Army Background

The 293rd is a drop-capable mechanised infantry regiment founded in the latter half of the 39th millenium.

In their two-thousand year history, the 293rd went from being a Chimera-borne force to an Valkyrie-equipped Regiment in the span of ten years.

956.M41, Segmentum Obscuras
The Planet of Sextus Prime

An uprising among the miners, normally a trival matter for the local Arbites, has forced a Crusade Warmaster to commit some of his forces. Sextus Prime is a Hive World located spinward of the Draconis Subsector, some 165 light-years past the Gothic Sector, it provides men and material of the Crusade currently being waged in that subsector. The 293rd is part of a force the Warmaster sends to quell the uprising.

Landing on the planet, the 293rd's command staff discovers that the entire planet, except for the 55% water mass that covers the entire eastern hemisphere, is covered in shattered hab-blocks, ruined manifactorium and other shelled and ruined buildings. The regiments Chimera IFV's are useless in the close and rubble-filled terrain, and so are left onboard the Transports used to bring them here.

963.M41

The Troop Transports used to bring the 293rd to Sextus Prime, which is now embroiled in bitter street-fighting attempting to break through to the Arbites Fortress; are sent back to the Crusade Fleet. The Regiments Heavy Armor support is still embarked on the transports.

966.M41, Crusade Fleet orbiting Sextus Prime

The 293rd, along with the 107th Catachan, 9th Arcanium, and 808th Fen Guard, rotate offworld and are replaced by fresh regiments. The 293rd discover the 'misplacement' of their heavy armor, and are shocked to discover nearly a full wing of Valkyrie Airborne Assault Carriers in their stead.

986.M41, Belix Secundus

The 293rd, due to return home to Cadia for R&R, are diverted to the minor forgeworld of Belix Secundus to respond to an invasion by Traitor Guard Regiments. The 293rd conducts lighting attacks on several key installations, but several units are caught in the massive shipyards above Belix. The fighting is bloody and close, but in the end, the 293rd kills all the traitor guard and rescue several Adeptus Mechanicus Magos. In graditude, the ForgeFathers of Belix give several dozen suits of Shipbuilder armor, modified for war, to the 293rd.

[These will 'count as' Ogryn, and will be my second unit. I plan on use Rackham AT-43 Red Blok Spetsnatz kolossus
http://www.rackham.fr/images/stories/AT-43/RB/RBTA01__01.jpg]
[The Ripper Guns are huge rivet guns used to rivet the massive steel plate used in the construction of intersteller starships, and the CCW's are adamantine chainblades use to 'cut' the plates in the correct shape before riveting]