]
4 Trojan Support Vehicles [Supply Vehicle, Towing Vehicle, Very Light Armor]
Artillery Battalion
Morale: Excellent
Origin: Volgar
Skill: Green
8 Basilisks [Earthshaker Cannon, Medium Armor, Slow]
9 Centaurs [Heavy Stubber, Light Armor, Artillery Tow, Capacity: 0/1]
9 Heavy Mortars [Immobile, Artillery, Emplacements]
2 Hydra Flak Tanks [Twin-linked Autocannons, Medium Armor, Anti-Air]
Medical Staff
Chief Medic Halmin [Laspistol, Experienced]
11 Field Medics [Lasguns, Green]
25 Orderlies [Laspistols, Green]