Courage and Honour

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Planetary Garrison: 44th Lavrentian Hussars - Reduced Strength.

Planetary Draft: On hold, pending Administratum review and sanction.

Prefix Inquisitoria: Pax Bellum Vigilatus.

Tithe Grade: Exactis Particular

Chief Exports:Tank chassis, engines and ordnance. Local liquor known as Uskavar.

A traitor had once made his home among the tumbled slopes of the Owsen Hills. The late Kasimir de Valtos had dwelt in a lofty, marble-fronted villa, finely constructed and lavishly appointed with every amenity his wealth and position could provide. His extensive estate ran with game, servants attended to his every need, and the thousands of workers that slaved in his many weapon mills, engine assembly yards and artillery manufactorum could only dream of their master's luxurious lifestyle.

Wealth, position and power had been his, but now the traitor was dead and his estate was overgrowing, his palatial demesne little more than stumps of stonework scattered throughout waving fields of untended grass. Vengeful workers had looted his villa of anything worth stealing in the wake of the civil war that his schemes had unleashed. They had cast its walls to ruin and set fires where once he had plotted to become an immortal god.

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