Editing The Markian Corps (section)

===The Verdunian Reforms===
Before the Hektor Heresy the Markian Corps possessed a vast fleet beyond the venerable voidships used to fight Old Ghalhal, consisting of manyfold battleships and cruisers crewed by indigenous Markians. Though the Markian fleet had replaced its native hands with various press-ganged conscripts over its existence, the ships themselves had always been Markia's until the Imperial Reformation post-Heresy, when the fleet, including its eight most ancient voidships, was divided from the Markian Corps and absorbed by the new Imperial Navy to the ire of Markians. Worse, is that the Imperial Navy demanded the Markian Corps give all their aircraft, from air superiority fighters and bombers to dropships and support craft, to them; an order vehemently opposed especially by Kouralian officers who relied on air support. Ultimately, the two compromised: the Markian Corps may continue using dropships and close air support craft, but bombers and air superiority fighters were the domain of the Imperial Navy. Despite coming to an agreement, the Markian Corps's stubbornness drew foul feelings from the Imperial Navy, and the Navy's bitterness often kept Markians from boarding their ships. For centuries following the fiasco the Adeptus Mechanicus of Ghalhal or merchant captains would ferry the Markian Corps to other worlds, and even even in the forty-first millennium the Navy and Corp's rivalry stirs disputes; such was the damage they dealt to each others' pride.

With changes in warfare's conditions, the Markian Corps too needed to change. Sky Marshal Marius Marie-Gaston Verdun was the first to address this, by inducing many reforms in the Corps:

* The replacement of the Atashia-Pattern laslock with the Markia-Pattern lasgun;
* The standardization of Kouralian warship production with modern fire control systems, vox and radar systems, cruise missiles, and other modernizations of the aging Markian maritime fleet;
* The integration of commissars in Markian ranks;
* The removal of fighter and bomber wings from Kouralian air regiments;
* And the improvement of training in specialist ranks.